... to tradition, to expose certain fallacies that many people hold concerning tradition. He found that most critics did not really use the word "Except in a phrase of censure…. If otherwise… with the implication…. Of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction" (1405). Critics were in effect using tradition only to describe something quaint and archaic. The problem with this view is that it creates the misconception among the general public that good poetry is not at all related to anything that has been done before, and it must instead be something entirely new to be good. This misconception was especially destructive because it caused people to ignore the influenc ...
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... insists that she go by horseback even though it looks like rain. Mrs. Bennet has come up with this scheme so that Jane might become better acquainted with Bingley. Her scheme is deployed with success; Jane sends notice that she is to stay longer than expected due to her ill health. Jane is soon better and the next event takes the daughters to another ball and another chance for Elizabeth to confirm Bingley’s affections for Jane. During the ball, Darcy asks her to dance, she refuses his hand and tries to be cordial in displaying her dislike for him. Mr. Bennet receives a letter from his cousin, Mr. Collins who wishes to come and visit his family. Here Mr. an ...
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... of Mabel and the actual contentment of Dr. Fergusson. “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell’s is a wonderful, suspenseful story. Minnie Wright, the character accused of murdering her husband, is brought to life by the opinions of the other characters in this story. The author to be a disheartened, lonely woman, who had changed from a flourishing singer to a desolate housewife, portrayed Minnie. Clues found throughout the house pointed every finger at Minnie, but it was never stated directly in the story. The reasoning for the lack of a frank conclusion is that by the end of the story the reader has determined the outcome. “Taking Care” by Joy Williams is c ...
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... state and have lost all morals, until their rescue, wh en they finally see how bad they have been. The plot of this novel is based on fear, fear that leads to evil. In ‘Beast from the Water,' fear spreads through the group. Ralph, the current leader of the group, tries to convince the boys that their fear of a beast is absurd. Ralph is unsuccessful in deterring the fear of the boys. Several of them tell of monsters they have heard of, like the giant squid, and ponder the fact that beasts and ghosts may be roaming the island. Ralph observes all this and is powerless to control the situation. He calls a vote to decide if the ghosts are real. This is the cl ...
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... some of these superstitions, such as in chapter one when Huck flicks the spider from his shoulder into the fire. I am curious why this is bad luck, and why turning three times and tying a lock of hair with thread was thought to prevent the bad luck. I also wondered how a hair ball became a way to read fortunes. I thought it was interesting when they decided the snake skin represented good luck and bad luck. They received good luck by finding the eight dollars in the pocket of an overcoat, which was a considerable find for the time. Later the bad came, when Huck ran out of tobacco. He ran into a rattle snake on his way, which he kills and leaves near Jim's bla ...
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... silence(#23)." Lastly, when Ralph blows the conch, as though a force is pulling them nearer, the children go to him. "By the time Ralph had finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded(#32)." Next, one of the bigger symbols is the fire. Enforcing the rules is one thing, but the children would rather play than keep the fire going. Ralph gives the idea for the fire, but can they keep it going? " There's another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they might not notice us. We must make a fire(#38)." Jack has a great idea to use Piggy's glasses to light the fire." Jack pointed suddenly. "His specs-use them as burning glasses (#40 ...
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... like a man in fire...drowning" from exposure to the poisonous gases fired by the enemy. The author is expressing the cruelty of war through this poem in describing the slow and painful deaths that many soldiers went through. Death by poisonous gas is slow and painful. The soldiers who died did so painfully, it was as if they were drowning. Choking slowly, like being drown, death by compression and collapsing of the lungs. This is a horrid death. The poem is from the viewpoint of a soldier watching another soldier die. The soldier is experiencing the death of the other soldier. He is describing his dreams of choking and grasping for breath, grasping for life ...
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... and electricity” (20), and “It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think” (27). That society was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn’t do anything that they weren’t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the American flag because ‘now is the designated time to be patriotic, and you will or face consequences”. The bell ri ...
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... He leads the other twelve dwarfs in hopes of regaining the treasure and his kingdom. Gandalf- He is the great wizard who helped organize the adventure. At first he travels with the dwarves and the hobbit but leaves them because he has other business to attend to. Beorn- is a large man who can change shapes into other animals. He lives by himself in large house with animals who he can speak to. He helps the dwarves and the hobbit after they have escaped from the goblins. He later joins them in the Battle of the Five Armies to help defeat the goblins and and the wargs. Bard- He is the man who slays Smaug and becomes the new master of the town where the men dwell ...
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... They go almost everywhere together and they even share a room at their school. We enter the story at what is called a "summer session" which could be described as today's equivalent of summer school. But, as the story unfolds, we are forced to ask ourselves, are they friends as the appear to be at the start of the novel or are they mortal enemies as Gene begins to hint with this quote at the point Gene thinks Finny is finally going to "get away" with something he did. "This time he wasn't going to get away with it. I could feel myself becoming unexpectedly excited at that."(page 20) This shows us that even though they are friends, Gene feels that Finny is too ...
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