... and "House of Gold" which is part of the Roman Catholic Litany of Our Lady. Later when Stephen is at school, he again thinks about Eileen. Stephen gets his first sensual experience from Eileen when she puts her hand into his pocket and touches his hand. Stephen gets quite confused with the terms of the Litany of Our Lady so he starts to associate the "Tower of Ivory" and "House of Gold" to Eileen. The way James Joyce describes the scene, "She had put her hand into his pocket where his hand was and he had felt how cool and thin and soft her hand was."(43) gives the reader the idea that Stephen enjoyed the feeling. The only problem with Eileen was that she was a Pr ...
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... what he said was actually the truth. Finally, some people found Gatsby hard to read, especially Nick and Daisy. He rarely showed or talked about his emotions and if he did, the subject was quickly changed. Gatsby did not develop throughout the novel. From a point early in his life, he had a romantic fantasy and he continued to sustain this throughout his life. He liked to focus on past events, rather than look at what was happening at the present. For example, he and Daisy had a beautiful romance for a long period earlier in his life. Gatsby repeated this moment over and over again in his head, Gatsby, also, was rumored to have told stories about his past, s ...
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... Blanche, while his wife is in labor in the hospital. Stanley Kowalski’s first exhibition of his brutal actions occurs at poker night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up, and then they drag him to the shower to try to sober him u ...
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... me. He would describe death as a being that could swallow him whole, and ramble on about wonderful sunsets. The Youth was also a very troubled soul. He worried a lot over things he might do and not the things he would do. For instance, on page 34, he questions others in hope that their answers would comfort him. He feels disassociated from others, "The Youth, considering himself separated from the others..." (p29). Page 35 quotes, "He was a mental outcast." He lacked self -confidence and "continually tried to measure himself by his comrades." (p22). Despite his sorrow, the Youth was creative and compared ideas and objects to other ideas and objects. "The battle ...
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... to stone and never wept at all (Laurence 243)”. During Marvin’s childhood, she would impatiently dismiss him due to his slowness of speech. Once when an ecstatic Marvin told Hagar that he finished his chores, Hagar bluntly sends him away saying, “I can see you’ve finished. I’ve got eyes. Get along now … (Laurence 112)”. Even as a child she was lacked emotion when she could not provide comfort to her dying brother, Daniel. Daniel needed the comfort of his mother, but for Hagar, “to play at being her – it was beyond me (Laurence 25).” Indeed, Hagar’s deficiency in feeling or expressing emotion w ...
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... This type of prophesy can blind even the gods themselves; Chronos was fated to be defeated and his throne stolen by his son. Demeter loses Persephone periodically every year because her daughter ate Hades’ pomegranates. Prophecy plays an important role in the whole of Greek folklore. Something this ever-present bears further examination. In The Odyssey, prophecy in its myriad forms affects nearly every aspect of the epic. Prophecies are seen in the forms of omens, signs, strict prediction of the future, divine condemnation, and divine instruction. Though conceptually these forms are hard to distinguish, they are clearly separate in the Odyssey. Moreover ...
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... would respond to a child. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a marriage.” This shows that women were not taken serious and their opinions were merely laughed at. One part of the house that could be misinterpreted in this story is the window in the nursery. In most cases, a window symbolizes a view of hope. In this story though, the window has bars on it, symbolizing imprisonment or oppression. An additional symbol of the narrator’s oppression is her husband, John. He is considered to be “a physician of high standing” (p.630). This along with the fact that he is her husband makes any opposition from the narrator seemingly impossible. To mak ...
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... water” (Zwick 1). Now, over 100 years later, Huckleberry Finn suffers yet another attack. It has been called racist trash, derogatory for its use of the word nigger and its stereotypical portrayal of blacks. Helen Steele, a member of 100 Black United claimed, “Anything that's going to harm any kid - white, black, Hispanic, anything - needs to be removed from required reading… We try to teach them every day not to be racists”(Simmons 1). This means then, that books that discuss racism to its fullest (fullest including the language of the period) are inappropriate for students to read. Honestly, though, how many high school students haven’t heard the word nigge ...
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... and becomes a miser that is obsessed with weaving and his gold and thinks that there is no meaning to life. Due to this small accusation, the life of Silas has changed in a way that can never be restored. No longer believing in God, he isolates himself from the outside world. Silas finally realizes, as time passes, that he must move forward in life. He has a new hope, an inspiration that has motivated him to extend beyond himself and communicate with others living in his town. He still denies religion and its teachings, but he knows that it is not his fault. At the end of this novel, Silas decides to return to his hometown, Lantern-Yard, and prove to every ...
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... had the idea that in Indian country, where there was danger, all white men were kings, and he wanted to be one of them." But he was knocked down the first notch when he discovered out there that some men could still be his superiors even when they couldn't read like he did. These men still had the necessary skills to be good at what they needed to be good at in the circumstances they lived in. Then the young man supposed that he could buy with money the kind of men he wanted to associate with but that didn't work out either. "He found them not friendly. They were apart from him and he was still alone." He was still not satisfied. I think people often try to ...
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