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"The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway. Goes through common themes and symbolism of story.
... Hemmingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway uses wonderful imagery and symbolism to illustrate the struggles of the old man and the fish throughout the story. "Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated." "'But man ...
Brian's Search for the Meaning of Life in W.O. Mitchell's "Who Has Seen the Wind"
... to explain that which has evaded and mystified even the great minds of our times: the meaning of life. He is able to somewhat understand the meaning of life though his experiences with birth, particularly that of a pigeon, and a rabbit. His up-close-in-your-face learning of death, at an early age ...
"The Concubine's" Children by Denise Chong, includes personal comment
... Denise Chong, is a true story about a Chinese family and how both physical and emotional distance can tear generations of families apart. We are presented with the lives of the children of three generations, starting with the oldest, the story of May-ying, a concubine, and her husband, fellow ...
The Scarlet Letter (Little Pearl's role in the story and how unrealistic Hawthorne made her)
... the night of the minister's vigil, Pearl asked him. " Wilt thou promise to take my hand, and mother's hand, to-morrow noontide?" To which he replies with, "Not then, Pearl, but another time. At the great judgment day." Another example of this child being overly perceptive for her age ...
What Makes Those X-Men So Darn Great? A personally opinionated paper
... to do that is by taking over the humans. In the end, all the heroes are dead and the Sentinels prepare to launch an attack on the rest of the world to save it from the mutant menace just as Europe is about to launch nuclear missiles at the conquered North America to keep the Sentinels away. The ...
Henrik Isbsen's "Doll's House"
... at last she insists on her right to individual self-development, the spoiled girl-doll becomes a full-fledged woman. She slams the door of the doll house in a gesture symbolic of a biblical putting away of childish things and takes her rightful place in the adult world. Needless to ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Racism
... and poignant. Twain utilizes Huck Finn and Jim as the ideal characters because they are the ones at the end of the novel who realize slavery is wrong. Mark Twain establishes the ideals by portraying them through the protagonists, Huck and Jim and criticizes the failure to live up to ...
Color of Water and Makes Me Wanna Holler. Compare and contrast the lives of James McBride and Nathan McCall.
... to a person who was a part of the Black Panthers and started to scream at her to stay away. He was scared that something would happen to her, that the man would cause her harm. Both these men grew up during the same era and of the ...
Melana Marchetta's "Looking for Alibrandi", "The Conciliation" and "The National Picture" from the stimulus book.
... and embodiment of all the North shire glamour dreams that Josie has dreams of achieving at the start of the novel. Then there is Jacob. Initially Josephine starts by dismissing Jacob, and then she falls in love with him, only to be shattered when he dumps her. By the end of the novel ...
Analysis of Hemingway's narrative technique as a short story writer(A clean, well-lighted place; Now I lay me; A way you'll never be)
... great beauty any more at home to be able to leave him and better herself and she knew it and he knew it. The last sentences of a Hemingway story sometimes epitomize the tone of the story and are thus understatements worthy of note. Consider, for example, the last episode of "The Short Happy Life of ...