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A Land Rembered
<view this essay>.... move to the scrub of Northern Florida. The MacIveys experience many troubles and learn many new things during their stay in the scrub, such as meeting Indians, that will turn out to influence their life greatly. Other experiences included Tobias being recruited by Marshall Adler to drive cattle to the confederate troops and also being recruited to chop trees to build walls of defense for the confederate forces. During the excursion to chop down trees, confederate deserters raided Emma and Zech and burned down their house. Tobias and Emma made the decision that the war was getting to close to the scrub, and that moving South would be a good idea. The MacIv .....
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The Hollow Men
<view this essay>.... second stanza states “Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion.” (11-12) Here Eliot puts strong ideas together in such a way that they seem to cancel out each other, leaving an empty feeling . In section three, Eliot used “dead,” (39) and “cactus” (40) to describe the setting, and “In deaths other kingdom/Walking alone,” (46-47) leaves the reader in an empty state of mind with no surroundings. When someone shouts into an empty, or wide area, it will always echo and repeat itself until it quietly dies off. This example of emptiness is expressed in the very last stanza of the poem, “This is the way the world ends This .....
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
<view this essay>.... The narrator is a first person narrator who describes his horrid
actions as “… a series of mere household events, “ which in effect were,
but the outcome of the “… mere household events” were not in any way
insignificant (102; pt. 1, ch. 3).
Poe's narrator explains to us that in his youth he loved animals
and received full enjoyment from them; he goes so far as to say that his
peers made fun of him because he was so soft hearted and an avid animal
lover. With the narrator's love for animals I can relate for I also had a
great love for animals and nature when I was growing up; although I never
completely grew out of it, I don't have quite the passion I .....
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Animal Farm
<view this essay>.... to earn his living writing novels and essays. He was a political writer who wrote of his own times. He was a man of intense feelings and fierce hates. He hated cant and lying and cruelty in life and in literature. He was critical of communism but was himself a Socialist.
The setting for is Manor Farm in England during the time of the Russian revolution. The farm is enourmous. The farm has been enlarged by two fields bought from Mr. Pilkington, and various new buildings had been added.
One of the major characters in the novel, , is Nepoleon. Napoleon, after driving Snowball, another pig who was trying to take over the farm, off the farm, took over. Nepoleon s .....
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Eaters Of The Dead By Michael
<view this essay>.... of characters emphasizes the cleverness of the Volga Northmen compared to the Venden Northmen.
The theme of the story is that applying intelligence and knowledge is essential in order to keep one’s culture alive. A good proof of this is the lack of knowledge of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, the narrator of the story. He is an Arab who “knows nothing of the ways of the world” (p. 77) because he has never truly experienced the world before that day, since he does not care for adventure. Having no experience with the world and having no knowledge, Ibn Fadlan slowly learns the Northmen’s way of life. In the end, felt he “had been b .....
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Emma - Romantic Imagination
<view this essay>.... very tide of reason and sense—and yet the picture that the imagination paints of his verse inspires awe. The human imagination supplies the emotional undercurrents that allows us to see the next wild flower we pass on the side of the road in an entirely different and amazing light. In Austen’s Emma, the imagination is less strenuously taxed because her story of sensibility is more easily enhanced by the imagination, more easily given life than Blake’s abstract vision of the great in the small because Emma is more aesthetically realistic. However, both rely on the fact that "[t]he correspondence of world and subject is at the center of any sensibility story, ye .....
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Beowulf: A Hero's Epic
<view this essay>.... and can easily recognized
in line 33, "He found them sprawled in sleep, suspecting nothing…" which
demonstrates the "s" sound. Another example of alliteration at work using the
"p" sound is line 160, "From my prince, no permission from my people for your
landing here."
Metaphors provide a distinct characteristic as in line 30 describing
terror as "darkness had dropped." Line 128 when sailing across the sea,
describing the seas "beating" on the sand. There are few similes but one that
stands out most in line 133. "The ship foamed through the sea like a bird…"
Using like to describe the similarity of the bird and how the ship traveled
across the sea. Probabl .....
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Our Town By Thornton Wilder
<view this essay>.... The second act focuses upon ‘love and marriage’, and takes place in 1904, the day of Emily and George’s wedding. We are exposed to all the tremulous events of marriage, yet the scene ends happily.
The final act, set in 1913 involves the funeral of Emily Webb. After her death Emily chooses to return to her past, selecting her 12th birthday. Emily is soon returns to the cemetery, finding the whole experience saddening, as she realises the waste her life has been, taking everything for granted, not cherishing the smallest of treasures. Emily accepts death.
Throughout this seemingly simple plot Wilder illustrates the relationship of .....
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