The novel, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is a very detailed and graphic description of one man's life struggle in a Stalinist work camp. ... The most memorable scene shows Shukhov's determination to survive and adapt to his life. ... This is the most important quote in the novel because it is the law of which Shukhov lives and survives by. ... For example, Shukhov has learned to prioritize the necessities of his life. ... This quote is what Shukhov lives by throughout the novel regarding the interaction he has with other people. ...

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The novel "One Day of Life," by Manilo Argueta, is staged around the life of a native women named Lupe in her family in El Salvador. The book provides a prospective of the violence that fills the lives of these native. In the novel one thing that holds true is the people never loose hope for a better life free from turmoil. ... While American teenagers are working about prom their fighting for their lives and the lives of their family and while it is easy to give up on life and surrender they become weaponries to combat the brutality with hope for a better life.  ... They may have lost lives...

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He used this technique to dramatize the complexity of life and the difficulty of arriving at truth. " Reality and life weave together in one of Faulkner's many novels, As I Lay Dying. ... It is the furious energy one feels pulsing in the writing itself that keeps us buoyed, that works as a tonic in revitalizing our sluggishness in the face of the intractable stuff life is made of," states Jan Bakker. ... We also see their surroundings and notice how life has changed since those days (Warren). ... This fictional county was based on his county of Lafayette and its town of Oxford in rea...

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The entire book makes you think long and hard about life, how precious it is, and how quickly it can be taken from you. We are all given gifts of different kinds in our lives. ... Life is a gift revealed in this novel that evokes many emotional tears and lots of laughter. ... She lives with her strict father and unassuming mother, as well as with her younger sister and older brother. ... (p. 107) Maribeth comes to the Whittaker family and gives them the gift of a new life, her child. ...

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As El Patron neared the end of his life, he could not accept the fact that he was going to die. ... I am meant to have those lives! ... El Patron had already taken the lives of seven clones. ... Not only had he extended his life with seven others, but also as Celia pointed out to El Patron, "Thousands of (his lives) are buried under the poppy fields." ... He wanted his death and after life to be a reward for living morally. ...

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In the short story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Esteban affects the village in many ways by changing the way they thought, looked at life, and how they lived their lives. He showed the villagers another perspective of life outside the village. ... It was clear to see that Esteban changed the village forever and the lives of all the inhabitants living within it. When his body finally left the village the villagers changed many things in their lives. ... In the short story The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Esteban affects t...

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Friendship in Of Mice and Men Friendship, something everyone on the planet needs at one time or another in life. ... Without any of that, a friendship cannot be or will not grow into a friendship to remember for a life. ... His aunt passed away and doesn't have anyone in his life but George. ... His life is just the ranch; he doesn't have a wife or kids to look after. ... The 2 cared about each other very much; they were the most important people in each other's lives. ...

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The Brahmins drink from the river, so it sustains their lives. ... He crosses the dividing line between two lives. ... The river teaches him many valuable life lessons. ... He discovers life can be the same way. One can stop suffering by accepting that life is only in the present. ...

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The novel Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is the epic story of two Australian families" whose lives come together. We share the experiences of these two fictional families through the duration of their lives on Cloud Street. Through the construction of setting, plot and character the families" lives proved powerfully real. ... Through these experiences we are able to identify with each character as they deal with real life problems. ... The themes in Cloudstreet made the reading of the text realistic as they portrayed issues of life. ...

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The Jungle, a novel written by Upton Sinclair, however, uses harsh and vivid images to display how life was like in industrial Chicago in the early 1900's. The reader follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuania immigrant who struggles to survive in the harsh conditions of Chicago. ... This novel displayed the reality of life in the meatpacking industry. ... This story of the struggle of Jurgis Rudkus touched the lives of many people when it was written, and it still continues to touch the lives of readers today....

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Before Kino found the pearl he lead a peaceful life and lived in harmony with his family and by his culture. ... Once this happened, Kino and Juana went back to their culture and tried to live life the way it was before the pearl disrupted their lives. They wanted to go back to a peaceful life. ... However, this was after it brought evil to their lives, and their lives could never be the same. ...

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Ellie began life as a rural teenager. She lived on a farm and her life consisted of school, friends and family. She was sheltered: "Our lives had always been so unaffected by the outside world." ... Ellie is important because she shows the complexity of human nature and our ability to reflect on our lives. ...

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The coyote in this novel is symbolic towards the characters" actions and their way of life. ... In one of his columns he talks about how the coyotes life compared with the illegal Mexicans. ... This is very much like the coyotes life. He too lives off the land. ... Boyle also uses Candido to try and portray how the coyote lives. ...

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The characters show the reader what life was like at that time. The character of Hedda, however, is one with a destructive nature as a result of the society that she lives in. Hedda wants to satisfy her desires for life but cannot because she is detained by society and its demands on the individual. ... So, she chooses to commit suicide, thinking that it is the solution to her problem of not being able to escape her dull life, because there is no way out of her boring life. ... She is powerful in that what she has done to herself, the way she has destructed herself, and all in all her suic...

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What I like about La Senora in this particular instance is that she lives according to such principles not because of her narrow-mindedness. ... When Eva and Mimi's lives cross for the second time, the latter is presented to the reader " so beautiful that for a moment I thought she was a divine apparition- says Eva (206). Mimi's magnificence is felt through the pages of the book; she lives her dream - transformed - accepted and admired. ... No matter what character I try to analyze, Eva Luna's presence is felt in all of their lives. ... Eleven chapters of Allende's novel ma...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, sometimes those events, which we often dream about, result in a complete destruction of our lives and personalities. ... Main Characters Hank Mitchell - The main character of the novel who lives in a small town of Delphia, 30 miles east of Asheville, Minnesota. ... He was unable to find a life mate because of his mental condition. ... After Hank killed the FBI agent, his brother Jacob couldn't deal with it any more, he did not want to life with the lies for the rest of his life. ... But his dream of n...

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Both Starkfield and Ethan Frome have endured harshness in their lives. ... Ethan Frome is a poor farmer who lives in Starkfield, New England. ... Throughout Ethan's life, he endures the hardships of life. ... Starkfield's winters are similar to the bad times in Ethan's life when things don't go his way. ... He is faced with adverse situations and things in his life don't go as planned. ...

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan The novel, The Kitchen God's Wife is a true-life story told in flashbacks, by a mother (Winnie) to her daughter (Pearl). She relates the incidents that had occurred in her life when she was in China. ... At such a tender age she experiences the pangs of separation when her mother suddenly disappears from her life. Till her marriage to Wen Fu, Winnie lives in Tsungming Island where her treatment is no better than that of an orphan. Despite all the sufferings that Winnie faces in her life, she is optimistic in the end....

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Mildred began to lose his interest after she forgets where and when they met, while Clarisse gets more and more attention because of the knew things she shows him in life. ... Another diverse pair between the two characters is simply Clarisse's actions, she actually lives life, and explores, instead of either staying cooped up in the house or just being anti-social. Clarisse has an outlook on life that is looked down on by the society, but she continued to do what she has been taught by her family, whereas Mildred follows what her society wants her to follow she never gets out, and she o...

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Karenin suddenly becomes human and not hidden from life by his administrative regulations. ... Levin serves as the backbone for Tolstoy's emphasis on the "natural life" where one loves and procreates, as opposed to the "unnatural life" where one lives by abstract principles. ... The themes of life and death will come to review itself in the novel. ... Tolstoy's Anna Karenina provides a lot of insight into our own lives. ... Modern culture has lost this aspect of life and we need to check ourselves before we lead our lives into a downfall....

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Silas is forced to move to the village of Raveloe where he lives a sad, lonely life, isolated from the community. ... The theft of the gold proves to be a turning point in Silas's life. ... Silas is given Eppie and in turn is made very happy, while Godfrey loses Eppie by keeping quiet and lives to regret it. ... Silas is now part of the community he lives with Eppie in a warm and loving environment. ... Silas has now grown stronger than before, his lonely, sad life has completely changed into a happy life and Eliot demonstrates this through Silas, the money has no hold over me now' ...

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She does this to provide emphasis on Clarissa's life. ... They both try to encourage them to go back to living a good life. ... Richard is also a character similar to Clarissa in the way he envies other people's lives. ... When Richard remembers that he has Clarissa instead of Peter, and Clarissa seeing that Sally isn't as wonderful later in life, they remember not to take their lives for granted. ... When Septimus dies, the only difference it makes in the lives of Clarissa and Richard is that Sir William is late to the party. ...

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I quickly learned how amazing this epic-tale really was, and that it would inevitably teach me a lot about life. ... Undoubtedly, the Cathedral holds a communicative value, for it tells the story of people's lives through stone. ... I think his character taught me the most about life, the things we must be careful for in life, who we can and cannot trust, and most of all to live a life opposite of his. ... On the other hand, there were those who opposed the Hamleigh's, mostly very good people who were caring and lived honorable and noble lives. ... Tom would eventually lose his life ...

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At the age of ten, most children are dependent on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of attention and care. ... Gibbons allows this stream of thoughts to again emphasize the childish perception of life greatest tragedies. ... Gibbons uses this to express Ellen and her own confusion about their lives. ... Ellen and Kaye Gibbons both struggle with the horrible memories of their past lives, even though they live in pleasure and happiness now. ...

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Defoe uses Crusoe's journey on the canoe to exemplify how Crusoe lives in a world where he longs to please and obey God but must also contend with his instinct, which looks to himself for his savior. ... Crusoe strives for the Christian ideal, an ideal that leads him to look to God for assistance and not to humans because inevitably God holds the only power to give and take life. ... Like the world's first man, Crusoe's longing for knowledge almost costs him his life. ... Defoe uses Crusoe's journey on the canoe to show that Crusoe lives in a world inflicted wi...

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