"Long Day's Journey Into Night" Essay The Past, Heart-warming yet Regretful Taking a journey through a human being's past can bring warmth and happiness to the heart, and yet it can also be wounding and bring disappointment. ... As humans, we also find ourselves yearning to revive the glory days of our past, and we waste time in the present days whining about how wonderful those days were and how we miss them terribly. In the sorrowful play, "Long Day's Journey into Night" written by Eugene O'Neill, the symbolic Tyrone family of Mary, James, Jamie, and Edmund fin...

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In Eugene O"Neill's "Long Days's Journey into Night," denial and addictions are two reoccurring themes that play a vital role in the play. ... O"Neill's characters are all weak-willed and give in to desire rather than confront their problems and prevent them from occurring again and sending their lives into a larger downward spiral. ... Good night, dear," (O"Neill 125). ... Dealing with this all day and the misery of not having a job and life that he enjoys, Jamie goes uptown every night to squander his pay on liquor and whores. ... The character's of "Long Day's...

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O'Neill's prime example of this is in his play "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" which is as biographical as you can get. ... "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" was one of his later plays, that was not to be produced or published until all close relatives had passed away. ... "Long Days Journey Into Night,"" is one day in the life of the Tyrone's. ... This occurs even though they had all just had a rough night of drowning. ... We see this in the process during "Long Day's Journey into Night."" ...

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Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, the autobiographical play, Long Day's Journey into Night, is regarded as Eugene O'Neill's finest pieces of work. ... Shockingly these emotions are only one days worth of the life long emotional rollercoaster. ... But if you dig deep enough, you'll find dirt- In Act III of, Long Day's Journey into Night, Edmund provides his mother with a little insight into his problems by professing how difficult it is to have a "dope fiend for a mother.... Much of Long Day's Journey into Night deals with Mary's spiraling in decline to...

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That first night of camp is forever etched into Elie's mind. His entire narration seems like an account of one long, endless night: "So much had happened within such a few hours that I had lost all sense of time. ... It is evident that even from one night in the concentration camp Elie's life has already began being destroyed by his experiences: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.... ... Several days pass and the prisoners forget about the selection. ... ...

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the form is divided into three quatrains and a couplet. ... demonstrates this in lines 9-14: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ... Shakespeare depicts this tone with images of sunny summer days, heaven, gold, and nature as a whole. ... Frost portrays a smooth sound of the narrator's journey through the city in order t...

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At other times the men had to push the boat along with long poles. Two days after beginning their journey the Corps of Discovery had their first of many troubles with the men. When some of the men had gone ashore without leave to a party, one of them stayed out all night and was rewarded for his actions with fifty lashes. ... So on November twentieth they moved into an incomplete fort. ... By July eighteenth the Corps was splitting into two groups. ...

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Our journey had begun. Two hours into the journey, after a lengthy conversation on what we were going to do, we ran into, or almost ran into, our first incident on the trip. ... I no longer had Gaz as he had become friends with a bucket and his swag, so I decided to ask the man to leave. ... The night was a great way to say goodbye to Seal Rocks. ... We headed for home and back into the reality of normal life. ...

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Twenty five years ago, I had to come into the United States as an illegal immigrant the journey to get here was extremely hard and difficult. ... This is where my journey began. ... The trip took hours to me, it seemed like days, it was a really long time. ... They had lied to me, this was not a picnic after all, and my elders had found a way to convinced me to take the long walk into the wilderness. ... The trip was still long; the ground was bumpy, rough, and cold. ...

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Night and Change The boy in this story, who is Elie Wiesel himself as a child, is the main character in Night. ... Night is about change and Elie is at the forefront. ... Elie Wiesel's journey from the ghetto to the camps is also a journey through his faith in God. ... Because he kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days?"... "In spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God whom I no longer believed in. ...

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They told me I would have to walk anywhere between 60 and 70 days!!! ... The trip seems to be getting longer and longer. During the days it gets so hot, I feel like Im going to die. ... But it is never for that long, and some days I dont even get a chance. ... As soon as we got into the city we found some food and a place to rest. ...

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Several days later Odysseus and his men arrived at the island of Aeolus, keeper of the winds. There, they stayed for about one month, and departed, in sight of the long-awaited Ithaca. ... Resenting this fact, Poseidon turned the new crew into stone for their generosity. ... He arrived at Sparta two days later, sleeping in the house of Diocles the first night, and arriving by nightfall the second day. ... The night ended and Telemachos was finally noticed to be Odysseus's son by Helen, Menaleus's wife. ...

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Night by Elie Wiesel Character List: Page 1: Moshe the Beadle- man off all work at a Hasidic Synagogue; very poor, lived humbly, dreamy eyes, awkward as a clown, spoke little, used to sing or rather to chant Page 2: Elie's father- cultured, unsentimental; concerned about other's rather than his family, held to the greatest esteem in the community Hilda- first child born; Elie's sister Béa- second born; Eli's sister Eliezer (Elie)- introduced formally on page 3; narrator, third born and only son to the family Tzipora- forth born; sister of El...

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Twelve days later Enkidu dies, leaving Gilgamech to mourn. ... So gilgamesh decides to take a long journey to find Utnapishtim, also called the faraway, and his wife, who are the only mortals on whom the gods had granted eternal life. ... After traveling a long distance, he reaches Mount Mashu, which guards the rising and setting of the sun. ... Past Mount Mashu is the land of the night, where no light ever appears. ... However Gilgamesh still proceeds with his journey. ...

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Many experiments have been conducted about why we dream, dreams are a response to our thoughts, actions and recent events in our days. ... Dreaming is something every one does and although some people don't remember their dreams or maybe only just a couple everyone has that night time journey we call dreams. ... With steady breathing and feeling very relaxed you journey into the last stage. ... For a long while people believed that when you dreamt it only lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. ... Think about all the facts you learned and see if this is all true to your night journey....

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He calls Faith "a blessed angel on earth-(379) and says after his journey, he will not leave her again until death separates them. ... He says "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. ... When Young Goodman Brown travels into the dark, he finds himself face to face with the devil. ... He is no longer nave to the power of evil over even the best of people....

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As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater. ... He learned the necessary skills of a sled dog, which included digging under the snow at night for warmth, surviving on far less food than he was used to, stealing food from other dogs, and the knack for pulling a load. ... Long gone was the domesticated dog and emerging was the wolf: "And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again...

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In a short period of time, a long list of events occurred; some of them, although it didn't seem like that at the time, for the better and other events very unfortunate. The story began not at the start of Last days but during Ben's journey while he was captive of an older man, Greg, as they were fleeing from Last Days. ... So one night, Ben put his collar up and walked away by himself, into the storm. ... After a few days he realised he had fallen into the same trap again but they had now become partners. ... They needed Ben as a decoy to break into Taronga Zoo. ...

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The Dark Night of the Soul gives an abundance of the many different citizens brought into this society. ... " – The Dark Night of the Soul, Richard E. ... No longer will lies and other people's beliefs be allowed to fall upon his path unlike Mary Karr whose family's second nature is dishonesty. ... " – The Dark Night of the Soul, Richard E. ... Miller is able to bring these journeys together and create something incredibly outstanding. ...

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Athena disguises him as an old beggar to help him get past the suitors and when he gets to Penelope, she turns Odysseus back into himself and even makes him more handsome. Athena is just one example of the power women had over Odysseus during his journey home. ... Penelope was a very clever woman and it was not until days before Odysseus' return that she started to give up hope of his return. "So everyday she wove on the great loom-but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Achaeans," (Book 2, Lines 29-31). ... She represented Odysseus&...

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So, Cassidy rescues Dick and Pam and they head for the nearest town, Alma, which is a several days ride. ... He was very attracted to her, but she never got in the way of his thoughts or action during the long journey to Alma. ... At one point along the trail they ran into a tribe of Apaches. ... Turner's Theory fits neatly into the storyline of the book. ... The process in the book is the journey to safety. ...

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After a while you go numb, you forget you have probably been sitting in the chair for hours, maybe even days. ... Your journey began expecting a new life, instead you receive promised death. Soon the artificial song lulls me into a trance. ... I knew the fasted route, even knew how long the commute would take. ... This night, a night I should be commemorating, has left me paralyzed. ...

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The thick fog blinded their sight which ensured a long, relentless journey to find the forbidden forest. ... They were encountered by rough storms, scarce food supplies, and long nights. It took seven days for Beowulf and his fellow men to get across this brackish water, but they finally made it across to Avalon. ... They head to Yumboldt's kingdom where Beowulf would rest for the night before beginning his journey to slay the beast. ... He wanted to get an early start as he knew a long expedition was ahead of him. ...

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If you are not worthy then you will not see me and if you are you shall reach it in three days". ... At midnight Hesthorite started packing and prepared for the long journey to Ractar. ... He finally put on his armor and hopped on his horse and before morning he set of on the long journeys through the forests. ... At night he found a very bushy tree and rested for the night. ... The ran into the bushes and Hesthorite jumped through after him. ...

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They traveled for days before they reached the mountains, and by then, they all decided to rest before climbing into the icy peaks... * * * * A day and a night passed before they began climbing up the mountains. ... After they spent the night in the cave, they continued their ascent up the mountain. Several more days and nights passed before they reached the summit. ... It's not like such a young apprentice to set out on such a journey. ...

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