... on the original earth, showing once again that Hades is trying to protect her. Taking away the night and darkness protects her from being lonely. He is not protecting her from natural dangers of disease or something that could kill her but rather something that would just frighten or spook her. Then, once ... means also/you are alive" (21-25). Hades says that the night and darkness makes him feel alive. Silent, dark nights usually represent a loss of connection to others and can mean death. Hades finds that the darkness and emptiness of the night comforting, calming and almost warming. ...

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... go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."" I believe that this darkness is used as a symbol. At this moment he probably realizes that thing young lady was only using him, and the ... darkness symbolizes his sudden awareness and disappointment as he finds his fantasies shattered. Muhkerjee's "Jasmine- has similarities, yet on the other hand ... from their realities. The boy in "Araby- wants only one thing, simply to get the...

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... much younger than he once was. Hebe had transformed his age and taken the years removed from his life and added them to the years of the sons of Callirhoe so that they'd reach adolescence faster. The other gods wanted to make their mortal favorites younger, too, but Jove insisted that such things ... mother was gone to worship Ceres, the nurse told Cinyras that she knew of a girl who loved him truly. They arranged a meeting between the two and Myrrha went to her father. After several nights of indulging in this sin in complete darkness, Cinyras brought a lamp so that he could see his lo...

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... demanded that she care for his children. If Celie refused, she was punished. Through all of these traumatizing events, Celie lost respect for herself and forgot how to love. Her life was full of darkness without a single trace of light. However, Celie met a woman named Shug Avery who gave her the courage to fight ... for what she believed in. Shug taught her how to laugh and play and showed Celie a whole new perspective of life. Shug constantly reminded Celie to ... arranged for Shug to move in with him and Celie. At first, Shug was prepared to detest her but Celie's warm and gentle hea...

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... (Moyers p. 272). The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. Linda McCarriston's shocking use of language "speaks back to a culture" (Moyers 271) she believes created and sustained the dogma that led to the violence in her household. In ... end until the third stanza creates an overpowering and crushing feeling. The length of the sentence forces the reader to keep going to the end. Something disturbing is felt in the imagery of darkness created metaphorically by comparing memory to a darkened theater coupled with the ...

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... (Moyers p. 272). The following two poems strike like lightning; readers experience extraordinary power as they encounter each poem. Linda McCarriston's shocking use of language "speaks back to a culture" (Moyers 271) she believes created and sustained the dogma that led to the violence in her household. In ... end until the third stanza creates an overpowering and crushing feeling. The length of the sentence forces the reader to keep going to the end. Something disturbing is felt in the imagery of darkness created metaphorically by comparing memory to a darkened theater coupled with the ...

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... detail selection and utilizes connotative diction, allowing him to create a new literary art form. The splendor of the novel is in O"Brien's ability to convey a multitude of ideas in so few pages, which he displays through and ensemble of motifs. One such motif, the "heart of darkness," shows how the smoke from the war, both figuratively and literally, blackens the soldiers, burning their hearts ... to atramentous ash. O"Brien makes apparent the "heart of darkness" motif in Norman Bowker as he becomes hardened during his sojourn in Vietnam. Norman Bowker, described as "a very gentle per...

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... the boy journed through ardous and "dark muddy lanes" filled with "dark dripping gardens" and "dark ordorous stables." The constant repetition of the word dark offers a desolate mood to the story and emphasizes the "blind end streets" of the boy's neighborhood. Darkness takes a role in the story in which it reveals the fall from innnocence into painfull awareness. Then there is a sudden change ... to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pou...

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... go to Araby to buy her a gift; however, when he arrives there it is too late. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." I believe that this darkness is used as a symbol. At this moment he probably realizes that thing young lady was only using him, and the ... darkness symbolizes his sudden awareness and disappointment as he finds his fantasies shattered. Muhkerjee's "Jasmine" has similarities, yet on the other hand ... from their realities. The boy in "Araby" wants only one thing, simply to get the ...

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... the houses occupying its sides as "gazed(ing) at one another with brown imperturbable faces"(Vesterman 7). These houses reflect the attitudes of their inhabitants, who seem satisfied and content with their lives. The unchanging people seem as though they are strictly catholic and extremely ... of the priest's possessions raises another important religious question: Is religion in fact the real possession that is everlasting? This uncertainty further confuses the boy and fuels his desires to seek the light in his world of darkness. The introduction of Managan's sister marks the beginnin...

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... now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension ... of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not know how she is going ... Juliet is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor hear...

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... now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension ... of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not know how she is going ... Juliet is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor hear...

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... to carry on unsurpassed beauty. Sylvia, who before her coming to the country lived in a crowded manufacturing town, compares it to the satisfaction of living heart to heart with nature. She feels that she would never want to go back home. She even feels as if she never had been alive before ... as feminine. It is as well said to be wild or, in other words, untouched. Thus it becomes obvious that the girl, as a part of the natural world, and possessing the identical with nature femininity and innocent. Nice is perfectly integrated into the artless system. This way she may be ... identifie...

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... undergo a speedy growth process from a young girl to a young woman. For others, this situation may have proven to be a curse of a future, but for my mother she saw pass the darkness and through them there was a way to succeed in her goals to finish school and obtain a degree from higher learning, college. Even ... to higher her education. This if not anything else, proved to me that my mother was truly determined to accomplish her goals to make something of herself, and so that she could provide for her child. Also that education is the gateway to whatever you aspire for. Now that I ha...

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... watches from a distant being to shy to speak to her, of how when he gets a chance to buy her something from "Araby" his heart and mind being too anxious and excited for that day to come. In the end however, he comes to realize the vanity of it all, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and ... my eyes burned with anguish and anger." He sees how all his anxiousness to buy the girl of his love a gift ... thoughts were genuine and real, coming from his heart. Araby's epiphany shows that this character truly had an epiphany that shows that in...

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... with a girl who he hardly knows, and when he gets a chance at possibly being with her things don't work out and he is heart-broken. Both of these stories have an unhappy ending and they constantly revolve around heartache and disappointment. The characters in these stories only want someone to notice and love ... learn something from each other and get what they want. The second element that I saw was shared between the two stories is symbol. One example of this is time. In "A Hunger Artist," The man goes forty days and forty nights without food until eventually he dies. Unfortunately, hi...

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... narrator the reader begins to develop an understanding that the narrator is someone much older and sophisticated. The reader comes to this realization because of the choice of words and deep meaning the narrator chooses to describe his intense emotions. Also the reader begins to uncover the deep meaning that lye's ... were driven by materialistic possessions, which he thought held the key to the girl's heart. The way in which Joyce writes this story he includes an immense amount of detail and imagery that quickly captures the attention of the reader and is so real the reader feels as if...

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... narrator the reader begins to develop an understanding that the narrator is someone much older and sophisticated. The reader comes to this realization because of the choice of words and deep meaning the narrator chooses to describe his intense emotions. Also the reader begins to uncover the deep meaning that lye's ... were driven by materialistic possessions, which he thought held the key to the girl's heart. The way in which Joyce writes this story he includes an immense amount of detail and imagery that quickly captures the attention of the reader and is so real the reader feels as if...

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... Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw when we came upon her family's little house. I was shocked. The walls were crooked, thin, rusty sheets of metal, obviously gathered from the garbage. It really was no more than a cube with a door. The floor was dirt - almost mud - and there were ... pride in what her family had built from the devastation. It touched me in a way I did not expect. I felt a sense of pride for the optimism the little girl in front of me was showing. My pity for her disappeared and was replaced with awe. At the airport a few days later, I skimmed through my ... t...

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... 18 year old; bored, neurotic, self-obsessed and given to little psycho-dramas to attract attention - in other words, a western-world teenager of privileged conditions, only perhaps a little more extreme than most. She isn't clinically insane; the only treatment she needs is some basic behavior management ... where she voluntarily admits herself - little knowing she shall spend the next 18 months there. Susanna's roommate, Georgina, was admitted after a tidal wave of darkness had broke over her head in a theater. When she realized no-one else was experiencing this sensation, she realized...

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... she stays there. She stays on his mind because the isolation he puts himself in causes her to dig a deeper and deeper hole in his heart decreasing the chance he will ever have to actually talk to her. This eventually shapes his views on finding a person to be romantic with. The ... taking place around him could be very distracting individually and to put them all together would cause an incredible distraction he describes as a "single sensation" of life to which his first thought was her name. Furthermore, in prayer, he still thought about her and explained that "his body was like a har...

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... who turns and gazes at the viewer. The girl's liquid eyes and half-opened mouth make her very vivid with the immediacy of her presence, but the darkness in the background and her evocative costume give her a lasting quality. In the past, the painting has also been called & ... emotion. By looking deeply into this painting, one will see how Vermeer's creative ability captivates the heart and mind through the simple image of a fleeting moment in time. He captured every single detail of a girl's action and painted the most touching scene. We now have very limited reliable resources to ... so...

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... his surroundings, the narrator uses words like "feeble lanterns" (Joyce, 1) as well using the word 'dark' repeatedly to reiterate the depletion of light within the neighborhood: "dark muddy lanes" (1); "dark dripping gardens (1); and "dark odorous stables" (1). Only when the & ... old garrulous woman, a pawnbroker's widow, who collected stamps for some pious purpose" (Joyce, 3). The visitor's chatter during tea only added to his heart-pounding fear as minute by minute, his uncle's arrival was being delayed. As the old woman leaves at 8:00, she remarks she cannot bear the night ... ...

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... surroundings, the room was freezing, dark and had a lingering smell of smoke which had been absorbed by the pile of old, discolored newspapers that sat drearily in a damp corner of the room. The main focal point was a small, rather unhappy looking window facing into the darkness of the night. Lucy was now staring at a beam of crisp, silver light that hit the dusty floorboards. The beam ... danced and shimmered in time with the singing and swaying trees that cowered over and rapped at the window. Apart from this the loudest noise the filled the room was the firm and steady beating of Luc...

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