... drawing a cathedral on a shopping bag, with Robert's hand riding his. The particular interest of "Cathedral" is that Carver, like Easthope in "Castle," is portraying the masculine ego through the metaphor of architecture. Three architectural metaphors illuminate the action of the story: in the first section, the metaphors are the masculine ego as castle and as the less familiar Panopticon; in ... ego, its pushing away of relationship with others and with other parts of the psyche. This portrayal of isolation is extended, qualified, and enriched by the second implied architectural metaph...

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• Approx Pages: 45
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• Grade Level: High School

... and characteristic qualities. Patrick Lewis is a lost soul and a searcher on a constant journey. In chapter three, ironically titled, "[T]he Searcher", Patrick is searching for Ambrose Small but that is merely a metaphor for his vocation. "He searched out things, he collected things" (157) indicates that he is always searching for something. The title, "In the Skin of a Lion,"" can also be used ... his own, and his only way of gaining a temporary one is through light. "And he himself was nothing but a prism that refracted their lives," (Ondaatje, pg.157) is a well-written metaphor that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... power in the fiction-its ability (to paraphrase Brooks) finally to permit the full discharge of the novel's energies-lies in its evocation of a number of fragmentations, of tearings-apart: exile from home and family, the powerful love of Latour and Vaillant that throughout the work repeatedly "forges a new Will" in both, rekindling "the desire to go" in its conflict with ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... title, for instance, can be easily attributed to the baby being a "white elephant", which is in North American culture, "not only a rare and sacred creature, but also a metaphor for an expensive and burdensome property" (Link 4). In Hemingway's iceberg principle, each sentence is important and this draws attention and emphasis to repetition more than in other literary structures ... ...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate