... to die for one's country. Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" compares decrease in war to an abortion by using ambiguity. However, in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, the ambiguity is displayed with irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obstacles. Each work presents the death of a man for his ... picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. First it can be ...

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... Lady Lazarus" is just one of them. She wrote this poem shortly after her third attempt of suicide. In "Lady Lazarus" Plath displays a certain tone, ambiguity, and allusions. The tone used in "Lady Lazarus" is gloomy and depressing. Nothing in this poem is positive or upbeat. Plath is obviously miserable, as one ... this piece but, to the reader those are the two main points one might pick up on. The whole entire poem has many forms of ambiguity in it. The ninth stanza is the beginning of one of the main ambiguous points of the poem: "What a million filaments. The peanut- ... and she see...

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... Lady Lazarus" is just one of them. She wrote this poem shortly after her third attempt of suicide. In "Lady Lazarus" Plath displays a certain tone, ambiguity, and allusions. The tone used in "Lady Lazarus" is gloomy and depressing. Nothing in this poem is positive or upbeat. Plath is obviously miserable, as one ... this piece but, to the reader those are the two main points one might pick up on. The whole entire poem has many forms of ambiguity in it. The ninth stanza is the beginning of one of the main ambiguous points of the poem: "What a million filaments. The peanut- ... and she see...

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... . The novel blurs the lines between real stories and stories that the author created in order to cope with his past in Vietnam. O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to ... and making new memories with him right at that very moment. "That's what a story does. The bodies are animated. You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). The general ambiguity in the truthfulness of stories in the novel personally made me more inter...

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... pray you'll never know, " in Suicide in the trenches expresses the miserable aspect of war-death, but not in the form it would be thought but rather suicide. The ambiguity adds to the fact that the soldiers families thought of them as dead in battle and praised everyone of them as heroes of war. War was not like that at ... ...

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... discovers that the planet has taken the life of his mentor, Gibarian, while plaguing the station with its replicants. Kelvin eventually falls asleep in this graveyard of decadent technology and ambiguity and awakens, much like the poem's narrator, to the sight of his own "Pearl Maiden," albeit in a transformed state. Rheya's moody, shadowed reveal is a sharp contrast to the narrator "gazing ... ...

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... no" with the repetition of "no" shows the poet's despair at the lack of compassion from the other people. The whole verse employs repetition from the previous stanzas without the ambiguity of the double meanings. Here when the poet refers to "it was too cold always" it is just the emotional coldness she is talking about and not the water at ... ...

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... about Hamlet would have time to read nothing else, not even Hamlet." What is the great fascination with Hamlet and the characters contained within. The great intrigue comes from the ambiguity of the play and it's characters. "Hamlet is the tragedy of reflection. The cause of the hero's delay is irresolution; and the cause of this is excess of the reflexive ... ...

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... conviction that one can see that he is either truly a passionate guy or he may be on the verge of insanity which would satisfy his uncle's suspicions. Because of the ambiguity displayed by Hamlet particularly when discussing suicide, his perceived "act" of insanity is working effectively. In one of the most famous soliloquies in literature history, a glimpse into one person's personality ... ...

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... no" with the repetition of "no" shows the poet's despair at the lack of compassion from the other people. The whole verse employs repetition from the previous stanzas without the ambiguity of the double meanings. Here when the poet refers to "it was too cold always" it is just the emotional coldness she is talking about and not the water at ... ...

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... for Social responsibility. The report, however, does not claim that it is "right to die". It takes exception tom its use in the euthanasia debate because it "suffers from a dangerous ambiguity". It claims that a person does have the right to determine whether he should live or die, when in extremis. Suffering is either caused by natural means, such as old age ... ...

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... rising with her fiery red hair, like the rising of the mythical creature, the Phoenix. Terror is evident in the sentence "And I eat men like air", but due to the ambiguity of the word "man" in the English language, this line can be interpreted as either a feminist declaration or a hostile threat to all mankind. So therefore, as she had warned earlier ... ...

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... rising with her fiery red hair, like the rising of the mythical creature, the Phoenix. Terror is evident in the sentence "And I eat men like air", but due to the ambiguity of the word "man" in the English language, this line can be interpreted as either a feminist declaration or a hostile threat to all mankind. So therefore, as she had warned earlier ... ...

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