... begin to take a toll on person both mind and body. In All Quiet on the Western Front they refer to themselves as animals, partly because of the way they act in battle and partly because of the way in which they live. Rat infested trenches, constant mud, always wet, and dead bodies are a common sight. All of these physical conditions will inevitably have an ... effect psychologically. With each person losing a friend each day the men's priorities turn from winning the war to simply surviving the war: Just as we turn into animals when ... Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Mey...

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... has a more tangled plot than he first expected, when he finds out that his father had a romantic relationship with Mrs. Shears, the owner of the dead dog. He subsequently learns that their relationship was a reaction to another affair, one between Mr. Shears and his mother, who has disappeared. One evening, in his search for new clues, ... Christopher finds a box full of letters, form his supposedly lost mother. The novel starts in medias res. Christopher discovers the neighbor's dog dead on the ground. Already in the first chapter it becomes clear that the narrator is struggling with a...

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... the sharp image of the dead child couched in the ditch beside his dead mother. The very neatness of their bullet wounds made their death more disturbing than the indiscriminate massacre in the canals around- (http://members.tripod.com/~greeneland/quiet.htm). The scene of the child lying dead in a ditch beside his mother was vividly illustrated in the book. Greene wanted the reader to realize the horrors of war. He describes the "neatness- of the ... bullet wounds on the ... ...

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... . They are truly a bunch of a**es drowning in their own selfishness. The mules were seen with "legs stiffly extended as when they had lost contact with the earth." The Bundrens don't realize that their family is dying, just as the mules don't realize that they are dead and not touching the earth. The cow in the story represents Dewey Dell's pregnancy. Cows are docile creatures that constantly produce ... milk--the stereotypical mother. When the cow continually tries to nudge or get Dewey's attention, it ... this theory, so that humanity can be seen more clearly without that to distort t...

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... are on Walton's ship as Walton is attempting to reach the North Pole. He tells Walton of his dreadful tale of how his pursuit of knowledge had ruined his existence. Victor is gripped by the idea of the "secret of life". He wants to figure out what brings dead tissue to life. His obsession begins to take over his entire life and ... he loses touch with the people around him and with reality, and begins to look pale and really sick ... and working hard, Victor finally reaches his goal. He successfully brings life to the old, dead body parts he had collected. When Victor looks at his crea...

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... a woman and are going to sacrifice her. The three men decide to rescue the woman and wait until nightfall to commence the rescue. When day broke Passepartout cleverly switched places with a dead man and acted like he resurrected. He took the woman and set off like if he was alive again. After a long chase, the men were far from the Indians and could resume their normal peaceful ... be brought upon by his actions. A good example of Passepartout's acting without realizing the possibilities of what could happen is when he switches places with a dead man in an Indian village in order to fre...

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... not fully constructed, guiding him to the consequence that never foresees. Specifically, his ardor nether comes from the will to benefit the world nor any specific uses of his works after prototype. With the wispy "light" he follows, he then proceeds his ardor with perseverance, he uses his unprecedented technology to successfully endow a life on a dead body which is assembled from different ... dead bodies. But this creature has a rotten sense, ... rather than the beautiful, lively image that Frankenstein sees previously. It is true that he has a robust body and kind of advanced logic...

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... author Mary Shelley and firstly published anonymously in 1818. The novel follows the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientific prodigy, who discovers to secret to life and who uses it to bring to life a creature whom he assembled using various dead body parts. However, Frankenstein is overcome with guilt as he is confronted with the creature's ignoble appearance and proceeds to abandon him ... . Yet, later on, as the creature becomes aware of how he came to be and is confronted with the cruelty of society, he decides to seek revenge on Victor Frankenstein ... I found so as...

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... Agnes loses her virtue to Don Raymond and becomes pregnant with his child. This loss of virtue and realization of her sexuality gives Agnes the strength to overcome the disgusting and vile living conditions she is forced into. Even after spending weeks in deplorable conditions and becoming, "embittered by every species ... given her. Although Agnes has commendable strength, her punishment could have been avoided if she had fully accepted her sexuality and avoided returning to the convent. The novel's treatment of Agnes exhibits that for a woman to have true power and strength to benefit h...

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... made with extreme simplicity--- I was still by nature solicitous to be neat. It was not my habit to be disregardful of appearance, or careless of the impression I made; on the contrary, I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit. I sometimes regretted ... upon him in a cave, question his entire being saying, "What have we here, a man or a fish? Dead or Alive? A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not-of-the-newest Poor John (salted fish, type of poor fare). A strange fish! Were I in England now...

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... all that (real world, job, school) stuff seriously when he's once been out here?" (p78). Paul goes on to answer this question which has been passed around the group and states that nothing can fulfill a mind after what has gone on there. It is then that they allow reality to set in and speak it out loud: ... reality and then snaps back to where Paul just nods his head saying, " it isn't so bad" (p140). After going into town, and encountering a Major on the streets, Paul is given order upon order, building up an appalling rage inside of him. He returns home soon after, and attempts to disg...

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... he saw there was a body lying in the road. It was a man without a trench coat. An officer. He had been shot in the back and was sprawled face down. Robert rolled him over carefully thinking he might still be alive. But he wasn't. He was quite dead and had been for more than an ... hour. It was Clifford Purchase." The fact Clifford was shot in the back indicates it was one of his ... fellow officers. This reinforces the betrayal by fellow officers theme because not only was Robert betrayed but ... . Ross it would refer to it getting dark, "It got dark," or her having a moment like in th...

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... 't really know what was going on either. By mixing in the truth with lies the author is able to achieve his purpose. 4. Throughout the story the author alternates between Vietnam where the war is taking place and back home in the U.S.A representing the changes between before the war and after the war as far as the mentality of the soldiers. The author alternates between these two settings to demonstrate what lead him ... feeling by showing the boy is missing a leg, and how the soldier just laughed and handed over the chocolate bar without much resistance. In another instance in pg.69 the...

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Evil is stronger than good, Hyde obscene up dead, suggestive a weakness. The relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde begins strong then changes to equals vying determinedly for dormancy. It's a evil gothic story. The letter keeps depicting Jekyll's weep for help. A long way from his research center and chased by the police as a killer, Hyde required Lanyon's assistance to get his elixirs and ... to paint Hyde as bestial he is bristly and revolting; he acts as per nature as opposed to reason; Utterson depicts him as a "troglodyte," or primitive animal. Yet in the event that Hyde were simp...

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... to improve her moral standard before dying. As much as both Dwight and Moira are unwilling to let despair prevail, they still accept their inescapable faith by committing suicide in the end. Peter refuses to accept his fate as well. Devoting to work as his salvation, Peter attempts to salvage society and his sanity by continuing on with his career and ... raising his daughter earnestly with his wife, Mary during the outbreak. When the couple must consider euthanizing their daughter, Mary displays strong resistance and questions if "there's no hope at all" (303), which illustrates how ho...

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... brutal scenes illustrated in "Beloved" detract from the book's credibility because they encourage a sense of unrealism. Another faulty aspect of "Beloved" is that it is categorized as a ghost story. This classification obliterates whatever is left of the novel's credibility because the reader knows that none of the information is true. Sethe's dead daughter is reincarnated as a young woman, and ... from there the story revolves around those two characters reconnecting. At this point, the believability of the story is gone because the reader surely knows that nothing presented is accurate...

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... the shape of the Trystero post horn. Mute and everything-(p.111). This makes us wonder if she is simply delusional, as most witnesses to her think, or if there really exists a conspiracy involving the Trystero, thus putting us in the same state of paranoia as Oedipa. From one perspective, we can say that Pierce Inverarity, Oedipa's dead ex-boyfriend, serves to unite the respective quests of the ... reader and Oedipa. The estate that Pierce Inveraity leaves behind at his death is a clue, which may ... conclude that Pierce Inverarity is the conspirator behind all events in the novel. The ...

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... a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into creation. And your dead body is just the welcome mat I need." Celie's increased confidence is also illustrated by the people to whom she addresses her letters. Initially, Celie addresses her letters to God having been silenced by her ... stepfather: "You better not tell nobody but God. It's kill your mammy." This also gives the reader some indication as to why Walker choose to use the epistolary form for her novel. Celie's opening letter is written in response to sexual violence. Celie is confused but ... final lett...

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... , Henchard visits Elizabeth Jane on her wedding day, carrying the gift of a caged goldfinch. He leaves the bird in a corner while he speaks to his stepdaughter and forgets it when she coldly dismisses him. Days later, maid discovers the starved bird, which prompts Elizabeth Jane to search for Henchard, whom she finds dead in Abel Whittle's cottage. When Whittle reports that Henchard" ... was shaped not by free will, but by character, besides it, there are such powerful, uncontrollable forces as heredity and God. Henchard rails against such forces throughout the novel, lamenting that the ...

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... the mothers" as well (Huntley 44). She speaks on behalf of her deceased mother, Suyuan, and subsequently her voice is the glue the holds all the scattered pieces of "family" together. Which is why her stories are located at the opening and closing of the novel. She begins at a time of turmoil and confusion; her mother is dead ... , and there is an empty space at the mah-jong table. This ... space has created a hole of sorts in the tradition of the Joy Luck Aunties; they already ... connected with her mother, or with her roots, makes for a very optimistic lasting impression when it comes...

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... out that he has become a new man. II. Value to the Reader A. This book is recommended to people over the age of fourteen, because the book has concepts that might prove confusing to those under that age. Why Wilson and Henry becomes different people, by the books end, and the symbolism behind the dead soldier in the woods maybe difficult concepts for children under fourteen. B. A person ... that enjoyed this book might also like The Killer Angels, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ... because these are novels that go along with the time period and are books based on realism. C. Al...

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... possession and, in several ways, represents the disregard for authority for which Greasers traditionally pride themselves. First of all, the blade is stolen. Second, it represents a sense of the individual power that comes with the potential to commit violence. When Two-Bit finally loses the blade when the police confiscate it from Dally's dead body, the loss of the weapon becomes linked with the loss of Dally, a person who embodies ... individual power and authority. Since The Greasers do not have wealth to pride ... ...

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... , Henchard visits Elizabeth Jane on her wedding day, carrying the gift of a caged goldfinch. He leaves the bird in a corner while he speaks to his stepdaughter and forgets it when she coldly dismisses him. Days later, maid discovers the starved bird, which prompts Elizabeth Jane to search for Henchard, whom she finds dead in Abel Whittle's cottage. When Whittle reports that Henchard" ... was shaped not by free will, but by character, besides it, there are such powerful, uncontrollable forces as heredity and God. Henchard rails against such forces throughout the novel, lamenting that the ...

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... fiction, irony, symbolism, allusions, and conflict combine to form this intriguing novel. How do these elements contribute to any potential themes? 4/5 I Am Legend is a dystopian, magical realist novel. The present day life is filled with the living dead. The settings are not idealistic, and very difficult to live under. All of humanity is gone, as well as many resources that a human may need ... force. Another example is that in the end everyone else looks at him like he is the monster. Since the superior force is now the living dead, a mere human is looked down upon. On Earth, humans a...

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... the novel to emphasize the mood and the atmosphere of the scenes. One of the most important symbolisms is the presence of black crows at the scene of the crashed plane. The dead pilot in the plane was partially eaten by them when Hank, Jacob and Lou found the crashed plane. The black crows symbolize the deaths that would follow shortly after the money was taken from the plane by Hank. The ... precise." (p.74) is an example of metaphorical description for the scenery that surrounds the characters of the novel when they went into the woods to search for a dog that chased the fox. Another ex...

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