... a paradise on earth, a place where there is peace, harmony, and a surcease from the pain that plagues our lives. On the eve of World War II, James Hilton imagined such a place in his best-selling novel, Lost Horizon. The story itself begins when an evacuation of Westerners is ordered in the midst of revolution in Baksul, India. A plane containing four passengers is hi-jacked and ... flown far away into the Keun-Lun Mountains of Tibet. The plane crashes and the passengers are welcomed to the valley of the Blue Moon, and the lamasery of Shangri-la. Here they see ... Would you enjoy livin...

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... heart out to Joe, hoping in return for life like that of a blooming pear tree. Janie is offered many things throughout her relationship with Joe; most importantly he offers her the horizon. Joe offers Janie an equal life, a life of opportunity. However even though Janie feels that Joe originally provides her with everything that life entails for one who wants to grow ... part to living life that was bursting and developing, however sexually, Janie felt "no longer petal open- with Joe. Right when Janie became single after the death of Joe, she almost immediately continued her search for ...

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... Tea Cake and Janie shared gave Janie's soul the freedom and the food it starved for many years. After Tea Cake's death, Janie did not feel alone. "She called in her soul to come and see."(184) Tea Cake had given so much love to Janie that would last her whole life. Tea Cake not only encouraged ... Janie's growth to independence, but also given her a direction toward her new life. Even though Tea Cake is gone physically, he is there with Janie. "He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his ... was gone she had nothing else to look after in l...

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... person, therefore, should be turned away. However, in Victor Hugo's novel, Les Miserables, Hugo contradicts this belief through the life of one man, Jean Valjean. Valjean demonstrated the belief of Hugo that an immoral and corrupt person can be changed into a life of fulfillment and righteousness through love and ... him of his crime and prevented him from returning to prison. Through this action, Valjean turned to the repentance of all his past sins, where "what happened to him at the bishop's, his last action all this returned and appeared to him, clearly, but in a light that he had ne...

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• Grade Level: High School