1. A Lesson Before Dying
However, after watching a man die at his hands, Baumer can no longer cope with the idea of killing the enemy. Before he was shooting from a distance but now he had actually seen the face of the man he killed. ... They also witnessed the feelings caused by the attack, and began to realize exactly what people before them had to go through during the world wars. ... People in present day society can use the past as the lesson that concerns need to be dealt with in a humane matter and that there is no excuse for such an awful thing as war. ...
"Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." ... On his first visit, he was late and received a scolding, which surprised him, at the end of the first "lesson", he promised to be back at 2 o"clock. ... All was restored to their rightful owners and they indeed returned to live their proper lives happier than ever before, but always with golden memories of the happy, carefree days in the Forests of Arden. ...
Irony, within "The Tale" In the story "The Pardoner's Tale", Chaucer, who is the Author, uses a great deal of irony. Chaucer is a master of both Verbal and Situational Irony. What is the difference you say? The difference is quite simple. Verbal irony comes from the mouth. It is when you say...
At the time that Holden comes to visit before he leaves, Spencer presents himself poorly, with pills and medicine scattered about, wearing a rather revealing bathrobe and smelling like "Vicks Nose Drops". ... They gave it up before they ever really got started- and " The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."... A lesson to be learned from this novel is that perhaps we may never find our "wise old man figure". ...
Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on the civil war actually the reader must know that he is talking of the civil war because he never actually states that in the novel. ... Henry leaves him to die and throughout the entire novel Henry is haunted by this guilt. ...