One example of symbolism used is the fire escape. ... Tom also often gets drunk to escape his complications. ... The last symbol of escape for Laura is when she fell on the fire escape. This fall symbolizes how even though she creates many escape to avoid reality, she cannot truly escape. ... Although escapes can be created to avoid reality, these escapes are not everlasting, as it was observed with Laura....

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Some though did survive through this and were sold through the slave market to be bought by a white American person, but escaping from this awful treatment never escaped their minds and there were secret ways that they could escape without anyone seeing them. ... Anyone caught helping runaways escape was likely to be savagely punished. ... Sometimes the escapers even dressed in disguises, or given farm tools to carry. ... The American Constitution had declared in 1787 that any slave who escaped to a free state had to be returned to the owner. ... While some runaways spent the rest of their l...

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Along with our instinctual desire to dissolve into nature, I think it's also safe to say that the feeling we derive from being able to escape society and conquer the twisted conditions of nature is infinitely satisfying. ... In our own spirits we certainly did feel alone because we had accomplished our goal which was to completely escape society's rigid grasp for a short amount of time to simply get lost in nature and as Abbey put it, "just do nothing". ... Before reading the book, I already has a profound love for nature but after reading the inspiring story, I found my...

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The bank and the doll are both put into IM's briefcase, signifying IM's loss of identity and his inability to escape from the racial stereotypes inflicted on him by society. ... Clifton ends up controlling the Sambo doll, in hopes of escaping the lack of freedom that has been adversely effecting his character. ... The doll is later left unattended on the streets, signifying that IM is unable to escape from the past. ... IM's desire to escape from his past is also evident through the coin bank and the doll, which are both pieces of his culture that he continues to carry around....

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Comparably, Moira is wise enough to take advantage of situations in order to escape. ... She wants to bribe one of the men in the ambulance with sex in the hope to escape. ... Her skills of critical and wise thinking make her effort to escape believable. ... However, she adapts to the style of living since there is no real ease of escaping. ... Moreover, the intelligence within them helps as an effort to escape the lack of freedom. ...

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He is torn about escaping from what he calls his life. ... Before he regretfully leaves his family, his only escape from the madness inside the walls of their apartment, was the fire escape. ... Out drinking, and escaping form his own self. ... Wingfield hangs is an attempt to escape her life. ... Laura's escape is a bit subtler than Tom's or Amanda's, escapes. ...

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She hides from the real world, forever trying to escape the spotlight. ... (The Glass Menagerie, page 86) Laura lives in her glass menagerie, which becomes her escape from reality. ... She is overly delicate, as fragile as the little glass ornaments and phonograph records that are her escape. ... Indeed, he feels that his life is a trap and dreams of escape. ... Amanda dreams of her teenage years in Blue Mountain and escapes reality through her past. ...

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Stephen, throughout the novel wishes to be a child again in order to escape reality. ... This too is an attempted escape from reality, and can also represent the fact that Joyce views Dublin as a prison, that he wishes he could fly away from. ... In this prostitute, he could temporarily escape reality, and become an unconscious child again. This escape from reality into the unconscious is present in The Inferno as well. ... Stephen's subconscious is an attempt to escape from his responsibilities. ...

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But also that time Harry managed to escape. ... Again he escaped. ... After he did this he changed himself into a rat and escaped into the sewer. ... But he escapes and they can't prove that Sirius is innocent. ... They free him and he uses the Hippogriff to fly away and escape. ...

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Stephen, throughout the novel wishes to be a child again in order to escape reality. ... This too is an attempted escape from reality, and can also represent the fact that Joyce views Dublin as a prison, that he wishes he could fly away from. ... In this prostitute, he could temporarily escape reality, and become an unconscious child again. This escape from reality into the unconscious is present in The Inferno as well. ... Stephen's subconscious is an attempt to escape from his responsibilities. ...

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Throughout the novel, A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway shows that one must escape the horrors of war and the escape from these horrors through the simple pleasures in life. ... Through Frederic's relationship with Ranildi, Hemingway shows that the simple pleasures in life are the most recognized way to escape the horrors of war. ... Through Frederic's relationship with Catherine Barkley, Hemingway shows that the simple pleasures in life are very important to the escape of the horrifying reality of war. ... Through Frederic Henery's drinking habits Hemingway shows that the si...

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Because of this, the thought of freedom takes root in his mind, and it is not long before he begins formulating plans for escape. ... Freeland, he plans together with a group of fellow slaves to escape by way of fake temporary liberty protections, forged in the name of his master, William Hamilton. ... Luckily, though, Douglass manages to destroy the evidence relating to their escape, and is then, against his expectations, returned to serve under the Auld family. It is from this station that he escapes successfully a few years later. ... The only thing Douglass leaves out is the details of...

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This enclosed atmosphere gives a sense of being trapped, and that there is nowhere to escape. ... It can be seen in Scream where Drew Barrymore is trapped in her house (literally having no physical escape), and in Final Destination where the idea of no escape is the metaphorical escape from death. ... The audience is shocked when the presumed-dead nurse grabs hold of Delilah as she is about to escape out of the door. ... However, Delilah escapes with Casey's help. ... It also shows that the aliens can be defeated because the teenagers escaped. ...

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Hannah was a very prideful individual and this was well pointed out in the end of her novel at the point of her escape. ... Hannah's strength helped her to succeed in her escape. She meditated and prayed on her escape because she feared haste or rashness, which would attribute to her capture. ... Her pride and ambition would not let her accept her new conditions as a field slave and a wife, which led her to her plan of escape. ... On the Wheeler plantation, Hannah's pride and dignity gave her the ability to escape to freedom. ...

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Technology change led to a large emphasis on leisure time with most Americans which not only made Coney Island one of the most popular destinations on earth but also managed to loosen US culture by freeing middle class workers to escape the harshness of the city. New technology change in the 20th century made escaping the city much easier for middle class and blue collar workers, but why were so many eager to leave the city for respite? ... However Coney Island only offered immediate enjoyment and escape from the demands of work and social life. ... Lastly and most important for most people ...

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"(63) Imagine enduring all this with no hope of ever escaping because no one realizes you remain alive. ... Both the narrator and Roderick hear the sounds of her escape very clearly. ... A ghost would not have to break out of a tomb; the spiritual entity could simply escape by passing through it. ... The tomb itself had many obstacles to go through to escape it. So naturally, Madeline would not be able to successfully escape it unscathed. ...

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But Tom does not escape to a world of illusion, he sees life as it is, harsh and mean. ... Even though he faces this reality, it is important to mention that he does not accepts it, as he tries, unsuccessfully, to escape from it, watching movies and writing poems. ... He is aware of it but he constantly tries to find a way to escape, so that he can live his dream, his fantasy, as Laura, Amanda and Jim does. ... As he is not part of the Wingfield's family, he has not been influenced by the problems of this family and therefore is not in need to escape from reality, on the contrary, he ...

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Led astray by Magua, they encounter the white woodsman Hawkeye and his two Mohican companions Chingachgook and Uncas where upon the villainous Huron escape. ... Running out of munitions, the three woodsmen escape downriver for help, but others are captured and taken away by a splinter group of warriors headed by Magua. ... During the planned withdrawal of the English forces, the Indians begin a bloody massacre and Magua once again escapes with the two girls and Gamut. ... When Uncas is captured by the Hurons, Hawkeye effects his escape and Alice's through disguise and all head...

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Leo had escaped many death trains which where leading to concentration camps. ... The guards had his records which had stated he escaped many times. ... I say this because Leo was living proof of being a survivor, he survived by escaping and running. I do not understand why more people did not try to escape like him. ... One would be how Leo continued to escape as a prisoner. ...

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The daughter, Candace, forced into the role of mother by her own uncaring maternal parent, seeks escape and acceptance through sexual promiscuity. ... This thought is the first thought he has upon waking on the morning that he is to ultimately escape the confines of time by drowning himself. ...

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McMurphy, feeling betrayed by the others after most refuse to vote to change the schedule, later suggests another bet: he claims that he will escape by throwing a heavy marble sink through a window. ... McMurphy's next rebellion is when he escapes from the hospital and hijacks a bus carrying many of the other patients on the ward. ... He has formed a plan to escape and take back control over his own life, and he believes this plan gives him a way to win his battle with Ratched. The last great rebellion that McMurphy stages occurs on the same night as his planned escape attempt. ...

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Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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Like many other heroines trapped in a limiting social context, Maggie finds a way to escape. She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by literature, and into a daydream state that is induced by the sound of the mill, the river and music. Maggie also considers the conventional escape from mundane and limited home life for women through marriage to Philip or Stephen. However George Eliot will not permit this escape for her heroine and we realise that it would be a mistake for her to marry either, as both are not fully compatible to Maggie. Eventually, this ...

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If you see throughout the movie they use telephones to communicate for example when Trinity is escaping the agents in the first scene she makes use of a telephone to escape . ... Tray with the help of the telephone gives them directions to escape. The scene in the subway station is also a good example because it shows how they manage to escape with the help of the telephone and how Neo is left behind and couldn't escape because the call ended , this is a very good example on how dependent they are on technology. ...

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It is the story of a boy on a mission to help a slave, Jim, escape from slavery. ... At first, Huck considers Jim to be a piece of property, and he believes that by helping Jim escape he is doing wrong. With regards to helping Jim escape Huck says "Well I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free-and who was to blame for it? ... This embodies the apprehension Huck feels at the beginning of the novel about helping Jim escape to freedom. Huck is beginning "to realize that he is actually helping a sl...

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