Since the "hollow men" possesses a "headpiece filled with straw" a picture of a scarecrow denied a brain is envisioned. ... The next lines portray an image of repetitiveness and uselessness: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats" feet over broken glass In our dry cellar The consecutive use of the word "dry" conveys a feeling of deadness. ... There are also people "who by virtue of their pointless drifting through life have gone to a sort of nowhere, a nothingness, a Limbo at the outskirts of Hell." ... Gen...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Pearl opens with the narrator, in first person, recounting an experience he has while lamenting the loss of his "pearl," with his pearl being someone implicitly close to him. ... The poem's narrator and Kelvin both greet their respective pearls with a line of questioning. ... "And like John, we, too, are faced with a choice. ... Dead men naked they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon. When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone they shall have stars at elbow and foot. ...

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This event broke Hamlet's relations with his mother. ... He no longer had the chance to talk about girls with his father, such as Ophelia. He was left with no real male role model in his life. ... He had the fresh new heart ache of Ophelia being gone and refreshed memories of his father being killed. ... Hamlet's life now at this point, is the most ruined a life can possibly wind up. ...

• Word Count: 1433
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It was the time of the Icing, and the snow and razor-winds blew across the lands and before and behind them came the war and the war went across the lands worse than the ice, like a plague, and there were those who took in the plague and died by it, or were wounded deeply by it, and I was one of the wounded, and at first I wished I was one of the dead. ... The job with the children. ... In the bed beside me in the crumbling, bomb-shook hospital, was an old man with his arm blown off at the elbow and his face splotched with the familiar frost-bite of a front-line man. ... Now I am a useless ...

• Word Count: 1820
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Raymond Rambert attempted to escape Oran in hopes of rejoining with his wife in Paris. He tried to escape with the help of Cottard's criminal buddies. ... If Camus could have only used names that started with different letters it would have been easier, but many of the names started with the same letter such as: Rambert and Rieux. ... (page 253) The people not giving up and returning to their regular lives symbolizes how even though they have gone through months of torture, the plague is over. ... When seeing Oran, I do not see a greasy, cluttered town, but I see a dried-up-town that has ...

• Word Count: 2018
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School