In this story, Melville portrays five characters working in a law office. ... There is no difference for this story's situation. ... The narrator truly believes that it is his duty to tell the story of Bartleby, and only by giving you the background as he sees it would the story be a full evaluation of events. At the beginning of the story the narrator begins to tell the story of his office. ... It is not a universal thing to just openly talk about one's sex life. ...

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Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships. Relationships with the opposite sex have been one of the hardest things to handle nowadays. For teenagers, it is normal be a story of trial and error but for adults, it is a big deal. ... According to relationship counselor John Gray, difficulties in relationships between a man and a woman lie in the lack of understanding and acceptance of the differences between the ...

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The third poem, Rapunzstiltskin' is written in a well-known fairytale format and is a narration about a love story which has gone dramatically wrong. ... It is also showing that people must think about the responsibility that comes after sex. ... He does actually get quite desperate and resorts to scaring the woman into sex etc such as lines 27-29. ... My favourite poem out of these three is Rapunzstiltskin' because it is comical and keeps the readers attention, I also feel that it portrays attitudes towards love and sex clearer than the other two where the reference to sex is hidd...

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1 "A Rose for Emily" "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, begins and ends with the death of Emily Grierson, the main character of the story. Throughout the story Faulkner gives hints that eventually lead up to the shocking revelation of Emily's character. ... Faulkner's central theme in the story is "To let go of the past", Emily has a tendency to cling to the past and a reluctance to be independent. ... In the story Faulkner's narrator comments that: "No one except an old man-servant a combined gardner and cook,...

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Sula learns, growing up, that sex is not a sacred thing, its a lesiure activity with no meaning and makes no attachments. ... The mothers in this story only provide a necassary support and shelter for their children but they never make an emotional conection towards them. ... At one point in the story Hannah asks her mother, Eva, if she ever loved them (her children). ... The ending of this almost perfect friendship is when Sula has sex with Nel's husband. ... This is because she was taught sex has no meaning its just for pleasure. ...

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Through this story the hero (Roy) is representative of the collective American hero as he fulfills all these requirements. ... Not only does he treat women as sex objects placed on earth for his pleasure, but he ended up being wounded by Harriet because of his strong desire to be the best. Also, in the beginning of the story, Roy's ignorance is obvious. ... Malamud demonstrates through his story that the hero in America comes from a high place, encultured with morality and integrity, and is not perfect. ... Overall the story is saying that we can extract the essence of both failure an...

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Set in Paris and the Spanish city of Pamplona, this novel is a story of a World War I veteran and writer, Jake Barnes, and his group of expatriates as they try to find meaning to their lives in the 1920's. ... Although Brett and Jake love one another, Brett's prioritization of sex and independence above love, and Jake's physical limitations, prevent them from truly being together as a couple. ... At this point in the story, Jake and Brett seem to just resign themselves to the fact that their relationship will not develop any further than what it has. ... Another example occurs l...

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The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the main characters of the story. With each interaction with one of these minor characters, the main character learns more about his situation, human nature, and perhaps even the opposite sex in general. ... The story would have to change substantially for this individual to be excluded from the tale completely. ... These minor characters can add more substance and conflict to a story than the main characters themselves. Within each story, the main character's personality is revealed through the in...

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The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the main characters of the story. With each interaction with one of these minor characters, the main character learns more about his situation, human nature, and perhaps even the opposite sex in general. ... The story would have to change substantially for this individual to be excluded from the tale completely. ... These minor characters can add more substance and conflict to a story than the main characters themselves. Within each story, the main character's personality is revealed through the in...

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As a fiction writer, you want the reader to always be engaged in your story. ... Readers read a book to believe the story and to immerse themselves in the story and to LOVE the story. ... As soon as he gets it, the story is over. ... Every explosion, prayer, conversation, sex scene means less and less to the reader; simply because repetition, by nature, serves to work against that escalation your story so desperately needs. ... I had always thought that stories were allowed to be unbelievable because, well, it's a story! ...

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Women At Point Zero "Women At Point Zero' is a story of a womans struggle to make it in what seems to be another world. ... The majority womem in America who live like this have serious drug/alcohol problems while the women on the other side of the world like Fridaus have no choice, either starve or have sex with the risk of getting AIDs. ... Only Fridaus knows how it feels because that is what this story is based upon. El Saadawi does a great job of putting the story into words that get us all fired up and ready to go out and save women just like Fridaus. ...

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This is a contradiction to later in the story when he talks to Sally about the boys at Pency being "full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac someday, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." (131) When Holden speaks to Sally he tries to be a moralist by seeing wealth as a fabrication made by society to divide and corrupt people into classes that would...

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However, in Save the Last Dance, there is a sex scene. ... But now in the present time, sex is shown as nothing. ... However, no matter how long the gaps are for each generation, the story line remains the same. ...

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Finally, there is the ending; a jarring, hasty end to the story. ... It is a very sex-oriented book (with much of the communities ideas and activities revolving around pleasure) and doesn't seem to have a plot, other than following the lives of the citizens and the Savage through this new world. ...

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She is a worldly person who has experienced the world through love and sex. ... Therefore, the man will do great deeds in order to win her favor, just as her husband is doing while she tells her story. ...

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After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. I do believe that this book belongs among the classic works read by young adults. Maya went...

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I will give a basic summary of the story line, and I intend to show the omniscient narrator's point of view in analysis of the characters. ... The story is told over a time period of several months, from December 1952 through December 1953. The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ... Maribeth makes a huge mistake by letting an older boy talk her into drinking and having sex with him one night. ... Throughout the story, Maribeth tells Tommy that some people are only here for short periods of time, to help other people and to teach th...

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Spike Lee overwhelmingly gave you a good look at the how sex, age, race, work, health, and crime played key roles in the interpretation of the film. ... The Internet can be used for sex, age, race, work, health, and crime. ... He makes his movies, commercials, and videos with the intent of bringing the true realism without trying to appease those who might be shocked or disgusted by his way of telling the story. ...

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At its heart, Forrest Gump is a love story. ... Instead, the film wanders exactly like someone telling a story. In many respects, the viewer doesn't know where the story is going to go next. ... The possibility the two characters won't get together really fuels the love story."" ... Her life in constant torment, she finds a world of sex and drug use to deal with her despair which finds her on the brink of suicide. ...

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Despite keeping the basic plotline the same, there were major differences in the wife's plan and characterization throughout the story. ... As the story goes on, we are told of her disappearance through the husband's perspective up until her journal is found. ... However, this ending isn't nearly as crude as in the movie where she assaults herself with a wine bottle and then slits his throat while they are having sex so that the blood pours from his throat onto her entire body. ... Although the director kept the essence of the story the same, there were some things he changed f...

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Many women kept some kind of diary, and their stories came alive in this book tale by tale. ... Her wound was fatal and her sex was disclosed but she refused to reveal her real name but as she lay dying she decided to disclose a telegram to her father in Brooklyn. ...

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"And the story goes, she never forgave him. ... (p.11) This story disturbs Esparanza because it shows how suffocating marriage can be to a woman like her grandmother. ... (p.89) Sex has become a power among women in her culture as well as most cultures. ...

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It is a story about Macbeth's desires to achieve greatness and become king. ... Going back to the story of Adam and Eve, we see such an example... Lady Macbeth makes a sex weapon in her efforts to spur Macbeth's ambition." ...

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American Beauty is the story of a man, Lester Burnham, and his personal struggle to rediscover his identity, and as he does this, everything in his world changes. ... For Lester, the life force suburbia can't repress is sex. ... In Lester and Angela's near-sex encounter, the vase of red roses is easily seen in the frame. ...

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In The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall a story of character unravels in which one female sexed person lives in a society where she feels that she is not accepted for who she is. Hall develops this sensitive lesbian and as the story unravels the reader is invited to look closer into the soul of this character and what being a lesbian entails to her. ...

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