Another example of this is when Updike writes, "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle [] were pretty hilarious.... As the story continues Sammy is watching the girls their way through the aisles of the store. Stokesie, Sammy's coworker who is also watching the girls, makes a joke about how the girls make him feel faint. Sammy goes on to say "I forgot to say he thinks he's going to be manager some sunny day in 1990 when it's called the Great Alexander and Petrooshki Tea Company or something.... In his eyes he is free of that place....

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Richard Wilbur phrased this moment of Scho watching Monk and Glennie as a "luxurious dance in the sun, their faces perfectly blank and entranced." ... As Scho kept watching and watching without saying a word he finally spoke up. He then asked Monk and Glennie if five minutes were up yet, so it would be his turn. But Monk's reply was, "One more minute to go." ... But with Richard Wilbur's writing style in this story he tries to give the story less sentimental value and gives us the story through a witness" eyes, just as if a person was there watching this take place. ...

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On pg. 104 it says "With out knowing he was going to, he began to describe to Guitar a dream he had had about his mother. ... He goes in to detail about the phenonmenon that had occurred. As he watched his mother dig and plant bulbs in the ground, instantly they began to grow from the holes she had previously dug. ... And all of this Milkman believed to have seen with his own eyes, and not really a dream at all. ... The story is told of when Africans were brought over to be forced slaves, some, called flying Africans, such as Solomon, would fly back to their home land. ...

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They both shared many artistic likenesses in their approach and techniques in writing short stories. Although the two authors were acquainted with each other, there is no proof that one influenced the other in their writings; yet, the story of Miss Brill, from "The Garden Party and Other Stories" and "Eveline from Dubliners," may prove that theory to be wrong. ... When she is at the park, she feels like she is part of the community, taking her special seat and looking forward to watching the people go by, even eavesdropping on others conversation. ... She starts to view everything she sees as ...

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Malouf has said that many of the stories Dream Stuff were begun as long as fifteen years ago, and several draw on the same imaginative landscape as his novels. Closer and At Shindler's both feature children and tell a story as seen through a pair of ingenuous eyes. ... The story as seen through the eyes of the child, adds a contrasting dimension to Malouf's writing. This is, the bridge between the things that the reader knows is going on, due to the description from the child and what the reader thinks is going on. ... If such a thing still exists then is it going underground? ...

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The master moralities were mainly for the nobles; those are the ones that are supposed to be strong and powerful. ... The blind man gets the narrator to close his eyes and continue drawing a cathedral, and although this task seems impossible; during this process the narrator keeps his eyes closed the entire time but his mind is now open to new sights. The blind man asks for the narrator to open his eyes and tell him what he thinks and all the narrator could say was, "It's really something," even though his eyes were still closed (Carver, 216). ... No matter what was going on in ...

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They go home depressed. ... What a blind man should look like in the narrator's eyes is not what Robert appeared to be. ... Then the narrator closes his eyes to perceive the world as a blind man such as Robert perceives it. ... When he wasn't looking for a job he was laying on the living room sofa sleeping, watching TV, or reading a book. ... The three stories that were analyzed all involved quiet, yet realistic lives and the way he puts them through drama makes his stories so interesting to read. ...

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"They have other places to go as well. ... All that mattered was this impossible situation manifesting before my very eyes. ... He sighed deeply and opened his eyes once more. ... Therefore, when one takes his or her own life, one also takes portions of the souls of their loved ones. ... It all depends on their perspective, so you can say it's a personal hell that they live in; the same goes for the living as well – they dwell on past memories and regret only when the situation is irreversible. ...

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Lawrence has described the state of the mining village where she lives as being unattractive with phrases such as "the withered oak leaves" and "The fields were dreary and forsaken". ... We get the impression this is a common occurrence and that her anger is like a living thing that eats her up due to the personification of anger, "anger wearied itself, lay down to rest, opening its eyes from time to time and steadily watching, its ears raised to listen". ... She goes round to the neighbours, but she was too proud to go as far as the pub to fetch him. ... Elizabeth's neighbours go out...

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Sometimes I felt Zoe and I were growing up together". Zoe's mother has over the years built such a close relationship with Zoe, that she is now afraid of letting go. Like she says, it almost felt like they were growing up together. ... She loves Michael for the person he is and does not seem to care what anybody else think about their relationship. ... Like when they watch the movie, Zoe's mother's elbow touches Michael's, and she feels a spreading stiffness. ...

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Only through her eyes can we see the true reason for her manifestation. ... John has made her a prisoner in their marriage. ... I don't sleep much at night, for it is so interesting to watch development, but I sleep a good deal in the daytime."" ... These women were denied their own lives in most every real term imaginable. They were controlled, manipulated and coerced into following the advice, orders and demands of other without regard for a single one of their own desires. ...

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Microsoft Electronic Publishing, 2001) We enter further into the story as the Prussians arrived, and they were billeted with the people of the area, according to their wealth and resources of each family. ... They understood, with some difficulty what she wanted and gave her their names; she insisted they write it down on a piece of paper along with their addresses of their families. ... As she was standing there watching, she was "armed with a gun, her dead son's rifle, to make sure that none of them could escape."" ... They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed to work j...

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When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... When Jill gets off the bus she wants to play with the other children but Nat tells them all to go home to their parents but he doubted that they would listen. ... Outside the birds were trying their best to enter the house: scraping and tapping away. ... He realizes that from now on they were on their own; there was no one else to seek advice from ever again. ... Nat goes outside and looks around him, all he can see are dead birds; they were everywhere. ...

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When Nat went outside he saw that thousands of gulls had risen and were trying their strength against the wind. ... When Jill gets off the bus she wants to play with the other children but Nat tells them all to go home to their parents but he doubted that they would listen. ... Outside the birds were trying their best to enter the house: scraping and tapping away. ... He realizes that from now on they were on their own; there was no one else to seek advice from ever again. ... Nat goes outside and looks around him, all he can see are dead birds; they were everywhere. ...

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