His method of the unity of effect was achieved like nowhere else in his short story, "The Fall of "The House of Usher."" ... "The Fall of The House of Usher- is certainly a short story that is easily read in a single sitting. ... This story is about the fall of Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline, but Poe uses the descriptions of the mansion as a symbolic reflection of the Ushers. ... He then goes on to describe how "Evil things, in robes of sorrow, assailed the monarch's high estate the glory that blushed and bloomed is but a dim remembered story of the old time entombed."" ......

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Then, it is Labor Day and you are watching fireworks burst into beautiful, mesmerizing shapes, then slowly fade and fall back down to earth like crimson leaves shedding from branches. ... Soon enough it is December 25th and you run excitedly down the stairs, nearly crashing into the tree; ripping and crumpling the wrapping paper apart to discover your new belongings. ... You hesitate and try to remember the things you did as a kid while longingly, looking out into your untouched blanketed yard. ... Then you make a break for the yard and fall down. ... Winter offers many beautiful sights and fe...

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Victor and Thomas were once childhood friends who grew apart. ... Victor also had planned to dump his father's ashes into the fall. ... Like letting things go- (216) The theme of this story is simply that we must be able to rely on one another; no one can rule the world alone. ...

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Although they did not understand each other, and did not always get along, he did things like let Sonny move in, and try to give Sonny advice, because he wanted to be a responsible older brother. ... The narrator struggled with not being a responsible older brother, and letting Sonny fall apart, after his mother left him in charge. ...

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"It is falling apart and, because the paint is so chipped, is hardly even black anymore," (Jackson 84). ... When Old Man Warner says, "Pack of crazy fools," and, "There's always been a lottery," it shows just how closed minded he is about changing the way he does things, and how he doesn't want to change the tradition. ...

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During the time they spend in the hospital, the two fall in love with each other. ... While he is there, however, some things do not go as he intended. ... There is a conflict in the story between two lovers who want to be married and the circumstances that come about and keep them apart. ...

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Lantin disliked two things about her, her love for the theater, and her passion for fake jewelry. ... Lantin's heart was tom apart due to the suffering of his wife's death. ... Lantin, but he was not that wealthy for the things that she mostly desired which were the jewelry and the theater. ... According to Peggy Vaughan, "Forces within the individual that pull them toward affairs: Attraction: sex, companionship, admiration, power, Novelty, Excitement, risk, or challenge, Curiosity, Enhanced self-image, Falling in love" (1). ...

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In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. ... Anthony falls apart in wild and repulsive parties during which "people broke things: people became sick in Gloria's bathroom; people spilled wine; people made unbelievable messes of the kitchenette... As part of his decline, Anthony courts and marries the beautiful, vain, selfish and stupid Gloria Gilbert, who "took all the things of life as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter." ...

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What was Daphne Du Maurier attempting in "The Birds" and does she succeed? In the short story "The Birds", Daphne Du Maurier tells us about how humans have a false superiority. They think that they are the most intelligent race in the world but by the end of the story we realize just how smal...

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In the short story "The Birds", Daphne Du Maurier tells us about how humans have a false superiority. They think that they are the most intelligent race in the world but by the end of the story we realize just how small and useless we actually are against nature. This makes me feel genuinely fri...

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