In Eugene O"Neill's "Long Days's Journey into Night," denial and addictions are two reoccurring themes that play a vital role in the play. ... O"Neill's characters are all weak-willed and give in to desire rather than confront their problems and prevent them from occurring again and sending their lives into a larger downward spiral. ... Good night, dear," (O"Neill 125). ... Dealing with this all day and the misery of not having a job and life that he enjoys, Jamie goes uptown every night to squander his pay on liquor and whores. ... The character's of "Long Day's...

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the form is divided into three quatrains and a couplet. ... demonstrates this in lines 9-14: But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ... Shakespeare depicts this tone with images of sunny summer days, heaven, gold, and nature as a whole. ... Frost portrays a smooth sound of the narrator's journey through the city in order t...

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Our journey had begun. Two hours into the journey, after a lengthy conversation on what we were going to do, we ran into, or almost ran into, our first incident on the trip. ... I no longer had Gaz as he had become friends with a bucket and his swag, so I decided to ask the man to leave. ... The night was a great way to say goodbye to Seal Rocks. ... We headed for home and back into the reality of normal life. ...

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Night and Change The boy in this story, who is Elie Wiesel himself as a child, is the main character in Night. ... Night is about change and Elie is at the forefront. ... Elie Wiesel's journey from the ghetto to the camps is also a journey through his faith in God. ... Because he kept six crematories working night and day, on Sundays and feast days?"... "In spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God whom I no longer believed in. ...

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They told me I would have to walk anywhere between 60 and 70 days!!! ... The trip seems to be getting longer and longer. During the days it gets so hot, I feel like Im going to die. ... But it is never for that long, and some days I dont even get a chance. ... As soon as we got into the city we found some food and a place to rest. ...

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Night by Elie Wiesel Character List: Page 1: Moshe the Beadle- man off all work at a Hasidic Synagogue; very poor, lived humbly, dreamy eyes, awkward as a clown, spoke little, used to sing or rather to chant Page 2: Elie's father- cultured, unsentimental; concerned about other's rather than his family, held to the greatest esteem in the community Hilda- first child born; Elie's sister Béa- second born; Eli's sister Eliezer (Elie)- introduced formally on page 3; narrator, third born and only son to the family Tzipora- forth born; sister of El...

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Twelve days later Enkidu dies, leaving Gilgamech to mourn. ... So gilgamesh decides to take a long journey to find Utnapishtim, also called the faraway, and his wife, who are the only mortals on whom the gods had granted eternal life. ... After traveling a long distance, he reaches Mount Mashu, which guards the rising and setting of the sun. ... Past Mount Mashu is the land of the night, where no light ever appears. ... However Gilgamesh still proceeds with his journey. ...

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Many experiments have been conducted about why we dream, dreams are a response to our thoughts, actions and recent events in our days. ... Dreaming is something every one does and although some people don't remember their dreams or maybe only just a couple everyone has that night time journey we call dreams. ... With steady breathing and feeling very relaxed you journey into the last stage. ... For a long while people believed that when you dreamt it only lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. ... Think about all the facts you learned and see if this is all true to your night journey....

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He calls Faith "a blessed angel on earth-(379) and says after his journey, he will not leave her again until death separates them. ... He says "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. ... When Young Goodman Brown travels into the dark, he finds himself face to face with the devil. ... He is no longer nave to the power of evil over even the best of people....

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In a short period of time, a long list of events occurred; some of them, although it didn't seem like that at the time, for the better and other events very unfortunate. The story began not at the start of Last days but during Ben's journey while he was captive of an older man, Greg, as they were fleeing from Last Days. ... So one night, Ben put his collar up and walked away by himself, into the storm. ... After a few days he realised he had fallen into the same trap again but they had now become partners. ... They needed Ben as a decoy to break into Taronga Zoo. ...

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The Dark Night of the Soul gives an abundance of the many different citizens brought into this society. ... " – The Dark Night of the Soul, Richard E. ... No longer will lies and other people's beliefs be allowed to fall upon his path unlike Mary Karr whose family's second nature is dishonesty. ... " – The Dark Night of the Soul, Richard E. ... Miller is able to bring these journeys together and create something incredibly outstanding. ...

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Athena disguises him as an old beggar to help him get past the suitors and when he gets to Penelope, she turns Odysseus back into himself and even makes him more handsome. Athena is just one example of the power women had over Odysseus during his journey home. ... Penelope was a very clever woman and it was not until days before Odysseus' return that she started to give up hope of his return. "So everyday she wove on the great loom-but every night by torchlight she unwove it; and so for three years she deceived the Achaeans," (Book 2, Lines 29-31). ... She represented Odysseus&...

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After a while you go numb, you forget you have probably been sitting in the chair for hours, maybe even days. ... Your journey began expecting a new life, instead you receive promised death. Soon the artificial song lulls me into a trance. ... I knew the fasted route, even knew how long the commute would take. ... This night, a night I should be commemorating, has left me paralyzed. ...

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If you are not worthy then you will not see me and if you are you shall reach it in three days". ... At midnight Hesthorite started packing and prepared for the long journey to Ractar. ... He finally put on his armor and hopped on his horse and before morning he set of on the long journeys through the forests. ... At night he found a very bushy tree and rested for the night. ... The ran into the bushes and Hesthorite jumped through after him. ...

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They traveled for days before they reached the mountains, and by then, they all decided to rest before climbing into the icy peaks... * * * * A day and a night passed before they began climbing up the mountains. ... After they spent the night in the cave, they continued their ascent up the mountain. Several more days and nights passed before they reached the summit. ... It's not like such a young apprentice to set out on such a journey. ...

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According to the dictionary it is "living or continuing longer than another person or thing". ... That night his father got drunk and tried to kill Huck and when Huck had the chance to escape he didn't. ... A few days later after Huck had run away Jim, the runaway slave found his father dead in a floating house. ... He had to face many problems in his journeys. ... So he jumped into the river and swam to an island not to far away from where he had lived. ...

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They are frightening machines with three long metallic legs; they use a mind control device called the Cap. ... They decided to walk by night and rest by day. After a few days, the two kids arrived to Rummey, a town with a port and they find Curtis, Captain of The Orion, one of the freemen; He took them to France: There, they met Jean Pierre, a French teenager who didn't want to be capped. ... However, when he realized that Eloise wanted to serve the Tripods for the rest of her live, he decided to continue his journey. ... They continued their trip, but the Tripod who captured Will was fo...

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Mary was just eleven years old when she was already picking cotton six days a week. ... As she got closer, the singing became clearer and finally she saw a man with a long beard. ... A night after this all happened, Samuel, Mother, and Mary were ready for their journey. ... He gave the three food and blankets for the journey up the Ohio River. ... Peg-leg Joe let them into this boat which led to freedom. ...

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"It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.... To further elaborate on Jim's care for Huck, it was not an uncommon occurrence on the journey on the raft for Jim to take on Huck's night shifts watching over the raft. ... Attempting to have some fun by placing snake skin by Jim's leg as he slept, everything goes wrong when Jim's leg gets bitten by the snake's mate and swells up for four days and nights. ... "I wouldn't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again&qu...

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(written for Pre-IB English II class) Chapter Eight Analysis Very few authors can tactfully blend more than one tone into a single settling. ... However, as the days passed, Huck quickly grows weary of his new life. ... "So for three days and nights"(39), Huck finds himself going through a monotonous routine: lounging in the shade during the daytime, and listening to the current and counting the stars through the long hours of night(39) to escape from feeling lonesome. Gone is the vigor he first had coming to the island a few short days before. ... No longer is he seen as only a rebel ag...

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We have a prearranged plan which we will now proceed to put into action. ... The journey could take up to two whole days ( Most of which will be spent sleeping). ... After a long meeting, we have decided to get as far away from this planet as we can. ... Long talks with the aliens have uncovered three points: 1. ... Their small size is simply a way of blending into the landscape at night when the predators hunt (described as large aerial predators). 3. ...

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Often, I would get home after a two hour practice and then eat, nonchalantly working my way into my pile of homework. ... October 30, 2013 Tonight was not the night to start trying not to procrastinate. ... Until my dad came home and we got into an argument. ... I didn't really have any hope for doing anything having to do with school work when I got home, it's Friday and I have a couple of days. ... Now that I am aware, I can start the long important journey to improve myself one day at a time....

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Greta spent hours doing chores around the house and then would spend night after night making brooms for extra income for her son. ... Since the days seemed so short because of all the chorus to do around the farm, Greta would make the brooms after dark. ... On a good night Greta would make four or five brooms. ... As the horse led the way, it seemed oddly long to Greta. ... As Greta continued on her seemingly hopeless journey she reached a very large black patch in the ice ahead. ...

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On his journey to the castle Peasants warm him about where he's going and is given crosses and charms to protect him. ... However, after of a few days of Harkers stay he realizes he's trapped in Dracula's castle. ... One night Mina finds Lucy in a cemetery at St. ... That night a wolf breaks into Lucy's house. The shock kills Lucy's mother who lay beside her that night, and the wolf attacks Lucy, killing her. ...

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I dove head first into the crashing waves to cool off. ... As the daylight falls to the darkness of night, I can feel the change in temperature on my skin. ... On my walk back along the sand, I am reminded of those obligations that have eluded me on my peaceful journey. ... I do not see Monday as the start of a long week of arduous work; I see it as a countdown. Six more days until I can once again be escorted off to the place where all the pressures and worries of life seem to disappear....

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