The tone of 'The Walk' is very sad and lonely throughout the whole poem: 'You did not walk with me/Of late to the hill-top tree/By the gated ways,' The sad tone emphasises Hardy's feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. Hardy's loneliness is shown when he quotes: 'You were weak and lame/So you never came,' This means Hardy went out without his wife's company and was alone even though they could have gone out together, Emma was too ill to go but Hardy went out anyway. ... It also give...

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He simply goes on with his life like nothing is wrong. ... For instance, after Ethan had gone to bed the night he and Mattie were alone, he thinks to himself why he hadn't kissed her. ... In addition, "He felt that he might have "gone like his mother" if the sound of a new voice had not come to steady him" (29). ... When Zeena tells him she has had complications, he feels bad for her, but winds up accusing the doctor of not being credible. ... Every relationship depends on good interaction with others. ...

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He simply goes on with his life like nothing is wrong. ... For instance, after Ethan had gone to bed the night he and Mattie were alone, he thinks to himself why he hadn't kissed her. ... In addition, "He felt that he might have "gone like his mother" if the sound of a new voice had not come to steady him" (29). ... When Zeena tells him she has had complications, he feels bad for her, but winds up accusing the doctor of not being credible. ... Every relationship depends on good interaction with others. ...

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His father had not been dead for even two months, not long enough to feel the wind of heaven. ... Hamlet begins to ponder the reason that his mother had gone unto Claudius. ... The idea of his mother having a sexual relationship with his uncle repulses Hamlet. ... With this soliloquy, Shakespeare has set Hamlet as this fated protagonist. ... O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! ...

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We traveled his healing journey and became well with him. ... "You looked at my hand and you knew that I was the slave of the Ring, while you were as free as the wind is free" (801). ... ...Perhaps He had gone to the ghastly field where the fight had been that day. ... "He gazed, and felt, for him, all beauty lay buried with her forever" (799). ... When the narrator says, "I was the slave of the Ring, while you were as free as the wind is free" (801). ...

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Great writers possess abilities to empathize with their readers. ... As the novel winds down, Illyich realizes his mistake in isolationism, however, too late to fix the repercussions of his actions. ... He feels "at home" with his distress and doesn't take change well. ... Dostoevesky illustrates this by saying, "She was gone. ... The novel shows how modernism rose along with the rise of isolation. ...

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During her life with Joe, Janie struggles to keep her fighting spirit alive and battles to keep her individuality. ... For a while she thought it was gone from her soul...She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels...going about tending the store and prostrating [herself] before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes (72-73). ... She also survives a hurricane with Tea Cake where he rescues her from a rabid dog and gets bitten himself. ... Janie's e...

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The societies conception of marriage was to arrange someone with similar status of social class. ... Victors and Victoria`s desire to be with one another had finally come true. ... She asked her father once before going to bed if she had gone mad. ... And when he discovered she was penniless he was engorged with anger and accidentally drank poison. ... When Emily sees that all is right and that she feels that she can let herself be free and move on, the wind picks up as her body starts to whither away into thousands of sparkling silver butterflies into the abyss. ...

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