Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and the Sea" and Jack London's short story "To build a Fire" put both powers on display. ... London's character decides to ignore the advice of the old man. The old-timer had instructed the man not to hike alone in "those parts". ... Accordingly, man and fish will struggle to the death, just as hungry sharks will lay waste to an old man's trophy catch. ... Unique to the story of the Old Man and the Sea is the imagery of the crucifixion. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His story serves as a reminder of man's mortality. ... For instance, the sea symbolizes the rigors of aging. ... He describes the old motors as being quiet and soothing symbolizing the calm and sedate nature of the past. ...

• Word Count: 370
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• Grade Level: High School

His story serves as a reminder of man's mortality. ... For instance, the sea symbolizes the rigors of aging. ... He describes the old motors as being quiet and soothing symbolizing the calm and sedate nature of the past. ...

• Word Count: 402
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

While they are both fathers, Matt cares for and worries about his children [" when his children were young he thought of them drowning in a pond or the sea, and he was relieved when he came home in the evenings and they were there- (Meyer, 88)]. ... He is an example of a man who is driven to do the unthinkable. ... He is a symbol of the downfall of the Old South after the Civil War and its industrialization. He fights against Major de Spain who represents the Old South/sharecropper way of life in which one man controlled most of the land and "leased" it out to farmers to harvest for him. ...

• Word Count: 701
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• Grade Level: High School

"The birds sat comfortably in groups, and they were envied by some in the dingey, for the wrath of the sea was no more to them that it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland" (McMichael1492). ... He gives each man a different symbolic perspective of the array of diversity in society. ... Man is, and always will be docile to nature and the Universe. "She (fate) is an old hen who knows not her intention. ... Once in these situations, nature does not care if man survives....

• Word Count: 705
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The reader is told that the narrator appears to be a happily married man, who has always been exceedingly kind and gentle. ... Suffering from intemperance of alcohol and the same obsessive disorder, the man from "The Black Cat" was otherwise good-natured. ... To the narrator in "Heart", that fear is represented by the old man's eye. The belief in the evil eye dates back to ancient times, and even today, is fairly common in India and the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. ... This is what makes Poe an extremely intriguing man from all viewpoints. ...

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

But soon Jody sees the parallel between him and the old horse, Easter. ... The buzzards, (p 35), the old cypress tree, and the bird he kills with his slingshot. ... "Then we came down to the sea, and it was done." ... By the end of the novel, Jody has grown into a young man, able to learn from the older generation in order to be prepared for life. ...

• Word Count: 749
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• Grade Level: High School

Miss Brill was a shy, lonely older English teacher who lived alone in a small apartment in France. The only people she communicated with were the children she taught and the old gentleman who pays for her company. ... Her father can be a cruel man and although he does not beat her like he did her brothers; he does often threaten her with violence and with her brothers gone, there is no one to protect her. ... Miss Brill may come off as being a sweet little old lonely lady, but she actually is too self-centered. ... Because life across the sea is full of uncertainty to her, she feels as if Fran...

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• Grade Level: High School

This boy, who has read books of whaling, imagines the Whaler on the sea. ... The Whaler The Whaler is a man, not a hero of any special brand. ... The Whaler is a man of great physical strength, with a masculine accent and appearance. ... Actually, he is a quite common man with a common story, has lived his life running boats in Canada and had sex with the boy's teacher, not what the boy expected of his "hero". ... The 60 year old American multi-millionaire Dennis Tito sad quiet and calmly and smiled to the TV camera in the Russian space capsule as the rocket got launched. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A young man sat with his two-year-old daughter in a stroller. ... The crowd of dozens had grown into a sea of thousands. A seven-year-old boy named Saif approached and offered me a place to stay. ... He had a baby, two toddlers, a five-year-old and seven-year-old Saif. ... "My father is too old to walk," he said. ...

• Word Count: 1514
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The man didn't realize and enjoy life until it was almost over. ... Another story which the confrontation of death was positive was the story of The Open Boat where the cook, the oiler, the correspondent, and the captain survived a shipwreck and remained floating in the violent sea on a dinghy. ... The man traveled despite the fact that he was told by the old man that no one should travel alone in the cold (50 below zero). ... The man eventually fell into one of the pools of ice water getting his foot completely wet. ... By this time the man was freezing from extremities on in to his ...

• Word Count: 1080
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Anson compares himself to, a failure to love, a cocky old' unmarried man, a priest, a holy figure. ... Her red tam was a bright spot of color against the steel-green sea, and from time to time she looked up with a flashing bob of her head, and smiled with amusement and interest, and anticipation."" ... It tells the story of a chauvinistic man living in the twenties, when women were first beginning to stand up for their rights. ... Yet even though the women he interacts with change as he gets older he remains ascertain of them, which leads him to his eventual downfall. He gets too old fo...

• Word Count: 1512
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• Grade Level: High School

This story begins by telling about a twenty seven year old man named Henry. ... One day, Henry went out too far in the bay, and the current carried him to the sea. ... They found a dead man lying in the corner. ... Watson passed away and in her will she stated that Jim be a free man. Huck starts to worry about his father and Jim eventually told him that his father was the dead man on the house. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The reader is told that the narrator appears to be a happily married man, who has always been exceedingly kind and gentle. ... As the narrator begins to depict his story in the form of a rather subtle flashback, the reader discovers that the man's personality has undergone a drastic transformation, which he attributes to his abuse of alcohol and the perverse side of his nature, which the alcohol apparently evoked, as it serves as a catalyst. ...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School