When speaking of Kurtz saying "My ivory, my intended" Marlow mentions, "It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. ... This metamorphosis is portrayed in detail in Apocalypse Now, an example is the black soldier reverting to primitive, Zulu- like war styles and the white soldier being a part of the Vietnamese ritual in the final scene. ...

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I was the only black in the class and the only child who could read." Her writing is definitely influenced by how she views her writing functioning much like storytelling in the past. ... Cholly as a child was impressed by watching the father of a family's god-like stance raise a watermelon over his head to smash it on the ground and sees this example as the opposite of the unimpressive white image of God, as the white image is woefully inadequate for Cholly who at this time embraces his African heritage. ... He understands that Morrison is quite attentive to silences and gaps in the...

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The bombing of their own air base by Milo, Natley's whore attempting to murder Yossarian for bringing bad news, and his conversation in chapter 2 with Clevinger: "They"re trying to kill me." ... "Then why are they shooting at me?" ...

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The Name of the Rose is full of logical mappings, semiotic systems like the encoded map of the library and the purported plan of the murder sequence, but also of correspondingly arbitrary sign systems like numerology, iconography, mathematics and measurement, cryptography, and language itself, or better yet multiple languages, including the spoken word, the language of gems, of flowers, of the landscape, and of gesture. ... Like all other medieval art forms, architecture was believed not only to represent a higher reality but also to teach a moral lesson. ... This prototypical Benedictine comm...

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