The combination of sounds and the songs throughout this film give the story a rich value between reality and illusion, which is the underline basis of the destruction that war leaves upon a soldier. ... This sound fades completely in and out and slowly The Doors song "The End" gracefully begins. The song continues to play and the same helicopter panning fades in and out of the song while the intro to the film continues to open. ... It's what it was really like" "(Solomon, 25). ... "And the way we made it was very like the Americans [who] were in Vietnam "(Solomon, 25-26). ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a world far from perfection, love is argued to be the closest thing mankind has to magic. However, throughout Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, the positive nature of this intense affection is challenged. Morrison explores the detrimental effects of a lack of mutuality when it comes to love. For s...

• Word Count: 1436
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ruskin explains that the woman could use her power to make all in her garden right, to flower and blossom with a quote from the Song of Solomon, 4:16, "Come, though south, and breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out". ... He then quotes from chapter 2, verse 15 of the Song of Solomon again to confirm the woman's role in life, and that is for her to protect her family against the horrors of the world beyond her gates, " the little foxes, that spoil the vines-. Other forms of literature in which women are represented are verse and song. Written during the mid Vic...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate