Orwell prefers to use descriptions that are specific and naturalistic, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." ... This would further be supported by the fact that O"Brien has been watching over Winston's conduct from the beginning. This allows him and god like significance in the novel and perhaps outs him forward as a suitable choice for the narrator. ... The narrator has a God-like omnipotence, which Winston then seems to refer onto O"Brien during his torture. ... The narrator is used to provide the reader with a dispassionate account of Winston...

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The variety of passionately displayed themes, interactions, and events presented in The Bluest Eye provide an understanding of Toni Morrison's inner thoughts and beliefs which were highly impacted by her various life experiences. ... She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... She believes that it reminds people about their heritage and shows them their place in the community. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a supposedly omni...

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We perceive how magical realism illuminates his struggle between a belief in the monotheistic God, and beliefs in the pagan gods. ... After Antonio witnessed the murder of Lupito, he ran home and then he realizes that Ultima's owl has been watching him all night long. ... As we learn further in the story, his brothers did follow their destiny of being wondering men, and left home again. ... In the dreams about his brothers, Anaya provides a subtle commentary on the nature of Antonio's identity, and ultimately underscores the book's main theme of moral independence. ... were ...

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Second, plastic surgery a way of reshaping the normal structure of a body in order to improve their outside appearance and self-esteem, and is one way of people's desire to try to fit their ideal image. people tend to follow this modern technology to express their fear of ageing as a route to death , they reshape their outside physical appearance like the nose , cheeks , lips and eyes , believing in the idea that physical appearance change by the time means approaching to death. ... , simply, the idea of immortality and fear of death, which were an obsession for people along time ago. ......

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The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. ... The stories concerning Gilgamesh in Sumerian are short and episodic and present no unifying theme, but in the Akkadian versions it appears that the poet has unified these traditional stories into one larger eleven or twelve tablet epic with more unified themes (West 65, Noegel 240). ... Achilles as the son of Thetis has a special relationship which allows him to communicate with the gods by way of Thetis's favor in the eyes of Zeus (Il. ...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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"Emerson's moral doctrines could not sustain Thoreau for long," Worster concludes, "for they were aspiring branches that had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of Emerson that remains prominent and, I would suggest at the outset, stands in need of revision. ... As I see it, this reduction stems from...

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