In Kate Chopin's The Awakening and "The Dream of an Hour", she uses symbolism to show women defying society. ... The Awakening and "The Dream of an Hour" show freedom for women through symbols such as nature. ... Just as in The Awakening, in "The Dream of an Hour" the main character has a symbolic rebirth and experience freedom even though it is only for a number of minutes. ... In The Awakening it is mainly the sea and the water; in "The Dream of an Hour" it is the sky and trees. ... This shows us that strength and respect come from within ourselves not from someone else....

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps you do, but I would speculate that few pause to consider the great depth of evil fathomable within the mind. ... Its shown quite plainly within Hamlets words. ... Slowly but surely my life gave way to the dreaming of my mind and life itself became a nightmare. My dreams were living death, morbid fantasy and nocturnal wake. ... As I froze in the middle of nowhere I lost myself to dream. ...

• Word Count: 1549
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• Grade Level: High School

You must allow yourself to become for a few minutes that character within. ... When growing up in a small town much like this girl, there's only so much pleasure that you can seek from within the town. ... For example in the story "Prue," Prue states, "I present my life in anecdotes, and though it is the point of most anecdotes that hopes are dashed, dreams ridiculed, things never turn out as expected, everything is always altered in a bizarre way and there is no explanation ever"(372). ... In Munroe's "An Ounce of Cure," the same type of loneliness is expressed through a conversatio...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

She seems to have pulled herself up by her bootstraps and attained the American dream. Another successful hired girl who pursued the American dream is Tiny Soderball. ... She found joy in her family and within herself. ...

• Word Count: 2199
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Communication Theories within American Beauty The movie American Beauty is about a family who is coming apart at the seams. ... For Lester, his dream was to be an average guy with an average job. ... Then throughout the whole movie you see more scenes of him and this girl in his dreams. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within a few days he has talked Janie into leaving Logan to run off with him. ... She has seen her dreams and taken control of them. No longer are her dreams some strange far away source of aspiration. ...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

I. Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that ex...

• Word Count: 2037
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• Grade Level: High School

This uncaring attitude Cecy possesses, for any one other than herself, shows the reckless, naive and destructive side of love and those who won't stop for anything within their path to acquire this so called "prize." ... It almost seems as if Cecy wishes to remain within Ann's body and no longer drift from body to body like she had done in the past as well as not return to her own body of existence. ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School