An Analysis of the Dream Visions Depicted in Pearl and Solaris The medieval poem, Pearl, and the science fiction drama, Solaris, offer two uniquely similar takes on the "dream vision" genre. ... And even though their world views of this life and the next are different, their respective depictions of those views are essential to the analysis nonetheless. ... "Are you real? ... "And like John, we, too, are faced with a choice. ... The narrator, like the Pearl Maiden, is also a member of God's kingdom pearl. ...

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You couldn't talk much and you did not need to talk"(581). ... I didn't mean I didn't love you." ... Krebs is a part of a loving, faith-driven family and that is shown when Krebs" mother says, "You know we love you and I want to tell you for your own good how matters stand." ... When he went away only little girls wore their hair like that or girls that were fast (580). ... On the whole he had liked Germany better. ...

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In the final analysis, encouragement toward better understanding is the most important gift . . . ... Mario Cuomo Life is like a butterfly. ... It sounded like this: Look. ... Carl Jung Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ... Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. ...

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The gift, symbolizes life and that someone in supreme power, like a God or Goddess is releasing this power to the world. ... Or it could be that the gift of life is what is placed in your hands, and you and only you have the power to live it. ... At that moment when you open your eyes for the first time, is when life is put into your own hands. You can choose to live your life anyway your heart desires. ... "on the one before it, all the days of the past stacked high like the impossible tower of dishes entertainers used to build on stage." ...

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He believed that he was close to death anyway because of his old age, and stated this to the court, "If you had waited a little while, your desire would have been fulfilled in the course of nature. For I am far advanced in years, as you may perceive, and not far from death." ... He considered having a chance to live in exchange for giving up his way of life, and rejected the idea straightaway: If you say to me, Socrates, this time we will not mind Anytus, and will let you off, but upon one condition, that are to inquire and speculate in this way any more, and that if you are caught doing thi...

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It is like a ray of hope; it is light. ... You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music- (161). ... "The old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he could feel the difference- (158). ... The older waiter describes himself as the one of those who like to stay late in the Café, and one of those who doesn't like to go to sleep at night. ...

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African American author James Baldwin said, "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience" (Brainy Quotes). The quest to define one's identity is part of the process of growing up. Teenagers and young adults often struggle to define themselves...

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