Hilarious: And part of me wanted to believe - like a child hearing, in perfect safety, a tale of horror - that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in. ... Hilarious states; "And part of me wanted to believe - like a child hearing, in perfect safety, a tale of horror." ... Pynchon creates understanding of the doctor's foolish idea with the analogy "that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in." ... Pynchon argues that a belief in hidden truth is safe and healthy - like a child's belief in monsters - however following th...

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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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Fitzgerald creates Anthony to be a dreamer, a man trapped in his illusions of what he hoped life would be like. ... There is no need to go through every nasty remark made about Italians, garlic eaters, Negroes, Jewish shopkeepers, the millions "swarming like rats, chattering like apes, smelling like all hell monkeys," (p.394). ...

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You love me you know you do.You know you do!'... After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... She plays cards like a man, drinks like a man, and even dresses like a man. ... She acts like a guy and they think of her as "one of the guys-. ... It is like Ruth is the woman and Idgie is the man in the relationship. ...

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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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Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. ... Ross hid behind a large, black hat that day. ... Robert also was very protective of Rowena and always showed his concern for her, like Mrs. ... Therefore, to consider that when Robert tried to save the horses it was exactly like how he had tried to save the rabbits. ... Will you stay with me forever? ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate