The author wants the reader to make their own judgment on each character's desires and whether or not the reader wants the same desires of the characters. ... Her true desires are not shown here. ... Margaret's values are made clear to the reader here but her true desire overall is quite vague. It is difficult to recognise her true desires here and the pattern of the novel does not allow the reader to fully figure out her desires. ... "Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die"" (Page 198, Forster) A connection is needed intern...

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There are many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. ... Huck goes because he desires to begin his journey. ... Every time that he does this he is symbolically dying and reemerges a more experienced person. ... Holden deals with his own mental hallucinations, cognative disotience, and his desire to stay innocence, his Peter Pan complex. ... The glass motif also appears when his brother, Allie, dies. ...

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This shows his intense passion and desire that he puts toward his dream and fantasy of being a famous pioneer. ... First the source of this strange desire came because of the death of his mother from which he never seemed to recover. ... Similar to Victor, Mary Shelley's mother died when Mary was an infant. ... They seemed to die out after the medieval writings of stories such as Beowulf. ... She had an imagination and a desire for change which made her a great romantic writer. ...

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Until the day she leaves him, Humbert's physical desire for Lolita overshadows everything in their lives, as he exploits her vulnerability and dependence on him to satisfy his needs. ... Too late he understands that the selfish satisfaction of his desires was not worth the damage it would cause either of them as he laments, "I should have known that nothing but pain and horror would result from the expected rapture." (125) Lolita longs for a normal family life where they wouldn't do "filthy things together never behaving like ordinary people". (158) Humbert's answer ...

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Tea Cake also had a strong desire to touch Janie's hair. ... This symbolizes Tea Cake's desire to have Janie sexually, not just to touch her hair. ... The greatest display of control related to Janie's hair is after Joe dies, and Janie "tore off the kerchief from her head and let down her plentiful hair" (87). ...

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Huck's desires are few and simple. ... The best example of Huck's desire to be free is the very last line in the book. " I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. ... Watson changed her will before she died and set Jim free, but he didn't tell Huck that because he wanted to have an adventure helping Jim "escape". ...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. Things such as Esteban's sexual need, the number of people kept in the book, the genealogical order and how Clara's innocent appearance continues and...

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When his stepfather dies in 1943, Baldwin moved to Greenwich Village to pursue his literary dreams. ... Ross states that "Baldwin found in homosexuality a clear path of desire" (634). ... After Sonny gets out of jail, he desires change and finds a just choice to be a musician. ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ... In 1987, Baldwin died of stomach cancer at age sixty three. ...

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The novel is about a Jewish hero from America named Jonathan who has a desire to find out the truth about his family's history. ... Alex assumes that Jonathan has the same interests and telling this to Jonathan will both impress him and make him desire to be his friend. ... Alex is forced by his dad to be the translator and desires to move to America. ... Yankel made up a story about how Brod's mother died a painless death during child birth. ... In contrast, she did not react the same way when Yankel died. ...

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The books most obvious theme is society and morality as obstacles to the fulfilment of desire, since Ethan Frome's plot is concerned with Ethan's desire for a women who is not his wife. ... Again and again, Wharton displays the hold of social convention over Ethan's desires. ... It is revealed to the reader that Ethan only married Zeena for to reason, the first being that Ethan's mother had just died and as winter was approaching fast he did not want to be alone during the harsh Starkfield winter. ... Zeena's illness and his poverty crush his desire for wider horizon...

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Hale speaks sadly that it might have been better if Mattie had died - for, "if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard' 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues." ... From Ethan's desire to leave town to the attempt to buy glue to the doomed passion between Ethan and Mattie, the novel is full of frustrated desires and unfulfilled plans. ...

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Victor's pursuit for this knowledge led him to the destination he desired, unfortunately, the knowledge he obtained ultimately became his demise. Authors Wilson and Long state that Victor Frankenstein was depressed and eventually died from his own creation. ...

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I think they thought I was going to pull a machine gun out from under my coat drrr die you dogs. ... Francie's desire to be everyone else shows that his confidence is weak, just like that of similar people today. ...

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William Golding William Golding was born September 1911, in St. Columb Minor in Cornwall. Although Golding exhibited writing talent at the age of seven, by his father's demand, studied natural sciences. Throughout his lifetime, Golding has produced over seven full-length novels including his ...

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I remember Idgie says to Ruth during the picnic they went to, "All right then, I"d die for you. ... Don't you think somebody could die for love?" ... Idgie doesn't cry when Buddy died but she can't resist her tears when she has to face the reality that Ruth is dying and will be leaving her alone. ... That is why I work and study so hard without having any desire to make friends here. ...

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Edgar and Heathcliff both want to be with Catherine after she has died. ... As Catherine is ill and dying she blames Heathcliff for her suffering, but he tells her that it was she that left him and that all blame for their sorrow is hers.6) ...Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! ... Heathcliff passionately pleads for Catherine not to leave him after she has died.7) I recovered from my first desire to be killed by him "I'd rather he'd kill himself! ...

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When he feeds the starving Jew, it could be argued he made a foolish decision as he endangered the life of a younger, healthier man (Max) to offer comfort to a frail elderly man, almost certain to die. ... Or on the man himself, who gets to die 'with the thought that he was a human.' ... Liesel's personal journey from unloved, illiterate waif, to a thoughtful, mature young woman reflects many of our own struggles and desires. ... Her grief at being a 'perpetual survivor' speaks to anyone who has lost someone, but also provides encouragement not to give in to despai...

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After Eugene's first wife died, he married Delphine Couturier, who turned out to be unfaithful to him, just as Emma was to Charles. She also died at a very young age, leaving Delmare with many debts and a young child to rear. Eugene, like Charles, died shortly after his wife out of despair. Madame Bovary is written in the tradition of combining a realistic portrayal of society with a formalistic desire to create a new way of life in much the same way Degas and Manet attempted to paint the mediocrity of modern life without becoming vulgar themselves. ...

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They are such control freaks, not only do they not want the soldiers to not be individuals, but they also show no desire to allow the soldiers to even know what is going on. ... Even when men die in the novel, it is slightly humorous. This irony is true whenever Clevinger dies because his plane "disappeared-. ... It seems like half of the characters don't even die on the battle field. ...

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Humbert's excessive desire for possessing the child is too strong for the weak restraints of morality. ... " There is a relationship between HumbertHumbert's desire for nymphets and his artistic gifts. ... While HumbertHumbert is obsessed with Lolita in such a way of art, with passion and desire, Frederick is to be obsessed with Miranda in such a way that can be seen as obsessive-compulsive disorder. ...

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But the angel continues to croon: "I am born and I am dying." ... Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. ... The narrator's initial stipulation of sameness at the moment of biological transformation is soon contradicted; gender colonises the body, inflects its desires, and directs its actions elsewhere. ...

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In the first book, Wright tells the reader "these were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger -- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force" (p.31). ... He desires an identity that is his alone. ... Society hates most what it itself creates, and Bigger as the very reflection of that society must die. ...

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He is motivated completely by selfish desires. ... It is obvious that her marital union will actually, in effect, disable her previous desires to improve the world. ... An older more enclosed world is dying out to be replaced by more cosmopolitan ideas. ...

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In the first book, Wright tells the reader "these were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger -- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force" (p.31). ... He desires an identity that is his alone. ... Society hates most what it itself creates, and Bigger as the very reflection of that society must die. ...

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"I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer for example or a road accident. ... I put my hands over my ears and closed my eyes and rolled forward till I was hunched up with my forehead pressed onto the grass".3 But as the novel moves on, he shows a growing desire for independence. ... Despite these social "flaws", Christopher has a desire to live a life where he is not constantly told what to do. ...

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