His employer talks with him less than a minute, and the examination by the Company's doctor leave him with ideas of impending madness and death. ... Marlow is devastated by Kurtz's death and ponders suicide because he has connected with Kurtz in some strange way. ... The morbid darkness that emanates from the jungle is that of death and savagery. ... The darkness seems to be everywhere. The jungle's darkness is raw and unfiltered. ...

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"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.... We all have this darker side as proof that we are humans and thus incapable of achieving perfection. ... It is by both Phineas' death and Gene's internal struggle that Mark Twain's insight is validated. ... The mortality in which no one can escape from death, nor the faults and indiscretion a human must possess. ... With light, there must also be dark, like the moon and us ourselves. ...

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This horrific image is communicated to the reader by how the cruel lady made each of the "natives" take a close look at the "twisted death snarl of the poisoned girl", before evicting them. Thus there was a sort of negative karma, a spirit of death that became part of the library due to it being the site of a tragic death, as "The house was boarded up, and held its breath". ... In this case, the note of Middle C has a harsh, dissonant sound, as it is associated with death. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion...

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This is crucial to the novel because it not only gives Lord of the Flies an ending by having them rescued because of the fire but it also blatantly shows that the small loss of control or civility resulted in the death of a little "un in the beginning of the novel. ... "They ain't afraid of the dark. ... Or lose-" "They"d build a ship-" The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life. ... (p. 155) and this is why Piggy's death is quite ironic. ... To prove that all order is lost and there is only pure chaos on the island after Pi...

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Throughout the novel Joe has wondered whether he was responsible for John Logan's death, and Jean Logan has wondered if John Logan was having an affair. ... Joe is also absolved of his guilt about Logan's death in this chapter, because he has done something for Logan. ... There are many similarities between the final chapter and the first chapter, but the important difference, is the first chapter ends on a dark, pessimistic note, while the final chapter ends optimistically. ... He is the writer who started a novel with a man falling to his death from the ropes of a balloon. ... ...

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Death in the novel is personified by Levin's brother, the all-too-intimate Nikolai, whose lingering, ghastly death pushes Levin to make the leap of faith. ... The themes of life and death will come to review itself in the novel. ... Anna's death is an affirmation of her deep commitment to life and that death is the final truth to her illustrious career. "And the candle by which she _ had been reading the book filled with trouble and deceit, sorrow and evil, flared up with a brighter light, illuminating for her everything that before had been enshrouded in darkness, fl...

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The story follows its main character, Lucí, on her quest to the truth behind the tragic death of her boyfriend, the novelist Lorenzo. ... The symbolic balance is a very strong theme in this film concerning light/dark imagery. Not only is light and dark visually struggling in this film, the character's symbolic representations grapple for balance as well. ... It is as dark, translucent and elusive as sex, desire, childhood, motherhood and fatherhood. ...

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Another similarity is the use of snow, which symbolizes darkness and obscurity. ... Native Son's interpretation of the color red is much darker and gives a sense of danger. ... Red is only considered to be dark and somber which contrasts to this symbolism in Ethan Frome. ... Once the red pickle dish falls and shatters it means the belief of death and what it brings to humans. ...

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Santiago Nasar, arguably the victim of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is a wealthy twenty-one year old man who can afford to wear whatever he likes. ... While reading the beginning of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, it is easy to picture Santiago as an innocent vulnerable dove, one completely unaware of what surrounds him. ... Dona Gloria is known for only wearing her "eternal dark dress and black shawl- after being widowed. The color black shows that she has little hope left in her world after the death of her husband. ... Most characters in Dom Casmurro and Chronicle of a Death Foretold wear ...

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Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). To deal with the darker sides of life, Alcott teaches her young readers to develop the spiritual self, similar to the Transcendentalist movement, to which her father was a part of (Showalter, viii). ... Barrie also comments on the ambivalent representations of childhood in the novel, such as this passage concerning Neverland: "Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many times he justifies his coward ness by saying that the other men are not "wise enough to save themselves from the flurry of death."" ... The most obvious is Jim being portrayed as Jesus Christ his initials are even JC and in his death he even depicts him with the "piercing- on his side and his blood covered hands. ... He grew up in New Jersey were he had a pretty normal childhood except for the death of his father, 1 sister and one brother. ... Specifically discuss how nature responds to Jim Conklin's death and the response of nature after the battle. ... Specifically after Jim'...

• Word Count: 2113
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Through his descriptive imagery and use of Spanish, McCarthy in All the Pretty Horses efficiently unveils the dark side of society and of men in conflict to the innocence and freedom only found in nature. ... When John goes out to nature to find peace after his grandfather's death, he went to where the "ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past- (McCarthy 5). ... The darkness "carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them- (McCarthy 30). ...

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The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets her face was like her mother's; a youthful unfurrowed likeness: the same low brow, the same high features, the same pride" (147). ... When bertha is described her entire being based on appearance is confused, "What it was, whether beast of human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it groveled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing; and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face...

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The tone of the novel is darkly comic, sly, and intellectual. ... However, HumbertHumbert, in telling his story, uses puns, literary allusions, and repeating linguistic patterns to render this dark tale in an enchanting form. ... Another event where Frederick's obsessive and precise personality is shown is after Miranda's death, when Frederick finds her diary. ...

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It was a time in which great poverty and death especially in cities and towns, was very common. ... Orphans were also very common at this time especially around London because of the death rate. ... One of these things is his nurse Peggoty he goes into quite a lot of detail about her looks, he describes her eyes as "so dark that they seemed to darken their whole neighbourhood in her face."" ...

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Throughout the novel, Jack portrays evil and violence, the dark side of human nature. ... After the death of Piggy, while Ralph was trying to get Jack to understand how he was the chief, "viciously, with full intention, [Jack] hurled his spear at Ralph", which tore the skin and flesh over Ralph's rib cage (Golding 181). ... The black on the outer edge of the circle portrays Jack's evil and dark side. ... Additionally, before the death of Piggy, while Roger was dropping stones, "below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat" (Golding 180). ...

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Indeed, when the voice is described a final time two pages later, it remains "a strange, vague murmur, which might be likened to an indistinct shadow of human utterance" (97)-the descriptions from before recycled to exacerbate our frustration and keep us in darkness; we never do discern the source of the voice or its words throughout the course of the novel. ... Notably, his trigger words center mainly on ghosts, witchcraft and death; however, it rapidly becomes difficult to discern whether such fantastic clues are valid foreshadowing or merely red herrings. ... However, later in the...

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First the source of this strange desire came because of the death of his mother from which he never seemed to recover. ... He goes on to say, "This is because of the simple fact that the novel reconstitutes in the reader the dark and potent portion of human nature that Foust describes as part Ape and part Angel or Monster vs. ...

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For example, the reappearance of one long-lost character would test our willingness to believe, but here we witness the returns of Susan, the furmity-woman, and Newson, each of them brings a dark and fateful secret that contributes to Henchard's doom. ... THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE MAYOR OF THE CASTERBRIDGE By Thomas Hardy Macmillan and Co., Limited ST. ...

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In the short story, the author uses the images of light and darkness to illustrate the theme of man's painful quest for an identity (Murray 354). ... Baldwin realizes that "love is what life should be about," "love which is all the more poignant because involved with pain, separation, and death" (357). ...

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Introduction In the novel A Simple Plan, by Scott Smith, the reader discovers how a peaceful, quiet and happy life of a person can be instantly changed by an event which he or she considered to be a sign of happiness and prosperity. However, sometimes those events, which we often dream abou...

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He goes "out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean," hearing "the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness," and "He was rowing steadily." ... Inevitably, a fierce battle which means the matter of life or death begins. ...

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In Stephen King's novels and short stories (excepting the "Dark Tower" series) we are faced with extremely unusual, often even supernatural events, but they happen in a familiar situation to familiar people. ...

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Whenever two novels were written in different time periods, many differences can be found between these novels. They may have been written in different styles for different classes of readers. Viewpoints and beliefs change with time, and the writing styles in these novels reflect this evolution. ...

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• Grade Level: High School