Arbaeen commemorates that day, and about 10 million pilgrims converged on the city this year to mourn his death and commemorate his life. ... It took me three hours to reach Baghdad's gate in the south, where the road leads into what's called the Sunni "Triangle of Death". ... Here, in the Triangle of Death, I saw the greatest kindness. ... I limped to a mosque searching for electricity, but even there it was dark. ... It was close to 5 p.m., but I wanted to reach Iskandiriyah, the midway point between Baghdad and Karbala, before dark. ...

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In the story "A Clean Well - Lighted Place," Hemingway uses the darkness to symbolize fear and loneliness, and the light to symbolize comfort and the company of others. For the old man, the cafe is a sanctuary, an escape from the demons of nothingness that hide in the darkness of night. This cafe provides artificial light from the shadows of the world, and protects him from the inevitable darkness. "Against the neatness, light, and order of the cafe stands the dark chaos of the night, despair, nothingness and death."... But, as Jig looks across the green valley a cloud passes overhead takin...

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The darkness of the tunnel carried the uncertainty that one may come out alive or never come out at all. The darkness didn't just lay in the tunnel, it was all around the soldiers. The darkness laid wait behind each bush, each village, each foxhole, each and every time they went out into the unknown there was a darkness that plagued them. ... He let go of all the weight that she gave him an uncertain love that drove him crazy and caused the death of too many of his men. ... "Imagination was a killer," imagination caused the death of Ted Lavender from his drugs that departs him...

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The short story, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about small village that has a dark tradition. ... Little do the readers know, the lottery in the story's case, is being stoned to death. ... This happens when Tessie's family is picked for the lottery, thus the reason for saying her farewell as Tessie could be the one being stoned to death. ... This is very ironic because the story ends with a death. ... Summer about Don and Eva to lessen her chance but in the end she is the one that gets stoned to death. ...

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The short story, "The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson, is about small village that has a dark tradition. ... Little do the readers know, the lottery in the story's case, is being stoned to death. ... This happens when Tessie's family is picked for the lottery, thus the reason for saying her farewell as Tessie could be the one being stoned to death. ... This is very ironic because the story ends with a death. ... Summer about Don and Eva to lessen her chance but in the end she is the one that gets stoned to death. ...

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The Chinese folktale, "Faithful Even in Death", translated by Wolfram Eberhard, is one illustration of this form of setting. ... Tradition will not allow Hsienpo and Ying tai to be together, but they find a way to over come tradition, even if it means death. ... Lawrence makes several references about the dark, dreary, sullenness of the atmosphere. ... The one character in this whole story not shadowed by darkness, is Dr. ... There are three references to death within this poem. ...

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In the short story Wrong Time, Wrong Place , the character Hal Runyer has to explorre the dark passages of a deserted building. ... (Deaver Jeffory 96) Even though this story takes place during the day the author discribes the building as a scary and dark place which helps fit the mood of the mystery story. ... , is the first question and Sharon must uncover the truth of the sudden deaths. ... Suspense can be footsteps coming up the stairs in the dark, a doornob silently turning, a suspect arriving when he is not expected or an unanswered question about one of the charcters. ...

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Poe's style of writing is almost always associated with death, in which the protagonists are exposed to supernatural occurrences. ... He was voluntarily discharged from the army after her death. ... The protagonist investigates the dark vault and discovers a circular, seemingly bottomless pit. ... Both experience mental torture and are exposed to events involving life after death. ... Both stories create suspense and emotions for the reader as the narrators encounter torture, fear and death. ...

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Though the particular incident of the Indian man's suicide is not incessantly brought up during the duration of each short story, the issue of death is a recurring theme. ... After pondering the inevitable for what seems like an eternity in the dark woods all alone, Nick fires three shots into the night sky---the signal for his father and uncle to come back in case of an emergency. ... Regardless of Nick's close experience with death, he was still not prepared for the ultimate devastation a human being can undertake---a broken heart. ... Though Nick did commit a crime---the shooti...

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The realization of her own impending death, the spiritual heritage and etiquette of the South, and her strong Catholic faith are reflected in the dark humor, grotesque characters and situations, and religious themes of her works. ... In many ways O'Connor is describing to the readers that the grandmother is a common soul with good and bad qualities, who, though flawed with selfishness and a tendency to criticize in others traits she would forgive in herself, does in the end recognize her flaws and make a real gesture of grace at the moment of death. ... This description is much t...

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It is their duty, like guardians, to warn the man of what they believe is to be his death. ... Again, this shows us how darkness is far more frightening than being able to see and knowing what is there. ... The darkness creates the tension and fear. In light, we can see but when it is dark we cannot see and therefore tension and fear is everywhere. ...

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Once her father dies, she refuses to come to terms with his death and repeatedly claims that her father is still alive. Her denial of death as well as time due to her life of isolation and warped mental state is directly related to her upbringing and sheltered lifestyle from her father. ... Both descriptions of the setting and of Miss Emily are dark and morbid. ... The reader is given information about Miss Emily's history and explains the strong interest from the community in regards to her death. ... When she did meet someone who released her from her isolation, she wanted to preven...

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By introducing us to Emily through her death we are instantly distanced from her as readers. ... Faulkner chooses to introduce us to Emily through her death. ... The image of death, especially the death of the main character, the person with whom we are most concerned, evokes pity in most readers right from the beginning. ... Death is perhaps the most tragic event any character can experience. ... His exposure of Emily's extremely dark secret then acts as a wake up to all the readers. ...

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The motif of madness is also used as a means of ravage of the mind which could result in death as it is portrayed in, "The Fall of the House of Usher.... "3 Besides frightening subjects like death, disease, dark setting, haunted locations and others, characters who exhibit madness4 are the gothic elements incorporated in number of his stories, like for example in, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Berenice," and, "The Cask of Amontillado....

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The first woman of importance in the story is Paula Legendre, described as a dark serious beauty'. ... Paula's marriage is more important to Anson than her death. ... This is proved by his reaction to Paula's death. ... (p.207) Paula's death is not important to Anson, for it does not concern him. ...

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A scene that shows this the death of Boromir, in this scene, Aragon finds Boromir having been struck down by arrows and is resting on grass, he asks the fate of the Hobbits and Aragon replies "I have let them go," then Boromir answers, "Then you have done what I could not,". ... In this scene of Neil's death, Neil enters the Perry family's living room followed by his father who has just found out Neil has done something he did not allow; Neil sits down on the couch and prepares to hear his father's ultimatum. ... Mr Perry then leaves his room then the scene changes to Neil'...

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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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Poe further adds to this effect by calling the character Fortunato, who is anything but fortunate, and dressing him in a clown or fool's costume since Montresor intends to make a fool of him as part of his dark plan. ... The fact that in this whole scene Fortunato is being interpreted as a fool in his costume while Montresor is giving him wine and leading him to his death is proof of the dramatic irony that is being laid out like a trap that can be seen by the naked eye if one looks carefully enough. ... Montresor intends to be solely responsible for Fortunato's death and does not wa...

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Tension and Violence Between Men and Women in Three Short Stories in The Secret Self Introduction The purpose of this essay is to study various kinds of tension and violence existing between men and women in short stories Her Table Spread by Elizabeth Bowen, Rope by Katherine Anne Porter and The Time of Death by Alice Munro. ... Alice Munro's story The Time of Death tells about very strong feelings of women and how men are perfectly disregarded. ... For the moment, without moving or speaking, he stood, in the dark, in a flame, as though all three said: 'My darling...

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The ending of this story is simply written, "the room went dark" (154). ... In the new version of the story, "A Small Good Thing," Carver discusses the same problem from the first story, the potential death of the small boy Scotty. ...

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Even though he was aware of the dangerous waters that were on his way, and that falling in one of them could lead him to death, he fell in one. ... As we talked about it in class, Dreiser describes a dark-gray ambiance in his story, and just like him, London does the same. ...

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Therefore, it resembles that death is behind us at all times. We can never know when it will consume us but when it does happen, we can die either in the dark or in the light of God like the grandmother. ...

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Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian immigrant from London whose family originated from West Bengal. Lahiri's mother and father were immigrants who traveled to America when Jhumpa was just a little girl. They lived in a town in Rhode Island called Kingston. Literature was in her family since she was a little ...

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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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It was during this dark time period that he began abusing alcohol. ... In the first story, "Every Little Hurricane", Alexie introduces themes that play out through the rest of the book, such as poverty, despair, death, alcoholism, humiliation, and the hope of transformation. ...

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