"People move from the darkness outside the house to the darkness inside". ... He speaks very passionately about Gary "who murdered innocent men in rage against the way life had robbed him of time and love, and who died when a volley of bullets tore his heart from his chest". One could argue that Gary's heart was already torn out by his father years before. ... Instead of joining his family, Mikal finds a dark beyond filled with nothing. ...

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Her father suffered a severe heart attack and underwent a triple bypass. He was diagnosed with hereditary heart disease, and it became a terrifying time for all of them. ... Slowly a dark void found its way into her heart and began to eat away her happiness. ... The dark void that gnawed insider of her began to fade, and a sense of balance and serenity returned to her soul. ...

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Families deal with exchanges of the heart as well as health, happiness and safety. ... We die forever- With this, Antigone proved that her mind was made up and her heart was telling her that the burial of her brother was a necessity. ... My own heart has brought me from the darkness to final darkness. ...

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" Don't you have a father?" a question that I had to oppose with everyday. Ever since I had developed a longing for a father, I had realized that one could not function without the presence of his father. Everyday I had to defy with all the criticisms that my own friends bestowed upon me. However, I...

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So, I know when my mother praises me for something I did, I know, deep down in my heart, I did a great job. And naturally, a smile would materialize from the bottom of my heart. ... To me, my mum would be always ranked the first in my heart. ... " My mother has provided me with a source of light in my once dark tunnel, and I hope that I can have the honors to provide her the same way. ...

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Briar Rose Book Review Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. ... Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. ... A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: ""Five thousand corpses?" ...

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Baldwin set the story in the heart of Harlem since he knew it well: Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent-which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it.... It is evident, Sonny and the narrator live in very different worlds, as the narrator describes: Yet, as the cab moved uptown through streets with seemed, with a rush to darkness with dark people, and as I covertly studied Sonny's face, it came to me that what we both were seeking through our separate cab windows was the ...

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Next to the single sink were six dark brown wood cabinets. ... This kitchen was indeed small in size, but we shared at heart so much love and made so many memories in that limited space. ... Grandma's kitchen will always hold a special place in my heart....

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The fresh aroma of Mama's homemade biscuits causes us to leap up from our beds and race down the dark hardwood stairs that creak with each step we take. ... The rusty pulley made a ghastly whine as we hoisted the bucket up from the deep, dark seemingly endless black hole, where as a child, I was certain lived a troll. The well, made of dark, red, sandstone, brings back memories of working in the dusty fields with Daddy. ... The days of my grandmother are long since gone, but the special memories she has shared with me will live in my heart and mind forever, as long as I am able to drea...

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"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" (1.1.31) with this one sentence it is inevitable that the theme of this novel is dramatic drama. ... Lear is outraged by this, but gives Cordelia a chance to restate her case "But goes thy heart with this?" ...

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Picture the family and community I came from Beijing, China. A happy family with me being the only child. My past thirteen years was living in the nurture home my parents built for me. I always childishly believed everybody in this world is as perfectly lucky as I am. Until one day my grandfather to...

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This is a cold-hearted mother filled with resentment for her children and her husband. ... Addie was a cold-hearted mother in many ways. ... This is how this woman can be related to Kurtz from Heart of Darkness. ... Though Addie's cold heart, resentment of her family, and terrible concept of nothing left her with an unfortunate life I felt she deserved a more painful death. ...

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I had dark chocolate hair halfway down my back with ruler straight bangs to my eyebrows. ... The first thing that happened was my wrist twisted causing a stabbing pain to run up my arm and to my heart. ... " I watched blood shoot out of my mouth with the beat of my heart. Through the slamming in my ears, which also was in time with my heart, I heard Chrissy screaming "Aunt Tammy [my mom] she's hurt!!...

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The Yaya's in the novel are very spunky and could out-do any city folk, but they are Southern girls at heart suggesting that Rebecca Wells is too. ... Both always have been and always will be Southern girl at heart.... When she tells the reporter Vivi's mistakes she never means to bring dark clouds back, she simply admits that her mother was not as perfect as she appeared. ... Vivi knew in her heart that what she read in the newspaper article was true, but she had trouble admitting that she was not the perfect mother to her daughter. ...

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While a child's birthday party might seem like an unlikely place to examine such dark notions, Sharon Olds, free verse poem, "Rites of Passage" does so in a powerful and unique way. ... (5-8) The guests continue to posture aggressively with intense seriousness and in this atmosphere even the chocolate birthday cake becomes a metaphor for a battlement of war when the birthday boy's mother describes it as "the dark cake, round and heavy as a/turret" (14-15). This is a very unconventional metaphor as a birthday cake would typically connote a light hearted, up-beat...

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Hero Standing on a blood-soaked carpet we look on. We look on to hope, victory and peace. And we see it shining in the distant end of a rainbow. All around us are bleak but we are strong. Our country needed us and we have not failed them. We have eradicated future terror. Today they will ...

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The coffee trees on either side of the road had berries dark green plump with potential. ... The thrill I got in those rare moments when Indian traffic parted and my dad would open up that roaring engine making our backs press firmly against the back of the bucket seats would get my heart racing. ...

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Although she describes him as " very kind, manly, [and] open-hearted" (Joyce 5), what Eveline knows about Frank is only what he tells her. ... Eveline's dark and dreary life makes it seem obvious that she would escape to a life of opportunity and newfound freedom. ...

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So much pain and suffering that had left a scar in her heart for life that will never will be able to heal. ... Even when Caroline is told of the deep and dark secrets concealed from her for so long, she is in denial that her father would not do such a thing. ...

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Searching for Love I love foreign films. I went to Blockbuster to rent a film and Madiq Alley stood out. It was hard to follow at first and started in a domino playing bar. When we combine sentences, we need to make sure they fit together. The fact that the story is hard to follow does not f...

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The husband is groping to pick up the pieces of his marriage that the wife has allowed to fall from her heart. At this point in the poem, I as the reader sympathies with the husband for at least trying to put things back together with his marriage rather than pushing it away, allowing it to rot, like their son in his deep, dark grave. The husband will not give up trying keep his heart beating, his life afloat in his wife's sea of grief and resentment. ...

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When Jason offers such an existence for her by way of his recent marriage, Medea responds by saying, "I loathe your prosperous future; I"ll have none of it, nor none of your security - it galls my heart." ... Simply putting her enemies to death does not offer enough revenge for Medea's dreadful heart. ... "The dark cloud of her lamentations Is just beginning. ...

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I've never felt like I had to fill that father figure void in my heart. ... With my grandad standing roughly around 6'3, dark skin-tone, with salt and pepper hair, broad shoulders and toned legs. ... Just the thought of losing him one day is heart shattering. ...

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(Pg 107)" During his time at the lithographic studio, Davy learns how to live with people of a respectable nature, who are warm-hearted and easy to work with. ... The Depression in Australia, as described by Davy, came slowly at first, but then hit with all the ferocity of a "slide of earth". " It was like a great river flooding or changing its course, the way the depression came-the insidious creeping movement of dark, strong, unpredictable forces, the flow of hidden currents, a clod falling and dissolving, a slide of earth, the cave-in of an entire bank, a sudden eddy swirling around a sna...

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I have been through so many dark, traumatizing, and depressing situations in my life at my age of fourteen. Trying to live the perfect well manicured life in New Canaan the so called picture-perfect place, and being on that horrible swim team was the start of it. My family was part of it also, I nev...

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