They seem to struggle every other Friday night to fill this immense social void. ... The ritual for both the man and the woman is to go home every night alone and lie in their beds and stare at the same moon, while feeling depressed for the same reason. ... Cisneros uses symbolism in many different instances in the story; in one instance Friday nights appear to symbolize an empty ritual night, the night the characters will go out on their inadequate search for a companion. ... There they are isolated and alone like the lonely blue illumination of the moon on a dark night. ......

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• Grade Level: High School

Feste, a Clown I personally found the role of the clown to be the most interesting of all the characters in Shakespeare's "The Twelfth Night", primarily because he seemed to be the most intelligent and certainly the wittiest character of all. ... It's interesting to note the clown's cementation on the other characters and how the comedic wit and timing helps the visualization of the story. ...

• Word Count: 600
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Johnson have dark background information, but they both end on a positive note. ... In the novel, the narrator says said, "Leaning against the railing, Helga stares into the approaching night, glad to be at last alone, free of that great superfluity of human beings ". ...

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As the patient notes in their final interaction: "You were only shaken out from somewhere. ... He feels betrayed by his patients and his community, concluding his story with the line "A false alarm on the night bell, once answered – it can never be made right" (Kafka 128). ...

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These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ... Events such as John's terrible experience in Vietnam, his father's suicide, his lifetime hobby as a magician, and his habit of spying on Kathy during college begin to cast light onto what may have happened on that mysterious night. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Part 4- Financial situations, M skips meeting (phone call), control panel bet, M & B fistfight w/ aides defending George from fear of being cleaned, M & B sent to disturbed ward, electroshock treatments, M not fazed by ET but B is, "crown of thorns," B fights through fog, M brought back from disturbed, M urged to escape, Billy's big night, Turkle falling asleep leads to bad outcome for all, R is furious morning after, M refuses escape with Sandy, Billy commits suicide (knife to throat), M exposes/strangles R (rips front of uniform), many acutes transfer/leave ward, R refuses to ...

• Word Count: 970
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• Grade Level: High School

It is interesting to note, therefore, that the meaning of the name, "Ralph- symbolizes: good, positive leadership, responsibility, dedication, survival, and means counsel'. ... It is almost sad to see the little children playing on the beach all day and crying all night, and then seeing the older boys, who are not really that much older, murdering other people and setting fire to the island. ...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: High School

A hot and breathless night toward the end of August, the patriotic smell of hot dogs and French fries in the still air. ... After they have parted that night, he is desperate, he says: It's not my fault I'm not Marvin or Shelley. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see with what banal literary irony it all turns out or does not turn out at all." ...

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This intrigues the reader giving them a notion that the calmness of the night will not last for long. ... Lord Sannox says "I had long intended to make a little example, your note of Wednesday miscarried, and I have it here in my pocket-book. ...

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Next, it is essential to note that the original story was written in Spanish and translated to English. ... For instance, he resembles "when one hole is closed another open"(p45) situation to Penelope and her weaving nights and says "whatever he wove by day I tore at night" or he says "the worries of the King of France ought not to have stopped me sleeping"(p44). ...

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"The Prologue" begins in "medias res": "the story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless- It sets the frame of the story on three reference points: the place - the old house - the time - the evening or the night when stories are told - and the cultural setting - the reference to ghost stories. ... She thinks of herself as having a mission to fulfill, regarding her new circumstances she notes: "they had, as it were, an extended and a mass for which I have not been prepared and in the presence of which I found myself, freshly, a little scared, not less than a little proud". ...

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Many critics note a shift in Carver's work between the publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral, and many believe that Carver reached the zenith of his career with this collection. ... Along the way he will spend the night at the home of the narrator and his wife. ... "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night," announces the narrator conversationally in the first line of the story. ... Summary The narrator, or storyteller, of Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" opens by saying, "This blind man, an old ...

• Word Count: 11148
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• Grade Level: High School

And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their lives. ... Just like the moths that Patrick is intrigued by that only tend toward light at night, Patrick only seeks light when there is none around him. ...

• Word Count: 3985
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• Grade Level: High School