This truth is the plague, and no one can escape it. ... No one is protected, there is no discrimination, everyone is ultimately the same. ... He says that he realized at one point that he " had had plague through all those long years in which, paradoxically enough, I"d believed with all my soul that I was fighting it. ... There are those who fail to see it, those who feel at ease anyway, and those who try to get out and fight it. ... Then, he felt at ease because he had accepted life as it is and believed he was fighting it by trying to uphold certain principles, such as his defiance agains...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

He can no longer find the color of the souls for his distraction from the conspicuous death and loss engulfing him. ... Hans plays the accordion to try and ease Liesel from her past, to lighten the mood and escape from her new reality caused by the Nazi regime. ... It wasn't just Hans music he longed and hoped for but also his safety. ... When the accordion is no longer being played, the hope of life is getting duller with everyday. ... We are introduced to Liesel as a orphaned, distraught, powerless young girl who has no education due to her troubled upbringing. ...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People felt fortunate if they could die after a long full life. ... By this fear, the religious were committed to resolving this problem and easing minds. ... There is no fact that supports the statement that the "soul" is separated from the body at death. ... It appears to be a long lasting sleep in communion with God until resurrection. ... The Bible shows a long and detailed transformation of the term death. ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She knew it would be hard to loosen him up and make him at ease. ... Despite her determination to cure herself, Margaret's disease spread to her right side and it was no longer easy for her to speak. ...

• Word Count: 1628
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Even though, time is infinite and every one will reach an end which is death, but the idea of immortality and love to live as long as possible let people to do what they can to keep their lives. ... Means of technology these days develop many circumstances to avoid the idea of death or to make life longer. ... In his sonnet 65, he describes the force of time saying: "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, " He means that there is no way in which beauty can withstand the assaults of tim...

• Word Count: 2113
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story is not about death but about the emotional reaction to the death and about love, a topic that can be related to all with relative ease. ... (Agee) Agee is by no means the greatest of all American Writers but he is definitely an undiscovered gem in the vast field of American writers. ... In a letter to one of his close friends, Father Flye, he says: "That, however, is fierce and complicated enough to keep me balancing over suicide as you might lean out over the edge of a high building, as far you could and keep from falling but with no special or constant desire not to fall", this ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Duffy began to feel terribly sorry for her decease, "feeling ill at ease", regretting his former doings by "asking himself what else could he have done". ... We could find no direct evidence suggesting Mr. ... Duffy was a middle class himself, a cashier of a private bank, no better than phrasemongers, policemen or impresarios. ... " Sadly, he no longer had any social activity and the few individuals in his life left him too. ...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School