People adjust themselves to the patterns in their lives and become so reliant on these routines that any deviation will result in devastation. ... When one's routine is challenged, they naturally seek a means of returning to what they define as normal to relief themselves of this change. ... As "X- is commonly perceived as a variable, the poem suggests that those events in life that are chaotic and do not abide by one's routines are the pinnacles of one's life. Pinksky expresses the sentiment that those who live consumed by routine, do not truly live as they are exempted from...

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• Grade Level: High School

Different people have individual perspective on various jobs. As far as I am concerned, working as an employee definitely affects not only our life but also determination of our future. However, it is not easy to find a proper job for one self. Thus, we should be careful on finding jobs with certain...

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Jim had just made Laura feel normal by saying that the world is "full of common people" (1447). ... Both Tom and Laura are hesitant on changing anything that disrupts daily routine for the sake of their mother. ... I go," referring to his everyday routine and his job at the warehouse (1417). ... The magician trapped inside of the coffin is like Tom's routine life of working at a warehouse to support his family on extremely low wages. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After living a life of monotonous routines, Livvie wants more than she has. ... Livvie was deprived of a normal life, "Solomon would not have let Livvie look at them, just as he would not let her look at a field hand, or a field hand look at her" (300). ...

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Even if Turtle is a small, innocent child, she has gone through much more than a normal child her age. ... The doctor does his routine first check, and says that "she seems to be a healthy two-year-old" (122). ...

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However, his revival is not seen as a miracle but rather as an inconvenience which is illustrated in the following quotation: "He lay in a coma when he opened his eyes the fact that he made a personal and local history was overshadowed by the immediate fact of the shrieks and faints that afflicted the attendants in the hospital mortuary, and the disruption of routine, temper, credulity and reputation in the hospital itself Ten o"clock Tuesday morning. ... Pg.89 He hopes that if life flows into him he will once again be view as normal by the people in the Dunian society and the...

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His life had been bland, routine, and monotonous, even to the degree of isolation, until he met a married woman, Mrs. ... Halpin was that "The injuries were not sufficient to have caused death in a normal person. ... Duffy's routine life, he did not mention any contemplative activity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School