On a personal note, I much prefer Beckett's work in the style of a play, because I think his ideas are easier to comprehend due to his extensive and detailed stage directions. I once tried to read a novel of Beckett's and the dialogue, along with the description of the character's surroundings was so confusing that I actually had to stop reading it after the first few chapters. ... Thinking of the play ending on that note, I take from it that one should embrace one's life in a way that thirty years from now we will not be looking back and regretting and cringing at the ...

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James adds this story to his novel because it is vital to his personal growth. ... Later Chicken Man's words sink in, and James notes that Chicken Man is right, the failed men he encounters are just as smart as him; it is their choices that doom them. ...

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Throughout the novel "Swerve," by Phillip Gwyne, Hugh develops a totally new character when he returns to Sydney after his trip. ... In the beginning of the novel, Hugh was a spoiled private school boy that was molded into a judgmental, close-minded, and law-abiding child by the upbringing of his parents. ... "I think of my shining future, the future my parents, my professor, everybody has painted for me " Hugh's bright unyielding future was made by the decisions of his parents, and as he was performing, he was thinking about the outback, the majesty of Uluru and "suddenly, with one note...

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Jeff Daley - Western Civilization II - Fathers and Sons Analysis Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" is a novel that I think gives a good representation of Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. ... Throughout the novel, Paul and Bazarov go at it, usually with Paul starting it, Bazarov remaining calm, and Paul finally getting steamed. ... We can note a similar gap throughout history. ...

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The novel While I Was Gone by Sue Miller, tests ones ability to accept and understand the importance of change and the growth throughout one's life. ... (state here what you want to say in the rest of the essay) Just a brief note about what you will be arguing in the essay. ...

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• Grade Level: High School