Bless Me, Ultima At the beginning of the Book, The author associates Antonio's concern about the changes in his life to his culture. I think Ultima's entry into Antonio's life will start a stressful time Antonio. ... Ultima also tries to teach Antonio a larger moral lesson regarding salvation and damnation. Her suggestion that people must make independent moral decisions but should not make decisions regarding salvation and damnation introduces into the novel the idea that morality is not absolute. ... Whereas Ultima is able to understand the multiplicity of life and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and examine its connection with meaning in life. ... Many events in the nov...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is filled with many extraordinary creatures such as witches, vampires, demons, and even ghosts. ... The Olympians possessed great power and wielded it with such a tremendous intensity. ... Their eagerly anticipated journey turns into their worst nightmare come to life. ... Needless to say, Poseidon was none too pleased and decided to teach the mortal hero a hard learned lesson. ... They wear me down, pleading with me whenever you're away' (Homer 245). ...

• Word Count: 2649
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School