In the movie "Ordinary People", one of the main characters, Conrad, has many problems communicating with people and having relationships with them. ... I think this also caused him to have problems communicating with people effectively. ... So many people in his life expect him to remain unchanged despite the death of his brother, and as a result he has trouble communicating with people and expressing his feelings, because he IS changed. ... Berger's advice, and to forget about what other people expect from him. ... If they are unable to see their own good qualities, how can they exp...

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In the novel Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, she uses the theme courage and lack of it continuously to show how the characters are unable to achieve greatness because of it. ... Most people who commit suicide try it again, and Conrad has to live everyday with the pressure of not attempting to kill himself again. ...

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The story begins in a very common and routine neighborhood of lower class people. ... The revelation of an ordinary place with ordinary people and ordinary things. This setting is reflective of the message of the story because of this very ordinary place. All made of the same ordinary things in his life. All which can be made up to be great wonderful things, but which in reality are still ordinary. ...

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For it is with these mental and psychological experiences, that the statement "Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible" is truly asserted. ... For the people that are around him do not care or understand his condition. ... Through the use of such mental and psychological events, it is asserted "Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible" Focusing his life upon social position, Ivan merely involved himself in his work. ...

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Overall this book really gives insight to the different male emotions and gives the reader an idea of the price that ordinary men pay to make us enjoy the freedom that we have today. The men who bring us the riveting tales of war are no different from any ordinary citizen today. ... This book gives people a firsthand look at how war directly affects the men on the front lines. ...

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They are both very private people with secluded lifestyles. ... Most of the time people choose books to take them out of their lives. ... As time went on and people changed and came to like the realistic story. When the book was published other books were coming out that involved princesses and beautiful people with the best of the best. This story was so out of the ordinary that it was looked down upon instead of trying to find the message. ...

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Incident was written in the 1920's at a time when people of color were greatly discriminated against. ... Through the experience of an eight-year-old boy Cullen illustrates some of the things black people encountered during that time period. ... If the boy had been a grown man instead I don't think his readers would have had the same reaction because in that time period that incident was nothing out of the ordinary. ... It opened a window to how people were treated back then in a very original style. ...

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Some people spend their whole lives feeling sorry for themselves. ... No one likes people who are full of self-pity, they are no fun. ... Morrie is not your ordinary man though. ... They discussed how people today don't take marriage seriously. ... Most people don't care how sacred the vows of marriage are. ...

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Also, the people don't find interest in any of the returning soldiers as they fought a brutal war. ... To get the people's attention, he had to begin telling lies to get their full undivided attention. ... His loving mother wants Krebs to be like other ordinary men in the town. ... Clearly, he did not wish anyone to care for him and he did not want to love anyone, which is unusual because the majority of people want or need something or someone to love and concern. ... In the scene where his people were not interested in his stories, he quickly runs into his parents' house. ...

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The factory had provided jobs for the people of Millom for around one hundred years, and was clearly a core part of Milloms social history. ... The idea of the drumming and hum gives an impression that the factory's noise was of a comfort to the people of Millom, as it would be a sound that they would have grown up with and not known any different. The fact that this new found silence is described as roaring is maybe not so ridiculous (even though it is an oxymoron) as it is something so out of the ordinary for them and so can imaginably be more piercing and unsettling than the constant b...

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Through Night, Elie Wiesel exemplifies the trials of trying to keep faith throughout a time, in which, many often fall to the wayside because of things life has thrown their way. Being the author, Elie's life experience, at a concentration camp during the Holocaust, is his way of reaching and warn...

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You've got all kinds of people who make a living and support themselves, but who psychologically are not grown up. ... In the essay, she reflects on sad stories of quote, "ordinary people, with yearnings as old as humanity -- for children, for health, for a long and healthy life" (Fatalist Attraction 934). She relates it until the very end to how people just want to be happy, and how she doesn't think we really know how to be happy. ... Along with her emotional and personal credibility she has great references to other credible people which supports her essay with good...

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She is trying to imply how quickly and unexpectedly a good everyday life can change into tragedy; in addition, she applies to her interview with people of the 9/11 tragedy and how it was just an ordinary beautiful September day (4), and suddenly the World Trade Center buildings come crashing down and fill the sky with smoke. ... In summary, the quote explains that people under shock are not only upset mentally but also unbalanced physically; no matter how calm and stoic they seem, nobody can understand their circumstances. ... Of course, people grief in different ways; nevertheless, her way ...

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We admire such courageous people and look up to them as heroes. ... Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." ... Court wonders "why people have to sing other people's songs" and why "I say Oy and nobody laughs but Malachy says Oy, Oy and Mrs. ...

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Raskolnikov's theory upon the existence of two separate types of man - the ordinary and the "extraordinary" – is quite egotistical and arbitrary. He argues that the intellectually "superior" or "extraordinary," including himself, have the right to kill as long as the deed ultimately serves beneficial to the world and the people around the victim. ... Raskolnikov's theory fundamentally results in the significant events of the novel and their aftermaths; he becomes even more mentally unstable after killing the pawnbroker, he becomes physically ill, a...

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