Spoon River Anthology Synopsis The book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters depicts many different aspects of life through poems written by the inhabitants of the town Spoon River. Spoon River is a fictitious town in early America. What is special about this town is that all of the people in it are dead and they tell their stories from the grave. The stories of the town show how you should live your life, all of the way from religion to work habits and to love. ... He states, "That one can be happy only where there are two;/ And that our hearts are drawn to stars/ Which want us no...

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We had arrived at our destination and our missionaries, Nicky and Janie, had pointed out our hotel, which was on the left hand side of the van. ... We pulled into a small town right outside of Ciudad Delicias. The town we had arrived at housed possibly a hundred people. ... We left the town that night and went back to our hotel, unpacked, and prepared ourselves for the journey to come in the next four days. ... The next day we woke up, ate breakfast, and climbed into the vans ready to begin our work in the town. ...

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A young woman (Hester Prynne) comes to this town to find a place to live for her and her husband, but falls victim to the desires of the human nature. ... The town people unjustly judge her for her "crime"; "he with out sin cast the first stone". ... We will have a home and fireside of our own; and thou shall sit upon his knee; and he will teach thee many things, and love thee dearly." (1420) Their love is strong and pure, but Chillingworth's revenge is deadly. ... The towns people are in the wrong as well with their unjustly judgment. Hester is standing before the town upon the sc...

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Another way she proves this point is by showing how their town yearns for a break in traditional same-race marriages through dichromatic descriptions of the town in contrast to monochromatic descriptions of Abbie. ... Petry purposely writes of it poetically to heighten it to our typical sensations of what love means to us. The repetition in the three lines phrased slightly differently each time strengthens Link's claim that he loves Camillo, and enforces our belief in his feeling. ... Yet, another way she proves this point is by showing how their town yearns for a break in traditional...

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Betrayal, it happens all the time, and while most of us would not like to admit it, we have each been the betrayer or the betrayed during atleast some point in our life. It might not have been anything too big that we were forced to turn our back on or go against a friend for, but it is something that can break apart many relationships, and while at the time it may seem like the right thing to do, it doesn't always turn out that way in the end. ... He brought, love, youth and life into her household, completely changed the person she was for the better, and basically rearranged a whole ...

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Although he is no longer with us, he will always be remembered in this town, as a hero, and a role model for all. ... Throughout the town his name was respected, never was his name talked about lightly, and not once did he follow the crowd. ... He was a man sent to earth by our Lord to be loved. ... His death was such a shock to the town, it took this final action to make the people of Salem realise what John was preaching all along, there was no witches in Salem, and you can take my educated word for it. ... I would like to thank John, it was a privilege for me to know such a great man, h...

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I understand this thinking a little better than with the knights because I think of the saints back then as being a teacher of religion, sort of like our preachers, priests, and pastors. Most people in our society look up to these people and sort of look to them for guidance in troublesome times, but in medieval times their saints seemed to be much more than that. ... They were almost always either the tallest building right smack in the center of the town, or it was placed upon a hill so that it stood above all other buildings. This was to symbolize that the church was the strongest and la...

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At the same time, Disney succeeds in teaching our children a very vital lesson in life, how good looks and fame is not the key to true love. ... Marian Belle is the main character, she lives with her father who is considered by the town a loony man therefore, Belle is also looked upon the town as being a little out of the ordinary. ... Moreover every women and man in the town look up to him and would do anything for him. ... For instance, It seemed very odd that the men of the town were only paying attention to the pretty women and saying hello to them. ... The proposal is a surprise to Belle ...

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When the disease hit the town of Tarumi, it was devastating to the little town. Because the town was a holiday resort when it hit, it was twice as bad for people to have it. ... "The disease chose randomly, infecting our young and old Some of those who suffering from the disease quickly left the village, while others ended their lives, hoping not to dishonor their families.""...

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After the divorce, Edna and her two sisters, Norma and Kathleen, along with their mother Cora, moved from town to town, as her mother attempted to make a better life for her daughters. ... It's probably easier to enjoy our life without embracing love. All the vital and essential needs we have in our lives don't require love. ... She talks about love as something we don't really need, something useless in our lives. ... She is saying that love is the feeling that has the most power upon us but we don't really need it in our lives. ...

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We are introduced to the female counterpoint to the story as "a certain woman in the town known to be a sinner." ... It is often remarked that she was a "whore" or the town prostitute but there is no evidence in the scripture to credit this label. ... The crowd is dumbfounded by Jesus" words and quickly responded with, "who is this who even forgives our sins?". ...

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In the story, we find Homer Hickam, an average small-town boy, infatuated by the idea of a newly launched rocket, Sputnik. ... Another of the main themes or messages in "October Sky" is the idea that opportunity can come knocking, but with it comes two sides - the possibilities it brings into our lives and also the things it can get in the way of. ... In this situation, we can see that there needs to be an importance of value set to our priorities in life, and we also need to note that we should respect each other's priorities in order to avoid conflict. ...

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Later on in Act two something similar happens to Algernon and Jack's ward Cecily, where Algernon pretends to be Ernest Worthing, Jack's alter ego in the town and his "greedy wicked brother who live in town" when he is in the country. ... Jack announces that he has come to town to ask Gwendolen to marry him; Algernon responds: "I thought you had come up for pleasure? ... The conventional parental conflict over love maintains our interest in the love story, but the secondary conflict is far more original and engaging: Gwendolen will only marry someone named Ernest, which she believes ...

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It is evidenced by the way they speak to each other and act towards each other, but the idea is subverted due to the fact that everyone in the town sees Idgie as a man. ... So, the question begs to be asked, how could Whistle Stop, a small town in Alabama, be so accepting of something so different than the norm; a lesbian couple? It could be that they were not like any other towns back in those days. After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... Coping with situations within FRIED GREEN TOMATOES Human N...

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He returns a shattered man, unable to accept the complexities of the world; he lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life. ... The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him. ... Nel, who becomes the embodiment of the town's moral code, she gets married and is "one of them" (Morrison, 120), meaning a member of the prevailing/mainstream society. Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison, 120). ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions i...

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Everyone knows the story of the two star-crossed lovers, and it represents our idea of true love. ... Romantic love provides us with our most powerful form of intimacy, a sense of self, and an aura of grandeur that must be understood in its own terms, as an emotional strategy for enriching our world (Solomon 141). ... All our lives we are meeting people throughout our daily routine, in a way searching for that one person, that completion in our lives: the one that makes us whole. ... I began to spin a writer's story: the brief courtship in a rural Wisconsin junior high school, a sma...

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People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Also cited is General Sherman, who was known for his Civil War attack on Atlanta, where he shouted "War is all hell," while he plowed through a southern civilian town during his raid. 1 These names create a forewarning of destruction and chaos to the main character, whom Cummings simply mentions as "him". ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continue...

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A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... Franks Hospital for kids or at gas station that her dad had own it was down town. ... That night me and couple of my friends were going to a party and on our way back this couple of school boys started to bang us from the back so I told them I wanted to race to prove that I drove faster and better at the wheel, so we began to race. ... I had no ch...

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He cannot say because he does not know and because he wants the reader to join "us"--"our whole town," "the rising generation," with its garages and its paved roads and its noses in everyone else's business. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ...

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Keats genuinely appreciates the story the urn is imparting and though it is silent, he believes its images can tell the tale more effectively than his poem is able to: "who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:" The events occur in a "leaf-fring'd" setting of "deities or men" in "mad pursuit" of reluctant "maidens", a passionate, heated courtship scene, paradoxically portrayed on a cold, motionless urn. ... Keats' thoughts have become so involved that he imagines the village from which the figures came: "What little town by river or sea shore, Is emptie...

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To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. ... Being a leading lady in the town, she didn't like being in authority. ... She didn't need to be with him for protection, or she didn't need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor's wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her. ...

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To succeed, we need to learn from our own mistakes, and live with the weight of our decisions. ... Being a leading lady in the town, she didn't like being in authority. ... She didn't need to be with him for protection, or she didn't need to be the leading lady of a town or a mayor's wife, she just needed the right kind of love and affection to bring out what was best in her....

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I know if I am the reason your marriage with Jem is broken, then the whole shadow hunter society will look down upon our marriage and Jem will be heartbroken. ... Our marriage would be the talk of the town and pasted on as a life lesson and made into a book called "What Not to Do When You Grow Up.... I will show you my knowledge of classical literature and we can enjoy the works of classics in our home library together. ... I want to spend every day showing you that our love is star-crossed like Romeo and Juliet; but smarter. ... " I can be Darcy to your Elizabeth, Anthony to your Cl...

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On the other hand, some say she might have had a relationship with Otis Lorde, the town judge. ... Having to adapt the fact that her poems require "willingness to wait for possibilities of meaning to explode into our consciousness."" ...

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Through the story, author Chekhov shows us that sometime the moral standards will stand in our way toward freedom and happiness we desire. It also shows us that sometimes our freedom and happiness is restricted by the society we live in. ... He met Anna during his vacation in a small town called Yalta. ... As we can see, our main character of the story is a victim of the society standards and forced marriage. ...

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