As we see in the short stories "Araby" (Joyce) and "Where are you going, where have you been?... Connie and the unnamed boy in Araby both find themselves being attracted members of the opposite sex, and find a way to deal with the consequences of their endeavors. ... The story also can be reminiscent of a fairytale - at the end of the story, the lead character is rewarded with a "happily ever after.... The story also has a fairytale feel to it. ... Connie and the young boy in Araby were eager to explore the feelings of love they were having for the members of the opposite s...

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In this story, Melville portrays five characters working in a law office. ... There is no difference for this story's situation. ... The narrator truly believes that it is his duty to tell the story of Bartleby, and only by giving you the background as he sees it would the story be a full evaluation of events. At the beginning of the story the narrator begins to tell the story of his office. ... It is not a universal thing to just openly talk about one's sex life. ...

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Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships. Relationships with the opposite sex have been one of the hardest things to handle nowadays. For teenagers, it is normal be a story of trial and error but for adults, it is a big deal. ... According to relationship counselor John Gray, difficulties in relationships between a man and a woman lie in the lack of understanding and acceptance of the differences between the ...

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The third poem, Rapunzstiltskin' is written in a well-known fairytale format and is a narration about a love story which has gone dramatically wrong. ... It is also showing that people must think about the responsibility that comes after sex. ... He does actually get quite desperate and resorts to scaring the woman into sex etc such as lines 27-29. ... My favourite poem out of these three is Rapunzstiltskin' because it is comical and keeps the readers attention, I also feel that it portrays attitudes towards love and sex clearer than the other two where the reference to sex is hidd...

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In the stories Trifles and To His Coy Mistress; there are things that can be taken as a love story or just as a hate crime. ... When reading this it makes you wonder is the speaker reading writing this or is a friend of the speaker and he is telling the man's story. The actions to the man in this story; is not like what men would be doing today trying to get a women to love them or even for a man to have sex to sex them. ... From the story this lady must have really hated her husband john for killing her only pet the canary. ... The wording and the language of this story; is dark, it ...

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1 "A Rose for Emily" "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, begins and ends with the death of Emily Grierson, the main character of the story. Throughout the story Faulkner gives hints that eventually lead up to the shocking revelation of Emily's character. ... Faulkner's central theme in the story is "To let go of the past", Emily has a tendency to cling to the past and a reluctance to be independent. ... In the story Faulkner's narrator comments that: "No one except an old man-servant a combined gardner and cook,...

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Sula learns, growing up, that sex is not a sacred thing, its a lesiure activity with no meaning and makes no attachments. ... The mothers in this story only provide a necassary support and shelter for their children but they never make an emotional conection towards them. ... At one point in the story Hannah asks her mother, Eva, if she ever loved them (her children). ... The ending of this almost perfect friendship is when Sula has sex with Nel's husband. ... This is because she was taught sex has no meaning its just for pleasure. ...

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Through this story the hero (Roy) is representative of the collective American hero as he fulfills all these requirements. ... Not only does he treat women as sex objects placed on earth for his pleasure, but he ended up being wounded by Harriet because of his strong desire to be the best. Also, in the beginning of the story, Roy's ignorance is obvious. ... Malamud demonstrates through his story that the hero in America comes from a high place, encultured with morality and integrity, and is not perfect. ... Overall the story is saying that we can extract the essence of both failure an...

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The entire story seems like a love story, but it also reveals a man who is trying to find his happiness and freedom in the society he lived in. ... In the story Chekhov describes the main character of the story as a victim of the society. The main character of the story is a middle age man called Gurov. ... In the story, he describes his wife to be "narrow minded and graceless." ... Eventually, he realized that sex would not bring him the feeling of freedom and happiness, and he should look for is something beyond the sex, something on the emotional level. ...

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Set in Paris and the Spanish city of Pamplona, this novel is a story of a World War I veteran and writer, Jake Barnes, and his group of expatriates as they try to find meaning to their lives in the 1920's. ... Although Brett and Jake love one another, Brett's prioritization of sex and independence above love, and Jake's physical limitations, prevent them from truly being together as a couple. ... At this point in the story, Jake and Brett seem to just resign themselves to the fact that their relationship will not develop any further than what it has. ... Another example occurs l...

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The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the main characters of the story. With each interaction with one of these minor characters, the main character learns more about his situation, human nature, and perhaps even the opposite sex in general. ... The story would have to change substantially for this individual to be excluded from the tale completely. ... These minor characters can add more substance and conflict to a story than the main characters themselves. Within each story, the main character's personality is revealed through the in...

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The play without these characters would decrease the motivation and purpose shown by the main characters of the story. With each interaction with one of these minor characters, the main character learns more about his situation, human nature, and perhaps even the opposite sex in general. ... The story would have to change substantially for this individual to be excluded from the tale completely. ... These minor characters can add more substance and conflict to a story than the main characters themselves. Within each story, the main character's personality is revealed through the in...

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As a fiction writer, you want the reader to always be engaged in your story. ... Readers read a book to believe the story and to immerse themselves in the story and to LOVE the story. ... As soon as he gets it, the story is over. ... Every explosion, prayer, conversation, sex scene means less and less to the reader; simply because repetition, by nature, serves to work against that escalation your story so desperately needs. ... I had always thought that stories were allowed to be unbelievable because, well, it's a story! ...

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Women At Point Zero "Women At Point Zero' is a story of a womans struggle to make it in what seems to be another world. ... The majority womem in America who live like this have serious drug/alcohol problems while the women on the other side of the world like Fridaus have no choice, either starve or have sex with the risk of getting AIDs. ... Only Fridaus knows how it feels because that is what this story is based upon. El Saadawi does a great job of putting the story into words that get us all fired up and ready to go out and save women just like Fridaus. ...

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Lee Schnebly did a very good job keeping the text of serious content reasonably cheery through her humorous personal stories and advice. ... I feel that the author did a wonderful job covering some major personal issues such as relationships, sex, how to let things go, self-esteem, encouragement, risk taking, priorities, feelings, and many more. ...

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This is a contradiction to later in the story when he talks to Sally about the boys at Pency being "full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac someday, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." (131) When Holden speaks to Sally he tries to be a moralist by seeing wealth as a fabrication made by society to divide and corrupt people into classes that would...

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However, in Save the Last Dance, there is a sex scene. ... But now in the present time, sex is shown as nothing. ... However, no matter how long the gaps are for each generation, the story line remains the same. ...

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It is far too difficult to relate to the characters of the story and to get involved with the story. ... Another aspect of the film that was profane was the wordy disturbing sex-scenes and the scenes in the strip clubs. ... At one point of the story, the author spoke of Sera's crying being a privilege to being alone in her room, and many times Sera longed to tell her story to someone, but she had no one. ... She allowed Gamal Fathi to control her until close to the end of the story. ... The story never explains why Ben or Sera are the way that they are. ...

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Finally, there is the ending; a jarring, hasty end to the story. ... It is a very sex-oriented book (with much of the communities ideas and activities revolving around pleasure) and doesn't seem to have a plot, other than following the lives of the citizens and the Savage through this new world. ...

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She is a worldly person who has experienced the world through love and sex. ... Therefore, the man will do great deeds in order to win her favor, just as her husband is doing while she tells her story. ...

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After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. I do believe that this book belongs among the classic works read by young adults. Maya went...

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Lyman grows up, and changes through out his story. ... Part two of the story strays from the action to another scene. ... Peyton is intrigued, and then Ambrose starts the third part of the story. ... Louise Erdrich used the approach of writing the story as the opposite sex's own point of view, to help create the setting. ... By dissecting these two stories the reader is shown several methods that are effective to illustrate a short story....

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The book Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel Marquez is an intriguing story about sex, murder and betrayal. The book is based on a real event; however the author uses his brilliant imagination to fill in some of the story. ... Even though it may not seem like it, the bothers are not the only villains in this story. ... The Viscera twins are not the only villains in this story, Angela Vicario, Victoria Guzman, and the rest of the town's people each had their own role in contributing to the death of Santiago Nasar. ... Angela Vicario never changed her story; she always said th...

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I will give a basic summary of the story line, and I intend to show the omniscient narrator's point of view in analysis of the characters. ... The story is told over a time period of several months, from December 1952 through December 1953. The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ... Maribeth makes a huge mistake by letting an older boy talk her into drinking and having sex with him one night. ... Throughout the story, Maribeth tells Tommy that some people are only here for short periods of time, to help other people and to teach th...

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Spike Lee overwhelmingly gave you a good look at the how sex, age, race, work, health, and crime played key roles in the interpretation of the film. ... The Internet can be used for sex, age, race, work, health, and crime. ... He makes his movies, commercials, and videos with the intent of bringing the true realism without trying to appease those who might be shocked or disgusted by his way of telling the story. ...

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