Spanish director Julio Medem's fifth film, Sex and Lucí, is a passionate and frequently erotic tale on love, loss, sex and fantasy. The story follows its main character, Lucí, on her quest to the truth behind the tragic death of her boyfriend, the novelist Lorenzo. ... Numerous flashbacks take the story back and forth in time revealing the course of Lucí and Lorenzo's relationship. ... As the story continues the problems between the two lovers and soul mates build up. ... Sex and Lucí is, in my opinion, a landmark movie in the demonstration of explicit sex...

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They are merely the framework that Le Guin uses to arrange the true story upon. ... The true story is how the experience of immersion in a wholly different culture transforms the Mobile. ... At that time nearly all the editors and publishers were operating under a code similar to the old Hollywood code of no sex and little violence. While there is no actual sex in this book (to the best of my recollection), the topic of sexuality is explored in such depth that it cannot be denied: this book is about sex. ... The story draws you along, and once past any initial hesitations, it moves ...

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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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Nearly every film is based upon a different written story world; however, the events, sequence of events and use of narrative discourse in a certain story may not resemble the resulting movie. The author of the story and the director of the movie have different thoughts and expectations; therefore, their works may be interpreted and understood differently. ... Zwigoff is not interested in focusing on Enid's sex life as he did not mentioned Enid's sexual fantasy towards her high school teacher nor her past sexual experience at the age of 16; however, Clowes elaborated on Enid's...

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He is very abusive and is driven by sex. ... He always turned to alcohol and sex as the solution, and if he didn't gey any, he would go as far as possible to find what he wanted. ... He was very quiet in the story. ... Whenever there's a scene with them in it, you could feel as if you're in the story or as if the story is affecting something in you. ... Both Santiago and Esteban showed a lot of power in these stories. ...

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Sexuality seems to be the main focus of many events of nearly every character in this story. This period in history was indeed marked with a peculiar fascination for the opposite sex. ... This was shown through the book by flirting, daydreaming, or actually engaging in sex. ... The only woman I believe him to truly love in this story is his own mother. ... Grace Marks was a real person, though her character in this story may only be fiction. ...

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Burnett recognized Salinger's talent and ran a story by him, "The Young Folks" in Story Magazine. ... The first of his short stories appeared in several well-known magazines. ... He is also the narrator of this story, and narrates with a very cynical tone. ... In the novel, Holden is also very consumed with the idea of having sex. This is like Salinger in the way that he has been known to pursue younger girls for sex (Morrill). ...

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His first short story sales concerned the West Indies, football, rodeo, and a few westerns. ... "Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, the Brontes, Chekov, Thackeray, and many others, who used sex, did it with wit and charm," L"Amour said. "Sex in current books is clumsily done, indicating that most writers really know very little about it. ... There's no fun in their sex and nobody appears to be having a good time" (Long 265). ... Among his first published books were some volumes of poetry and stories about the Far East (Hall). ...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. ... After he met Clara and she got pregnant he started going back to the brothel because he could not live without the sex. ... For example, after Blanca left Jean de Satigny, Amanda, Nicholas" girlfriend, came into the story. ... The main things that are repeated are Esteban's sexual needs, the unchanging number of people in the story, the genealogical names, and Clara's innocence from birth to death. These repeats make up the stor...

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The people in the story spoke as real people of the 1940's would. ... She knows about love, relationships, sex, the real world, and the harsh realities of racism and how it divides people. ... All of this waiting leads up to the climax of the story. ... Frankie, John Henry, and Berenice played cards two times during the story. ... This meant that he took the sex out of the game and that is an important quality in the game of life. ...

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Ralph's clinging to his belief establishes the conflict in the story between himself and Jack. As the story progresses, we find that the natural state of man is not a good one. In this story we find how people would react in a situation like this. ... While the story gets deeper, we find that greed and jealousy play a very big role in it. ... His beliefs contradict those of the brave new world, as he shows in his struggle over sex with Lenina and his fight with the system after his mother dies. ...

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The student can relate to this novel, because the narrator of the story is their own age and reflects many problems that they themselves may run into someday. The language of the text is easily understood as are the themes in the story. ... I believe students would enjoy this novel because it is about "people roughly their own age, contemporary time, the obvious, but none the less potent, parental relationships, challenging authority, establishing ones own personality and future relationship with peers and sex" (Aidan Chambers, Booktalk, Bodley Head, London, 1985.)Another obvious problem would...

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Sethe pays a man in ten minutes of sex to have the name "Beloved " engraved on the baby's tombstone. ... Paul D comes back and the story ends with everyone trying to forget that Beloved ever existed. ... To pay for a headstone, Sethe gives ten minutes of sex to a man to carve the name "Beloved " into a headstone. ... She has sex with Paul D more than once as well. ... However, in order to get the story that these authors have written, they have to confront the objectionable material to be able to criticize or show why it is wrong. ...

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The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". Potter's adaptation of Orlando very m...

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Her nature (desire for sex) took control of her life. ... Zola did not find significance in the word "morality- because it is not in nature and not sensual; the drive for food and sex is natural. ... Frankenstein was written as a frame story, in which one person told his story, and other people's stories were told inside of his. ... Inside of his story was Victor Frankenstein's story, in which Frankenstein is told the monster's story, in which the story of the De Lacey family is told. ... Mary Shelley wrote a scary story about unusual events. ...

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She proved this by using strong women characters in her story. ... Stowe's book was made controversial because of her sex, or more specifically the proper limits of style and material that members of her sex should observe as authors (Douglas 11). ... Today Uncle Tom's Cabin is valued because it raises still pertinent issues of racism as well as inspiring feminist thought on the role of women and the issue of sex (Jakoubek 99). ...

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At the end of the story Adventure, Anderson writes began trying to force herself to face bravely the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg (Anderson, Sherwood). ... The first chapter is called Hands and involves the sad story of Wing Biddlebaum. ... Anderson thought of sex both as the beginning and end to love. ... Although George thinks that it is just sex, Anderson is conveying that there is an opportunity for love. ...

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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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is a typical teenage love story. ... Soon after returning from the trip, Michael and Katherine have sex for the first time. ... is melodramatic because Blume adds more issues than one teenager could possibly face; Kath deals with teenage drinking, sex, drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, teenage pregnancy, and depression/attempted suicide. ... Michael also suffers from the consequences of casual sex. ... Blume is attempting to show her teenage readers that unsafe sex can have dire consequences and that it should be avoided. ...

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This novel takes on different characteristics with Jake Barnes narrating the story. Using him as a vehicle of information to tell the story adds many key twists and turns in the plot. ... This gave us a distinct advantage in this story. ... After all, his sex life with her is tender. ... Other insights into the novel would never have occurred if Jake did not narrate the story. ...

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However, the game may be a larger allegory for the broader scheme of the detective story about to begin. ... The sex scene at the end of the chapter is full of Freudian sexual imagery, all of which is tied in with the events on the margins of the sexual act. For instance, when Oedipa and Metzger begin having sex, Pynchon mentions that the people outside in the hallway are "plugging in" their guitars into amps. ... She cannot even relieve her boredom and isolation by engaging in sex, which is ruled out by the homosexuality of her company. ...

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Miguel Street starts with the story of Bogart. ... The story of Man-Man also brings out the theme of escapism. ... The story of B. ... The story of B. ... What becomes evident in story however is that B. ...

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Set in Paris, this novel tells the story of a love affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ... The short story "Sonny's Blues" is considered one of Baldwin's amazing works. ... Sonny is a main character in this story. ... And it won't be fixed until white people and black people tell their stories openly and honestly" (Manley 5). ... We can see "Baldwin as a key figure who opened up possibilities for African American writers in terms of love, desire, and sex" (Thorsson 628). ...

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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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The story begins with the death of the main characters' mother. ... He asks her to a movie and afterwards they have sex. ... Raymond also enters the story. ... This is the setting for the story's climax. ... Once again, the heat becomes an issue in the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School