Hemingway gives a synopsis of Krebs' day to show his self-inflicted isolation: during this time, it was late summer, he was sleeping late in bed, getting up to walk down town to the library to get a book, eating lunch at home, reading on the front porch until he became bored, and then walking down through the town to spend the hottest hours of the day in the cool dark of the pool room. ... He did not want to come home. Still, he had to come home. ... Hemmingway's tone in "Soldier's Home" is melancholy and depressing. ... Hemingway produces an effective theme in "Soldier...

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But, the man's dignity was much more important than his life and instead of making noise for the young boys to realize he was in trouble he chose to sit and fall into a deep sleep - one for which he never awaken again. ... The last story that I believe confrontation with death is negative is the story of Home Burial. ... Their home seemed to be on the land of the husbands' family as there were other graves out in the field. ... The two works in which death is negative is the stories of Home Burial and To Build a Fire. ...

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Throughout the first reading, one can easily mistake "At Home" to merely be about a spirit visiting its earthly quarters. ... Christina Rossetti titled her poem "At Home" based on the definition and the affect the words at home have on a persons emotions. At home is defined by the Webster's College Dictionary as relaxing and comfortable, a place to feel at ease, and being on familiar ground. ... Rossetti uses the Greek definition of home, koimao, which is defined as sleep or slumber, figuratively to decease sleep, or to be dead. ... "At Home" has many words that imply time and death refer...

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She would sleep with a real live alligator. ... Emily welcomes the opportunity to sleep with the creature as means to chalk up another major event in her life's book of adventure and excitement. ... Given the chance to sleep with an alligator, Emily greets it with the utmost curiosity and bravery. ... Where most young girls in the world would run away crying in terror, she found herself right at home. ...

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I'm usually the first one home and I handle dinner and work. Torvald helps coax the children to sleep if he returns before 9 PM. ... Whenever I confront him at the dinner table or before we sleep, his only response is "I'm sorry sweetheart, I'm very tired. ... Is being a stay at home housewife the only future for me? ...

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Many times I am so involved with work I stay late, bring work home and ignore vacation. ... When I bring work home or when I am too tired to function my family suffers. They may want to go to dinner or watch movies, but I am glued to the computer or sleep. ...

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One day that the World family went to the lake and had a good ole picnic in bill Faye park eating home cooked food. ... She went to sleep that night dreaming of being a perfect human just for laughs and the next day rolling out of the bed was the most beautiful thing she ever seen. ...

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He sees an old man, who has no reason to live, nobody to go home to, whose only comfort is this Café. ... He returns home to sleep, even though he is aware that he won't be able to sleep. ... The older waiter describes himself as the one of those who like to stay late in the Café, and one of those who doesn't like to go to sleep at night. ...

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He is confined to his room and the Samsa home, due to the transformation that occurs to him. ... Whether it be the time Ivan and Gregor are told to wake up, to the time they are told to go to sleep. ... In The Metamorphosis, Gregor"s sleeping patterns are dictated by his family. ... Besides having sleeping periods arranged, meal times are also controlled. ...

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A Rose for Emily In the story "A Rose for Emily", by William Faulkner, Emily Grierson lived her later years in life as a social outcast due to her personality. Growing up near Jefferson, Mississippi following the Civil War, she belonged to the upper class and seemed to easily pick up the beha...

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Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" is a good poem that involves thoughts of life and death. This poem gives strange haunting feelings. In the poem Because I Could Not Stop For Death, there is much feeling in the way the poem is read, in si...

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Ned was a man who couldn't accept the realities of life, especially not when it came to his family and his home. ... There were no beds for the girls to sleep in, Lucinda wasn't coming back, and most importantly, there was no quick fix in the morning to have everything back to how it was. ...

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A sort of irony can be found in the fact that something that he devoted all his "waking and sleeping thoughts" to could turn out so foolish and ridiculous. ... His uncle's late arrival home also added to the narrator's feelings of suffering. ...

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If you have to sleep in the street you deal with it and it will make you that much stronger, and when you succeed in life it will make things that much sweeter. You cannot experience life from the safety of your home, and this is what young Robin sees, maybe not consciously but subconsciously. ... Robin then decides to get ready and go home to the country, but the man who he befriended told him to stay a few days and make up his mind when he was ready. ...

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My parents had gone to work for the day and I was home alone. ... I did not care all I could think about was how she disrespected my home, my neighborhood and my life. ... This vow came true because she killed herself two weeks later by overdosing on sleeping pills. ...

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Towards the end of the night, when my friend, Matt, was getting ready to take me home, Ryan came up to me and said, "I love you, man." ... Looking back over the last years, I thought of the times Ryan and I had playing one-on-one basketball in his driveway, and the days of sleeping through class, people getting mad because Ryan and I would still get A's. ... It turned out that he did fall asleep, sleep that cost him his life. ...

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The physical toll of the subzero temperature, sleep depravation, intense physical labor, and malnutrition causes prisoners to wonder if they will ever get out of the perdition. ... They believe they might one day hold their wives in their arms and eat a home cooked meal. ... They remember the nights at home with a plate of hot food and remembered what it was like to have a full stomach. The yearn for home is shown when Shukov remembers what it was like at his village. ... The loved ones at home anticipated the inmate's return more than the inmate himself. ...

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On a cold, wet night a few weeks later Jess was sitting up watching old home movies. ... Sitting up and dripping with sweat she froze and was tuned for the slightest of sounds .Nothing .Eventually she fell back into a deep sleep but couldn't return to her previous image. ...

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Edna awoke and confronted the reality to such an extent that she escaped her home, her husband, her life, by leaving for the "little pigeon house". ... The title of the novel "The Awakening" represents the "awakening" of Edna through the realization of her true feelings and this realization often preceded by sleep and she does a great deal of it. ... On the other hand, sleep has also been a means of escape and of repairing her tattered emotions, like when Edna met Robert after returning from Mexico he seemed to be quite formal in his behavior and that night before sleeping "she writhed with a ...

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Lacking both sleep and dreams, she attempted to search for her life, her past, and any hint of connection with her distant, ailing father. ... For the first time in her life, Codi realized Grace was a place she could call home. ... Doc Homer's infatuation! ... In his hallucinations towards the end of the novel, Doc Homer realizes that love is weightless. ... Barred from crushing Hallie's spirits and erasing her dreams were the loss of her mother and her eccentric home life. ...

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When I wake up in the morning, I'm even more vigilant as I walk down the hall to check my home once again before leaving for work. ... However, when we came home we found our apartment completely empty. ... I am the man who automatically locks the door when coming home due to fear of a home invasion. The man, who doesn't trust to have guests over in order to protect my children, so no one knows where they sleep or the layout of my house. ...

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Paul's home life was not the least different. ... The theater was Paul's secret love; between theater visits was "noting but sleep and forgotten" (Cather 253). ... His schools, his home, his neighborhood all were to him prison walls. ...

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I. This Norse story of the origin of the earth, sky, and humanity is paraphrased from Snorri Sturluson's Edda, as translated by Anthony Faulkes. Sturluson lived in Iceland from 1179 to 1241, and he apparently composed the Edda as a compilation of traditional stories and verse. Many of verses he incl...

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The story tells the tale of Victor Frankenstein leaving his family, home and fiance' to attend a university and learn all he could about natural philosophy. ... Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep....

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Then he fails to come out of the tent that he sleeps in outside Ann's house as he has radiation sickness. ... I believe that this suggests that Loomis had a deprived home life, and had no social life or leisure time for himself. ...

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