Rat infested trenches, constant mud, always wet, and dead bodies are a common sight. ... Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying Martens has no legs anymore, Meyer is dead, Max is dead, Beyer is dead, Hammerling is dead it is a dammable business, but what has it to do with us now - we live. (124-125 All Quiet on the Western Front) This quotation also shows how the narrator is becoming more and more desensitized by the war. ...

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The present day life is filled with the living dead. ... During the time of the vampire takeover, he spends his days killing the already dead. ... Since the superior force is now the living dead, a mere human is looked down upon. ... The rest of life is the living dead vampires. ...

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Shears, the owner of the dead dog. ... Christopher discovers the neighbor's dog dead on the ground. ... And in the dream nearly everyone on the earth is dead. [...] ... Christopher does not seem sad about his father being dead, it almost seems that he is appreciating it. ...

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However, later in the novel after Hepzibah discovers Judge Jaffrey dead, she senses that a "stifling atmosphere of dread fill[s] the house with a death-smell" (251). Although we are not told for certain that Jaffrey is dead for another fifty or so pages, this clue sets our suspicions on the right track; nevertheless, because of our previous experience with red herrings, we are unsure whether or not to trust this nugget of potential evidence. ... By the time we have reached Chapter 18, Hawthorne has already planted enough trigger words to cause the reader to at least suspect that Judg...

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While Hank was examining the plane inside, he found a dead pilot and a sports bag full of hundred-dollar bills totaling over 4 million dollars. ... The series of plans to cover up their involvement results in dead bodies of people, they never expected to kill. ... The dead pilot in the plane was partially eaten by them when Hank, Jacob and Lou found the crashed plane. ...

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His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Thus Frankenstein begins his morbid craft, he "collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secret of the human frame", and this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". ... As many people were trying to make this gloomy discovery, Shelley played upon this and used a character that eventually does go on to create "life from dead matter". ... William cries out, d...

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For example, when Sam wakes up one day on the Abrolhos islands smelling his dead father right beside him, he knows that there are spiritual forces at work and yet he cannot tell "which way the shadow's fallen". Thus, he goes to work as normal, thinking "today wasn't his day to be worried", and is "dead wrong", losing the fingers of his hand. ... When Fish drowns and is apparently raised from the dead, the fact that their miracle turns sour as Fish is now mentally retarded causes them to lose their faith in God, as Oriel blames God for the tragedy. ...

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When day broke Passepartout cleverly switched places with a dead man and acted like he resurrected. ... A good example of Passepartout's acting without realizing the possibilities of what could happen is when he switches places with a dead man in an Indian village in order to free a parse woman about to be sacrificed. By switching places with the dead man and taking the parse woman with him, he was risking being seen and maybe even killed. ...

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McEwan began "Enduring Love" by telling us "The beginning is simple to mark". It seems that although it is "simple" to mark the beginning of a novel, finding the end is much harder. This is because McEwan believes there is no such thing as an ending. A conventional book, or play, would have thre...

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Louis L"Amour was born on March 22, 1908, in Jamestown, North Dakota. His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his ...

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The novel follows the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientific prodigy, who discovers to secret to life and who uses it to bring to life a creature whom he assembled using various dead body parts. ... His human flaws, his obsession with the creation of a human being clouded his mind and pushed him to gather dead body parts in order to assemble his "masterpiece. " Indeed, Victor never visualized the consequences of his actions, and after so many hours of work, never for one second had he thought about what his creature would look like. ...

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"Everything is Illuminated," by Jonathan Safran Foer, was published in 2002 and is still on many bestseller lists. Foer was born in Washington D.C. in 1977. Foer's grandfather, Louis Foer, was a holocaust survivor. Foer never thought about having a career in writing, but was inspired to become a wri...

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The spirits of the dead that appear to Tita throughout the novel, suggest that one's influence does not disappear after death. ... Some women sometimes took a dead soldier's clothes, used his weapons and joined in the fight themselves. ...

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The novel Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey and published in 2009, was set in a country town of Western Australia in the summer of 1965. The setting was influenced by novels that Silvey had read as a youth. This is why many features of the novel have similarities to novels such as TKAMB and TAOH...

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Death Comes to the Archbishop follows the lives of Father Joseph Vaillant and Father Jean Latour in America as they spread the message of Catholicism to the Indians in America. Willa Cather uses landscape throughout the story to describe how the mood changes in different situations through the journ...

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A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her parents, brother and cousin have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ...

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However, Jim's mother shows a strength and determination not seen by any of the female characters in Dufoe's novel, because she returns to face the danger at the inn in order to rifle through the dead seaman's chest for payment for his stay. ...

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"Beloved," by Toni Morrison, contains descriptive and graphic scenes, such as a brutal rape scene, tragic infanticide, and bestiality. Various colleges and high schools have placed "Beloved" on the required reading list for young students forcing them to be exposed to this ill-mannered writing. Many...

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Keywords: setting atmosphere mood symbol character coincidences Abstract: Modern critics consider Hardy a great writer and they consider The Mayor of Casterbridge one of Hardy's two great novels. Of all the Wessex's novels, however, this is the least typical. Although it makes much less use...

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A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her parents, brother and cousin have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ...

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Dostoevsky uses this creative metaphor to describe Raskolnikov's physical environment as a place to hold the dead, suggesting that Raskolnikov will never be able to reconcile his conscience or organize his thoughts after committing the murder. ...

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The characters in this novel are suffering drastic changes. We can notice it according to their behavior, and in some cases, if the author allows us to experience what goes through the mind of a character. I will focus in this essay on the character of Rodion Raskolnikov. Our presentation with Rasko...

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Beatrice uses her new distorted powers to exact revenge on those who have wronged her and was able to haunt her murderer until, "his heart burst, and one morning he was found dead in his bed totally deprived of warmth and animation" (136). ...

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When Two-Bit finally loses the blade when the police confiscate it from Dally's dead body, the loss of the weapon becomes linked with the loss of Dally, a person who embodies individual power and authority. ...

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The novel Cloudstreet by Tim Winton is the epic story of two Australian families" whose lives come together. We share the experiences of these two fictional families through the duration of their lives on Cloud Street. Through the construction of setting, plot and character the families" lives prove...

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