Conflict Has Many Meanings Conflict has many meanings composers uses a variety of different techniques to represent different conflict in their texts, this is shown in the prose fiction "The catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, the short story "Tri" by Frances Echin, the film "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" directed by Peter Jackson and the film, "Dead Poets Society" by Peter Weir. ... Another movie, "Dead Poets Society" Directed by Peter Weir show the meaning of conflict in a way unlike Peters Jackson's Lord of the Rings, instead of representing conflict on a glob...

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He had been dead for ten years."... This leads into the passing of her father to which she believed that he was not dead even after he had died."She told them that her father was not dead. ... The town had found the body of Homer Barron in a bedroom, dead for some time. ...

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In the office of Meacon Dead Freddie testifies that a ghost killed his mother. ... She was thought to be dead years before and should not have naturally survived long enough to meet Milkman, having given birth to decades worth and generations of children. ... But Circe is dead. ... That was as far as he got, because although the woman was talking to him, she might in any case still be dead-as a matter of fact, she had to be dead." ...

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Whenever Lennie accidently kills animals, he lies about it to George by saying he found whatever it was already dead. ... Jus' a dead mouse George. ... I found it dead.... It was also a little disturbing because the mouse was dead for hours and Lennie continued to pet it while knowing he killed it and it was dead in his pocket. ...

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In the first short story, 'the bloody chamber', it appears that the Marquis is definitely obsessed with death as we as the readers along with the narrator discover his 'chamber' of dead wives. ... The narrator being the Marquis's new wife discovers the forbidden chamber of women's dead bodies whilst he is away. The narrator states that the worst thing she saw was the 'dead lips smile'. This firstly shows that the death of the woman is characterized as a dead person cannot actually 'smile'. ... Following this, as the young child dies, his ...

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Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... O'Brien comes to the conclusion that in stories, the dead live again. ... You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). ... The ending of The Things They Carried was effective at finishing the novel to me, as it gave a sense of finality to all of the stories, the fina...

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With this character and his display of stuffed dead birds, it relates how women were also viewed in this time. ... It can also be said that women were not expected to really live their life, but instead to become dead inside like the birds were dead. ...

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With this character and his display of stuffed dead birds, it relates how women were also viewed in this time. ... It can also be said that women were not expected to really live their life, but instead to become dead inside like the birds were dead. ...

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Consequently, the narrator of the story is writing with the intention of proving that the mentally ill son is going to die, or is already dead, through the use of various codes and patterns throughout the story. The codes and patterns, or clues, used are a dead train, rain, and the dying bird the parents encounter on their way to visit their son. ... First of which is the "half-dead unfledged bird" (Nabokov, 1948). Seeing how the son cannot communicate with society and not do the normal things that most humans can, it could be said that he is already "half-dead" mentally. ....

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The lake rears it's ugly head when the dead man emerges from the bog. ... The reader assumes the "Al ", the name of the dead man, must have met a careless and shameful fate, as his girlfriends came to look for him early at dawn. ... One of the friends went as far as to ask the boys if they wanted to "do some " pills with her and her friend, obviously unconcerned with her friend, who was dead in the water. ...

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Because she is dead we don't actually get to know Emily as we would a character that is alive and interacting within the context of the story. ... She is dead and gone. ... Even when she is never discovered dead at her own hand we find ourselves feeling more sorry everyday she's still here. ... She is already dead and therefore never actually undergoes any change. ... Not only was Emily a murderer who killed her boyfriend, but she left his remains to rot in her room, and she for some reason returned to that room and slept next to the remains at some point, years after he was dead...

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The rose might be compared to the idea that the beauty of tradition is dead. Based how Emily is described in the story when she was dead as pale, drowned, small and skeletal. ... The author, William Faulkner simple reminds the reader that tradition is dead; thus, we created that amongst ourselves. Today, humanity is constantly developing new traditions and ignoring the old; therefore, old beautiful traditions are actually dead. ...

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The short story, "The Scarlet Ibis," by James Hurst, emphasizes the relationship between Doodle, an invalid since birth, and his older brother. Due to Doodle's physical impediment, his life has been a clash of determination and physical impossibilities. One day, Doodle and Brother observe a fallen s...

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This decision of his eventually ended Bartleby in prison and dead. ... He felt that it was their fault that Bartleby was dead, and it was there fault that all Bartleby's in the world live and act the way they o. ...

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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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Thesis Statement Edgar Allan Poe was an extraordinary writer. Born during the Romanic Era in literature, Poe managed shock readers of his time and the modern readers, with terrifying, gruesome plots. Two of his literary works, "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", are perfectly evident of Poe's style. The stories entice the reader with the brilliant use of first-person narration, creating the theme of psychological terror. Poe's style of writing is almost always associated with death, in which the protagonists are exposed to supernatural occurrences. ...

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"Perhaps it is the way god opens houses at the dead of night when he is quietly taking turns with an angel..." ... Once he sees the body fall dead, he has a "sudden curiosity" to identify the sniper. ... "The sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brothers face." ...

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The villagers even damage or amputate the body of the drowned giant, "a foul smell enveloped the cadaver, "the undisguisable signature of putrefaction, which had at last driven away the usual gathering of youths", these few lines have shown that the dead drowned giant was being insulted and hurt by the villagers and he doesn't a positive effect which is not of the same function as the handsome drowned man. ... Only the scavengers arrives to "use" the different parts of the dead body, such as using his hand for food or his rib bone to be the arch of a doorway. ... ...

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Finally, "The Dead" snow strangely falls in Dublin and Gabriel conveys his hope that the "qualities of humanity, of hospitality, [and] of kindly humour" (Joyce, 204) of those who came before are not lost with the new, "hyper-educated" (Joyce, 204) generation succeeding them. ... Similarly, in "The Dead," this motif of ever-changing societal oppression is depicted through the snow covering all of Dublin, and how Gabriel fears that the "New Generation" (Joyce, 204) of the world will lose the values that were once so cherished by the one that pre...

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The "dead weight" which pressed down upon her body crushed her own sense of being. ... Mallard was dead in her own eyes. ... She came to the realization that her husband was dead and found complete freedom within, and did not stop and reflect upon the death of a human being. ...

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But, O"Brien takes this one incident and drags it throughout the entire story providing little detail about Lavender's death "he was shot and killed" (63), "Lavender died" (65), "Ted Lavender was shot" (66) and "Lavender was dead" (71) until the last paragraph. ... Without such repetitious structure the story would be very dead lose suspense, which is why O"Brien incorporated constant descriptions of what the soldiers carried, Lt. ...

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In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", there is a battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these s...

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From the war-torn streets of Milan, to the snow covered mountains of Kilimanjaro, to the railroads of Madrid "these settings may be drastically different, but their focus is very similar. Hemingway uses dramatically different locations to convey a similar mood and feeling. In Earnest Hemingway's thr...

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For years she had not been obligated to do so, by the grace of a former mayor, Colonel Sartoris, but the reader learns that he has been dead for the past ten years. ... She would turn doctors and priests away from the house, proclaiming that he was not dead. ...

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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin gives us a very interesting look at how an hour can be such a long time. This story is filled with irony. Every time that you think that you have the plot figured out, Chopin tosses in another twist that throws our minds for a loop. As I read this story the f...

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