The Baron in the trees is a slightly different novel, but comprises some of the same features. ... He strives for objectivity, to distance himself from his natural world by living between earth and sky and sets up his society and livelihood, entirely in the trees, as his own Noble Savage. ... The path of Aschenbach is one of degradation and decadence in a life on descent, but Cosimo's is actually ascending, as his life in the trees enrich him, both physically and spiritually. ... As Calvino stated, Cosimo is something of a "Don Quixote of the Enlightenment", watching, from his perch in th...

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Barbra Kingsolver wrote the book The Bean Trees and uses many symbols for life. ... Later on, the park flourishes with life: purple flowers getting ready to bloom, bees humming, and green trees. ... In this circumstance, Taylor takes over the role of a giver of life. ... Taylor gives Turtle another chance as a small child to live her life to the fullest. ... The spines and thorns will protect its future offspring from other predators, giving the chick a better chance at living. ...

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In the Adam and Eve creation story, Adam gives his companion the name Eve, meaning "mother of all the living. ... In EOTB, the creation of the world is told through a tree called "The Great Tree." The tree is illustrated as having abundant fruits and beautiful flowers of all kinds just as in the Adam and Eve story. ... When the Sky Spirit in WGWU tells his daughter to simply give a message, she is too curious and is steered by her temptations and immaturity to another way of life with the very things that her father shunned at the beginning of creation. ...

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Many of us don't give it much thought but the reality exist that death is imminent to all living things. ... After his introduction, Thomas describes an Elm tree in his backyard that one day was a normal-looking elm, and the next weekend it was gone. He wants the reader to understand or just think, "was this a natural death for the elm tree, or was life taken from it?" ... In the following paragraph, he begins to rethink the incident of the elm tree and the field mouse. ... He realizes that the elm tree did not feel any pain, on the other hand, the field mouse did. ...

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The Winnebago Indians believe in the myth of the Earthmaker having to give man many things before he may speak. ... In the Winnebago Indians myth the Earthmaker creates man but he must give him a number of things before he will speak to him. ... Dry land appeared and the grasses and trees grew. ... He then grew a tree with twelve different acorns in order to spread. ... Now they could come out of the tree on the ground. ...

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Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The words "shattering and avalanching" (11) give the feeling of disaster and perhaps fear or sorrow. ... Frost continues to connect the flow of life from human to tree. ... He has become accustomed to playing on his father's trees, one by one he would conquer them all. ... For Frost, the character in this poem is taken back to his carefree past by the birch trees. ...

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Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The words "shattering and avalanching" (11) give the feeling of disaster and perhaps fear or sorrow. ... Frost continues to connect the flow of life from human to tree. ... He has become accustomed to playing on his father's trees, one by one he would conquer them all. ... For Frost, the character in this poem is taken back to his carefree past by the birch trees. ...

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Frost compares the breaking away of the ice from the trees to the "dome of heaven" shattering (Line 13). ... The words "shattering and avalanching" (11) give the feeling of disaster and perhaps fear or sorrow. ... Frost continues to connect the flow of life from human to tree. ... He has become accustomed to playing on his father's trees, one by one he would conquer them all. ... For Frost, the character in this poem is taken back to his carefree past by the birch trees. ...

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In the artwork there is a clothed human figure to the far left side that is covered in a green jacket or cloth, the human is standing which gives the impression that it is alive. ... A dead tree and a carcus are the other uses of brown in the painting. ... The hand is pointing to the right towards the dead tree. At the top of the dead tree is a dashed line that is arched to the right at the ground. ... The dead tree to me resembles the different seasons that a gambler goes through. ...

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The second Quatrain presents continued images of decay, "lofty trees barren of leaves- and "white and bristly beard-. ... Life turns to death, just as trees once tall and full of leaves are now "barren-. The narration continues to embellish on how life turns to death with a metaphor of trees once being full of leaves and life, have now grow old and fallen off. ... "Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,"" gives the impression that the sun makes the mountains appear more radiant than they actually are. ... This reference to alchemy gives rise to the idea of illusion, as alchemy was...

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The story of Jane's life gives off a very dramatic and also a heart warming appeal near the end of the story's resolution. ... While Jane sat in the room, she thought about her previous life before Gateshead and about her parents and realized that she could not give up hope and never quit trying. ... Another change that occurred in Jane's life happened when Rochester proposed to her out in the garden and the tree suddenly got struck by lightning. ... When the tree splits during the proposal Jane believes that it was a sign of fate and feels that her and Rochester weren't...

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This affects the evolutionary development due to the fact that it aids organisms attract each other and mate, reproduce and continue to give growth to their species, population. ... It gives us more knowledge of DNA and how it works, how to improve it more efficiently, how to change it etc Not only does this intervention help us but it also helps other organisms. ... We can also do this in order to obtain better trees, trees that can stand different kinds of conditions; this would make it possible for tree to inhabit places that they cannot originally inhabit. ...

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This interpretation, again, shares striking similarities to Durand's painting, in that the lifeblood of water given to the trees causes them to grow. And as the seasons change, and the trees lose the leaves that signify their vitality, nature enters a new stage in its continuous circle of life. ... Whitman's mention of the "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, [and] Cuff," is a reference to the Native American tribes of the Kanuck and Tuckahoe, the white political leaders and the black population; he states "I give them the same, I receive them the same," to enforce th...

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The bird's nest and the tree's trunk are round. ... The flowering tree was the living center of this circle, and without it, his people are losing their sense of optimism. ... It gives no quarter and asks for none in return. ... Perhaps in relating his story, in this final act of performing it on earth, he has caused the tree to become whole. ...

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God introduced vegetation in the form of plants and trees to the newly created dry land called earth. ... From this branches of the evolution tree were formed in all different directions. ... The similarities with this particular group of animals are larger than any other in the evolutionary family tree. ... Clearly even he knew that his theory could not give an answer to the question or purpose of life. ...

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When she uses the phrase, "a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe"(Roberts, 151), it symbolizes how Christmas is on her mind. ... It shows how Christmas is a great time foe giving when the lady with the gifts ties Phoenix's shoe and the attendant in the hospital gives her a nickel. ... The symbolism in this story helps to remind the readers that everyday is a struggle and if they have a good enough cause not to give up, they could be, if not physically, mentally or spiritually revived. ...

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The best person to ask is Shawn McDaniel, if he could speak, if he could write, or even if he could give some sort of sign that he understands a thing that is said to him. ... See, Shawn didn't fall out a tree, or get hit by a car. ...

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The bare trees seemed as if their vitality had been sapped, drained from their limbs. ... Of all my recollections the most treasured was and is when with a beautiful smile adorning her face and a glittering glow in her eyes she would look at me and tell me not to give up in the struggle of life. ...

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If we don't die prematurely of mortal wounds or disease we are destined to wither away like a leaf on a tree in autumn. ... The only thing that I can say to e give even the slightest glimmer of hope to humanity is that this is for certain: we are living now, and it is far better to be alive than dead. ...

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At the end of the summer Finny fell out of the tree and broke his leg. ... Gene tells us how the winter sky is an empty hopeless gray and gives the impression that this is its eternal shade. ... Gene makes Finny fall from the tree. ...

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"As for the reflection of men...if I am going to be drowned -- if I am going to be drowned -- why in the name of the seven mad Gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come this far and contemplate sand and trees? ... I am proud of their realization to never give up in this life. ... They are polite to each other and their arms are around each other's shoulders, which gives the sign of brotherhood. ...

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Troy cannot understand how the "white " man can allow his brother to defend their country and almost lose his life but will not even give him a chance to play baseball. ... There is a baseball made of rags hanging from a nearby tree with a baseball bat leaning against it. ... But they can relate to what it feels like to love someone who it seems doesn't love you back, or to give everything you have but get nothing in return and even to hope, wish, and dream for the unknown but to be veered away from it because of other, maybe more important obligations. ...

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" The instructor sits me down and talks about the jump as I sign the paper giving up my life. The instructor decides to give a joke; "The order of the jump will be squat, pray, leap, ahh, and tada! ... I was left hanging in the big empty sky like an ornament falling off the tree after Christmas. ...

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By giving her the watch, he is symbolically giving her the freedom that he took. ... The day that Livvie is reborn, " trees [are] shining like burning flames though the great caterpillar nets" (300). ...

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"(81) Together, they defeat the demon Humbaba and steal trees from the cedar forest that is forbidden to all mortals. ... When Gilgamesh insists to Utnapishtim that he should be allowed to live forever, Utnapishtim gives him a test. ...

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