Every time Janie meets a new man, she is automatically comparing him to the pear tree. ... Janie is looking for a pear tree; not a stump in the woods. ... She decides to leave and see if Joe could be the pear tree lover that she wishes for. ... " It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things" (pg 43.) ... Tea Cake buried himself inside of Janie just as the pear tree had done so many years before. ...

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One afternoon, Janie was sitting "under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard" reminiscing her childhood memories (Hurston 10). ... While she sits quietly under a pear tree, she is slowly transforming from a young girl to a grown woman. Now that Janie has turned sixteen, her "glossy leaves and bursting buds" transform her like "a pear tree-any tree in bloom" (11). ... Tea Cake and Janie would talk "from grass roots tuh pine trees" without caring what anybody says (106). ... Janie is the rose that gives off her perfume as she grows. ...

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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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The tone of 'The Walk' is very sad and lonely throughout the whole poem: 'You did not walk with me/Of late to the hill-top tree/By the gated ways,' The sad tone emphasises Hardy's feeling of loss as he is upset that he has lost his wife and regrets the way their marriage ended up. ... It also gives another winding effect as the sentences wind round onto the next line which also illustrates the walks Hardy went on. ... The poem is set shortly after Hardy's wife passed away which gives the poem more impact. ...

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The narrator gives us somewhat random, incomplete information with which to piece Santiago together. ... The reader learns that Santiago Nasar frequently dreams about trees, or birds in trees, and that he wakes up with a headache, but we don't know what he dreamed about when he was awake. The narrator seems so focused on collecting other views of the day of the murder that the narrative neglects to give the reader a comprehensive picture of the victim of the crime. ...

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Kate Chopin uses irony in several different ways, and these methods can be seen as literary links between her stories, "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour." because each gives an emotional shock to the reader, which also helps link the theme of women facing depression through appearance versus reality. ... As she looks out the window, she notices "the tops of trees that were all aquiver with new spring life....

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Apollo is lusting for Daphne's love, and Apollo beset Daphne for marriage, but in return she turns into a tree to sacrifice her virginity. She becomes a Laurel tree as this was her only way of escaping from marrying Apollo. ... He winds up gored by another wild boar and his blood gives birth to a flower, the delicate and beautiful anemone. ...

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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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As she is watching, a bolt of lightening strikes a chinaberry tree, and sends her stumbling backwards, right into the mans arms. ... The storm had no intentions of destroying families, perhaps it only wished to give first love a second glimpse at what once was, but is no longer. Maybe it simply wanted to give them a taste of what could have been in order to reassure them that what they have now is truly the better of the two. ...

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Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House, a dramatic play, in 1879.The play takes place in a Norwegian town. The Helmers are a middle-class family. Torvald and Nora have been married for eight years and have three children. Nora and Torvald appear to have everything they need, but in reality their marriage...

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From the start of the play Nora seems to be immature, asking her "father-like-husband" for money several times, and then wanting to hang money wrapped in "gilt paper" on the Christmas tree, like a small child wanting to hang a color ornament. ... Torvald can be blamed because of his lack of trust in Nora-not giving her any duties-and because of his parent nature-denying her the right to eat certain foods and his constant usage of pet names. ... As Nora's husband treated her in her post marriage life, it seems the father did the same in Nora's youth-never giving her any respon...

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That is, until his spiritual transformation under a tree one evening. ... He is an active member of the church, serves as a positive role-model for John, and gives his free time to help clean up the church's sanctuary. ... Or the struggle of John, who manages to separate his father from religion, allowing him to develop a personal relationship with God without feeling that he is giving in to his hated father. ...

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Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Standing naked on top of a cliff, Howard Roark envisions what the trees and granite around him can be made into. ... Keating is angered that Roark did not come watch him give his speech in front of Francon and the other students. ...

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The romanticism of hero and heroine kissing behind the tree are over, and modern India has the silver screen ablaze with flesh and desire. ... The institution of marriage is not only for the sake of creating family, and giving its stability, but also for the purpose of controlling sexuality. ...

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.' All I could do, because I was still stunned by the proposal, was just give him a big kiss on the lips and keep my arms around him as if to never let go. ... As I walked the short distance, my eyes rested on the branches of the many evergreen trees along the path. ...

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She's called a tart for giving 'the look' on other men of the ranch: "I think Curley's married a tart.... Purty" It is also suggested she is flirtatious because after only being two weeks married, she gives looks to other men. ... I could get you strung upon a tree so easy it ain't even funny" (39) This can also be a reflection on how Curley acts over his wife, which is not completely visible in the novel but we can deduce this by how angry Curley is all the time and how overprotective he is with her. ... " (88) Steinbeck doesn't give Curley&#...

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For example, Cecily writes in her dairy that: "Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree here. ... After they meet with their beloved girls, and then their lies are finally exposed, they decide to give up their unmindful attitude, try their best to persuade Gwendolen and Celily to stay with them. ... She mentions that there exists Lady Harbury, who doesn't give herself up as hopeless, on the contrary, she dresses up like a young lady and holds a ...

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Catherine and Nelly's conversation in chapter nine gives the most insight into Catherine's decision to shun Heathcliff's love for her. ... First, she loves Heathcliff but cannot give herself to him because of her social concerns, and then Edgar, a socially acceptable mate, professes his love that she does not return. ... Time will change it, [ ] as winter changes the trees- (88). ...

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Logan married Janie without even knowing her, or giving himself time to get a vague understanding of who she was. ... She is sitting under a tree one day while Logan is out of town and meets a man named Joe Starks as he is walking up the street. ... Joe has more of a possession of her, giving him his trophy wife. ...

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In between Heathcliff tells Ellen about hearing Catherine sighing in the graveyard and sensing her nearby, and when he gives up his plans of revenge he even seems to sees her ghost. ... She really believes that her marriage to Linton will end up helping Heathcliff, which of course it does not.3) My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. ...

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In his story "Death in the Woods," Sherwood Anderson observes one woman's life and thereby gains a greater appreciation for his own. After reading this story, the theme appears to be that life is a precious gift, which we are given, but too often take for granted. We are put on this earth for a re...

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