The house in Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic. ... A lady who deemed herself the "Daisy Bates of the city" first owned the house. ... In this case, the house as a whole, and the aboriginal man are used a symbol to prove this. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion" at Wax Harry's birth shows that the familial bonds that are now made concrete have exorcised the dark spirits of the house. ... The house "breathes its first painless breath in half a century" and the room "sighs" in apparent relief as the union b...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

"Solomon had never let Livvie go any farther than the chicken house and the well. (515). ... The bottle trees were suppose to keep evil spirits Watt 3 way. In this case the bottle trees were supposed to protect Livvie from the evil spirits. ... Now I lay eyes on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Omaha Indians believe that all things were in the mind of Wakonda, all creatures, including man, were spirits. ... In the Omaha Indians myth of Wakonda all things are in the mind of Wakonda, and all creatures, including man, were spirits. ... The spirits searched for a place to become bodily existent. ... The spirits became flesh and blood and expressed their joy and gratitude to Wakonda, maker of all things. ... The shell, Rumia, which he opened first, became his house and the dome of the gods" sky. ...

• Word Count: 1118
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• Grade Level: High School

He may live in a slum in a small hut and there is filth and dirt everywhere at the same time another person may be sleeping, or playing with his friends, or riding a luxurious car and live in a big house. ... Life is short and after death human beings turn into spirits. Spirits cannot be seen or hurt or destroyed which means that life after death is infinite. ... Along with producing foods, building houses or reproducing what human beings do is acquiring knowledge. ... But in order to live he not only grows food, or builds houses, and produce clothes but also he acquires knowledge, falls in lo...

• Word Count: 965
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• Grade Level: High School

In the fifth stanza, Death and the woman pause before "...a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground- The Roof was scarcely visible- The Cornice in the Ground-." ... If this is true, then her spirit or soul must be what is looking at the "house." In most religions, the idea of spirits and souls usually mean that there is an afterlife. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The introduction of the ways of the animals and their spirits, the bear, beaver, wolf, wolverine was passed on. ... How to commune with the spirits of Nature and the respect of the elements. ... That Hannah housed the pain and suffering of her people. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School