He is terrorized by his present situation and alarmingly searches for his "old self." ... His voyage to the region of death has turned him into a different man. ... Here in the South he had been overwhelmed by the greenness of the world, the sun and the sea." ... Metaphorically they are like the sea and the land. This is further illustrated in the following quotation " He was in deep, deep, for finally there is no Out or In; all is one territory, Out is merely the place where a man is afraid to go, a place that he therefore denies exists, but it is there, in him;...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This only outrages the giant as he tries to crush the boat by launching rocks into the sea. ... The Phaikians are the most civilized, sea baring people of the world and they are the people of Poseidon, which if Odysseus does end up revealing himself too soon, he could end up with one of two outcomes. ... The second evident instance takes place in the great hall while Odysseus is getting a bath from his old maid, Eurykhleia. Odysseus knows she will recognize his scar and it is very wise of him to ask the old nurse to bathe him in a very cunning way. Here, she recognizes his old hunting sca...

• Word Count: 1743
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

William Bore is a former police officer who abused his power, framing an innocent man. ... The book begins when the ten strangers arrive on Indian Island for various reasons, some believing that there seeing old friends, others because they think they have gotten a job on the island. ... The window is open and the smell of the sea causes her hallucination. ...

• Word Count: 1431
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient poem from the Mesopotamian Era that tells the story of two companions: Gilgamesh, the powerful and tyrannical demigod who rules as the King of Uruk, and Enkidu, a feral man who is created as an equal for the king by the gods, lifted out of nature and civilized by the touch of woman. ... Plants create beauty, shade, food, drink and oxygen, and in the world of Gilgamesh, immortality: The Old Men Are Young Again flower from the bottom of the sea will allow anyone who eats it to live forever. ...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(p 69) His father tells him, " if you want to be a whole man, you have to deal wit the whole truth." ... Pilate, through her inheritance, a bag of old bones, brings in another part of the image of flight. " 'You just can't fly on off and leave a body,' " (p 208) her father's ghost had told her. " 'He meant that if you take a life, then you own it . ... According to local belief, Solomon had literally flown off, to freedom, to return to his home across the sea. ... Returning to his wish during his childhood to fly, the belief that his great-grandfather had actually flow...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Pearl's narrator questions how she can be queen when there is only one Queen of Heaven, Mary, and how the maiden can be saved and appointed to such a position when she was not even old enough to know her prayers when she died (Prior 27). ... Dead men naked they shall be one with the man in the wind and the west moon. ... Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again. ...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10