Santiago as a Christ Figure On its surface, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has been 84 days without a catch; Manolin, the young man who loves him; and Santiago's tremendous struggle with a gigantic marlin. ... Soon sharks appear, and the old man breaks his knife after he kills just a few. ... Teaching "The old man taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him," writes Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, page 10). ... (page 120), so "...he shouldered the mast and started to climb" (page 121). ... Similarly, Heming...

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This theme is described as "God's people in God's place under God's rule and blessing"" (God's Big Picture, page 22). ... In doing this the bond between man and God was broken on a vertical scale. ... After convincing the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people go, they reached the sea and the Egyptians began to chase after them. Moses parted the sea for them to cross and it then collapsed on all the Egyptians. ... The Old Testament is only half the story. ...

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He was looked at from many different respects from writers and critics alike: "an old wise man, a brilliant stylist, a "culture hero," a fraud and a phony, an anti-intellectual, a courageous man who took chances with the violent world around him, a drinker with a metal stomach, a fun loving sportsman, and a strange primitive man." ... He continued to say, The Old Man and the Sea could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of the way they made their living, were born, educated, bore children, etc. ... The Old Man and the ...

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In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce follows the mental and physical maturation of Stephen Dedalus. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... Again, Joyce's personal life bleeds through the pages of his novel; Joyce's father was a drunkard and shameless debaucher who gambled away most of the Joyce family fortune over the course of Joyce's formative years. ... Leaving Ireland by ship, Stephen is crossing the ocean to intellectual freedom as Daedalus crossed the sea to his freedom on mainland Europe...

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Conflict: One conflict is the man vs. man conflict in which it is Pip vs. ... (Chapter 1, Page 2) He was an innocent, polite and caring boy but then changed into a snob who forgot about his old friends. ... Havesham was an old lady that was always dressed in am old wedding attire which used to be white but was yellowed with age. ... Abel Magwitch: Magwitch was a pretty old man and his face showed the troubles of a rough life. The book shows this when Pip states, "Moving the lamp as the man moved, I made out that he was substantially dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea. ...

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(page 59) Tom is also very adventurous and loves to go hunting for treasure with Huck. ... (page 151) This feeling suddenly came upon Tom one day. ... He wares a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, which made him appear positively deformed. ... He is an old and bright doctor. ... He was clothed with tatters of old ships' canvas and old sea cloth. ...

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(Dubliners, page 104) Mr. ... "He performed these two social duties for old dignity sake but concealed nothing further to the conversation which regulate the civic life." ... Sinico was often away to the sea and the daughter out, Mr. ... Duffy wrote "Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse." ... (Dubliners, page 114) Mr. ...

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Throughout the opening pages, Conrad pays close attention to detail. ... "White" is above all ivory, the beautiful luxury of civilized man, which is the root of all evil in the darkness. ... This is furthermore demonstrated through the following quotation: "The old river a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth into the heart of an immense darkness". ... The message of the novel in just the opening pages seems to be that sometimes, man is "fit for nothing but placid staring" rather than "toying architecturally with bones". ... This is an extremely dark thing for the pure white...

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While he appears to place his trust in Crusoe, he suspects that real power does not lie with the man but with his mysterious weapon," (Loar, 2006). Friday's suspicion of the gun's power over the man seems to be a true observation. ... If Stevenson had used the same approach as Dufoe, the novel would have lost a lot of the momentum of the adventure that had been building ever since Jim had met the old drunken captain at his family's inn. ... The romanticized idea of the sea-faring life was inspired by the freedom and adventure that sea-travel offered. ... For instance, both ...

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The story The Westing Game takes place in Sunset Towers, an apartment building without towers. It was a glassy apartment house that stood on the Lake Michigan shore. Sunset Towers stood five stories high. It was believed that Mr. Westing's corpse was rotting away on his Oriental rug. Many dared n...

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Rule Of The Bone, written by Russell Banks, is a story told by a short fourteen year old boy named Chappie, who endured a lot of pain and suffering. ... Chappie and Froggy then met up with a religious Jamaican named I-man. Chappie felt that I-man was his teacher in life. ... Finally, I-man got killed, and Chappie became a part of a sea crew and set out on another voyage. ... (Page 138) Because Chappie gives such great detail, it was very easy for me to comprehend what was going on in the story. ...

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It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.... Men hunting in the forest see the strange man, and they run to consult the Oracle. ... "When did you become a shivering old woman," Okonkwo asked himself, "you who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? ... The missionaries come from across the seas with a sense of pride. ... Within the pages of this book the message is one of selflessness, charity and love. ...

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However, the tensions between old and new, traditional and untraditional, were great during the last years of the nineteenth century and there was a debate among male and female writers and social thinkers as to what the role of women should be. ... John is the man of the house and he expects the narrator to trust him completely, just as small children have trust in their parents. ... She is married to a man she no longer loves and she looks for excitement and passion that they do not have in their relationship. ... During their separation Edna becomes involved with another man even thought...

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This boy, who has read books of whaling, imagines the Whaler on the sea. ... The Whaler The Whaler is a man, not a hero of any special brand. ... The Whaler is a man of great physical strength, with a masculine accent and appearance. ... The ending On the last page the Whaler lets the boy in on a secret; the Whaler has had a sexual relationship with Mrs. ... The 60 year old American multi-millionaire Dennis Tito sad quiet and calmly and smiled to the TV camera in the Russian space capsule as the rocket got launched. ...

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Upon his arrival, he arranges to meet with some old friends, one of which is Genevieve. ... She engages with a man, and they have a son together. ... The bond that they share is much like an old couples love, after 50 years of marriage. ... A minor character that showed up in the last few pages of the novel is the sergeant. ... The few pages in which this dialogues occurs, one begins to feel pity and disgust for this woman. ...

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Both are God's Word for Man, but have a different interpretation of accounts. ... In the Bible, the Apostles wrote Noah's story in a way that showed him, as not only a man of good faith, but the only man of good faith. ... Yes, and not only man but every beast and creeping thing, even the birds of the air for I regret that I ever made them.... The main differences being, that Noah was depicted as a fearful man who pleaded with others to listen to him and obey him. ... Returning him back to his mother to be nursed until he reached an older age, he was then adopted by the Pharaoh'...

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It is said that young love burns like brushfire and old love like oak; a simple saying rendering old love forever superior--but what if that oak is rotted? What if the oak is old, decaying and wet and the brush is dry, brittle and clean? ... Across the sea I could hear the taxis, the talking, and the bustling energy of New York and knew it was where I had to go. ... My mind flashed with old memories. ... Its entirety cannot be summed in four pages, nor perhaps even in words. ...

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Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material revelry and at the same time presented the disappointment of the postwar generation for America, the concern for the loss of conventional values and ideals, and the re...

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I also carry a cell phone and pager for commutation purposes when out of the office to be able to be reached or the reach anyone when needed in today's business world. ... It has had a major impact on the way business in conducted no longer dose correspondence have to be hand written or typed on a manual typewriter mistakes then could be very unforgiving and rewrites would waste many man-hours you could have as many as thirty departmental staff members that needed evaluations written. ... I remember receiving letters from home when on deployment that was over four weeks old. ... I can...

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It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." ... Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) In the following passage from The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes relates - in a...

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The cultural influences of this era shaped the men that both the young boy and his older brother, Jack, developed into. ... When his boss discovered who Davy really was, he explained, " It was our impression, that you were a retired sea captain. A sailing man. An old shell back (Pg102)", because Davy writes such descriptive pieces, even at the age of sixteen. ... (MS)" This is Davy's first "real" story, and it is placed on the front page. ...

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This campaign would have just been a figment of one man's imagination if it were not for the power of social media. ... According to Merlyna Lim in "Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia", "Tens of thousands of Indonesians joined a support page for Mulyasari on Facebook, shared their outrage on Twitter, and donated money to pay her court-imposed fine"(Merlyna, 345). ... A group of black feminists started an online activist movement in support of a sixteen year old girl named Jada who had been allegedly raped by a fellow black high school stu...

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In this way, the Conqueror Worm could represent the Devil as the ultimate downfall of man because man is able to be seduced easily. Man's conviction isn't as strong as he believes it is and the Devil takes advantage of this. ... (The Poe Page) The rhyme scheme of this passage is A,B. ... "But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: - ( E. ... There are a few people...

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Cooper was a traditional man and agreed to support his brothers widows and children. ... The Pilot was written in answer to Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate to show what a real sailor would write of ships and the sea. ... These books gave American countrymen the opportunity to view the landscape and society of the Old World so they could learn where they excelled or fell short of the European nations. ... In one place in "Deerslayer," and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. ... Cooper wrote little page no...

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A friendly sea captain tells her about Orsino's love of Olivia, and Viola says that she would like to work in Olivia's home. ... Quickly and he makes Cesario his page. ... Orsino however believes Viola to be a man and therefore has no attraction to Viola at all. ... Antonio cared for Sebastian after the shipwreck, and is attached to the young man. He cares for him so much so that he follows him to Orsino's sphere of influence, in spite of the fact that he and Orsino are old enemies. ...

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