The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... Not all of the objects they carried were physical objects. ... "The Things They Carried.... "The Things They Carried". ... "The Things They Carried....

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Goodman is explaining that the Brown fathers are known to be strong and courageous men, who do things, which they attempt to accomplish. ... In the end, we can never be sure if good or evil won the fight carried on within Young Goodman Brown, but Hawthorne makes it abundantly clear that Goodman was scarred for life by his experience. ... In our lives we should never lose faith in things. ... In my life a lot of things have happened, some terrible enough to destroy my trust in anything. ... I feel that no matter how many bad things occur in my life, if I have faith in the good things, they ...

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Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.... Trifles are defined as "things of little value or importance." ... They were to take care of things such as household chores, taking care of the children, and providing food. ... Nothing here but kitchen things" (Ronson 218). ... The final act of irony was displayed when the men once again overlooked what the women were carrying out. ...

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She goes on to say, and which I think is inspiring and very important, "And what do we, and they find when we read fantasy? ... They know how important stories are, and they know, too, that if you start telling a story you've got to carry on till you get to the end," (Pullman 1) and that's exactly what Patrick Ness does in A Monster Calls: Carried it until the very end where he lets his mother go. He goes on to say "But children know what they need, and they go for it with the intensity of passion, and what they need is stories.... In my opinion, I think that paragraph...

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It creates themes and characters that take people out of their reality, and into a world where things are much simpler. ... Unfortunately they are. ... They needed money to pay for the Seven Year War they were fighting what seemed to be a world away. ... Rip being the kind hearted soul he usually is to strangers (everyone but his family), he proceeds to help the dwarf carry this keg of liquor. ... They invite Rip for a taste of that liquor he has been carrying, and Rip quite quickly accepts that invite. ...

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This shows how Paul finds money and power to be the things most desired in life. ... Paul didn't want to become anything in particular; "what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be carried out, blue league after league, away from everything" (Cather 206). ... Paul loses his job at Carnegie hall and soon escaped to New York City; "when they had taken away his bone, the whole thing was virtually determined" (Cather 208). ... In the end however, Paul got what he wanted; he was carried out away from everything, "and Paul dropped back into the immense ...

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We, the readers, when being unaware of its complexity, may be very easily carried away and fall into all the traps provided by the intricacies of the text. ... Her story is an enactment of memory, which carries a subjective imprint. Also she is under the pressure of the promise to her master as she herself admits that she had already been carried away in London, in Harley street by her master who "prove the gentleman, a bachelor in a prime of life, such a figure as have never risen, saving a dream or in an old novel before a fluttered anxious girl out of Hampshire vicarage." She thinks of he...

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This adult figure in his life carried significant weight in his decision making. ... But things did not turn out the way he thought. ... This case often applies to many things beyond religion. ... The child they pick is Reza. ... Why don't they send them away? ...

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The parents then join and they stand together waiting in anticipation for the annual Lottery to begin. ... Summers finishes calling out the names of the families and they are instructed to then open the papers. ... When they open their papers, they find that Tessie has now drawn the paper with the black dot on it. ... The surroundings told are associated to certain things that would be usually seen as a positive thing, as if they were gathering for an exciting event actually conveys the opposite by a hidden feeling of panic and fear amongst the villagers. ... But ultimately sending out a curio...

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They are often seen having serious conversations together. ... When they separate and Paula tours around the East she writes him letters, "When he saw a man's name in her letters he felt more sure of her and a little disdainful- he was always superior to such things."" ... He manipulated her as well, even though he also admits that she meant nothing to him, "He was drinking rather heavily, and he pretended for a week that he was falling in love with her In the spring he was weary "he wanted to renew his life at some other source "moreover, he saw that either he must break with ...

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"The early nineteenth century was beguiled by things Gothic – quaint folklore, macabre legends, preternatural events, medieval history, forgotten tombs, ruined abbeys. ... "10 They view Poe simply as adaptive writer who tried to appeal to reading public of his day, since he wanted to make a living by writing for magazines. ... While several of Poe's characters are egoistic madmen, who are not able to think of others and they only can satisfy their perverted needs, there is on the other hand an amateur detective C. ... " He calmly tells the story, plans the crime in ad...

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To a situation where tension must be explained as love tension but where there are many things not spoken about and not settled. ... I thought you were never coming----'(p. 79) In this situation Valeria is highly excited and she Carries Mr Alban with herself and makes him, for a moment at least, interested in her. ... On the other hand there is a very strong erotic tension and the reader would wait the things go on in an erotic way. ... They both have pushed their hostile thoughts to the background and come back to what they used to dream when they moved to the countryside. .....

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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" focuses, among other things, on the misanthropic characterization of the sexes. ... Although they are in this type of marriage, where they always argue and fight, you never hear any talk of divorce or leaving; Hemingway even comments, almost with a mocking attitude, by saying "they [are] known as a comparatively happily married couple" which is not true demonstrated by Margot's mocking attitude and "one of those whose disruption is often rumored but never occurs" (Mellow 442) which is also another lie because disruption occurs many times in the s...

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There is no real relationship or love between them until they come across the Misfit and his mob. ... O'Connor was upset with critics who were determined to count the dead bodies: "And in this story you should be on the lookout for such things as the action of grace in the Grandmother's soul, and not for the dead bodies." ... But then a prophet gone wrong is almost always more interesting than your grandmother, and you have to let people take their pleasures where they find them." ... They are forced to realize their vulnerability, their ridiculous condition. ... Teagarden (E.A.T.) ...

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One day, Henry went out too far in the bay, and the current carried him to the sea. ... One night while floating, it was really foggy and they missed the destination they were headed to. They were forced onto a steam boat and while they were there, Huck was invited to stay with the Grangerfords. ... As they were running away, they got caught by local farmers and they tried shooting at them. ... The critics also feel as if Twain did great things and made a very good nam...

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If women were in the lower class, they could get jobs as servants, domestic helpers, or factory workers. ... "There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature," (Chopin). No longer having the constant oppression of her husband, Louise has begun to feel a sense of independence which excites her, knowing she has become an independent woman in the time period when things are changing for women. ... Louise heard the story like other women hear when they lose a husban...

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Men were able to work in factories, shops, offices, and others, while "wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to oversee the domestic duties that were increasingly carried out by servants" (Hughes). ... There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. ... As a treatment for her "temporary nervous depression", the unnamed protagonist's husband, John, takes her to a summer house where the narrator is kept in a nursery room decorated wi...

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