All of which are viewed through the eyes of Peyton Farquhar, in Ambrose Pierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.... The ticking of the watch is interpreted as a countdown within Peyton Farquhar's mind leading to his cognizant demise. ... In describing how insane Farquhar is going from hearing the watch, the reader is really viewing his impatience for what is about to take place on the bridge. In sharing such a grave and personal moment of one's life such as their thoughts before their death, the theme is left to resonate with the reader. ... Seeing in a " first h...

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Another example of this is when Updike writes, "The sheep pushing their carts down the aisle [] were pretty hilarious.... As the story continues Sammy is watching the girls their way through the aisles of the store. Stokesie, Sammy's coworker who is also watching the girls, makes a joke about how the girls make him feel faint. Sammy goes on to say "I forgot to say he thinks he's going to be manager some sunny day in 1990 when it's called the Great Alexander and Petrooshki Tea Company or something.... In his eyes he is free of that place....

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Richard Wilbur phrased this moment of Scho watching Monk and Glennie as a "luxurious dance in the sun, their faces perfectly blank and entranced." ... As Scho kept watching and watching without saying a word he finally spoke up. He then asked Monk and Glennie if five minutes were up yet, so it would be his turn. But Monk's reply was, "One more minute to go." ... But with Richard Wilbur's writing style in this story he tries to give the story less sentimental value and gives us the story through a witness" eyes, just as if a person was there watching this take place. ...

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On pg. 104 it says "With out knowing he was going to, he began to describe to Guitar a dream he had had about his mother. ... He goes in to detail about the phenonmenon that had occurred. As he watched his mother dig and plant bulbs in the ground, instantly they began to grow from the holes she had previously dug. ... And all of this Milkman believed to have seen with his own eyes, and not really a dream at all. ... The story is told of when Africans were brought over to be forced slaves, some, called flying Africans, such as Solomon, would fly back to their home land. ...

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They both shared many artistic likenesses in their approach and techniques in writing short stories. Although the two authors were acquainted with each other, there is no proof that one influenced the other in their writings; yet, the story of Miss Brill, from "The Garden Party and Other Stories" and "Eveline from Dubliners," may prove that theory to be wrong. ... When she is at the park, she feels like she is part of the community, taking her special seat and looking forward to watching the people go by, even eavesdropping on others conversation. ... She starts to view everything she sees as ...

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In general, both characters go through at an early age what one would say is a "rite of passage" or some sort of transformative experience in which their "youthful fantasy bubbles" are popped, thus forcing them to deal with reality, and leaving their naive thinking behind them. ... We see an example of this in "Where are you going, where have you been?... " "She watched herself push the door slowly open as if she were safe back somewhere in the other doorway, watching this body and this head of long hair moving out into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waited...

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Malouf has said that many of the stories Dream Stuff were begun as long as fifteen years ago, and several draw on the same imaginative landscape as his novels. Closer and At Shindler's both feature children and tell a story as seen through a pair of ingenuous eyes. ... The story as seen through the eyes of the child, adds a contrasting dimension to Malouf's writing. This is, the bridge between the things that the reader knows is going on, due to the description from the child and what the reader thinks is going on. ... If such a thing still exists then is it going underground? ...

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The master moralities were mainly for the nobles; those are the ones that are supposed to be strong and powerful. ... The blind man gets the narrator to close his eyes and continue drawing a cathedral, and although this task seems impossible; during this process the narrator keeps his eyes closed the entire time but his mind is now open to new sights. The blind man asks for the narrator to open his eyes and tell him what he thinks and all the narrator could say was, "It's really something," even though his eyes were still closed (Carver, 216). ... No matter what was going on in ...

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They go home depressed. ... What a blind man should look like in the narrator's eyes is not what Robert appeared to be. ... Then the narrator closes his eyes to perceive the world as a blind man such as Robert perceives it. ... When he wasn't looking for a job he was laying on the living room sofa sleeping, watching TV, or reading a book. ... The three stories that were analyzed all involved quiet, yet realistic lives and the way he puts them through drama makes his stories so interesting to read. ...

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You going to be evil with him many times. ... Does he blame himself for Sonny's situation, and does he feel if he were there things would be different. ... Baldwin not only just lost his daughter, but precious time with a brother that needed him after the loss of their parents. ... This thinking of the narrator implies that he was willing to watch out for his brother, be there for him. ... Baldwin's eyes were "opened " and he was able to feel the pain he held away for so long, accept the hurt of losing his daughter and mother as well as see his brother's struggle and accepts the...

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Lawrence has described the state of the mining village where she lives as being unattractive with phrases such as "the withered oak leaves" and "The fields were dreary and forsaken". ... We get the impression this is a common occurrence and that her anger is like a living thing that eats her up due to the personification of anger, "anger wearied itself, lay down to rest, opening its eyes from time to time and steadily watching, its ears raised to listen". ... She goes round to the neighbours, but she was too proud to go as far as the pub to fetch him. ... Elizabeth's neighbours go out...

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Sometimes I felt Zoe and I were growing up together". Zoe's mother has over the years built such a close relationship with Zoe, that she is now afraid of letting go. Like she says, it almost felt like they were growing up together. ... She loves Michael for the person he is and does not seem to care what anybody else think about their relationship. ... Like when they watch the movie, Zoe's mother's elbow touches Michael's, and she feels a spreading stiffness. ...

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