Character Analysis For The Portable Phonograph
.... gets one out to use because on this particular
occasion, their is a musician visitor with them. The other men act as excited as
children. They listen to the record and then leave the doctor's house.
Doctor Jenkins is nervous and suspicious at the end of the story when
the other men leave. "With nervous hands he lowered the piece of canvas which
served as his door, and pegged it at the bottom. Then quickly quietly, looking
at the piece of canvas frequently, he slipped the records in the case..." (Clark,
page 241). He feels that "everything he has" is at risk with the greed that a
time like this could produce in the other men. He .....
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Characterization Of Uncle Henry
.... for a watchdog now," and is ". . . no good for hunting either." The
narrator's description of Henry is so well done that one can picture him in
one's mind or even compare him to someone in one's day to day life.
The second main way that Henry is portrayed throughout "Luke Baldwin's Vow"
is what other characters say about Henry. In this story Henry has a wife named
Helena. She says that her husband is "wonderfully practical." Helena also says
that Henry takes care of everything in a sensible and easy way; therefore, that
would make him an efficient worker. Secondly, Luke, Henry's nephew, looks up to
him as a role .....
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Comparison And Contrast Of The Lottery And The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
.... violent, ritualistic traditions are exposed.
Children are an important focus in both stories. Jackson makes it easy
for us to imagine their "boisterous play"(para 2), and Le Guin writes "their
high calls rising like swallows' crossing flights over the music and the
singing"(para1). I see these children being used to symbolize perceived states
of happiness in both stories. I also believe they are vital necessities in each
story because they are taught and expected to carry traditions into the future.
For instance, in "The Lottery," "someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few
pebbles"(para 76), he is then able to participate .....
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The Development Of Desire
.... homeland. ”Begin when all the rest who left
behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he[
Odysseus] alone still hungered for home and wife” (Homer 1).
Odysseus has many opportunities to end his journeys and start a new life.
For instance, if he desired, Odysseus was able to stay with Kalypso who wanted
him forever, “Her ladyship Kalypso clung to him in her sea-hollowed caves- a
nymph, immortal and most beautiful, who craved him for her own” (Homer 1).
Kalypso knows even though she has Odysseus in her home, he is not hers to have. “
Son of Laertes, versatile Odysseus, after all these years with m .....
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Essay On Mystery
.... styles, I will use the sheet I was thankfully given by Ms.
Milliorn to nit-pick at the details of these two styles. If I would have to pick
one of the styles that my book more closely resembles it would be the detective
story. The main character and protagonist is Liz, the sister of the recently
slain movie star Lisa. She does in fact interrogate suspects and ferret out
clues, but the difference is that she does not even recognize that she is
getting some juicy clues, while the detectives do not let on that they have
identified a clue, but in truth they have and already trying to use it to solve
the case. Another key differen .....
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Eveline: Character Analysis
.... steel her determination to make a new home for herself elsewhere. On
the other hand, she is comfortable with the “familiar objects from which she had
never dreamed of being divided (Joyce 4).” She rationalizes that: “In her home
anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life
about her (Joyce 4).” As she reflects on her past she discovers "now that she
was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life (Joyce 5)."
Eveline wants to keep the deathbed pledge made to her mother but is alarmed
at the prospect of sharing her mother's fate. Her mother was ill-treated in
life and .....
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Families Portrayed In Roddy Doyle's Books
.... novels
that make up the "Barrytown Trilogy." While the times are both good and bad for
the eight members of this Irish family, in some way they find a way overcome
every problem that faces them.
One of Doyle's strengths is his feel for personality: his characters are
neither devils nor clowns, dolts nor wits, but wobble between the extremes.
"They're fish gutters and mechanics, young knockabouts and unemployed workers
who spend a lot of time watching T.V. drinking Guinness and jawing at the pub,
trying to stave off the feelings that they are nondescript people in a
nondescript world."2
The Commitments is Doyle's first full-lengt .....
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Beowulf: A Hero's Epic
.... the similarity of the bird and how the ship traveled
across the sea. Probably the most important element of language are the
kennings which describe something simple so indirectly. Line 241 describes
darkness or night by stating how the moon hangs. Also line 325 describes Grendel
in two different kennings as one form of evil.
Every hero has their way of fighting evil or protecting from it. In order
to fight a supernatural being, one must have a superhuman power which brings us
to another characteristic of epic poetry. The very first supernatural being
described is the almighty God in lines 7-3 in the beginning. God is definit .....
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Mythological Heroes: Achilles And Hercules
.... ended up in
a famed duel with Trojan hero Hector, over the slaying of Achilles close friend
Patroclus. After killing Hector, Achilles tied his dead body behind a chariot
and dragged around the walls of Troy seven times to show his hatred and anger
towards the Trojans and their hero. Shortly after the famed battle, Achilles
was killed when he was struck, with a poisonous arrow, in the one small spot on
his heel which was vulnerable. The arrow was fired by the Trojan prince Paris
and was guided by the sun god Apollo.
Hercules was the strongest and swiftest man ever to walk the earth. As
the son of Zeus and mortal woman Alcme .....
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Diversity Of Hawthorne's Writings In "Young Goodman Brown", "Ethan Brand", And "The Birthmark"
.... just as much false character. Goodman and Faith are not
the only characters that are not all they seem to be. We come to meet more
characters in the short story that are superficial as is the village itself.
Goodman Brown leaves the bright, warm, goodness of his village to make a journey
in the woods to meet a stranger. A good place to meet a stranger would be
these surrounding woods of Salem for it is here that described by Nathaniel
Hawthorne that "He had taken a dreary road,darkened by all the gloomiest trees
of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through,
and closed immediately behind." and li .....
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Odysseus Is Not A Hero
.... other
people's lives when he takes action; such as when he tried to fight Scylla after
strictly being told not to. Because of this ignorant action, he lost three more
men on top of the other six. He also sacrificed men when he waited at the
Cyclops' home for "gifts." Odysseus was very self-centered where real heroes
are not.
Odysseus also lacks the part of the hero profile which includes having a
good heart. Odysseus definitely does not have this because he kills people
without giving them a chance. Odysseus killed every one of the suitors in cold
blood when most of them didn't commit a crime suitable for the death penalty.
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Once And Future King: Analytical Paper
.... he
was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand.”(p.315) As a result of
this fear of himself, Lancelot trained to become a knight. The knighthood, a
bastion of chivalry and nobleness, would be the only way to counter his immoral
soul. Secondly, Lancelot lived a baneful existence as a boy. He was kept away
from all the other children and spent his every waking hour with a fiery old man
in a single room, learning to fight, joust, and fence. This may seem extreme to
some, but for Lancelot, it was all he had. “Three years may seem a long time
for a boy to spend in one room,...unless you realize from the start that...th .....
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