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  • The Swimmer

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    The Swimmer is a short story about upper-class swimmer Neddy Merrill who decides one day to swim home from a friend's by traversing every one of the area's many pools. The narrative is surreal, showing an impossible progression of time as Neddy ages into relative infirmity during the course of his journey while also progressing from summer to autumn at an incredible rate. Neddy experiences initial highs and warm welcomes, but his journey ends at his own house, now abandoned and decrepit.

  • Analysis of The Swimmer

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    In John Cheevers short story The Swimmer the main character Neddy Merrill goes through a drastic change He starts off with having a wife and children and being quite popular Despite being older he wants to regain youth by swimming the entire county through all his neighbors swimming pools While at a party he realizes he can swim home through the chain of pools At first he is welcomed into his neighbors pools graciously At each house he takes a drink and swims a lap in the pool Though this whole

  • Commentary on The Swimmer

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    The Swimmer The short story The Swimmer by John Cheever is a story that takes place in the 1950s in a classic suburban town situated in New York The story allows a glimpse into a time period that was very surreal filled with cocktail parties sex and the attempt to achieve the American dream Throughout the story the reader witnesses the emotional downfall of the main character Neddy Merrill who at the beginning appears to be an affluent in shape man who has a family and many friends to match As

  • Drinking Away Your Life: The Swimmer

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    Drinking Away Your Life As Ned journeys through the stream he discovered and named Lucinda things gradually get worse Ned goes through a change from realism to surrealism The use of alcohol consumption throughout The Swimmer helps demonstrate and show Neds drastic change from sanity to insanity John Cheever used events that happened to him such as his drinking problem to make a more realistic relatable story that allows more people to connect with While at a friends house Ned decides to swim hi

  • Change in To Kill A Mockingbird

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    At the end of the novel how does Harper Lee show there is perhaps the beginning of change Throughout the novel I think Harper Lee shows that peoples opinions can change and the attitude of certain people can also change Some characters show a big change but other characters show a very subtle but still noticeable change I think this novel makes people think about how much opinions attitudes can change over a short period of time A good example is Aunt Alexandra On page 242 it says I thought Aun

  • Commentary on Through the Tunnel

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    Through the Tunnel Through the Tunnel it has written by Donis Lessing She was born on October 22 1919 This story is about a boy called Jerry whose father has died While his mother and he are on vacations at the seashore Jerry is An English boy that is eleven years old As we can see the human experience consists of many facets and aspects It can be classify as life itself In the short story Through the Tunnel we examined these aspects They are psychological physiological mental emotional and spi

  • Tragic Events in Ordinary People

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    I wrote about the novel Ordinary people by Judith Guest In this paper I will try to explain how can tragic events impact others lifes and their stability We will talk about that in two aspects What happened and What followed Our main character in this book is 17 years old Conrad Keith Jarrett Book begins in the moment when he wakes up on the first school day after his return home The main event happened approximately a year before the beginning of the book Conrads older brother Jordan Buck Jarr

  • Analysis Of Hamlet's Character

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    Hamlets Character A swimmers moment is defined as when you are faced with a decision that will define the rest of your life The swimmer is forced to make a decision whether he will enter the whirlpool or By their refusal they are saved from the black pit Avison 5 6 In Hamlet the swimmers moment is when Hamlet is deciding what he thinks he should do about his fathers death and Claudius Whether he should enter the whirlpool and make the decision to kill Claudius or do nothing and turn away from t

  • Reality and Religion in Cold Mountain

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    Reality and Religion Ada begins to contemplate her own views of the world and rejects Monroes belief that the objects on earth are gifts from another world in Fraziers novel Cold Mountain She finds comfort in the predictable elements of life such as natures cycles after she sees how useless intangible items are to her such as reading and learning languages Thus she denies the importance of invisible items However Inman disgusted by the images of war burned into his mind seeks refuge in the spir

  • Commentary on I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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    Come Swimmer Have you ever had to spend your whole life knowing that youre going to die sooner than expected Well Mark had to except one thing he didnt know he was going to die until the very end In the book I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven Mark is a young vicar sent by his bishop to a remote Indian Village To live out the rest of his days because of his shortened life expectancy In the Indian Village there are myths for instance the swimmer Mark is very similar to the salmon eve

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