Even Santiagos dreams have a heroic theme While struggling with the marlin and experiencing great physical pain Santiago dreams of Joe DiMaggio the greatest ballplayer of his generation and of lions playing on the beaches in Africa This association with the king of ballplayers and the king of beasts adds to Santiagos heroic proportions Santiagos heroism is also personified by the fact that he is alone when the great trial comes his battle with the marlin Although he repeatedly wishes the boy we
The Great Gatsby I began to like New York the racy adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives and no one would ever know or disapprove Sometimes in my mind I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets and they turned and smiled back tat
1 Personality and description of Holden Holden is the main character of the book Holden reacts to conflicts in a normal way for any teenager He simply tries to avoid it or run away from it because he feels uncomfortable Thats why he is continually failing at school with his relationships family friends etc sexual life He has just got kicked out of another School Pencey Prep 1 He is an immature person who is afraid of growing up He is a solitary boy who cant find his place in society nor make fr
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the history of the isolated town of Macondo and of the family who founds it the Buendas For years the town has no contact with the outside world except for gypsies who occasionally visit peddling technologies like ice and telescopes The patriarch of the family Jos Arcadio Buenda is impulsive and inquisitive He remains a leader who is also deeply solitary alienating himself from other men in his obsessive investigations into mysterious matters These character tra
In lots of stories that Ive read minor characters dont really have significant reason in the story In Miss Brill there are lots of minor characters and Katherine Mansfield creates them with reasons Mansfield uses the minor characters to emphasize Miss Brills loneliness and isolation They are divided into three groups the passive and uncommunicative the active and communicative and finally the young couple who is shown at the end The passive and uncommunicative group of people especially the old
WHAT METHODS DID DICKENS USE IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS TO ENSURE HIS READERS CONTINUING INTEREST Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1860 is set in early Victorian England It was written as a first person narrative with Pip as an older man telling his lifes story The title Great Expectations shows an indication of the change in Pips fortunes throughout the story form a poor family living in the country with a trade of being a blacksmith to living a luxurious life as a gentle
Over the course of Frankenstein Viktor Frankenstein undergoes a drastic emotional transformation as a result of his experiments which resulted in the creation of his Creature Frankensteins trips to Montavert and his descriptions of the scene on his solitary excursions show a clear sense of an emotional before and after In his visits to Montavert before the birth of his Creature Frankenstein saw a sublime and beautiful scene However his accounts are drastically different upset guilty and disturb
Over the course of Frankenstein Viktor Frankenstein undergoes a drastic emotional transformation as a result of his experiments which resulted in the creation of his Creature Frankensteins trips to Montavert and his descriptions of the scene on his solitary excursions show a clear sense of an emotional before and after In his visits to Montavert before the birth of his Creature Frankenstein saw a sublime and beautiful scene However his accounts are drastically different upset guilty and disturb
The subject of the poem is a desert lizard With just a few words these lines convey great heat the sun is highest in the sky at noon great solitude the desert is thought of as a desolate place in which creatures and plants must struggle for survival and great urgency the lizard is panting and tense implying exertion or a fight or flight reaction From the poems title we know that the lizard lives in an area upon which a bomb is about to be dropped Use of the word elbows instead of legs attribute
A Worn Path Eudora Weltys A Worn Path is about an elderly African American woman in the 1930s named Phoenix Jackson whose love for her grandson takes her on a long and difficult journey Phoenixs mission is to make it through the Mississippi woods on her way to town to get medicine from the doctor for her sick grandson She is faced with many physical mental and racial obstacles and has to overcome adversity throughout the course of her journey Phoenix Jackson is a very feeble old woman who clear