Hiroshima‚ Japan‚ seconds later light falls into darkness‚ forever damaging the city I very much loved. The darkness turns to cold‚ not because of the weather‚ because of the emptiness of my body. My family had been lost in the rubble‚ I was trapped under the bookshelf that collapsed and crushed my bones. I lie motionless waiting for a sound. No sound ever came for me‚ the cold then came from the loss of blood‚ it just kept spurting out‚ until no more was left.” These thoughts may have very much been
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Interpretation of Yellow The short story ”Yellow” by Peter Carty is about being insecure and how lack of self-esteem can lead a person to suicide. It is also about changing as a person by gathering enough courage to do it. The story revolves around the main character Jon‚ a second-string writer on a London listings magazine‚ who has been forced on a learn-to-scuba-dive trip in Egypt. Jon is an insecure‚ overweight man with no willpower‚ pushing forty and dealing with a midlife crisis. There are
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sat just behind the break‚ waiting for that perfect wave‚ sometimes time would warp into days‚ other times the adrenaline accelerated my anticipation into virtual seconds. Either way I always enjoyed myself‚ being out there alone. But this time felt different‚ something not right… I dunno‚ I just put the thought in the back of my head and tried to enjoy myself. A few good waves came and went‚ yet my board only cruised down a solitary breaker – the customary emptiness never came. My head was normally
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Ashley Choi Music History 68 Discussion 1E 204164204 “ For No One” Featured on the second side of the “Revolver” album‚ the Beatles’ song “For No One” is an expressive‚ deeply poignant ballad written and performed by Paul McCartney that in a sense encompasses the theme of a love song gone wrong. However‚ there was no rush to record “For No One” nor was there considerable publicity praise for this simply crafted song. Thus‚ “For No One” truly fits its brooding motif about dismal one-sided lost
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Edgar Allan Poe was a famous American poet‚ and many of his works are still read in classrooms today. Some of his most famous works include “The Raven”‚ “Annabel Lee”‚ and “The Bells”. Across these three poems‚ there are multiple literary devices used. Poe’s use of literary devices adds depth and meaning to the poems. Without devices such as symbolism and imagery‚ the poems wouldn’t have any meaning that is directly connected to Poe’s life. Poe’s poems were often about a struggle he was having in
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Iris Chicas Flannery O’ Connor Essay 19 April 2013 Gray is more Black than White An analysis of evil and the anti-Christ figure of Mr. Paradise in “The River” In Flannery O’Connor’s story “The River”‚ the color gray is associated with the idea of evil. This evil is represented in the character of Mr. Paradise‚ who appears as the anti-Christ figure at the end when the protagonist reaches his epiphany and ironically drowns himself in the “River of Life”. O’ Connor associates much of her descriptions
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867722 ENG 30101 October 17‚ 2014 Chekov categorized his famous play The Cherry Orchard as a comedy. However‚ both Lyubov’s sense of overwhelming emptiness after losing the cherry orchard and Lopakhin’s naked hysteria after buying the orchard gave the readers a sense of bitterness. By categorizing it as a comedy‚ Chekov was clearly indicating something deeper. By focusing on the relationships between the characters and the cherry orchard and the symbolisms of the cherry orchard‚ I hope to provide
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Where Science and Buddhism Meet Within the world that we live today exist many religions‚ beliefs‚ cults‚ or forms of spirituality‚ which move us in a certain way and influence the lives around us and how we interact. For century’s religion have been moving people and persuading people to do certain things‚ which have been believed to support the word of God and respect his decisions. But as time has evolved people have become less believing of certain things because of the rise of technology. Back
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Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalized boredom‚ social alienation and apathy. Feelings of emptiness often accompanydysthymia‚[1] depression‚ loneliness‚ despair‚ or other mental/emotional disorders such as borderline personality disorder. A sense of emptiness is also part of a natural process of grief‚ as resulting of separation‚[disambiguation needed ] death of a loved one‚ or other significant changes. However‚ the particular meanings of “emptiness” vary with the particular context
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demonstrated in ‘Aspens’‚ ‘Old Man’‚ ‘Aldestrop’. He does this through the variety of techniques such as change in form‚ use of imagery and alternations in the tone of each poem to explore memory. As well as this‚ Thomas explicates the devastation of emptiness due to the consequence of war‚ which is portrayed through the use of soft consonantal sounds or the use of sibilance to carry the silence through the poem as it does in the places described in each poem. Quatrain A‚ B‚ A‚ B combined with the
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