In “The Hollow Men” and the story excerpt “The Things They Carried” both authors‚ T.S. Eliot and Tim O’Brien‚ utilize similar techniques such as imagery and tone‚ while having a different purpose for writing. In the poem “The Hollow Men‚” T.S. Eliot apples imagery and tone to help his audience apprehend how life without a purpose proves to be a waste when the world’s final hours are close. As for in the excerpt‚ “The Things They Carried”‚ the author uses his techniques to demonstrate the toll that
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Analysis T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” to me represents several interpretations of death or “the end”. The poem is split into five parts‚ each part presenting a different point of view or idea of death. There are several “kingdoms” of death presented in the various parts‚ intertwining within eachother throughout. I view each part as representing a different member of the hollow men looking at the different “kingdoms” of death. Part I’s presents a dank‚ dark cellar and is associated with violence
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Mount Pleasant Louise Buxton’s Mount Pleasant is a very uniquely written short story‚ where we experience a normal day from a child perspective. It’s a modern story from 2005. The story is told in first person singular‚ where the narrator is a young girl whose name is Elizabeth. ”(…) like the glue wee peel off our hands after arts and crafts hour at school with Mrs Kelly.” (p.2‚ l.16-17) Based on the information we know that Elizabeth goes to school‚ but also that she cannot be more than 6 to
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Karla Estrada Gerold April 26‚ 2012 Humanities Washington Irving wrote a lot of metaphores in the story‚"The Legend of Sleepy Hallow". If its the setting of story or maybe about the a metaphore about the charactors. In the first sentence you can see alot about the land Irving discribes or I can see he discribes the land like a woman‚ "In the bossom of one of those spaciouse coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson‚ at the broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient
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I am interested in researching the urban legend of John Henry. The legend of John Henry is about an African American male who manually works on a railroad with a hammer and was proud of his work. Others working on the railroad could not match or exceed John Henrys capabilities as it pertained to hammering railroad spikes. It usually took three workers to do the same job that he could do all by himself‚ just that alone caused a lot of jealousy and animosity for some people. This topic is important
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In a few pages of Stephen T. Asma’s book “On Monsters‚” readers are informed of two arguments by Gary Wills and Elaine Marshall. Both arguments tell readers that the theme coming from Stephen Crane’s “The Monster” have to do with the white races expression of hate for all black people‚ not just the one black person being lynched. “The Monster‚” is a short story written by Stephen Crane in 1899‚ about a doctor almost losing his little boy in a fire‚ but is courageously saved by a black man named Henry
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Katrina Van Tassel is considered as pretty and rich women in the town. She is the object for both protagonist and antagonist. The only thing she does in this story is that she dumps Ichabod Crane. In the story‚ it is said that she is a flirt and wore a “pink skirt” (Irving‚4). In the early 1800’s people were so much fashionable. In fact‚ there was nothing like a mini skirt that time. Women started wearing mini skirt in 1960’s. In the town‚ she is known as a tough lady to be impressed. According to
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Father of Sleepy Hollow and American Literature Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn once said “Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.” Literature was not created “in a vacuum.” Literature was created in an open environment‚ it expands and reaches places that not everyone believes it will. Literature is made to express thoughts or to reach social issues. Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn’s
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In the short story “The Open Window‚” a horrifying event casued Mr. Nuttel to run out of the home of the Sappletons. A series of events resulted in Mr. Nuttel thinking differently about the Sappletons. Mr. Nuttel thought the Sappleton family was crazy because of this horrifying event that occurs in the story. He then comes to realize that he thinks hes going crazy to and seeing ghost as well with Mr. Sappleton. Vera the niece told Mr. Nuttel a story that caused him to have a nervous breakdown. He
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10 Creatures in Scandinavian Folklore REBECCA WINTHER-SØRENSEN OCTOBER 15‚ 2012 Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com The Scandinavian Folklore consists of a huge variety of creatures‚ good or evil‚ which have frightened people for centuries. They were often meant to scare children‚ but even today they are essential and important to the modern northern society. In the 1890s‚ something changed in the way common Scandinavians saw themselves and their culture. They looked back
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