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    way to live you life‚ and while her family joined the church‚ Dickinson remained unconverted and so this made her ineligible for church membership. Dickinson presents emotional trauma in “I felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain‚” by instantly creating the image of a mental breakdown‚ the idea of a funeral taking place in a person’s brain merges a psychological death with a physical death. The image of the speakers mental breakdown is portrayed through physical means “And then a Plank in Reason‚ broke‚”

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    of sea imagery. The story starts off with children playing on a beach and notices something floating about in the sea. When the object eventually floats upun the shore‚ the children immediately starts to play with it. The object is described as a whale‚ a ship‚ and then a nasty sea monster. When Estebans body floated upon shore they removed the seaweed‚ jelly fish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish. We were told that he had the smell of the sea about him. The women of the town used a sail to make

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    of ashes. They realize that the car had crashed into Myrtle. When Tom learns this he tells Myrtle’s husband George and he ultimately blames Gatsby. George drives over to Jay’s house and shoots him as Jay is in his pool. Nick throws Gatsby a small funeral‚ he also moves back home when he realizes that the American dream and individualism has turned into nothing but the pursuit of wealth and the life of……. Ishmael‚

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    and Hagar (18). Both the biblical character and the narrator are portrayed as spiritual wanderers and outcasts. Ishmael tells his audience‚ “Whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses‚ and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me‚ that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the streets‚ and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then‚ I account it high time

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    Sea Imagery "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is full of sea imagery‚ from the title on forward. When the dead body first approaches the shore‚ the kids playing think he is a whale; then‚ a ship. He even looks like some sort of funky sea monster: "when [his body] washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man" (1). And shortly after‚ we’re told that "he had the

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    welfare instead of the animals’ which have the same rights to live. In the second stanza‚ the matter of complaint is a cormorant representing sea birds affected by pollution. By the metaphor “the cormorant in his funeral silk”‚ the voice communicates that oil is the cormorant’s funeral veil which causes the death of these animals. The word ‘iridescence is an optical phenomenon of surfaces in which hue changes in correspondence with the angle from which a surface is viewed.’ This word conveys that

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    Plague is a sad word that triggers calamity and heaps of dead. Now that I have returned to my old town I can see real consequences of the Red Death. Such ghoulish image was able to decimate the whole population of Prince Prospero’s former kingdom. Although the vermin started before‚ the castle was secured in order to safeguard the Prince and his entourage from the bleak illness. After several months‚ he threw a fancy mascarade ball for which all the rooms of his house were decorated. There were seven

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    In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s‚ “The Handsomest drowned man in the world” is a short story scene on a seaside in a very low populated village. Before finding out that the unusual size man wasn’t a whale while the kids of the village were horse playing around him from an unknown descent with very fond appearances named Esteban that was given to him by the woman villagers. While deciding on how they were going to send off Esteban the men of the village starts to become jealous of the dead man stealing

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    In addition‚ I figured that after a little time had passed. I’ll go ahead and conjure Katelyn up from the other side so they can see her again. I’m a witch. I can do these things. After the funeral‚ Tucker and Owen returned home to Alabama‚ but I have a feeling that I’ll be seeing them up here again real soon. A week later I had returned to school‚ and it was like walking into a brand new atmosphere. Dirty looks were replaced by smiles

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    The story ends with the village residents giving the dead man a funeral. Once his body is thrown off the bridge; there is a sense of change in the village to build a better village in order to attract more people like the dead man to the village. Through this story we can see a clear theme of admiration. All the

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