Challenges of homecoming In the classic tale ¨The Odyssey¨ Odysseus faces many challenges on his journey home. Odysseus´ challenges and experiences are relatable to those who return home from war. Soldiers go through loss and take heroic acts in the same manner as Odysseus. When they return home it can also be a struggle to fit back in their lives before the war. Soldiers go through traumatic experiences in and out of war. In war‚ soldiers sacrifice themselves to protect their country. Odysseus
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live in vain;.” If you help others‚ then your not self-centered.. Emily Dickinson is saying that if you can help other people or soothe one’s pain then your don’t live life in vain. Emily views life purpose as helping others or saving others from heartaches. Life is more than just think of your own self. In the quest of finding life’s purpose she has found that it is to help others. One thing that stood out to me was that Emily used the symbol “fainting robin” for a person who has lost direction
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a happy feeling. Love is one of the things you can be inspired of‚ but what if you are too young and you feel that you are in love‚ would you try to get into a relationship even of you know the consequences of it? Are you brave enough to handle heartaches? Are you ready to give up some things in your life for the sake of your relationship? For me‚ being involved in an early relationship is not that good for teenagers. Entering into a relationship at a very young age requires a lot of time management
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Jane Ayer The word bildungsroman is very similar to an autobiography; that person just might not always tell it. It is a story that is told about a specific individual from when they are a small child‚ to when they are a grown adult. The novel Jane Ayer is an absolutely perfect example of a bildungsroman. As she grows from a little girl to a woman it shows her process of maturing in hard times‚ good times‚ and crazy times. Jane went through a lot in her life and this book is an amazing description
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displayed. When hamlet is talking about death he os making death sound like the better option in his case. In the text Hamlet says “No more; and by sleep to say we end/ the heartache‚ and the thousand natural shocks/ that flesh is heir to” (III‚ i‚ 69-71). When Hamlet conveys this he is saying that once a person dies then all of the heartaches and hocks in life would all come to an end and there would be no more worrying or stress‚ you
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From time to time all a person thinks about is the person they love and on bad days they are thinking about what they could have done to save their relationship. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “What lips my lips have kissed‚” the speaker comes to a conclusion that everyone changes and it is great to accept what has come your way. She informs the readers that she “only know that summer sang in me‚ / A little while‚ that in me sings no more” (lines 12-13). Initially this statement proposes that
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before he could make an impact. Then this is restated in the next line “Always it woke him‚ even in France” illustrating that these fields only bring death upon those who stand in them. Futility shows that the war was falsely glorified through the heartache of the soldiers attempting to revive a fallen
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Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee‚ who directed‚ and Emma Thompson‚ who adapted the screenplay‚ have done an excellent job of bringing Jane Austen’s Victorian novel‚ Sense and Sensibility‚ to the movie screen. The movie’s collection of actors are a joy to watch as they bring out the emotions of an otherwise polite and reserved era in time. The production work is top notch with bright‚ cascading photography that sets a romantic "I wish I was there" setting. The purpose of the Sense
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amount of sorrow and emotions felt by the Chance family‚ and for that matter‚ all families who had children‚ brothers‚ husbands‚ or fathers‚ drafted into what many felt was a needless war. The novel brings to life what heartache many Americans had to face during the Vietnam era‚ a heartache that few in my generation have had the ability to realize. Quote 3: “Problem #1: War” Page 371 The novel illuminates light on the situation not just during the Vietnam era‚ but also rather throughout
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enabled me to open my eyes and find what I really believe. As a junior year in high school our varsity team had already been to state 2 years in a row‚ and lost in the finals both times. I was only on the court my sophomore year‚ but I remember the heartache. It sort of felt like the world was ending‚ because for us it practically was. Stepping onto the court for tryouts last year was different‚ everything had changed. Our four D1 players were seniors and we knew this was the year. We either won it now
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