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    The Box Man

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    Meaning 1. This essay implies to the reader that loneliness isn’t always a vile thing. The author compares somebody who has absolutely nothing in life but enjoys the solitude‚ to people who roam through life alone‚ seeking for company—but never find it. The author compares the chosen lifestyle of the box man‚ to the undesired for loneliness of the victims. The author explains that although one may be poor and alone‚ it does not mean that one is unhappy. For example‚ in paragraph 12 it is explained

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    gone through. Although the sound devices in “Poison Oak” may be viewed as important factors in molding the themes of the song‚ Conor Oberst mainly uses metaphors to emit the powerful themes of childhood innocence‚ feelings of meaninglessness‚ and loneliness. Oberst begins to create the theme of childhood innocence and simplicity through one of the earliest lines in the song. In line 2‚ Oberst writes characterizes childhood using an example - “When a telephone was a tin can on a string.” The simplification

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    around loneliness‚ racism‚ and mental illnesses. Most of the characters struggle with loneliness‚ while one of the main characters struggles with a mental illness that creates for an interesting

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    Dorothy Day

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    Day also held a very communal outlook on the church and salvation. She says in The Long Loneliness that “it is the people that matter‚ not the masses.” This line connects with a line in the excerpt that reads‚ “We cannot love God unless we love each other‚ and to love we must know each other” (The Long Loneliness 98). Day takes a stance as a theological author here and makes a claim for the soul. Love and salvation (two of Day’s major themes) are truly

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    Tiara Irvin Dr. Fletcher 09 June 2014 Rhetorical Response: “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” In Stephen Marche’s article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” (2013) Marche suggests that over time‚ loneliness is becoming more prominent in today’s society. Marche develops his claim by using many published research and scholarly articles. In order to make readers aware of this growing epidemic‚ Marche’s purpose is to show that by using Facebook people are becoming more isolated. The target audience for

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    theme of reprieve from loneliness which Steinbeck incorporates throughout Of Mice and Men. It explores how the setting of the Great Depression influenced many lifestyles‚ attributing the causes of loneliness to factors such as class‚ race‚ and gender. Additionally‚ this paper delves into the means by which people create meaningful relationships. It demonstrates the devices which Steinbeck incorporated to develop the characters’ escapes from the dark ghost of isolation. Loneliness in Of Mice and Men

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    A Street Car Name Desire

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    Evading Loneliness In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the author Tennessee Williams chooses to depict the downfall of Blanche through her desire to evade loneliness. Throughout the text‚ Blanche faces loneliness‚ yet she cannot fill her desire. After the loss of her family estate referred to as‚ Belle Reve‚ is officially rendered without family. Having lost her wealth and all her family‚ she develops the inability to be honest with anyone interested in her. Blanches true desire to evade loneliness causes

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    The article is about the loneliness of the people that communicates using the social network. The social network can broaden one’s companionship‚ but it will increase one’s loneliness. The article starts with the story of a well-known artiste that’s found dead in her own apartment‚ because she’s alone in the house. The social network isolates the connection between a real friendship and a friendship for the sake of connecting. According to a research‚ loneliness drastically increase in a decade

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    The Boxman

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    Barbra Lazear Ascher’s “The Boxman” is a composition about loneliness and different aspects of it. Ascher takes loneliness and portrays it in different characters such as the Box Man‚ the lady in the coffee shop and the lady in in her apartment. She shows that the simplicity of chosen loneliness is less painful than the complications of loneliness forced upon you. Ascher describes the Box Man to be content with his life. His boxes are more than enough for him and are described as

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    Night is associated to darkness‚ emptiness‚ and sometimes-even loneliness. Robert Frost’s “Acquainted With the Night” shows the character‚ which is the narrator‚ being overly too familiar almost friendly with the nighttime. The narrator of the poem is a man who described what he felt as he took a walk at night seemingly searching for something he had apparently lost. This “modernist” character was disposing loneliness throughout the whole poem. He is a representative of the alienated person typical

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