Both Candide and Cross carried the love for a woman with them on their journeys. This love can be described as emotional baggage. Cross carried his love for Martha through tangible objects that Martha sent to him (letters‚ photos‚ and the pebble). While Candide had no physical reminder of his love for Cunegund‚ he held on to his memories of her and the hopes of having a long and happy future with her. Candide spent years in search of his love and endured many hardships such as‚ being beaten and tortured
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fantasy land dreaming about himself and Martha buried "...under the white sand at the Jersey shore."(101) Jimmy tried to fight off the images‚ but he was unable to‚ for "he was just a kid at war‚ in love."(101) Lieutenant Cross did not tell Ted Lavender to go off by himself‚ but since Jimmy was responsible for the well-being of all the men‚ he held himself responsible. The death of Ted Lavender jolts Cross into action‚ forcing him to realize that his fantasies of Martha have been causing him to neglect
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especially with how absorbed he was in his love‚ Martha. By burning his letters and photographs of Martha‚ though‚ Jimmy Cross came to terms with a reconciliation emphasized by the themes there is an abiding concern with the question of battlefield courage and love overrules war. To begin‚ Jimmy Cross had a spiritual reassessment when he decided to get rid of his mementos from Martha. Cross obsessed over this girl who
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where we stand in society. “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas is about a young girl wanting to figure out why life sometimes seems harder for her just because of her race and where she stands in society. The main characters in this story are Martha‚ her grandfather‚ and the principal. They are some few minor characters‚ her two teachers. The story begins by telling us how she feels about the scholarship jacket and how it important it is for her to receive it this year‚ because it is her last
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April morning‚ Martha House‚ president of Trap-Ease‚ entered her office in Moncton‚ New Brunswick. She paused for a moment to contemplate the Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation that she had framed and hung near her desk: “If a man [can] make a better mousetrap than his neighbor … the world will make a beaten path to his door.” Perhaps‚ she mused‚ Emerson knew something that she didn’t. She had the better mousetrap—Trap-Ease—but the world didn’t seem all that excited about it. Martha had just returned
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The Relationship Between Martha and George Edward Albee was an American playwright producer and director. He was born on March 12‚ 1928 probably in Virginia. He was adopted at an early age‚ which influenced him to write about characters that are different. His writings were characterized by realism; fidelity to life as perceived and experienced‚ and were considered to be absurd dramas. Albee‚ in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?‚ portrays a primitive sex struggle between a middle aged
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asks me knowing I hate it when he calls me “Raph”. “Doing what?” I respond in an irritated tone. “Miss Martha has a late crop ready to cut and she needs help‚ but there is over 10 plants bigger than me‚” he proudly tells me‚ “and I can’t do it alone.”. I hesitate‚ knowing that the crop is marijuana! Remembering this assignment‚ I decide this could
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disappointment. Though in the book‚ George and Martha tend to avoid disappointment. There is a fine line between reality and illusions and maybe nobody really understands the meaning of happiness. We tend to truly believe that our illusions are much better than reality. We encounter a few myths in the play that lead us to believe that they’re living their lives as a dream‚ which is explains why there are so many games and why Martha is so childish. In Albee’s view‚ Martha and George must face reality by abandoning
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this and allows himself to become distracted by the thoughts of her. An example of this occurs when he “wonder[s] if Martha was a virgin” (2). Cross was distracted by the thought of Martha; he did not seem to realize that the more he thought of her‚ the less aware he was of his fellow soldiers. Cross is even willing to go to an extreme degree in order to feel close to her with Martha occurs with the envelope. “He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps‚ knowing her tongue had been there” (1). He’d
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Martha is Cross’ wished-to-be-lover from back home. Cross carried several letters from Martha covered in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. At the end of each day‚ he would ding is fox hole‚bring out the letters and spend his night reading them; "they were signed Love‚ Martha‚ but Lieutenant Cross understood that Love was only a way of signing and did not mean what he sometimes pretended
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