The dining area of Rocking Horse Ranch was always hot and crowded during meal times‚ where the tired‚ overworked servers would bustle around attempting to provide excellent customer service for each and every inane request from the guests. I’ve heard that loud‚ hectic‚ quick-paced atmospheres filled with pretentious parents and scrambling children are almost calming sometimes. This atmosphere never brought me serenity; it gave me anxiety and stressed me out. Just the thought of sweeping melted ice
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The Rocking-Horse Winner A classic short story that combines a young boy’s quest for his mother’s love with archetypal symbols and deeply moral questions‚ "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is a heart-wrenching experience that will provoke students to question their own priorities and society’s ethics. Written in a deceptively simple style in the manner of a ghostly fairy-tale‚ the story has an undertone of great anxiety and tension‚ masked by a veneer of civility and respectability in a high middle-class
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Just We Three "The Savior is not a silent observer. He Himself knows personally and infinitely the pain we face." Monday‚ November 19‚ 2012 Compare and Contrast A paper from my English Literature and Composition class this summer... Abstract In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” and Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” Rainsford and Trevor (better known as T.) are each faced with a moral dilemma. Each character is confronted with a post-war scenario. While T. is immersed
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Paul’s Case Willa Carter’s Paul’s Case suggests that ambitious goals tend collapse in the confrontation of reality when shortcuts are made. In the city of Pittsburgh‚ where the new industrial age brings hard work and honest livings‚ Paul feels surrounded by the dull life that lay before him. With his artistic spirit and eagerness to live more extravagantly‚ instead of working towards that dream by finishing school and earning his way to the top‚ he makes a foolish decision and loses everything
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“The Destructors” by Graham Greene’s and “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence’s are different story’s that show the effects among children caused by their Social Status 1. The introduction A. The geographical settings for both stories B. The negative effects on children 2. The introspection of “The Rocking-Horse Winner” A. Mother’s inability to love B. Paul’s premonitions 3. The comparison
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I think Paul and Connie are alike in so many ways especially because they were both teenagers who had a special love for music. One of the way I think they were alike is that they both had great and very vivid imagination. In the story Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Connie spent some of her summer‚ “thinking and dreaming about the boys she meet‚ But all the boys fell back and dissolved into a single face that was not even a face‚ but an idea‚ a feeling.” This clearly indicates her how
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11/30 Paul’s Case Paul’s Case is about a young‚ Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh‚ PA. Cordelia Street was littered with cookie cutter houses‚ suburbanite-like city-dwellers‚ and a general aura of despair. Paul’s room was no different. Paul felt that his abusive father‚ uncaring teachers‚ and classmates who misunderstand him aren’t worthy of his presence and company. One of the reasons Paul may not have fit in was
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Cather’s short story Paul’s case is an example of how an individual’s society‚ environment‚ and culture can affect the person psychologically and mentally. The beginning of the story provides an example of how Paul’s presence is felt around other people‚ “In one way and another‚ he had made all his teachers‚ men‚ and women alike‚ conscious of the same feeling of physical aversion” (195). An analysis of the story’s conflict and characters will inform you more about Paul and his story. The only thing
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Critical Analysis of "The Rocking-Horse Winner" In the short story "The Rocking Horse-Winner" by D. H. Lawrence it is illustrated that money cannot buy happiness. The short story displays the way people allow money to control their lives. The passage includes the literary devices; character development‚ contrast‚ suspense and dramatic irony. "The Rocking-Horse Winner" is written giving the omniscient point of view. The thoughts and motives of all of the characters are told when D. H. Lawrence finds
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Character in Paul’s Case Pauls’s Case is the story of a young man who struggles with his identity. Paul feels that he knows where he belongs‚ but his family and teachers refuse to support his choices. In the middle of Paul’s Case‚ there is a switch in narration. At this point‚ the reader can associate with Paul and his problems. Paul struggles with both internal and external conflicts‚ causing him to be quite a puzzling character. From tha perspective of his family and teachers‚ Paul seems abnormal
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