Loneliness A lonely breeze blew across the school compound‚ dispelling the scorching afternoon heat that filled the air. For a moment‚ dead leaves‚ dust and a plastic bag all rose together in a aerial waltz- the collapsed to the ground unceremoniously. Then‚ it was still and everything seemed lifeless. I still waited‚ my eyes fixed on a secluded spot just outside the school building. It was sheltered by a wall and shielded on three sides by walls‚ the surrounding of it was laid with gravel
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The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy day; she was a sincere convert to Catholicism‚ social activist and American journalist. Also. She is a famous writer and she was the founder of The Catholic worker. This book is about her experiencing events where she feels isolated and sometimes lonely. She describes events from her life when she felt those feelings and emotions. There are multiple of causes of here loneliness‚ which she talks about in all three stages in her life. First‚ She talks
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The Theme of Loneliness in The Catcher in the Rye Stephen King once said that alone was the most terrible word in the English language. That may be so. However‚ in The Catcher in the Rye‚ we see loneliness through a wholly different point of view‚ that of its protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield. The solitude that Holden experiences is a type of seclusion from the rest of world that is more or less self-inflicted. His inability to understand or be understood by those around him has led him to weave a
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In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck uses the theme of loneliness throughout the entirety of the novel. When people feel lonely their way of life is different than that of someone’s who isn’t lonely or them if they were not lonely. They may act differently than they would if they weren’t experiencing loneliness‚ they may even change their way of life. The effects of loneliness on people are displayed in the novel Of Mice and Men through the characters of Curley’s Wife‚ Candy
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Isolation: Real or Imagined? In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ isolation is a common theme that contributes to character development throughout the novel. Junot Diaz‚ in his narration of Oscar’s life through the eyes of Yunior‚ induces the idea that isolation is a self-imagined way for a character or person to justify his/her differences from society and the people around them. While there are outside forces that contribute to the feeling of isolation‚ such as cultural differences
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Pete Benck Ms. Finnegan AP Literature 28 October 2005 An Essential Theme in John Gardner’s Grendel In art museums‚ there are ageless paintings and sculptures. On the radio‚ classical music and classic rock is still played. These are some of today’s ways of carrying on the past through art forms. The painter and the rock legend are artists immortalized through their works. The artists in Grendel are the Shaper and the court harper. Their singing of great men’s deeds‚ no matter how inflated or
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by being rejected by others leading to the feeling of loneliness. Just as in the short story “A Rose for Emily”‚ in which William Faulkner conveys the struggle of loneliness and isolation from the inability to adapt and accept change. This is emphasized through the relationship Miss Emily had with her father‚ Homer Barron‚ and society itself. Miss Emily’s father plays a vital role in the development of her character that leads to her loneliness and isolation.
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through his art and use those emotions to manipulate them into constructing a common‚ coherent‚ and uplifting value system. Having seen the past that the Shaper glorified‚ Grendel is horrified by sheer power of the Shaper’s poetry and feels weak when he realizes that he too is being manipulated into believing the Shaper’s lies. When Grendel first hears the Shaper’s song‚ he is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears‚ momentarily loses his ability to speak and could not help but flee‚ “thus I
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Alienation and Loneliness in “The Yellow Wallpaper” In the story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the narrator talks about several things: She feels she is sick and her brother and husband do not believe her‚ her husband moved her to a deserted house and keeps her isolated‚ he controls her every move‚ and she feels that she has no companionship. All of these things contribute to the theme of alienation and loneliness in this story. The Narrator is convinced she is
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Grendel and Born of Man and Woman were similar in surprisingly many ways. The biggest point of comparison between these two works is the human/monster ambiguity that is present. Both of them make if difficult to decipher whether or not the main character is really human or not. They each have very human-like characteristics‚ but there are many things that point to them each not being human. For instance‚ Grendel is obviously not human by the way humans react to him‚ and from the description of his
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