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    The Awakening by Kate Chopin exemplifies how characters get caught between colliding cultures that deal with ethnic and institutional issues. The protagonist Edna Pontellier deals with cultural collisions‚ due to their role in the awakening of her desires. This cultural collision happens between the Creole women from New Orleans and Edna’s own accustoms‚ this collision causes Edna to have an epiphany. Edna realizes how different she is from the Creole women and begins to question where she really

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    glimpse into the life of someone who suffers from polio. Tynes uses an exceptional word choice enhancing the feeling of solitude all through the piece. Her hope in writing this poem is to have the reader understand the imprisoned life style of an individual who has the disabling virus‚ polio. The mood of the poem is automatically set as soon as you read the first line. “Winter solitude‚” opens up the piece and immediately has the reader embrace the loneliness that they are about to experience. Directly

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    Her traditional house and living (Team)‚ portrayed solitude. This showed that how she was living in her solitude and she had no other option then to stay in this house forever and alone. She though opted to live with a decent man‚ but she became afraid of him leaving her and her fear of solitude made her kill the person she loved. The old furniture that she kept also makes the reader to depict that she was not at all interested in the trends of the society as she had no one. • Her stubborn

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    imagination is the best way to strengthen it. One simple painting of his bed and petite‚ creaky room and one simple four stanza poem shows how materialistic possessions can never reflect the human soul‚ simplicity in life heightens creativity and how solitude doesn’t have to be a negative aspect in life. “I can tell you that for my part I will try to keep a straight course‚ and will paint the most simple‚ the most common things” (Van Gogh‚ 545). This was written in a letter to Vincent’s brother Theo

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    a spotlessly clean house with two animals: a dog and a bird; her house becomes an immediate prison as she waits for a man for 14 years. Like Louisa‚ the dog and bird are both chained up or locked up. However‚ she is satisfied with her life of solitude. When her fiancee‚ Joe Daggat‚ finally comes back from earning his fortune overseas‚ she feels that her life has been disrupted. His appearance at her house shakes everything up; the bird would flutter about wildly in its cage and things would get

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    In my opinion‚ the author forms radical conclusions about solitude. I do not agree with Deresiewicz that we need to have our time of loneliness because loneliness only brings us hopelessness and sadness. In his point of view‚ technology is something negative in our lives because it does not let us being alone‚ yes

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    reason as to why Victor shuts out his family from his true emotions throughout the story. She then inspects his time in jail while accused for the murder of Henry. Zimmerman states that the solitude of the jail cell serves as a parallel with both how victor felt as a child and how the monster feels in his solitude. The monster cannot reveal himself to humans because of the treatment that he has in the past received. She ties this treatment in with the treatment that the nurse showed Victor in the jail

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    Brink of eternity Eternity has three aspects. It has the fear of the unknown when people feel they are not prepared to enter the next world. It has the hope of the unknown if people cannot bear the tribulations of life anymore. Lastly‚ it has the release of the unknown when people are well prepared to meet their physical death and go to the next world. Eternity is just a prayer away. In desperate hope the narrator went and searched for the spiritual door of eternity in all the corners of his room

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    my bestfriend‚we shared a lot of things together including fall in love to the same man.What a coincidence!But I was more lucky as Luke choose me instead of Kyllie. Now‚we could see the imposing picturesque majestic villa stood on the hill.Big‚solitude and mystery.Reaching the villa‚Luke and I strolled at the splendour vicinity.The villa

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    Bagas Yudhiswa Putera 120222415482 The Causes of Christopher McCandless’ Journey to Alaska In Into the Wild Movie Introduction Into the wild is a movie which is based on a true story of Christopher McCandless‚ a good-fortune man who suddenly decided to live into the wild. This movie is directed by Sean Penn and released in 2007. The main character‚ Christopher McCandless‚ is played by Emile Hirsch.Before the movie was made‚ Jon Kraukauer has published Cristopher McCandless’ life in a novel with

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