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    are: Edgar Allen Poe’s "The Black Cat"‚ Marghanita Laski’s "The Tower" and lastly‚ "The Hitchhiker" by the ironically named Anthony Horrowitz. All three of these stories share the same genre and that is ‘horror’. Also they are all short stories. Despite sharing the same genre these three stories are all very different and all use various techniques the help give the reader a sense of horror which is of course the goal of the writer in all horror stories. In "The Black Cat" it is evident that the

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    Kemmerich’s shoes because he has no need for them. Paul discourages him from pressing the matter. Chapter focuses on the soldiers’ external experience‚ the physical repulsiveness‚ violence‚ and exhaustion of war. Chapter I Analysis The novel’s theme is the horrors of the war and its effects on the ordinary soldier. Earlier war novels romanticize the war and emphasize the heroism and the glory on the battlefield‚ but barely mention the terror and the violence. Paul and friends would have been

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    Urioste October 15‚ 2012 Themes Authors use many themes in short stories. In Flannery O’Connor’s‚ “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”‚ the story has themes that are a universal truths that can withstand the test of time. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is Flannery’s most popular piece that she wrote. The themes in the story are life’s battle with what good really is‚ life’s battle with religion‚ and life’s battle with society and class. First‚ life’s battle with good versus evil‚ the grandmother has a

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    feeling uncomfortable and revealed. In “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ eyes are used as symbols to identify that the eyes are the windows to the soul. In “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the narrator acts violently towards his cat for no particular reason. Although the narrator doesn’t state why‚ he always seems to be drawn to the cat’s eye in a negative way. The first incident in which the narrator abuses the cat is when it doesn’t react to his rage and looks

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    The Crusades were defined as several ‘holy wars’ against the Muslims and Christians all crammed in one all staining medieval history forever. Many of the Crusades incidents are recorded as major and some minor causing many to wonder if the result of the Crusades more negative or positive. The Crusades were obviously more negative than positive because of amount of religious hatred and how the Christian Crusades showed their aggression. The Crusades left a ‘legacy’ from the on appalling religious

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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is about the narrator‚ John as he visits Savannah and how he interacts with the other characters in the book. While in Savannah‚ the narrator tells the readers of his travels as the story progress with the information he uses for his writing. However‚ the same time he is there‚ his visit coincidentally occurs the same time a murder of one of the characters‚ a gay man‚ who was supposedly murdered by his partner. Before reading the story‚ the title of this book

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    The conflict between good and evil is one of the most common conventional themes in literature. In fact‚ all literature‚ in its simplest form‚ is a struggle between good and evil. This statement simplifies the idea that all themes and struggles in literature‚ when broken down into their most basic forms‚ are conflicts between good and evil. This conflict can be divided into two ways‚ an external conflict and an internal conflict. In the matter of one’s life‚ he will consistently face this battle

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    The Theme of A Good Man is Hard to Find In" A Good Man is Hard to Find" there are many factors that can be the theme. The theme can be about a family as a whole that lacks love for the grandmother‚ or about a family that goes on a trip that wound up having an accident‚ which puts them at the wrong place at the wrong time. Both of these themes are obvious to any reader‚ but it does not quite seem to match this author’s depth style way of writing. In a brief write up on Flannery O’Connor‚ it says

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    Fight evil with evil? While reading The Crito we learn of the infamous philosopher Socrates being held as a criminal for his teachings in the Ancient Greek world. His wealthy friend‚ Crito‚ the one that the passage is named off of‚ tries to tell Socrates that his fate isn’t as close as it seems‚ explaining that an sufficient amount of money could lead to his freedom. Crito tries to save his life by bribing the city of Athens to free him of jail and thus ending the trial that would’ve ended his life

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    of the intricacy of mankind. "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe‚ they are in that conditions called war; and such a war‚ as if of every man‚ against every man." (Hobbes) Hobbes states that Humans are naturally evil and need a powerful government to control them. Is it true? Rousseau thinks otherwise. "In reasoning on the principles he (Thomas Hobbes) lays down‚ he ought to have said that the state of nature‚ being that in which the care for our own preservation

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