important to have moral values such as merit and good humor in order to have something to fall back upon since beauty does not last forever. Good humor and merit symbolize a form of power‚ and this is made clear when Clarissa points out that regardless of what is lost‚ good humor and merit will continue to succeed. Not only does Clarissa describe good humor as powerful‚ she emphasizes its importance by stating it will prevail even "When airs‚ and flights‚ and screams‚ and scolding fail" (V‚ 32). This line
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”A Gift for My Mother” is a short story written by Viv McDade. . It’s chronicling the course of a young girl’s best intentions. The main character in the story is a little‚ juvenile girl called Lucy. “..a bunch of wild flowers in the bushveld..” (p. 8‚ l. 1) The story takes place in South Africa‚ because a bushveld is a well-grassed plain area in South Africa. Throughout the entire story Lucy wants to give her mother a gift. She decides to collect bunches of flowers‚ sell them and earn some cash
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The Simple Gift Essay Transitions can be confronting but leads to new understandings of the self and others. Transitions can often be caused or prompted but can lead to new understandings and views of the self and others. The cause of Billy’s transition is caused by physical and psychological abuse from his father‚ lack of caring from his school and his run down neglected neighbourhood with its “truck still on blocks”‚ “unmown grass” and “broken windows”‚ all the symbols pointing to a decaying‚ decrepit
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In the short story‚ “The Gift of the Magi”‚ O. Henry uses literary devices to show us that love and sacrifice are powerful human emotions‚ that cannot be outstripped by material possessions. In the story‚ the author uses many quotes to express symbolism to help reiterate the theme‚ one of the quotes is‚ “of all who give and receive gifts‚ such as they are the wisest. Everywhere they are the wisest. They are the Magi” (O Henry 185-186). This quote applies to the theme‚ because it helps to relate their
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blue-collar jobs they had before the war to join the white collared work-force instead. Men were expected to be masculine‚ strong and the bread winners of the family. Ginger Voit wrote an article for synonym.com where she discussed that in the 1950’s men were expected to be the sole provider for the family‚ yet had little interaction with the children‚ other than for punishment and to provide life lessons. Men were the head of the household‚ expected to come home to a
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The Significance of the River in Siddhartha In the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse the significance of the river is displayed throughout the experiences that Siddhartha has next to the river and the things that by listening to the sound he comes to understand. Siddhartha is learning something from the moment he rides the ferry to the time when Govinda lays on the ground with tears flowing uncontrollably. Siddhartha admits to having no money to pay for the voyage‚ but the Ferryman says
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What is the significance of the setting described in chapter 1 of ‘Birdsong’? In the first chapter of ‘Birdsong’‚ Faulks uses setting particularly to foreshadow coming events‚ and in some way‚ prepare the reader for the story about to evolve‚ be it the love affair between Stephen and Isabelle‚ or the conflict of world war one. At the beginning of this chapter‚ we are confronted with a sense of normalcy‚ the ‘wagons’‚ ‘tanneries’ and ‘mills’ demonstrate the quiet‚ undisturbed life of those living
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According to the Christian viewpoint‚ “what makes humans special is that we can limit ourselves‚ to recognize that something may be perfectly understandable and yet be wrong.” (Mckibben‚ 2003). Bill McKibben writes in his article “Design-a-kid”‚ that‚ “The choices we face‚ in fact‚ will settle this question on specialness once and for all. If we cannot summon our ability to use self-restraint‚ or if it proves to be weak‚ we will leave our specialness behind forever.” What he is saying here is that our nation
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The Catcher In The Rye is set on a weekend in December during the 1950’s. It takes place in several different locations in and around NewYork City. The story begins at Holden Caulfield’s prep school in Argerstown‚ Pennsylvania and then follows Holden’s travels to Manhattan where he spends three days wondering around to different places such as Penn station where he gets off the train from his school‚ the Edmont hotel‚ the lavender room‚ Ernies bar‚ the museum of natural history‚ the lagoon central
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