The text discusses two traditional Christian assumptions to homosexuality and why there is such opposition to homosexuality in traditionally Christian...

Christians base their opposition to
homosexuality on texts within both the tanach (the Old Testament) and the
New Testament. In Leviticus 18:22 we see:

Thou shalt not
lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. [KJV]

In Leviticus 20:13 :

If a man
also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination:
they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
[KJV]

In the New Testament, Paul writes:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.[KJV, Romans
1:27]

It is interesting, however, that there is no
mention of homosexuality anywhere in the four Gospels. The closest thing to it, in the direct
statements by Jesus, is the following:

But he said unto
them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to
whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs,
which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive
it, let him receive it. [KJV, Matthew 19:11-12]

In the GWT (God's Word Translation), these verses are rendered
as:

He answered them, "Not everyone can do what you
suggest. Only those who have that gift can. For example, some men are celibate because they were
born that way. Others are celibate because they were castrated. Still others have decided to be
celibate because of the kingdom of heaven. If anyone can do what you've suggested, then he
should do it."

In the CEV (Contemporary English
Version) it is translated as:

Jesus told them, Only
those people who have been given the gift of staying single can accept this teaching. Some
people are unable to marry because of birth defects or because of what someone has done to their
bodies. Others stay single in order to serve God better. Anyone who can accept this teaching
should do so.

In the original Greek, the word
εὐνοῦχοι (eunuchs) could refer to those whose sexuality is not "normal" in
various ways--not simply in our present-day meaning of men who have been castrated in order to
serve as harem guards, or something similar. The GWT and CEV translations equate it with the
idea of celibacy, but this is a specific interpretation of what was originally a more general
concept. In my view an equally valid interpretation is that Jesus was including gay people among
those who did not conform to monogamous, heterosexual behavior. And the text seems to indicate
that this can be due to heredity, environment, or choice.

Few people cite
this text as having any relevance to the issue of homosexuality, or cite it at all. This is
probably so because most people who read Scripture at all are religious in a conservative,
literal manner and also tend to have conservative views on issues not necessarily relating
directly to religion. Apart from the subject of non-heterosexual behavior, there are many other
strictures laid out elsewhere in the Bible that are glossed over or ignored entirely in today's
world. There is arguably just as much reason to view the statement of tolerance by Jesus as
being at least as valid as the other texts--in which case, Christian belief, arguably, need not
entail the condemnation of gay people.

In "The Scarlet Letter" does Hester love Dimmesdale?

Yes, she
loves him very much.  Think about it.  Despite being asked over and over again, and despite
having to bear the brunt of her punishment, shame and degradation alone,never reveals thatis the
father of her child.  She protects his identity fiercely, at great personal loss and sacrifice. 
This indicates thats she loves him very much.  Later on in the novel, when she encounters him in
the forest again, they both speak of love and of leaving together, running away to live where
they won't be judged and criticized.  That shows...

In The Egypt Game, what is the main conflict?

Arguably, the main
conflict in this novel concerns the principal character, April, and her struggle to accept the
fact that her mother has left her with her grandmother and that she is not going to be living
with her anymore. She really struggles to form relationships with those around her, and at the
beginning tells various lies to them and acts in a ridiculous way. However, the conflict of this
novel is her own internal conflict to accept the fact that she is not going to be rescued by her
mother and that she can be herself and learn to love and be loved by those around her. The
resolution of this conflict is indicated when she finally receives an invitation from her mother
at the end of the novel to go to Palm Springs and spend some time with her. April's response
makes it clear that she has come to love her Grandma and her new friends in the Egypt Club and
that she is happy with herself and her lot in life:

But
Grandma and I have our plans all made for Christmas Eve and I have a date to spend part of
Christmas Day with my friend, Melanie. So I guess I can't make it this time.

This story therefore tells the gradual, moving story of one girl's
journey to accept both herself and her position in life. This is the central conflict that
dominates the narrative. Finally, at the end of the story, she has found a place to belong and
her own identity that involves acceptance of who she is rather than who she feels she needs to
be in order to be loved and to be accepted.

Which has more religious emphasis between Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and Miller's The Crucible?

In my
opinion, Edwards's sermon has more religious emphasis than Miller's The
Crucible.

Religion plays an important role in both works.
 However, The Crucible has other subtexts that play an equally important
role.  For example, Danforth and Hathorne act with political considerations when presiding over
the trials.  Putnam is driven by efforts to consolidate his land ownership.  Proctor and
Elizabeth struggle with their relationship.  Religion is a weak area for them, as seen in how
Proctor cannot recall the commandment about adultery.  However, their struggles also manifest in
the concepts of trust, forgiveness, and unconditional love.  Even the girls dancing in the woods
can be seen as rebelling against social expectations more than against religion.  Abigail is
motivated by coveting Proctor more than she is by spiritual identity.  Very often, Miller's
story lines connect to elements outside of issues in religion.

For , there is
nothing else but religion.  Every word in the text is related to spiritual identity,
transgression, and God's forgiveness.  Edwards's sermon is intended to galvanize his audience
into religious awareness: "There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any moment, out of
Hell, but the mere pleasure of God.  The emphasis in Edwards's sermon is purely on religion.
 

Arthur Miller's drama emphasizes religion, but not exclusively as Edwards's
sermon does.  Miller wishes to explore different dimensions in the human experience. Jonathan
Edwards sees religious relationship as the only critical element to human identity and
relentlessly emphasizes it in his sermon.

Why do some people argue that the US was wrong to drop the atomic bomb?

The typical
argument for this point of view proceeds on two tracks.  

First, it is said
that the atomic bomb was qualitatively different from conventional bombs.  This point of view
holds that the power of the single atomic bomb, along with the horrors of radiation...

In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, what request does Nick make of Daisy when he asks her to tea?

At the
beginning of chapter five,calls upin the morning and invites her to tea. Nick had previously
spoke toand agreed to act as the intermediary between Daisy and . After Nick
invites Daisy over for tea, he requests that she not bring her husband, . Daisy
cleverly responds to Nick's request by asking, "Who is €˜Tom?" (Fitzgerald, 89). It is
important for Daisy to come alone because Jay Gatsby wishes to reunite with her and does not
want her husband to interfere with his plan of winning her heart. Even though Daisy is married
and has a daughter, Jay Gatsby attempts to relive the past and convince her to...

What was the status of women and children in Mesopotamia?

The best
place to find information about much of Mesopotamian culture is through Hammurabi's Code. 
Hammurabi was a king in Mesopotamia who is most famous for creating a very strict and thorough
code of laws for his empire.  Included in the code are many references to women and children
which provide us with a clear picture of their status.  Mesopotamia was a very patriarchal
society in which men literally owned their wives and children.  This is...

In what ways did God reassure Moses with each of his excuses in the Bible/Torah?

The excuses
are offered in chapters three and four of Exodus.

When God, speaking in the
voice from the burning bush, first sends Moses to speak to Pharoah and demand that he release
the Israelites, Moses replies to God, "Who am I that I should to to Pharaoh, and bring the
sons of Israel out of Egypt?" (Ex. 3:11) God replies,

I will be with you; and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you
have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain. (Ex.
3:12)

Moses tries to argue that the Israelites might
doubt his authority to lead them.

If I come to the People
of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask
me,...

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Please can you discuss the phrasing in "The Witch" by Mary E Coleridge? Thank you.

In Coleridge's poem
"The Witch", the first two stanzas are written in first person. Here, the speaker is
discussing the challenges faced as walking the earth.

In the third stanza,
the narration changes. At the beginning of the third stanza, the woman opening the door for the
wanderer is...

In Coelho's The Alchemist, why does the author not clearly mention when the story takes place?

In Coelho's
, the author does not specifically state when the story takes place. In
fact, the book could take place at any time, for there are no references to
technology (telegraph, telephone or computer) or even world events that would allow the reader
to pinpoint a particular time in the history of the world. And it would seem that this make
perfect sense in light of the book's purpose: Coelho responds to a personal, spiritual awakening
that he experiencedas written in his novel, The Pilgrimage. In
The Alchemist he continues to share insights that he garnered from that
experience. His messages are timeless ones that are important to hear
regardless of the time period in which the story might have taken
place.

To me, one of Coelho's messages is that everything comes from the Soul
of the World (God) and everything will return to it:

...everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be
realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new
Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only. 

This also speaks to the constant state of change taking place in
the world everyday.

This oneness with the universe is
not a new concept by any means. The transcendentalists, for example, saw a clear connection
between man and the natural world, and the great capacity for human beings to exercise wisdom
beyond what might be expected from a mere man (or woman).

...transcendentalist literature also promotes the idea of nature as divine and the
human soul as inherently wise.

Santiago learns to
harmonize and understand nature, and he becomes wise beyond his years in paying attention to
what the world can teach him.

Another important theme is that everyone has a
purpose in the world even though many may never realize the truth of this:

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role
in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. 

Santiago learned a great deal from those who wished to help and advise him, as well as
those who took advantage of him or disagreed with his quest or his methods.

Another important message is that lovetrue lovedoes not try to
control the object of that love. The alchemist notes that Fatima, if she
truly loves Santiago, will wait for him. She will understand that he must
leave to pursue his Personal Legend, and in loving him sincerely, she will not try to stop or
discourage him in any way:

Love never keeps a man from
pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true
love.

Finally, Coelho asserts that there is only one
power in the world. This power is the Soul of the World (God), and that this power can be found
in every corner of the universe, but especially in that of love. 

...everything under the sun is written by one hand only. It is the
hand that evokes love...

The story is not set in a
specific time period because the themes Coelho addresses in the novel do not
belong to one specific era: these are timeless themes
that have endured the rise and fall of powerful civilizationsbut they
remain unaltered.

The story ends with the feeling of heat. What are the many meanings of heat in "Preludes" by Daryll Delgado?

"Preludes" by Daryll Delgado is set
in the Philippines. Therefore, the first layer of heat to consider is the real, physical heat
present in the country. With the sun high in the sky, the author describes how this heat
"seeped into people's bones." It almost makes you sweat just thinking about
it.

Another layer is the emotional heat surrounding the death anniversary
party. People are excited; they want to see what good foods are prepared and who will arrive.
Delgado describes how "the tuba warmed their blood even more." Music has a tendency to
make one's blood race and rise to the occasion.

Finally, we can think of heat
in Nenita's personal feelings toward her husband. Although it is unclear whether she loves him
in a traditional way, surely she must feel angry at his many infidelities. Anger is often
associated with burning and heat. She does not go through with the plan to poison him, but
nevertheless her emotions must have run high.

How does knowing the text help you comment on the conflict and message of "Everyday Use?"

Knowing
the text in "" allows the reader to see the conflict and message in Walker's short
story.

When we become intimately familiar with the text, the reader pays
close attention to significant moments.  For example, when the narrator describes Maggie's
reaction to Dee's arrival, knowing the text helps to reveal much:  "I hear Maggie suck in
her breath. "Uhnnnh, " is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of
a snake just in front of your foot on the road. "Uhnnnh."  Maggie inhaling and making
a sound of frustration is reflective of the conflict that exists between both sisters.  The
conflict shows how each views reality in a different manner. Dee sees reality as one that
benefits her, while Maggie sees her reality as almost secondary to her sister.  The text reveals
this at the moment that Dee asks for the handmade quilts:  "I heard something fall in the
kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed." This detail shows the dissonance
between both sisters.  It helps to reflect the conflict between them both and how possession of
the quilt will display it. Knowing the text brings this out and helps the reader understand more
about the family dynamics.

Paying attention to the text also helps to
illuminate the story's theme.  The collision between superficiality and authenticity is seen at
different points in the text.  Examples of this would be the language that describes the yard as
"more comfortable than most people know" and when Dee discrediting her sister when she
says  "Maggie would put them [the quilts] on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags.
Less than that!" Knowing the text and appreciating these moments help the reader recognize
the story's thematic development.  

What is the conflict between Higgins and Alfred Doolittle in "Pygmalion"?

Initially,
it is one of money. Higgins and Doolittle both know that Doolittle only comes to profit off
Eliza being there. As Doolittle attempts to dissuade Higgins of this, Higgins begins to like him
and offer him more money. The conflict then centers over Doolittle's desire to remain in the
poorest class of society. If he is poor, he has no responsibility and no one expects anything of
him. Later, this conflict arises again. Doolittle is given money because of Higgins praise.
Doolittle is suddenly thrown into the middle class, and now must suffer from "middle class
morality." His life of freeloading and wasting is over.

If you could change the setting of this story what would you change it to or would you just change the period & why would you make these changes ? If...

I wouldn't
be inclined to change the setting.  It's very well done as is...in this age where young girls
are in danger of disappearing at the hands of psycho-sexual predators, it is very relevant and
moving.  I love the point of view and the...

What is Dee's idea of heritage in the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker?

Dee's idea of heritage
is that it is something that is past, something to preserve by hanging it on the wall or doing
"something artistic with it."  This contrasts Mama and Maggie's view of heritage: that
it is something to be used today, something that is very much present, something we honor by
keeping it alive and part of our lives.  Rather than hang the quilts on the wall, Mama and
Maggie use them; rather than make a centerpiece with the butter churn top or dasher as Dee will
do, they actually use them for the purpose for which they are intended.  Maggie knows how to
quilt, a skill she has learned from her family, and she knows the stories that go along with all
of the items Dee wants.  Telling the...

What problems did Okonkwo face in Things Fall Apart that led to his downfall?

is one
of Umuofia's most prominent warriors and the story's , whose fear of being viewed as weak
directly contributes to his downfall. He fears being a failure like his father and develops into
an aggressive, intimidating man whose intolerance and violent instincts lead to his
demise.

Okonkwo is initially punished for beating his wife during the Week of
Peace and is haunted by guilt after killingagainst the oracle's instructions. Okonkwo's decision
to participate in Ikemefuna's death completely ruins his relationship with his son, , who ends
up converting to Christianity, and it leaves Okonkwo feeling guilt-stricken and ashamed. Okonkwo
also accidentally kills Ezedus son during a funeral, which is considered a female crime against
the earth goddess and so results in his seven-year exile.

During Okonkwo's
exile, he loses his titles, and the Christian missionaries establish a base on the outskirts of
Umuofia. The Christian church gradually gains power and...

Identify essential informaton or details from Book I, Chapter 4 of 1984.

One of
the most important details to emerge from Book I, Chapter 4 of 's work is the discussion of's
job at the Ministry of Truth.  It is through Winston's professional being that one gains full
insight into how the Party holds so much power in Oceania.  An important detail is here is how
language is reconfigured, stressing one of Orwell's points that language is a form of power.
 Words, writing, and...

What words did Axel see when he fanned himself with the document in Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Axel is
a reluctant hero. He is at his core incredibly cautious, and he knows that the Professor is (and
will thus act) the opposite way. The prot©g© initially hopes to keep his uncle from even
seeing the document and from realizing its significance:

If he should turn this document round and round, his may by chance discover the key! I
shall destroy it.

Initially, he and
Professor...

What are the characteristics common to all of the arts in the Baroque Period?

There are
three main tendencies to all forms of the Baroque, including painting, sculpture, architecture,
and music.

The first is related to the Counter-Reformation, also known as the
Catholic Reformation and the Catholic Revival. The Jesuit order was created out of this
movement, which developed in response to the Protestant Reformation and encouraged more
intellectualism among Catholics. The proponents of the Counter-Reformation sought to promote art
and architecture that would inspire great awe in the faithful, reminding them of the grandeur of
the divine. An example of this in sculpture would be Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy
of Saint Teresa, which employs Classical conventions in
sculpture while also relying heavily on mannerisms and strong emotional effects on the
viewer.

The second convention was...

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In "Eveline," is Eveline characterized using the direct or indirect characterization methiod?

In
the short story ","describes Eveline through indirect .is a method by which the reader
is made a participant in the life and conflict of the character because all understanding of the
character comes from the reader's ability to understand the meaning of actions, attitudes,
thoughts, feelings, perceptions, emotions, and conversations or comments.

By
contrast,presents exactly what the author wants the reader to know about the character in order
to hasten the character revelation and understanding process in order that the action may be
undertaken more expeditiously (quickly). This direct method of characterization is most
effective in adventure stories, action stories, and science

What does Higgins claim he could do by changing Eliza in Pygmalion?

Higgins
in a professor of linguistics and the creator of a universal alphabet. He has spent his life
studying dialects. Prior to engaging with Eliza, he has been taking notes in a crowd, recording
their geographical background by means of their pronunciation. On a bet, he says he could take
Eliza's low class Cockney flower girl and pass her off as a Duchess among the upper classes. The
fun of this very fun play is to see the transformation and the big test, in which Eliza, in
fact, does convince even the most discerning among the upper classes that she is
well-bred.

Shaw wrote plays to satirize his contemporaries, and
satirizes prejudice regarding language. In England, class created a
seemingly insurmountable economic and social barrier. Even today, people alter theiror accent to
seem more "posh," and the Upper Received Pronunciation (formally called The King's
English) that others associate with "proper English" was a largely invented accent.
Shaw was interested in the...

Is there a citable quote from The Lovely Bonesthat describes the theme? (Grief, family and relationships, etc.) I must have a quote to describe the...

The one
thing that occurs to me is the first chapter.  There is so much in this one chapter that ties
into the themes of the book. 

The man who murdered Susie offers his
condolences to her mother and Susie who is in her heaven by this time tells the
reader...

Please explain the meaning of the poem "Revenge" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

The poem
Revenge by the 19th-century English poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon expresses
the vindication of a scorned lover. The poem begins by recognizing the speaker's former lover's
appreciation of her rival's attributes:

Ay, gaze upon
her rose-wreathed hair,

And gaze upon her smile;

Seem as you drank the very air

Her breath perfumed the
while

By immediately presenting her rival as worthy of
attentionthrough images such as "rose-wreathed hair" and "breath
perfumed"the speaker perfectly sets up her cutting observation in the poem's third
stanza:

The eye averted as you passd,

Spoke more than words could speak.

What could be
more fitting of a revenge than watching he who rejected her, rejected by his new object of
admiration?

This satisfaction is mitigated, however, by the speaker's
benevolent nature:

I would not wish to see you
laid

Within an early tomb;

I should forget how you
betrayd,

And only weep your doom:

Her love, even though she was wronged, is not easily diminished. Thoughts of
her...

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Why does Douglass make the point that a slaveholder who has fathered a child is likely to be tougher on that child?

I think
that Douglass' primary motivation in pointing this point of view about the slaveholder's child
is to reflect the psychological destruction that is so intrinsic to slavery.  Douglass shows
slavery to be both bad and psychologically damaging to everyone.  On one hand, the child who has
a slaveowner father, yet is a slave is one who suffers intense psychological trauma.  Their
lives are in bondage, yet they were brought into this world by one parent who is not a slave. 
This creates a divided consciousness, which, on many levels, is destructive to one's psyche. 
Douglass points this out in bringing out more opposition to the nature of slavery as one that
yields destruction and suffering on a personal level, something not as readily evident by the
outsider.  Additionally, Douglass brings out the psychological confusion of the master. 
Douglass illuminates how emotionally discombobulated and fragmented the slaveowner is.  On one
hand, they fathered a child out of their own choice.  Yet, their own self- hatred is what
compels them to mistreat this child and treat them even worse.  In this, the slave owners are
shown to be as psychologically fragmented, if not more, than the slave.

How does the Black Arts Era differ in philosophical scope from the Harlem Renaissance?

I would
say that one of the fundamental differences between the two expressions of African- American art
has to do with historical context.  For the thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, the articulation
of what it meant to be "black in America" was a newly spoken idea.  Its words, lexical
patterns of recognition, and ideas were in the infancy stage of emergence.  Black writers during
the Harlem Renaissance were amongst some of the first thinkers to put into words what it means
to be "the darker brother."  This articulation was filled with a wide range of
emotions, but it marked one of the first times where a movement of black thinkers and artists
were discussing the same topic and the divergent...

How is imagery, tone, metaphor, or symbolism evoked in the line "Rise up and be born" in Neruda's "Heights of Macchu Picchi XII"?

For
my analysis I will be referencing Mark Eisner's translation, for which I have provided the
reference link.

The tone of this poem is one that I would characterize as
visceral, gritty, and fierce. There is darkness here but also hope; remembrances of people and
occupations long gone, all in the name of bringing their stories forward into the future. The
speaker passionately addresses his deceased ancestors, seeking to give them voice, but he does
so in part by individually naming their decaying body parts and, later, his own living ones.
This gruesome and immediate bodily language exists within a larger uplifting and empowering
message. Thus, the gritty undertones underlay the fierce hope of the poem.

In
order to examine , we can turn to some examples of this visceral language. The speaker
acknowledges early on when appealing to the dead: "They will not return, your drilled-out
eyes" (line 7). There is no sparing us the image of decaying bodies; rather, the reader
must imagine along with the speaker how the remains of those buried must look. He goes on to
implore the dead to show him the "lashing whips / stuck for centuries to [their]
wounds" (lines 25€“26). Whether we want to or not, we the readers are now picturing angry
red scarstheir weapons still embedded within their flesh. We are therefore forced to confront
the cruel fates suffered by these people; there is no overlooking their hardship. Such imagery
functions to shed light on harsh realities so that we cannot ignore them or look away.

is present here largely via its subcategory of , using comparisons with
"like" or "as," with standard metaphors woven in as well. Near the end of
the poem, the speaker begins telling the dead to speak to him "as if [they] were anchored
together / Tell [him] everything, chain by chain" (lines 32€“33). These two lines are a
simile followed by a metaphor, with the metaphor being the chain links as a stand-in for lengthy
speech. Perhaps each word, sentence, or story is here represented by one link in the chain.
There is also this passage:

Sharpen the knives you
kept,
place them in my chest and in my hand,
Like a river of yellow
lightning,
like a river of buried jaguars (lines 34€“37)

There is a lot to unpack here. The knives of the dead, if placed inside the chest and
hand of the living speaker, are comparable to rivers of lightning or jaguars. These similes are
also images and symbols. The sight of a man with a river of yellow lightning running through his
chest and hand conjures up connotations of strength from within.

The river of
buried jaguars, perhaps the most convoluted phrase in the whole poem, seems to be a symbol for
the line of noble and fierce ancestry that the man carries within himself. The deceased are the
jaguars, their lineage the river, the river a flow of heritage and pride through the speaker's
veinsall imbued in him by the knives of the ancestors themselves, which contain the symbolic
potential to bestow all of the above.

This poem is rich in literary devices;
here I have begun to scratch the surface of where and how those devices are employed, though you
will find additional examples throughout the text.

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In Chapter One of 1984, what do the three slogans of the Party mean?

The
reader is introduced to these seemingly nonsensical party slogans asreads them on the Ministry
of Truth building. There is some obvious greatthat a ministry that proclaims itself as the
purveyor of truth should produce such slogans as, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery,
Ignorance is Strength" (p.6). It surely makes a mockery of what any reasonable minded
citizen would understand as logical thought, but therein we gain some understanding of the
totality of control that the government of Oceania exercises.

Just as
Newspeak seeks to mould the very language of citizens to produce the government's desired
outcomes, the meaning, the production of the three slogans is designed to twist the citizen's
logic into accepting previously thought of undesirable aspects of humanity (war, slavery,
ignorance) as normal or even as a virtue. In order to reinforce the citizenry's acceptance of
the new logic (and override the natural  human desire to question the logic of the slogans) the
state employs such apparatus as saturation propaganda, police terror and torture, and public
events like Hate Week.

The party slogans foreshadow what is to come. 's
torture of Winston involves curing Winston of his supposed insanity of not accepting party
logic. We learn during Winston's torture that the Party can successfully change 'truth' to
whatever purpose it wishes - a truly chilling exercise of power.    

What did Grandfather do while Matilda was recuperating?

After
carrying Matilda to the mansion on Bush Hill that has been turned into a hospital, Grandfather
rides to Matilda's house to let Lucille know that Mattie is in the hospital. He says, however,
that Lucille was not home when he arrived, and the house was "locked up tight as you
like." He then sends Lucille a letter at the Ludingtons at Gwynedd, where he assumes she
has gone.

Grandfather informs Matilda that five days have passed since she
was hit with her illness. She has spent all that time recuperating from yellow fever.

Grandfather exhibits his physical strength and resourcefulness in being able to carry
Matilda to Bush Hill to get help. It is lucky for her that his earlier illness was not yellow
fever, or they both might have died. However, a concern that remains is what has become of
Lucille. Grandfather makes assumptions about where she is, but he does not really
know.

Grandfather is not too happy at the current therapy of bloodletting and
purges as the preferred methods of fighting yellow fever. Mattie listens to him talk about
keeping knives away from people and worries that Dr. Kerr let too much of her mother's blood.
Mattie hopes she will not die as a result and that they can find her. But, as Grandfather
says,

Its quite a topsy turvy time were in, my
sweet.

Although the ranch opposes social norms, how does it actually impose them on its inhabitants (in The Girls by Emma Cline)?

The ranch
claims to be opposed to possessions and to money. The girls share clothes and food rather than
owning things as individuals, and they dumpster dive for food in the nearby town of Petaluma
rather than buying things, although this is also because because they have no money to spend.
Still, the social dynamics work to uphold ideas that love and validation should come from
external sources, and power is enforced through coercion, and the girl's subservience is tested
repeatedly in ways that only vulnerable people could pass. Ultimately, Evie realizes that the
counter culturalwas just attractive decoration to disguise what was actually a deeply
authoritarian cult, with the idea of freedom covering up the fact that one person, Russel, was
really in charge.

Compare and contrast what inspired the individual differences between the collages of Romare Bearden and Miriam Schapiro.

Both
Romare Bearden and Miriam Schapiro are artists who create collages. Visually their works are
quite different, but it is not surprising for two artists who practice the same art form to
share some similarities, as well.

The most obvious comparison is that they
both create collages, a relatively unique art form. Because a collage is a collection of images
and other things, it is clear that they both feel as if they can tell an effective story by
compiling these elements into a collage. 

Both of them create visually
appealing and unique pieces of art which utilize items that have value to them. In essence, they
are collectors of things that represent that which is most important to them. While this is a
point of convergence, it is also a point of divergence because they each collect different kings
of things.

Schapiro is what is described as a "femmagist," which
means she is committed to the following principles:

1. It is work by
   a woman.
2. The activities of saving and collecting are...
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How is Julia a rebel in George Orwell's 1984? I am writing an essay that asks "Is Julia a rebel from the waist down". I agree that Julia does use...

Yes,is
a rebel. Her reasons for rebelling, though, are less grandiose than 's. Winston wants to change
society through his rebellion, but Julia basically wants to break rules for the sake of breaking
rules since she hates the Party.

I like your premise for your essay. Is your
question going to be your attention getting statement or your thesis? I like it as the thesis,
but I would word it as two sided. "Although some readers see Julia as a pants down rebel,
in reality her rebellion runs much deeper than that." Something like that anyway. Get the
second half to really say what you want. You stated in your question that you already think she
is a rebel in other ways, so go with a statement that supports your thoughts. 

As for how you see her as more of a rebel is up to you. There is no doubting that she
uses her sexuality to rebel. She claims to have had sex with multiple party members. But what
makes her sexual rebellion more than just sex is the fact that she wears the Party's red belt of
chastity. That's an outright lie which is a big no no for the Party and thought police. Another
way that she rebels against the Party is by faking her fervor during the two minutes of hate.
Basically what Julia is doing with that and the red belt is trying to take Party attention off
of her, so that she can continue her little rule breaking habits and her anti Party
thoughts.

Discuss social realism in The God of Small Things.

Socialcan be defined as
works that present racial and social injustice and economic deprivation through a presentation
of characters who are facing such issues. By so doing, social realism protests against such
inequalities and injustices. When we consider this in the light of this excellent novel, it is
clear that Roy is using social realism to critique a number of different aspects of the
contemporary world, including the caste system that is still in operation in India, colonialism
and corrupt officials. However, one aspect that I found particularly striking is the reality
of...

How does Shakespeare use Hamlet to convey the humanistic ideas prevalent at the time?

is often
called the first modern hero because of his interiority: he typically thinks about what he is
doing before he acts and asks fundamental questions about the meaning of life. He conveys
humanistic ideals because he questions, rather than accepts, valued traditions, particularly the
tradition in his culture that demands a son avenge his father's murder.

We
are left in no doubt thatadmired his father and is deeply grieved by his death. He compares him
to "Hyperion," a sun god, and he makes it clear he believesis a much lesser figure
than his father.

Thus, we know that when Hamlet hesitates to kill Claudius
whentells him to do so, it is not out of lack of love for his father.

Rather
it arises out of a humanistic impulse, perhaps learned during his studies at the Wittenberg,
that causes Hamlet to question the authority of a ghost. Like the good humanist he is, Hamlet
want to test for himself whether what the ghost is saying is true.

Therefore,
he devises an experiment through the "Mousetrap" play, which reeancts the murder so
that Hamlet can watch Claudius's reaction to it.

But even after getting
confirmation of Claudius's guilt, Hamlet still hesitates, suggesting that revenge violates
deeper ethical concerns he holds. He values human life (although he has some lapses), as a
humanist would: humanists exalted human being as the crowning glory of God's creation, made in
God's image and, therefore, of exceptional worth. For example, while trying to pump himself up
to revenge his father with visions ofmarching an army to Denmark to avenge his own father's
death at the Hamlet's father's hands, Hamlet, instead, ends up questioning whether it is worth
it to sacrifice so many lives for so slim a cause as reclaiming a few feet of lost
territory.

Hamlet reflects humanistic values in his questioning of the
revenge imperative, his use of the empirical methods to test what he has been told, and his
tendency overall to reflect on life.

Describe the character of the narrator in "The Black Cat."

One word
sums up the narrator in 's story "": sociopath. A sociopath doesn't
respect laws or social rules, disregards others' rights, displays emotional and violent
behavior, and fails to feel remorse or guilt for wrong actions. The narrator in
this story is a middle-aged man whose behavior deteriorates to the point of murder. We only have
the narrator's words by which to judge him, and he tells us from the beginning he is not a
trustworthy narrator, for he says in the first sentence, "I neither expect nor solicit
belief." Not only does this reveal his untrustworthy nature, but it also indicates that
this man spurns approval or acceptance by others--he is anti-social. In the second paragraph, he
makes sure we know that the "docility and humanity of my disposition" was remarkable
from the time he was a baby. This statement we take with a huge grain of salt. The likelier
scenario is that, as a child, he was a terror, but he saw himself as peaceful and
loving. 

An example he gives of what a kind person he was is that he took in
many pets as a child. However, reading between the lines here, we can guess that he didn't like
people and they didn't like him, and that's what led him to embrace the company of animals. His
estrangement from people could well have been caused by his lack of respect for social
rules. 

Nevertheless, the man does marry, and his wife takes in pets. Perhaps
this is because she is not getting her companionship needs met by her husband. As the years go
by, the man turns to alcohol, and to this he attributes the fact that he "grew, day by day,
more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others." This shows other
characteristics of a sociopath: emotional, violent, and heedless of others' rights. Indeed, he
verbally abuses and beats his wife. He cuts out Pluto's eye with his pen knife, and he
eventually murders the cat.

Through all these episodes, the narrator cannot
feel true remorse. The level of remorse he feels is "a feeble and equivocal feeling, and
the soul remained untouched." Although in the first part of the story he blames his actions
on his "disease" of alcoholism, in the second part he has dropped that excuse and the
second black cat becomes the thing that causes him to act the way he does. He never fully takes
responsibility for his actions. Even in the process of writing his confession, he can never
quite confess, for in the penultimate sentence he attributes his actions to the "hideous
beast whose craft had seduced me into murder."

In this story, Poe has
given us the portrait of a sociopath. 

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Analogies?!! How to deal with this GRE analogies?I found them hard. Here is a question.Whats the correct answer? Quibble: Objections A. Play: Actor...

I agree with
#2, but for different reasons. A quibble is a minor quarrel or argument, and objections are
usually part of the disagreement.

Therefore, seek thethat presents a whole
compared to a part, that answer being E -- Miniutiae is a whole set of smaller details. For
instance,...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, what is a foot-washing Baptist, according to Miss Maudie?

In , page
24, Miss Maudie tellsthat the reason that , or Arthur Radley (as she insists Scout calls him),
stays at home is that his father was a foot-washing baptist. According to Miss Maudie,
"foot-washers believe anything that is a pleasure is a sin." She even says that some
of them told her that "my flowers were going to hell." They thought that Miss Maudie
was committing a sin because she spent more time admiring and sitting in her garden than staying
inside reading the Bible.

From this perspective, it is no wonder that Boo
Radley stays in his house. He has grown up to believe that he should take the Bible literally.
According to Miss Maudie, foot-washers believe that even women are a sin.

How did the economic systems of the North and South become different in the early 1800s?

The
economic systems of the North and South had been diverging for some time, but this process
accelerated and became more pronounced as a result of the Industrial Revolution. Put simply, the
North became more industrialized, and the South, especially the Deep South, became more
dependent on the cultivation of cotton. This also meant that slavery became more entrenched in
the South, and in fact expanded dramatically in terms of the numbers of enslaved people.
Southerners with money increasingly invested it in land and slaves, both of which (as a general
trend) became more expensive as time went on. Because the dominant industry in the North before
the Civil War was textiles, the South's cotton economy and that of the North (as well as Great
Britain) were bound together economically. However, the South chafed under some of the economic
policies, particularly protective tariffs, that benefited the North rather than the planter
class in the South. Additionally, Northerners became convinced that their economic system, based
on free labor, was morally superior to that of the South. So the divergence of economic systems
led to a divergence in politics and culture that would prove disastrous for the
nation.

What do you think of Ms. Caroline as a teacher? What do you think of Ms. Caroline as a teacher? Can you find qualities which make her good or not so...

I agree with
Jamie.  I didn't like her techniques and her refusal to allow students to do things beyond when
the teacher or state says they will learn them.  There is such a thing as differentiated
curriculum, and you must make adjustments for students who are more advanced than the present
curriculum as well as for those who are behind it.  Ms. Caroline is determined to make all of
her students round pegs to fit in the round holes...but some of them are square pegs and need
different holes into which to fit...

What is the townspeople's predominant viewpoint of the supernatural at the start of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and what accounts for this?

The narrator
claims that there is a "drowsy, dreamy influence" pervading the landscape. The people
of Tarry Town and Sleepy Hollow have differing mysterious theories for the eerieof the area they
live: 

Some say that the place was bewitched by a
high German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief,
the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his pow-wows there before the country was discovered by
Master Hendrick Hudson. 

Consequently, the townspeople
share stories of myths and legends. There is gossip of some folks hearing voices, haunted areas,
and tall tales. The most famous tale is that of the headless horseman. He had been a Hessian
soldier during the Revolutionary War. The narrator adds that even outsiders who spend a little
time in the Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown area begin to have similar dreams and hallucinations. There
is something about the landscape and/or the general culture of this small town that creates an
atmosphere of mystery and superstition. 

The main reason for this history and
continuing culture of supernatural interest is the fact that the area has remained the same over
time. While the rest of the country is undergoing progress, Sleepy Hollow remains unchanged,
isolated, as if it is stuck in time (in the past). These small towns and areas are,
metaphorically, similar to small nooks or pools of water that sit off to the side (isolated,
frozen in time) of the much faster current (historical progress): 

They are like those little nooks of still water which border a rapid stream; where we
may see the straw and bubble riding quietly at anchor, or slowly revolving in their mimic
harbor, undisturbed by the rush of the passing current. 

In The Bronze Bow, how is Joel helped by Jesus?

When the
novel begins, Joel is a young scholar being readied to become a Rabbi and teacher at the
synagogue. His meeting with Daniel inflames his patriotism, and he starts to ignore his studies
and follow the path of a warrior, despite being unsuited for it. He is not as directly affected
by Jesus as Daniel and Thacia, and he continues to desire conflict until Daniel, of all people,
convinces him that his studies will be...

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How is "Battle Royal" an archetypal initiation story?

Anis a
model that other similar things emulate and/or try to copy. While not every initiation story
fits a perfect mold, they often have several similarities. One example is that most initiation
stories have a young . That is true of the literature piece in question. A second key piece of
an initiation story is that the protagonist needs to be a dynamic character. He or she needs to
come in with one set of experiences and one type of worldview. The story will end with that
character having gone through something traumatic. That experience results in a change in
knowledge about the protagonist and/or the larger world around that character, and that change
will be permanent. " " has these...

What are some good topics or themes that I could to use to lead a class discussion pertaining to Olivia Butlers, Kindred?

This fascinating novel
clearly concerns the theme of slavery and our relationship with it, both today and in the past.
There are a number of sections of the novel where characters realise that the wall protecting
them and separating them from the radically different world of slavery in their own country just
a few years ago is actually very porous. This should lead us to really think about and consider
what the impact of slavery and the kind of violence, segregation and complete power that whites
over blacks have in this story impacts us today. Through the motif of time travel the author
allows two very different worlds to collide, and this collision changes Dana permanently
forever. How does the novel change us?

Secondly, you might like to think
about some of the choices Dana makes to ensure her own survival, both in the past and then
through trying to ensure her survival in the future, as a descendant of the characters that she
meets. Was she right to persuade Alice to sleep with Rufus so that she wouldn't be beaten again?
Should she have tried to teach some of the slaves to read? An important aspect of this story is
the way in which the author suggests a different moral code was in order from the Christian idea
of ethics. In such a world of slavery where you are deprived of every right, is it morally
acceptable to sleep with your white master to avoid torture and pain? Such issues force us to
evaluate our own morals and ethics and to consider how context-specific they are.

These are some issues and questions that should get you started. I have provided some
links below that should also help. Good luck!

In My Beauty Suit: How My Year of Modesty Made Me a Better Feminist, how does Shields compare and contrast the women she observes around fifth avenue...

In The Beauty Suit,
Lauren Shields describes the women she sees on the subway around Fifth Avenue. They all smell of
expensive perfume and manage to keep their hair exquisitely coiffed despite the weather. They
wear fitted, fashionable clothes, have full faces of make-up, and wear high-heeled
shoes.

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Shields sees Hasidic women in headscarves
and long, flowing skirts. Their clothes are loose, modest, and comfortable. However, Shields
emphasizes, these women still look stylish. They just do not follow fashions, as they appear to
be focused on something more important. The author thought they must have a good reason for
dressing in this way and that she too wanted a reason. She feels that the women on Fifth Avenue
are dressing to impress others, even if only because they regard this as part of their job,
whereas the women in Williamsburg are dressing as they themselves wish.

What literary devices are in chapter 22 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

In ,uses , a type of
figurative language that involves exaggeration, when she says, "The kitchen table was
loaded with enough food to bury the family: hunks of salt pork, tomatoes, beans, even
scuppernongs." While there is a lot of food that people have given Atticus to thank him for
defending Tom Robinson, it's an exaggeration to say that the food would bury the family. The
bountiful food is also a symbol of the African American community's gratitude toward Atticus for
defending Tom Robinson. 

Later in the chapter there is another example of
hyperbole when Scout says, "Mr. Avery was red in the face from a sneezing spell and nearly
blew us off the sidewalk when we came up." While Mr. Avery sneezes a great deal, Scout is
exaggerating by saying that he is going to blow her, , and Dill off the sidewalk with his
sneezing. 

Dill later reports that Aunt Rachel said, "If a man likewants
to butt his head against a stone wall, its his head." In this example, Aunt Rachel is using
ato compare Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson (which she considers pointless and useless) to the
stupid act of hitting his head against a hard wall.

In another part of the
chapter, Dill says of Aunt Rachel, using a metaphor, "Shes just seein too many snakes in
the closet." This metaphor involves using the idea of seeing snakes to represent the way
that people who drink too much alcohol often see things that aren't there. This is also anto the
way in which alcoholics are supposed to see snakes when they are withdrawing from drinking. Dill
later says of Aunt Rachel and Miss Stephanie, Every one of €˜em oughta be ridin broomsticks.
Aunt Rachel already does. He uses a metaphor to compare the hateful and spiteful women of the
town to witches. 

Jem says in this chapter that living in Maycomb is
"like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon, thats what it is, he said. Like somethin asleep
wrapped up in a warm place." He uses ato express the way he has felt about growing up
protected in Maycomb, as he now realizes that there is a wider world that is not as protected or
warm. 

In
Coelho's , the author's message regarding love is two-fold. About love in
general, the reader learns that it is the one constant in the world. When the desert asks
Santiago to describe what love is, the theme of constancy is present in his answer. Love is what
links the falcon to man and man to the desert. Love is in all things of the world. Even the sun
remains distant from the world it loves so as not to cause it harm. Love is
everywhere.

With regard specifically to Fatima, Coelho seems to be saying
that those who love you will not get in your way or try to hold you back. They will wait
patiently as you follow the path that enables you to realize your dreams. The alchemist
(speaking of Fatima) tells Santiago:

 

Love never keeps a man from pursuing his personal legend. If he abandons that
pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

 

It is important to note that Santiago is devoted to Fatima, but
believes he must also pursue his Personal Legend. He does not ask her to wait...

What were the main threats to and boundaries of freedom during the American Revolution?

The best
way to answer this question is to begin with the boundaries of freedom. Most leaders during the
Revolution did not advocate for freedom in the sense that we usually use the word. They pushed
for independence from Great Britain but hoped that they would retain control over the affairs of
the new nation.

Most did not support democracy and reacted with horror when
some revolutionary state conventionsPennsylvania's in particularestablished even modestly
democratic constitutions that afforded voting rights to ordinary men. So the Revolution
indisputably had boundaries based on class, but those regarding enslaved people and Native
Americans were the most pronounced.

While the egalitarianism of the
Revolution led some Northern states to embark on a course of gradual emancipation, there was a
different picture in Southern states. Enslaved peoples viewed the British as a potentially
liberating force after Virginia's royal governor proclaimed freedom to all slaves who would
assist in putting down the rebellion. In the Carolinas, thousands of enslaved men and women
flocked to Cornwallis's invading army in 1780€“81.

Native Americans, too,
generally supported the British, believing them the best bulwark between their lands and
American settlers and speculators. For these people, the narrative of freedom surrounding the
Revolution was essentially inverted. For many Americans, the biggest threat to freedom was the
revolutionaries who sought to stamp out Loyalism, often at the expense of
neutrals.

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What play does the line, "I can, therefore I am" come from?

This
question has already been answered.  Here is...

What role does the fear of abandoment play in Willy's life in "Death of a Salesman"?

As
unfolds, we see the unravelling of Willy Loman's life and mind. As
his current life falls apart around him, Willy retreats more and more into the past, always
revising history as he goes. He has created a family history that fulfills his American Dream
but which is far from the truth. There is a deep need in Willy to be a hero to his sons and a
stalwart husband to his wife, and it could be argued that this need has its roots in the traumas
of Willy's early life. Increasingly, during the course of the play, we see the shadow
remembrance of Ben, Willy's older brother who went into the jungles of Africa and came out a
rich man. Ben has become an icon in Willy's pantheon of heroes, but is Ben real? The abandonment
of his younger brother to a much lesser life has certainly scarred Willy in ways from which he
can never recover. He is unable to blame Ben for abandoning him, seeing him instead as a hero of
mythic proportions. To shore up his own self-esteem, he borrows...

Cite an example of historiographic metafiction in the novel.

Historiography
is the study of the historical process - historical methods, biases, authorship, etc.
Metafiction is also sometimes referred to as illusory , fiction that may not be fiction, fiction
that has elements of reality, fiction that blurs the connection between what is real and what is
not real. I know, it sounds convoluted.

Linda Hutcheon, a Canadian academic
and literary critic, coined this term. It means, in her words, works that "are well-known
and popular novels which are both intensely self-reflexive and yet paradoxically also lay claim
to historical events and personages".

The novel is sometimes referred
to as a "non-fiction novel" because it is based on events that actually occured (the
murder of the Clutter family in Kansas by two ex-convicts, Dick Hickock...

What is the meaning of the lline,"the scarlet letter has not done its office"? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This phrase
comes from Chapter XIII of , a chapter that many have perceivedas, like Ann Hutchinson, a rising
feminist.  For, while she has subjugated her independence of thought to the care and safety of
her child, she has not achieved repentance for her sin with a renewal of Puritan faith. 
Instead, she feels a cold despair, wondering if

it were
for ill or good that the poor little creaature had been born at all.

In fact, the same question arises in Hester's mind regarding
"the whole race of womanhood." She ponders the "hopeless task" of
independence for women who must abandon the priorities of the heart if they are to be able to
achieve any recognition as individuals and who must see an entire reform of society if there are
to be "mightier reforms."  Certainly, they cannot be a part of the Puritan community
with its denial of the spirit of woman.  Ironically, then, it is Hester's mark of the scarlet
letter and isolation from the Puritan community that has drawn her farther away from the thought
of her sect as it has afforded her the distance and independence necessary to such ponderings. 
Indeed, the scarlet letter has not done its office of molding Hester into a true
Puritan.

Why does Emerson criticize schools as bureaucratic institutions?

The great
Transcendentalist who wrote perceives in the bureaucracies of public
school the "costly machinery against nature" in which the modes of education aim to
save labor and expedite learning rather than exercising the patience of Nature:

Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods
in our own business -- in education our common sense fails us, and we are continually trying
costly machinery against nature, in patent schools and academies and in great colleges and
universities.

When the teacher must watch the clock,
teach several classes in which the "dullard" is mixed in with the "genius,"
there can no true learning, Emerson contends.  For, there is no mechanical method that can
nurture both minds at the same time.  Emerson states that the following of nature

...involves at once immense claims on the...

What is the character of Glauce/Creusa like in Euripides' Medea?

I agree with
the earlier comment that ' shaping of the character of Glauce is rather non-existent. The only
glimpse we get of Glauce's character comes at around line 1135ff, when she accepts the gifts of
clothing from Jason's children ( has laced the gifts with poison so that when Creon's daughter
puts them on she will be killed).

Once Glauce sees the gifts, then she seems
to be cast by Euripides as a stereotyped woman who can be won over by lovely trinkets. She
immediately puts aside her disdain for Jason's sons, accepts the gifts, and...

Why did Winston flee parents?

doesn't mention
his father; only his younger sister and mother are discussed.  I don't think flee is the best
term in this case.  Winston temporarily leaves his family due to the guilt he feels over
stealing food from his sister.  When he returns, he has been separated (dreams -a tad unclear)
from his relations.  The Party must destroy the familial unit in order to remain
all-powerful.  The Party is responsible for Winston's detachment from his bloodline.

Describe the use of literary elements such as point of view, irony and tone in 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.

The
point of view is that of the fictional character Diedrich Knickerbocker who claims to have heard
the story from an old gentleman. Knickerbocker's account in turn is presented by the fictional
collector Geoffrey Crayon, who has put together the Sketch Book, the volume
in which this story appears. Therefore there are several narrative layers to this story, which
has a certain distancing effect on the actual events and characters; they are presented at
several removes. 

This distancing effect is increased by the ironic, or more
specifically mock-heroic tone employed in the narrative. Ichabod Crane is cast as a gallant
lover, or would-be lover who faces a fearsome challenge from a rival. He is described in terms
comparable to epic heroes of...

In Hills Like White Elephants, Hemingway mentions the train comes in 40 minutes and stops for 2 minutes. Is the time factor relevant?

I don't
see the time factor as immediately relevant in terms of the plot.  Yet, I think that it is
significant in terms of what Hemingway sets out to do in the short story.  One of the reasons
why this short story is so powerful is that it really shows an example of Hemingway wanting to
recreate "a moment," an instant in the life of two people.  He does this with a
recreation of everything, a sense that he is the author but also one that prevents him from
coloring this recreation with his own bias.  He wants to use language to recreate
"everything" about that moment, that instant where...

Does Paulo Coelho use the sheep symbolically in The Alchemist? Explain.

First, many
literary critics see Santiago's role of a shepherd in 's as a parallel to
Christ's persona of the "Good Shepherd. This literally describes
Santiagohe is a young man with a gentle spirit who cares for his sheep,
knowing them as if they were his children.

In actuality, sheep are very
smart. In the Middle East, when herds of sheep water at the same place, the sound of the
shepherd's voice is easily distinguishable to the sheep so that they separate from the other
sheep and don't become mixed in with other sheep.

With these associations in
mind, I believe that in the context of the story, the sheep know and trust
Santiago. He leads them, protects them, makes sure they are fed, and sleeps with them at night.
There is often an association with sheep that they passively follow, and one who is referred to
as a sheep is considered to be a person that has little sense of self, but
must trail behind another. In truth, it seems that the sheep are actually showing their
intelligence. Wandering off separates them from the herd, but also from the person who feeds and
cares for them. I am reminded of the saying that refers to "biting the hand that feeds
you." The sheep seem to know better.

To address your original question,
I don't know if I can find a way to see the sheep as symbolic of people in life. The story is
about Santiago, and the sheep are important to the development of the plot
because they allow Santiago to travel. We learn early on that Santiago's father wanted him to be
a priest, but the boy did not want to always stay in one place: he wanted to see the world, and
keeping sheep allowed him to do this. If anything, I think that the sheep become symbolic of an
easier but ignorant time of the boy's life. "Ignorant" here does not refer to
foolish or obnoxious as we may sometimes use the word,
but as naive and lacking knowledge.

The one time Santiago shows what we might
consider to be a "flaw" is when he is robbed and learns that he will have to work for
a year with the crystal merchant to earn only a portion of the money he
would need to travel to Egypt. This information is staggering to him, as is his immediate loss
of faith. Now that he knows his Personal Legend, he comes to a crossroad where he must decide to
return to the past, but knowing what he will have missed (as does the crystal merchant) or
overcome his disappointment and move forward. At first he decides to work to make enough money
to buy more sheep, indicating his choice not to follow his dream.

There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep. No sound
from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. No
hope, no adventure, no old kings or Personal Legends, no treasure, and no Pyramids. It was as if
the world had fallen silent because the boy's soul had. He sat there€¦wishing he had died, and
that everything would end forever at that moment.

He
turns to the merchant and says:

I'll work for you€¦I need
money to buy some sheep.

It is only
after he has worked for the merchant for close to a year and has learned
about the merchant's lost opportunity to follow his dream, that Santiago decides against the
sheep.

Other than a device that allows Santiago to travel and begin his
quest, I don't see the sheep as symbolic of people todaybased primarily on the context of the
story.

What key events occur between Magwitchs death and Pips meeting with Estella in Great Expectations?

When
Magwitch dies, Pip has to deal with the effects of everything that has happened.  First of all,
he is in bad health from the burns he sustained with Miss Havisham and the exhaustion from
trying to get Provis out.  His financial health is even worse.

At once I put bills up in the windows; for, I was in debt, and had scarcely any money,
and began to be seriously alarmed by the state of my affairs. (ch 57, p. 310)

The next thing that happens is Pip is arrested for one of his
debts.  Delirious, Pip languishes in fever until Joe bails him out.  Pip tells Joe what has
happened to him, and who his benefactor was.  He returns home, and finds that people treat him
differently since he is not rich.  For example, the Blue Boar staff do not treat him
well.

Whereas the Boar had cultivated my good opinion with
warm assiduity when I was coming into property, the Boar was exceedingly cool on the subject now
that I was going out of property. (ch 58, p. 318)

Pip
learns that Biddy and Joe are married.  He sells everything he has, and takes a job as a clerk
in Clarriker and Co.  He does well there for eleven years, during which time Herbert marries
Clara.  Joe and Biddy have a son and name him Pip.  Pip returns to England, and decides to visit
Satis House.

In The Scarlet Letter, how does Hawthorne change his style of rhetoric to denote the changes in Chillingworth, Hester, and Dimmesdale?

In
demonstrates changes in his majorthrough his use of . Diction, in this
case, refers to word choice.

is initially characterized as feeling the sting
of public shame over her sin of adultery. Although she is defiant to some degree (which is why
she embroidered the scarlet letter so ornately), she accepts her role as an outcast and allows
herself to be manipulated by Chillingworth when she promises not to reveal that he is her
husband. InHawthorne shows how Hester has developed with the following passage:

Strengthened by years of hard and solemn trial, she felt herself no
longer so inadequate to cope withas on that night, abased by sin, and half maddened by the
ignomity that was still new, when they had talked together in the prison chamber. She had
climbed her way, since then to a higher point.

Hawthorne's choice of words, especially ". . . climbed her way . . . to a higher
point" signify that Hester has grown stronger over the years and overcome the stigma of the
scarlet letter and public humiliation she has had to endure.

Roger
Chillingworth is initially characterized to the reader as a man who has been wronged by his
wife. As he befriendsand assumes the role of his physician his character begins to develop in a
suspicious manner. The reader has to wonder if his intentions are pure or if he has ulterior
motives regarding Dimmesdale. Finally, when Hester meets with him to let him know that she will
expose his secret, he is described this way:

It seemed to
be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile; but the latter played him false,
and flickered over his visage so derisively, that the spectator could see his blackness all the
better for it. Ever and anon, too, there came a glare of red light out of his eyes; as if the
old mans soul were on fire, and kept on smouldering duskily within his breast, until, by some
casual puff of passion, it was blown into a momentary flame.

Look at the key words that Hawthorne uses: false, derisively, blackness, glare, red
light out of his eyes, soul on fire, smouldering duskily. These words depict a man who is filled
with hate and the desire to injure another.

Dimmesdales character is
suffering with guilt from the beginning of the story. InHawthorne develops him further with the
following exchange with Hester Prynne:

Alas, what a ruin
has befallen thee! said Hester, with the tears gushing into her eyes. Wilt thou die for very
weakness? There is no other cause!

The judgment of God is on me, answered
the conscience-stricken priest. It is too mighty for me to struggle with!

Heaven would show mercy, rejoined Hester, hadst thou but the strength to take
advantage of it.

Be thou strong for me! answered he. Advise me what to
do.

Again, look at the words: ruin, befallen, die,
weakness, judgment, conscience-stricken, struggle. Here, the reader sees Dimmesdale, who is
highly regarded by the public, asking Hester, the fallen woman, what he should do. This is a
complete reversal of the expected roles of these two characters. Hawthorne shows how far
Dimmesdale has fallen and how weak he has become by showing him powerless and lost in the
presence of Hester.

What happens to Oedipus's children at the end of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles?

andhave
four children, two boys and two girls; Oedipus's children are also his half-siblings. Obviously
this is a horrific truth, and of course neither Jocasta not Oedipus would have been in this
relationship if they had known the truth. In  by , this truth is not
revealed until the end of the play. 

When Jocasta realizes the truth, she
hangs herself; when Oedipus realizes the truth, he gouges his eyes out as punishment and
immediately demands even more punishment from his brother-in-law/uncle , who is now
king.

The blind, broken Oedipus calls for his children; when he hears crying,
he knows they are his daughters (I'll just call them that, since it gets a little complicated to
identify their relationship accurately every time I reference them) and he calls them to him. He
says this:

      I weep for you. Although I cannot see,
      I
think about your life in days to come,
      the bitter life which men will force on
you.
      What citizens will associate with
you?                                      
      What feasts will you attend and not
come home
      in tears, with no share in the
rejoicing?                                                
      When youre mature
enough for marriage,
      who will be there for you, my children,
      what
husband ready to assume the shame
      tainting my children and their children,
too?....
                                             
      Who, then, will
marry you? No one, my children.
      You must wither, barren and unmarried.

The story ends before we can know whether the things Oedipus predicted came true, but
we know that what he says is probably the girls' new reality. They will be treated as monsters
by others and will have to endure shame and insults from everyone because of what Oedipus and
Jocasta did. Oedipus is afraid that no one will ever want to marry them, which is probably true;
and he sees a dire future of barren singleness for the daughters he loved. He does not say this,
but remember that, until just a few moments ago, these girls were princesses, daughters of a
king. Now they are the object of scorn, ridicule, and shame for all to see.

Oedipus then makes an appeal to Creon, both as king and as uncle to the
girls:

      Do not let them live as vagrant paupers,
     
wandering around unmarried. You are
      a relative of theirsdont let them
sink
      to lives of desperation like my own.
      Have pity. You see them
now at their young age                      
      deprived of everything except a
share
      in what you are. Promise me, you noble soul,
      you will extend
your hand to them. 

Notice that he asks Creon to take care of them, not to
find them husbands or raise their social standing. This, Oedipus believes, is the best his
daughters can hope for in these circumstances. His last words to the girls are as
follows:

      pray that you may live as best you can
      and lead
your destined life more happily
      than your own father.

We do
not know, at the end of this play, what happens to his daughters; we do learn the fates of three
of Oedipus's children in .

Explain how the theme of prejudice and discrimination within the Holocaust is portrayed in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

uses a
series of techniques to explore the themes of discrimination and prejudice in The Boy
in the Striped Pyjamas.

First, he writes the story through the
eyes of Bruno, a pretty normal German boy, whose father is an SS Officer. Through doing this,
Boyne is able to present the Holocaust through a set of innocent eyes, almost blind to the
indoctrination and ideologies that underpinned the Holocaust shared by adults. Bruno finds it
difficult to understand why certain people (Jews) are treated badly. The book goes further by
exploring this discrimination through the friendship Bruno forms with Schmuel, the Jewish boy in
the Death Camp. He has no understanding why this friendship should be forbidden, but knows that
society is telling them that they should be enemies.

Another way the book
explores the themes of prejudice and discrimination is by presenting a range of Nazi characters
from particularly harsh ones (like Lt. Kotler) to Bruno's father who is portrayed as a kinder
man...

How does the author's tone, in "The Necklace," contribute to the theme of the story?

There are three
different themes seen in 's short story "": Appearance and Reality, Class Conflict and
Generosity and Greed.

Through Maupassant's use of a third person omniscient
narrator (a narrator who simply states the action of the story without involvement or
judgement), he impresses upon the reader a sense of dislike for those who try to be something
they are not.

The narrator simply states the character of Madame Loisel, her
views upon her social ranking, and what she is willing to do to feel a part of the class which
she so desperately wishes to belong to. The narrator's stand, therefore, is one which fails to
connect with the characters (which could tend to sway the reader).

The
author tone is shown through the voice of the "removed" narrator. Without having the
narrator actually involved with the characters, Maupassant allows readers to judge for
themselves the characters depicted in the story (given the narrator has no direct impact upon
the reader). Through this, Maupassant is showing his own tone regarding the greedy and
manipulative. Essentially, Maupassant finds the greedy and manipulative interesting enough to
construct a story about them (while teaching to accept what one has), but he does not
"like" them enough to move them using a tone which could connect the reader to the
characters (other than the pity one may have for M. Loisel given his wife forced their poverty).

How do the characters in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time communicate without words?

, by , is a story that
contains many elements of fantasy and science . One of them is the ability of people from earth
to travel to other planets, and on those planets are creatures which would be considered aliens.
The story is a battle between good and evil, and it is fought primarily (at least by humans) by
three members of the Murry family--Mr. Murry and two of his children, Meg and Charles
Wallace--and a new friend of the two children, Calvin O'Keefe.

One of the
ways they are able to fight the force of evil called IT is through a kind of telepathic
communication L'Engle calls "kything." While Calvin does seem to be connected to the
two Murry children, the connection between Meg and her brother is the strongest. It is these two
who are able to save their father and their planet from the evil of IT.

One
thing kything can do is send multisensory images, without any speaking, over distance, as in
this example with Meg:

The movement assumed shape and
form, and images were kythed to her mind's eye, visual projections, superimposed swiftly one
over the other; she tried to send them to Mr. Jenkins:

a primordial fern
forest;

a giant bed of kelp swaying to submarine currents;

a primeval forest of ancient trees, with rough, silver bark....

To
the visual images music was added....

Of course the other
way kything works is to send spoken messages, or fragments of messages, to another person. In
fact, at the end of the novel, Meg manages to save Charles Wallace by kything him her love and
encouragement, which were stronger than the hate emanating from IT.

In short,
in this young adult novel, certain characters are able to communicate telepathically (without
physically speaking) through kything. 

Write a case study analysis paper about Nancy Wexler

According to the
interview with Nancy Wexler published on the Huntington Study Group site (see the link below),
Nancy Wexler, Ph.D., began the study to find the gene that causes Huntington disease (HD) after
her mother fell ill with this disease. Wexler, now the Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology at
Columbia, also serves as President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation.

In
1979, Wexler, along with colleagues, journeyed to Venezuela to find the gene that causes HD.
They studied a family that had HD and collected over 4,000 blood samples and drew up a pedigree
of the extended family, comprising 18,000 people. They were looking for a person with a
homozygous HD gene, meaning a gene that only had the genetic variation that causes HD. Near Lake
Maracaibo, they found children with the juvenile form of HD. These children, along with HD
homozygous individuals, helped them locate the gene that causes HD along chromosome four (see
the link from the Huntington Study Group, below). As Dr. Wexler's page on the Columbia site (see
the link below) explains, the blood samples that she and her team collected in Venezuela also
helped researchers map other genes that result in diseases, including Alzheimer's, dwarfism,
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), kidney cancer, and two kinds of neurofibromatosis.

Wexler believed that finding the location of the HD gene would help doctors
develop medicine to treat HD; however, as the article from the Huntington Study Group at the
link below points out, her hopes have yet to be realized. However, finding the gene that causes
HD was the first step in finding an eventual cure.

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In what sections "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is there an outside person narrating the action? In what section of the story do we get to hear...

Parts of
"" are narrated from a strictly objective point of view by what is customarily called
a third-person omniscient narrator, presumably the authorhimself. Other parts are narrated from
the point of view of Peyton Farquhar and could be called an , although the omniscient narrator
might be said to have the power to go inside Farquhar's mind or anywhere else, as well as to go
backwards and forwards in time.

The first section of the story begins with a
completely objective description. For example:

A man stood
upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.
The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord.

After describing the entire setting, including Farquhar himself,
the narrator moves subtly into the 's mind. The exact sentence where this transition occurs
is:

He looked a moment at his "unsteadfast
footing," then let his gaze wander to the swirling water of the stream racing madly beneath
his feet.

The narrative remains in Farquhar's mind and
his point of view almost to the end of the first section. Then the last short paragraph moves
back into an objective point of view.

As these thoughts,
which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than
evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside.

Section II is short. It is a flashback in time to explain how
Farquhar came to be standing on the railroad bridge with a noose around his neck. It is told
from an objective point of view, i.e., from the outside. Much of the section is dramatized. Most
of the dialogue is between Farquhar and the man masquerading as a Confederate soldier. The
section ends with the ominous words:

He was a Federal
scout.

Section III is told almost entirely from
Farquhar's point of view. It is not literally what happened but what he is imagining. He
imagines that the rope broke and he fell into the creek. Bierce has established that the creek
is flooded, swirling, and moving swiftly. This would explain how Farquhar could be carried out
of rifle range so quickly and would be hard to hit. The entire long section describes his
thoughts and feelings and could be called "an internal ," but it could also be
considered the prerogative of the omniscient narrator who can go backwards and forwards in time
and into the mind of any character.

Section III delivers the shocking
ending.The reader has been beguiled into believing that Farquhar has escaped hanging and is on
his way back to his home, wife, and children. Then at the very end, when he is "about to
clasp" his wife "he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck..." And the
narrative move backwards in time to the Owl Creek bridge, where the end is told from a
dispassionate, objective point of view.

Peyton Farquhar
was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of
the Owl Creek bridge.

Everything that Peyton Farquhar had
imagined, from the time he fell from the bridge to the time that his neck was broken by the
rope, had gone through his mind in the few seconds it took for him to fall through the air
before the slack in the rope was taken up and his dream of freedom came to an abrupt end. The
words "swung gently from side to side" seem to emphasize the objectivity of the
omniscient narrator, who is just describing the sight dispassionately.

What is desire for Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire? My question is related to the movie A Streetcar Named Desire.

Stanleys
desire is to keep the status quo in his home, which allows him the freedom to express his
masculinity. He enjoys his life in his New Orleans tenement, where he lives with his pregnant
wife, Stella. When his regular poker games become loud and uncourteous, Stanley knows that
Stella will tolerate them in an attempt to keep her husband happy.

This
balance is immediately damaged by the arrival of Stellas older sister, Blanche DuBois, from the
more rural town of Laurel, Mississippi. Stella and Blanche come from wealthy, high-class
Southern society, and while Stella is ostensibly happy in the tenement, Blanche is not, and her
presence immediately disrupts Stanleys desire.

During the first poker party
after her arrival, Blanches questions and interruptions make Stanley angry, and he drunkenly
strikes Stella. After briefly retreating to the upstairs neighbor, Stella returns to Stanley,
and the couple go to bed together. Blanche is horrified by the violence and cannot...

Describe Amanda Wingfield inTennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

Amanda
Wingfield is the mother of Tom and Laura Wingfield.  Whereas her son, Tom, wants to escape his
family, and her daughter, Laura, lives in an imaginary world she's created, Amanda takes refuge
in recounting tales of her storied girlhood in the Old South.  She used to be a much sought
after young lady with many prospects and a genteel life style... if you believe everything that
she says.  She frequently expounds to her children speeches like this: 

"Well, in the South we had so many servants. Gone, gone, gone.
All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely! I wasnt prepared for what the future brought
me. All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and so of course I assumed that I would be
married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man
proposesand woman accepts the proposal! To vary that old, old saying a bitI married no planter!
I married a man who worked for the telephone company! . . . A telephone man whofell in love with
long-distance!"

Amanda uses these remembrances to
force onto her children attempt to make their lives better- she nags Tom to bring home a fellow
from work so he might marry Laura, for instance, and when he comes, Amanda has dressed into an
old gone from the storied Southern youth.  In other words, she lives in a fantasy world of her
own creation, just like her children.

Why is Geoffrey Chaucer called the 'Father of Modern English Poetry'?

Apart
from the fact that and are outstanding works
artistically, there are several reasonsis considered the father of English literature.

Over a period of 300 years, from the Norman Invasion to Chaucer's time, the English
language had undergone a seismic transformation due to the huge number of loan words
incorporated into it either from French or directly from Latin and Greek. Despite differences in
spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary, in Chaucer we see the language in a form surprisingly
close to our own. Many fine translations have been made of his works into modern English, but
it's still possible for us to read Chaucer in the original, with the help of footnotes and a
glossary, and to recognize that this is essentially our own language. Even when The
Canterbury Tales are read aloud with the correct Middle English vowel sounds and the
pronunciation of the final 'e' now silent, the words still are obviously recognizable as English
and can be largely understood. In fact, one can even say that it is especially
when Chaucer's verse is read aloud that it sounds so natural to us, because it's
written basically in a conversational tone. The Canterbury pilgrims are talking to each other,
much as people on a trip or a tour would do today.

Another basic reason
Chaucer is the fountainhead of our literature is that the Londonin which he wrote became the
standard form of the English language. In all European countries, different dialects of the
common language were and are spoken. In Italy, the Tuscan language, the dialect of Florence,
became standard Italian because of the greatness and prestige of Dante's writings. In England,
Chaucer played approximately the same role. No previous author in England had written works of
such high artistic value as those of Chaucer, and, unsurprisingly, the speech of Londoners
became the literary standard.

What poetic devices are used in "The Raven"?

Further examples of
the repetition of an initial consonant soundinclude "Deep into
that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no
mortal ever dared to dream before" (these lines repeat the "d" sound, almost
drumming on it, to help create the mood of ominousness and inevitability). Another example of
alliteration: "And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, '!' / This I
whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, 'Lenore!'" The alliteration of the
"w" sound is much softer compared to the alliteration of the "d" sound in
the lines immediately preceding it. Going from the repetition of such a loud sound to the
repetition of such a soft sound makes the softer sound seem a little spooky in this
case.

Also, the raven is described as "ebony"a color often
symbolically associated with death, especially in Poe's stories.
Given the narrator's preoccupation with death, especially that of his lover, as well as his
belief that the raven has come from either the Underworld, the devil, or heaven, seem to confirm
this symbolism. He also personifies the raven, insisting that he
has some "lordly name" in the Underworld, and thinking that "his soul in that one
word he did outpour."

In "The Metamorphosis," when Gregors parents first see the Gregor, what do their initial reactions suggest about their attitude about their son?

When poor Gregor finally
manages to open the door that he has had to struggle so much to open, the response of his
parents is obviously one of great shock to their strangely tranformed son who went to bed a
human and woke up the next day a disgusting insect. Note how his parents are shown to respond
with the sight of their transformed son:

The mother, who,
despite the office manager's presence, stood there with her hair still undone and bristling,
first gaped at the father, clasping her hands, then took two steps toward Gregor and collapsed,
her petticoats flouncing out all around her and her face sinking quite undetectably into her
breasts. The father clenched his fist, glaring at Gregor as if trying to shove him back into his
room, then peered unsteadily around the parlour before covering his eyes with his hands and
weeping so hard that his powerful chest began to quake.

Note the way that the mother responds with shocked incredulity, apparently fainting
with the surprise, whereas the initial reaction of his father is to respond with anger, before
giving away to deeper emotions and beginning to cry. It is interesting that the response of the
father foreshadows the later violence that he visits upon his son, whereas the helpless response
of the mother clearly displays her inability to know how to cope with the situation. The
father's response in particular shows the anger and seeds of hatred that exist in the
relationship.

Explain how metaphors and repetitions of words are used in Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.

The "I Have a
Dream" speech, by Martin Luther King Jr, is one of the most famous orations of all time.
Its hopeful tone cries out to its audience to pursue King's "dream" of a racially just
America which is built on cooperation between all people. King uses figurative language to
describe the deplorable injustices suffered by African Americans and his dreams for a bright and
just future for all Americans. 

In the opening paragraph of the speech,
Martin Luther King Jr lamented thethat in 1963, one hundred years after the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in the United States,

... the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life
of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society...

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How can I compare "Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat" to "Hills Like White Elephants"?

Banks
story shares many similarities with Hemingways €“ in fact, you might call the Banks story a sort
of homage to Hemingway. The stories share a common structure €“ each consists primarily of a
conversation between a man and a woman €“ and a common problem €“ an unwanted pregnancy. Banks
style emulates Hemingways €“ compare, for example, this bit from Hemingway:

The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on
the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the
river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the
river through the trees.

With this bit from
Banks:

The man looked over her head and beyond, all the
way to the shore and the trailerpark. The shapes of the trailers were blurred together in the
distance so that you could not tell where one trailer left off and another began.

There are several similarities in these passages. The reductive,
factual nature of the...