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- 251: Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet
- ... 97). Mr. Wickham has bad manners, but she convinces herself that they are good. Elizabeth justifies to herself the unjustifiable violation of propriety when Wickham revealed confidential information to a stranger. "A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe"(Austen 67). She was blind to the impropriety of Wickham's behavior ...
- 252: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... several conclusions from this scene. First he notes that it is an imitation of the Madonna and her child, baby Jesus. He also states that by giving life to the stranger she is symbolically giving body and wine. In doing this she accepts the larger vision of Jim Casy and her commitment fulfills the terms of salvation according to Casy's ...
- 253: Summary: Lord of the Flies
- ... a new external appearance, providing a mask perhaps to hide his darker thoughts. The mask gave him a sense of security in that he could almost disguise himself as a stranger and not be known as Jack. It was also after being painted, that he had his first successful hunt. Long hair was used as a sign to show that the ...
- 254: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... song "The Hitchhiker". The song "The Hitchhiker" is a song about a man, assumed to be Jim, who has just killed a man and is telling his story to a stranger "Hey, listen, man, I really got a problem/ I don't know how to tell you,/ but, ah, I killed somebody." Jim later goes on to say how he is ...
- 255: Mark Twain
- ... motivations can result in progress. Moreover, volumes in the Mark Twain Papers series--Which Was the Dream?, and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years (1967), Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), and Mark Twain's Fables of Man (1972)--suggest that the period was not the wasteland described by some critics.
- 256: Benedict Arnold
- ... his sister, Hannah, saying that Benedict’s mother was sick. He hitchhiked to his home in Norwich from Lake George in upstate New York. Benedict lied even to the kind stranger who picked him up, telling him, “I was—working [on a farm]” (13). When he came home he got in a fight with Hannah and she told him, “Sometimes you ...
- 257: Agatha Christie
- ... are a butler; a housekeeper; a parlor maid; a kitchen maid; a cook; a secretary; an English lass and her mother; a major; a doctor and his sister, and a stranger. We are told the story through the narrative voice of Dr. James Sheppard, " a discreet country doctor with the reticence of a father confessor" (Christie, Murder, p. 7). Dr, Sheppard ...
- 258: Biography of Ogden Nash
- ... of free verse with absolutely no pattern. After working on other poetry books such as Happy Days (1933), The Bad Parent's Garden of Verse (1936), and I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), Nash retired from his job at Doubleday to focus all of his time on writing free verse. He went on to write many poems, all being free ...
- 259: Henry David Thoreau
- ... result of living two years, two months, and two days in his small cabin in the woods at Walden Pond. Although many believe Henry was a recluse, Henry was no stranger to society while he lived at the Pond. He had frequent dinners with family and friends. Henry also had friends and the occasional curious neighbor visit him at his cabin ...
- 260: The Work of J.D. Salinger
- ... means of attaining happiness through peace. The story seemed very dismal, until religion intervened and stopped the conflict. Salinger creates happiness for the characters by stopping the conflict. In "The Stranger" Salinger creates peace through a war by using more of the Zen philosophy. Salinger's creates a "Pact of Peace" which stops the conflict between the Germans and Polish during ...
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