joviality that the writer gets from the way people overreact to the death of a man of low class. The other story contains a rather dark use of diction. The author expresses the setting of the funeral as “silent”, “still”, and “vague” to bring out the emptiness that it has. This shows the somber tone of the narrator to bring the solemness within the passage.
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His comparison of the mist to an “evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none” is poetic and creates a sense of loneliness. The diction used with this phrase creates a sensation of emptiness and dread. The reader is left waiting in suspense for the effects of the evil spirit washing over the hill. He also uses strong diction when describing the passengers as “hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the
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Hasidic Jews have with their Rabbis. The Transcendent, as the roots of the word indicate, means "that which goes beyond" the everyday, the ordinary, the surface experience of reality. It can mean spirits, gods, a personal God, an impersonal God, or emptiness.” (Swidler and
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2/1/14 What it means to be Bicultural Moving to a new place, especially a new country can be life changing. Dinaw Mengestu and Jhumpa Lahiri are both authors that have shared their story on growing up within two different cultures and how they struggled with their culture identities. Lahiri is the author of “My Two Lives” that tells her story of being an Indian-American who felt torn between two totally different worlds. Her parents pushed her to be in touch with her Indian culture while the
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Despite the post-war peace, progressive attitudes, and economic successes with which the 1920’s are associated, the Weimar Republic was an incredibly insecure time for German people. From the eerie darkness of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the destructive chaos of Metropolis, much of the era’s popular film thematized this insecurity with expressionistic flair. By the summer of 1929, however, the expressionist movement had faded, giving rise to a new movement: New Objectivity. Robert Siodmak’s People
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The death penalty and life without parole for a juvenile is one of the most controversial questions in the juvenile justice system today. Should a 13 year old sit and rot in prison for life, with days full of emptiness without a chance to change? The actual definition of capital punishment is the lawful inflictions of death as a punishment. Does life without parole for juveniles constitute to be cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional? Execution is not the right decision for a crime committed by
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Ard Hopper “Automat” was painted by Edward Hopper in 1927. The painting was displayed for the first time on valentines day, and was sold for $1200. The picture depicts a young woman sitting alone in some kind of cafeteria. She is drinking a cup of coffee, while she’s staring at her hot drink. She is dressed in a long warm winter coat, and a hat pulled down on her head. On her left hand she is wearing a glove, while holding the coffee cup in the right. The painting method is oil on canvas.
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hometown and he feels the guilt in failing to save Kiowa. Bowker sends O’Brien a letter stating his life has been devoid of meaning since the war. O’Brien makes a decision to retell their story in an effort to reconcile his own feeling of remorse and emptiness. Exposure to the same guilt his other friends felt too, prompted him to write stories in a cathartic effort to understand their own wartime experience and the emotional baggage they all
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between dirty ashes. Eyes of T.J. Eckleberg- Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s dull eyes are painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They symbolize God staring down at the moral wasteland of the American society, judging upon the emptiness of the dreams of the world. As the meaning of the eyes are left very vague, it gives them an unsettle nature and mystery.
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Summary The woods in the forests grow old and their leaves fall to the ground. Man is born, works the earth, and then dies and is buried underground. Yet the speaker, Tithonus, is cursed to live forever. Tithonus tells Aurora, goddess of the dawn, that he grows old slowly in her arms like a “white-hair’d shadow” roaming in the east. Tithonus laments that while he is now a “gray shadow” he was once a beautiful man chosen as Aurora’s lover. He remembers that he long ago asked Aurora to
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