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- 1511: East Of Eden By John Steinbeck
- ... trial and the times being what they were, he was convicted with very little doubt that he would be found innocent. Miss Emma, his godmother was afraid that he would die a hog and have lived a meaningless life. She wanted him "Not to crawl to the white man, but to get up and walk to him at the end." At first Mr. Wiggins was not very concerned about Jefferson, he ...
- 1512: East Of Eden
- ... with an innocent look that fooled many; she had golden blond hair, hazel eyes, a thin and delicate nose, and a small chin to make her face look heart shaped. According to the town Cathy lived, Cathy had a scent of sweetness, but that is just what Cathy wanted the town to see and think when Cathy planned her kill. On page 114-115, "The fire broke out... the Ames house ...
- 1513: Dust Over The City
- ... author compared how an outsider might feel about a tragic death as compared to the person directly affected by the death of a loved one. The metaphor is "The grief I’d know if I lived into your unthinkable death, is a splinter of that selfsame grief". The author makes it clear that when we drive past a horrible accident the grief is infinitely smaller than that felt by the immediate ...
- 1514: Dubliners
- ... the House of Commons and House of Lords. Meanwhile, in the 1840's, a small group formed out of the Young Ireland movement. The leader, Thomas Davis, expressed a concept of nationality embracing all who lived in Ireland regardless of creed or origin. A small insurrection in 1848 failed, but their ideas influenced the coming generations. This small nationalism was illustrated in the stories "Evelyn" and "A Painful Case." In the ...
- 1515: Drunken Boat
- ... that he has experienced and the actual journey itself. Like a tired slave at the close of long life of toil, exhausted and broken by "furious lashings of the tides" (1173), Rimbaud's boat has lived a long life wrought with both splendid experiences and despair. His life has been a continuous push, a constant journey towards some goal that now seems to elude him, and he is exhausted: "True I ...
- 1516: Don Juan As Byron Introspective
- ... Young Byron fell in love with the ghostly halls and spacious grounds of Newstead Abbey, which had been presented to the Byron’s by Henry VIII, had received little care since. He and his mother lived in the run down estate for a while. While in England he was sent to a "public" school in Nottingham where he was doctored by a quack named Lavender who subjected the boy to a ...
- 1517: Divine Comedy
- ... things, even of simple matters, avoids idleness, frivolity, and sloth. Thereby, while one contemplates Divine things, there exists a much lower propensity to succumb to the temptation of inordinate worldly pleasures. The sweet but short lived and fallacious song of the Siren is silenced, replaced by a song of truth, infinitely sweeter and eternally sung. Though ultimately drowned out by the mellifluous tones of heavenly souls, Dante's Siren remains a ...
- 1518: Diary Of Anne Frank
- ... good book for people who like suspense as in if Anne and everyone else gets caught ultimately in the end of the play. It also would be good for someone who was learning how Jews lived during the 1940's with the Germans as a threat to their freedom.
- 1519: Desperation By Stephen King
- ... Had he known of his "heritage" before hand, chances are he would have approached life differently, but we have to assume this was hidden from him to protect him from the society in which he lived. Armand's shunning of Désirée was not only an attempt to pay back God, but by somehow payback the others he felt were responsible for his personal tragedy. He thought it necessary to cleanse himself ...
- 1520: Demian
- ... Demian is sent first to the front since he is an officer. Shortly after, Sinclair is also called to the front as an infantry soldier. He leaves Frau Eva behind, and the comfortable world he lived at her side which offered him so much security and peace. He leaves for the war, and he is later wounded. As he lies on a crowded hospital floor he comes to consciousness only to ...
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