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Chimney Sweeper is a term that can create many images in most people’s minds. Most people will think that being a chimney-sweeper, would be a glorious job. This opinion is due to the representation in the movie Mary Poppins. In the Walt Disney classic, the chimney sweepers were in a cheerful mood to dance and sing on the rooftops. Chimney sweepers, usually are not in the mood to dance around, like in the movie. Chimney sweepers, although quickly seen, are represented accurately in the movie…

shallow and straight forward . He is a logical thinker that seldom speaks. A skilled carpenter, Cash is the only person in the family that has an actual job and income. When Addie Bundren was on her death bed, Cash was given the task to construct a coffin for his dying mother. Stubbornly, Cash chose to complete his work outside of Addie’s window. His absurd action painted him as a heartless individual at the beginning of the novel. As the story progresses,however, his true nature reveals. Cash…

The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams, is a memory play set in St. Louis in 1937 just at the start of the Great Depression in America. The Glass Menagerie focuses on three completely different characters, their dreams, and each individual’s inner struggle to face reality. Laura Wingfield and Tom Wingfield obtain certain weaknesses, which include self-consciousness and the incapability of making the decision to remove oneself from their current circumstances which ultimately inhibits…

melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it” (Melville 53). He is preparing his coffin and inscribing his tattoos on the outside of it. Melville uses the coffin as a reference to death and the end of someone’s life. Later in the novel, the coffin appears again in order to help the men. Ironically, something that is used to symbolize death is ultimately what saves the life of a fellow shipmate in the…

The novel Dracula is based off of several different Gothic Motifs. In Gothic Literature is writing that is based off of scenery that is dark and wicked, overwhelming and dramatic scenes, and filled with the mystery of events. Gothic literature most of the time revolves around an event or object that has a meaning of evil or secrecy. Novels that are Gothic have supernatural events that take place, or romantic events. Dracula consist of many of these elements that take place in Gothic…

straightjacket,water coffin,and more. The second is that In each escape performance he invited the police officers onstage to check both him and the props to see that he didn’t had anything on him. People said that he wasn't a true escape artist. And I would prove that he was a great escape artist not a fraud by my reasons and evidence. Houdini can escape from straightjacket,watery coffin,and more. He gave a great performance to the audience by escaping straightjackets,watery coffin,and more…

member copes with Addie’s passing in a different way, And Cash comes to terms with it by building her the perfect coffin to lay in. (This once again ties into the Jesus extended analogy, related by 1 Kings 8:13 “I have surely built You a [lofty] house, A place for Your dwelling forever.” 1) It is the only way Cash knows to express his love to his Mother, so that he may prove the coffin worthy of her before she dies (and even after, seeing that he tirelessly works through the stormy night of her…

Poetry is an art form in which the human language is written for its aesthetic qualities instead of notional and semantic content. Poetry can be discerned most of the time from text, which is language meant to express meaning in a more extensive and less condensed way. This doesn’t show that poetry is illogical, but shows how it is used to sometimes escape reality and expresses emotions in a compact form. In most poems the poet will focus on an aspect of the human condition. An example of this…

Underground Railroad, and the members of the church helped the slaves (53). Coffin explains in his article “The Underground Railroad” how, *incidentally, as the runaway slaves rested from their long journey to get to the Underground Railroad, the others made sure the transportations’ ready to go for the next journey. The travel time took up from twenty to thirty miles to arrive (2). Many of the whites feared the punishment they would have to face was too much of a risk. Many whites wanted to…

Sometimes the ones people love the most are the cruelest to them. Some people show their love through cruelty. But cruelty is not the answer. “The Scarlett Ibis” by James Hurst is about a boy who struggles with pride, family, and death. The boy shows to much pride in himself, he doesn’t care for his family very well, and he realizes death can be painful. The young boy is very cruel to his little brother, and later realizes that it is not the way to act, people need to learn that family is…