Ezra

“I’ll kill you,” he mutters, holding the gun closer to her temple. “Darling,” she begins with a hearty laugh. “I'm already dead.” Ezra pulled the mask farther over his face, already hating himself for what he was about to do. Despite his greatest protests, his wife convinced him he had to steal. Knowing no one as wise as his Lena, Ezra assumed she was right. I, as your narrator, though I’m not supposed to share my opinions, think he should have trusted his gut. However, that seldom make for a…

In Nehemiah 8:1-18, there are not many questions that one can have; it is very straight forward. One question that one may have is why Ezra would demand that the people stop weeping out of repentance, and instead they should celebrate and feast as a community. At first glance it seems strange that Ezra would stop the Judeans from repenting. The most likely explanation for this seemingly strange demand is that it was the festival of trumpets, which is a celebration of God’s mercy towards the…

- In the book of Ezra, the Israelites define that marrying with foreign women is “unfaithfulness”. The definition is the terror in this text. The editor of this book even says that sending away the foreign women and children is to “honor the Lord” and “do [God’s] will” (Ezra 10:11). When they wanted the foreigner women, they took them from their land. However, they throw away their wives and children. If marrying with the foreign women is the sin as what they believe, they need to punish…

Probably the most unique relationship of them all, Pearl completely changes when Beck leaves the family. While Pearl is already a very superficial person, she has an intense fear of humiliation that stems from her not wanting anyone that Beck has left them. This novel was set in a time where single parents were se few and far between., and because of this there were hardly any services to help single parents raise their children. As a single mother, Pearl was already extremely obsessed with…

that affected her three children in a way that it left a lasting impression on them through adulthood. Cody for example, blamed himself at first for his father’s desertion, but then blamed his father for leaving them in the cold clutches of Pearl. Ezra, the second child, was the least affected by Pearls rampages but the most affected by the broken aspect of the family. Jenny, the youngest child, on the other hand, could not escape her mother 's mental abuse that haunted her well into adulthood.…

tightly to help me calm down. Jason smiled at me gently and kissed me on my cheek. "Shhh, shhh. We're safe. Don't worry about anything." Jason cooed into my ear and pulled me to him. "While you were asleep we crashed somewhere. We don't know where yet. Ezra is off in search of food." Virus added vigorously, trying to keep my attention. Sleep was pulling at my mind. All I wanted to do was sleep. I've got to stay awake but... Maybe they wouldn't be too mad if I took a nap... This is a dream after…

But their chance meeting has led to more than an unlikely alliance. Secrets have a way of surfacing, especially on a torn-up battlefield, and Lily and Ezra are about to re-learn all they cannot remember. If they can’t control their emotions and responses, it will be to their own ruin and the destruction of everything around them. King Tomb really took me on a roller coaster ride, at first I was so excited…

Authors of the 1950’s introduced modernist movement in poetry. Influenced by imagism, a literary movement stressing clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. Ezra pound and John Steinbeck both their writings use imagery to reinforce the themes of their poems. Ezra pound in “The River Merchants Wife” he use’s imagery to show how the wife misses her husband. John Steinbeck uses the mountains and the wired fence in the garden to symbolize the theme of confinement and…

Abrahamic Covenant. These events were seen in the Pentateuch, but to believe that it was written at this time would be inaccurate. Before the time of Josiah, these events were held during the conquering of the land in Joshua’s time. During the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, the major topic was intermarriage and priestly law and sacrifices. Many scholars…

Ezra Pound achieves his purpose of the narrator dealing how with her innocences and loneliness through diction, syntax, tone, mood, and figurative language. In “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” Ezra Pound 's uses his own interpretation of the original poem to determine what diction was poetic. That’s why the this poem is considered an objective correlative, meaning that Ezra pound is trying to make his pound understandable to anyone that reads it. His main objective of the poem is that he…