The Final Passage

the short story gives us an insight into the writer’s personality and voice. She starts writing about the haunted house and how she believes that there’s something odd about the house, and continues to assert what she thinks about the house in the passage; however, her husband does not agree. “John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” She has her…

Emile Durkheim’s theory of rituals and relationships, the beneficial relationships that bravery can create are shown. Also, by examining Harry’s transition to a wizard using Arnold van Gennep’s rite of passage theory,…

their beliefs and values. In the passage it says “Of course, such a man is weak, inexcusably…

away from Enkidu and because of his activities with Shamhat he cannot run after them, although because of her he now has a greater understanding of the word. For five lines it makes mention of Shamhat and how she takes the vitality of Enkidu. The passage makes it very clear that this act it very deliberate, one line even stating that, “She exposed her loins, he took her charms.” By doing this it ensures that she was very purposeful in her actions, knowing full well what price this will cost…

novel was when Junior played a basketball game against his old high school, Wellpinit. This is the most important scene in the novel because it contains character insight on Junior and showcases a major theme that can be seen in everyday life. This passage is important because it contains character insight. An example from the text is, "He screamed; I screamed. And then I stopped short, about fifteen feet from the hoop, and made a pretty little jump shot. Everyone in the gym yelled and clapped…

Much of the world can be seen through the lenses of dualities. Phenomena such as dark and light, life and death, and day and night are important to understanding the world. Both parts exist in the same whole, and both are important for sustaining the world we live in. In the sacred Hindu text The Bhagavad-Gita, dualities are put on a unique pedestal, where they are both praised for being how the cosmos function and criticized for their tendency to lead to worldly obsession. A reflection of both…

Reverend Dimmesdale’s Transformation in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Reverend Dimmesdale as a man who cowardly strays away from the truth and cannot manage the shame that he has brought upon himself in The Scarlet Letter. In a moment of vulnerability, Dimmesdale falls in love with Hester Prynne who then bores his child, even though they are not married. In the eyes of this puritanical community, Hester has sinned against God. To punish her, the heads of the town force her to…

it might provide a suitable occupation for a mind turned childish.” (pg. 210) The choice of words in the preceding passage demonstrates the irony of Kafka’s writing, because the difference between what the reader knows, what the narrator knows and what Joseph K. knows allows us to crudely laugh but at something much different than Joseph K. would expect us to laugh at. G. Passage…

how they measure up, she fired back. ‘The qualification rules have been laid down for astronauts and although NASA say they have nothing against women, it just so happens that the requirements are such that no woman can meet them.’” (138). This passage connects with the rest of the novel because it expresses the fueling hatred Cobb had towards NASA for not allowing women to join their program or have the opportunity to fly their aircrafts. It is important because Cobb’s hatred and the sexism…

church. Very similar to this is the story of Ananias and Sapphira. Jeremy Hutton suggested that Luke wished to make and draw the point that lying in the church is equivalent to lying to the Holy Spirit. He also suggests that the language of this passage indicates that Luke is “nostalgically reflecting on the golden age of the early church in which there was not a needy person among them”. The principle of community ownership of property is important to take into consideration, seeing as that…