The Grave Digger

During the socratic seminar, many topics of controversy were talked about. After this discussion, my understanding of The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, reaches a new level of perception. There were many parts of the discussion where ideas that never entered my mind were brought up by a classmate. One of the first things discussed during this seminar was if Liesel’s stealings were ok or not and if she could be classified as a thief. A few of my classmates believed that Liesel was not a thief due…

dissonance eventually caused corrosion within the structure of the proletariat, and this struggle created the revolutionary element which eventually destroyed the bourgeois oppressors: “What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”…

a crepe was put on the door to signal a death. Clifford Adams recalls how every door had a crepe and how there was always another door. Gravediggers were also an issue. People were dying so fast that hey could not be put in the ground as fast. Grave diggers themselves became sick with the virus so there was almost no one to bury the bodies, so they just piled up. Coffins were also an issue. Coffins could not be made by the amount of demand that there was that people were actually stealing…

Shall my lips again be parted And from that name my heart restarted. Since she left me tired and broken, Ne’er to repeat that name once spoken. Yet, the visions begin to front, As if a Raven here did strut. and from my lips it slips – Lenore! Evermore! Silence is the state I’m seeking From a mind that churns in thinking, And a heart that stays a flutter. Yet as my soul descends I mutter, And while myself I keep berating Impossibly my voice keeps grating Just one word, just one- Lenore!…

World War I. Every time his eyes lay upon the magnificent instrument, or he plays a key, it reminds him of Erik and the debt he owes to him; he saved Hans life which results in himself dying. At the burial site of Liesel’s brother, as one of the grave diggers walks away an object falls from his coat. “There was something black and rectangular lodged in the snow. Only the girl saw it. She bent down and picked it up and held it firmly in her fingers. The book had silver writing on it” (Zusak…

Within act five scene four Hamlet displays his self-loathing only to quickly set his mind on pursing his death and the death of his uncle “The imminent death of twenty thousand men, that for a fantasy and trick of fame, go to their graves like beds fight for a plot, where on the numbers cannot try the cause, which is not tomb enough and continent to hide the slain? Oh, from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” It is in this soliloquies that Hamlet affirms his…

what the economic theorist, political theorist and social scientist Karl Marx (and to a minor degree Friedrich Engels) outline and explain in the Communist Manifesto in regards to the Bourgeoisie being responsible for the creation of their own grave-diggers and the pattern of class struggle that Marx sees developing under the Capitalist system. I will do this by first looking at how Marx views history previous to Modern Bourgeois society and the development of the Bourgeoisie and the flaws in…

1. This passage was spoken by Hamlet during act four, and it clearly shows the development in Hamlets character. What makes this soliloquy so interesting is that it presents a very imperative change for Hamlet, a change from hesitancy to fearless action. Hamlet finally realizes that his duty for revenge is taking over his life and that the end must justify the means. All throughout the play, Hamlet was worried about the consequences of what he might do, and always hesitated. However, as he…

Foreshadowing and irony are complicated. You don’t even realize you have stumbled upon them until after their event has concluded. Charles Dickens is a master at interweaving foreshadowing into his work. Fueled by the oppression of the tyrannical aristocrats, the characters in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, are intertwined into a rebellion. The content of a Tale of Two Cities, combined with the way it is arranged, establish the shock and valor in the theme of resurrection and the pain…

Kennedy had not used United States Air power in support of the Bay Of Pigs invasion nor had he committed military power in the Berlin Crisis of 1961. Maybe Kennedy did the lack the metaphorical backbone so aptly illustrated in American newspaper cartoons. A comparison of the two man seems to justify a cruise ships opinion of bay and the superior competitors. Kennedy had lived a fairy tale life up to the point of winning the presidency. Born into a wealthy and well connected family, he had all…