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…And so it is the seventeenth century and it is June and there are Puritans standing before a beaten up prison door And there are weeds and there is a rose bush and it’s out of place around the darkness And there are Puritan women waiting…

…father and shares his feelings much more freely than Danny. In many ways, he is for the exact opposite of Danny, physically with his dark hair, and religiously with his more “modern” Judaism. Yet, he is also extremely intelligent, although he does not posses…

…Anthem Fear. Its in all the peoples minds and hearts in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. It is a fear like the kind that lots of slaves kept by a single…

…remember thinking to myself that the night, was the scariest night ever, and I wanted to ask Scott to go back and take the long way through the road, but I was afraid that he would laugh at me and make jokes about me for being scared of the dark. The path we…

…literature. In the covering of darkness, Dimmesdale made his way to the scaffold to perform a silent vigil of his own. Dimmesdale is having a difficult time dealing with his own guilt, the reasoning for his late night stand on the scaffold. In his torture he…

…many important lessons at a young age. I was a He-man nut, no two ways about it. I refused to make any trip without the protection of my glow in the dark plastic He-man sword tucked into the back of my shirt. Can you blame me? One never knew when…

…says "My own blind heart has brought me from darkness to final darkness. Here you see the father murdering, the murdered son-and all my civic wisdom! (85). Haimon my son, so young, so young to die, I was the fool, not you; and you died for me" (90…

…and Contrast of Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness Achebe uses positive tone in his description of the African jungle; whereas, Conrad makes use of negative connotations. Their portrayals of the jungle reflect their attitudes toward their subject…

…go. All of a sudden, Tenchu slowly rises. His eyes like a demon from the cold dark. He stared right at his brother Chang. Tenchu grabbed the sword from the ground, and thrust it through Chang’s heart. Chang fell to the floor. Tenchu stared at the sword…

…, and later in the poem we learn that this contemplation is more specifically focused on the causes of her father’s dependence on alcohol. In the first seven lines of the poem she uses descriptive details to establish a dark, foreboding image of the setting…