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…and writings. Hemingway's writings have often been confrontational, but are based on the harsh realities of life. In his famous novels, Hemingway often left readers searching for the deeper meanings and important messages behind each word. The Old Man and the Sea…

…The Canterbury Tales, uses character allegory much like the allegory used in Beowulf. In The Pardoners Tale the old man is used to represent death, the gold represents greed, and the three men represent greed and sinfulness, which is present somewhere in most people…

…of footprints from the night before, somehow not blown away by the windy seashore, that lead all the way to an inhabited château. The man who has made this island a home is General Zaroff -- an old military veteran and superb huntsman. Seemingly, this general has…

…glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his Wreathed horn. Wordsworth comes to the realization that religion is only a tool for recognizing Nature. He would rather be an outcast and beleive…

…, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top…

…Lucy Stowe's Journey When Lucy Stowe boards a ship to travel to Villette, she is asked "Are you fond of a sea-voyage" by (the yet to be known) Ms. Fanshaw. Since this was Lucy's first trip abroad, she answers that her fondness is yet…

…the memory of the boy become both man and poet. The boy has thus created a profound story of want and injustice through translation of natural occurrence (sounds and sea), and the man-poet has created a path though which all could trace the progression…

…the memory of the boy become both man and poet. The boy has thus created a profound story of want and injustice through translation of natural occurrence (sounds and sea), and the man-poet has created a path though which all could trace the progression…

…/mobydick.html The Old Man and the Sea I believe that in the past three decades, the way society has treated he elderly has remained primarily the same. Some younger citizens have looked up to the elderly with respect, yet most…

…was a place that was inhabited by telepaths. They sent a helicopter to rescue them and the helicopter brought them to Sea-Land where they lived happily ever after. The conflict in this book is man vs. man and man vs. himself. It is man vs. man because the group…