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…The Wise Old Man: Gandalf as Archetype in The Lord of the Rings by Jason Clarke 12/9/98 In the very beginning of the first chapter of The Lord of the Rings, a character is introduced as "an old man driving [a cart] all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue…

…In Joseph Conrad’s works Lord Jim and “Youth,” the topic of a young male’s development is central. In their respective stories, our main characters Jim and Marlow, are faced with trials by sea; the tales depict relatively inexperienced men…

…The main focus of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is on the pain of old age suffered by a man that we meet in a cafe late one night. Hemingway contrasts light and dark to show the difference between this man and the young people around him, and uses his…

…his kingdom was destroyed the pharaoh gathered his army and left after the Israelites who were near the Red Sea. Seeing the Egyptian army getting nearer, the Israelites began to doubt Moses once again. Worried Moses began to pray to God, and God replied…

…she died in 1951. He admitted that he hated his mother's guts. Ernest wrote The Old Man and the Sea in only two months. He was on top of the world, the book was printed by Life Magazine and thousands of copies were sold in the United States. This novel…

…prominently in human mythologies, it is something that can eventually be crossed and conquered. In elliots poem, the sea represents an endless reserve of depths and mysteries: Man can live with the ocean but he will never master it. The second section of the poem…

…God created light, sea, land, vegetation, living creatures, then man and woman. In the second account God created man from the earth (so land was created before man) then God planted the garden in Eden and provided animals to give man a helper. The woman…

…. There, in that cave, stuffed in jars, were scores of papyrus scrolls covering almost every book of the Old Testament. While other scrolls have been discovered since, in caves all along the Dead Sea, the scrolls at Qumran are by far the most important as far…

…that a person cannot get enough of them so it is as "though a man, dying of thirst, drank the salt water of the sea which, though it is water, yet dries his blood into thirst and yet greater thirst so that in the end he dies, maddened by his very drinking."(183) Some…

…the freedom of choice. The story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway is a work of existentialism because of the characters present in the story. Hemingway, through the characters of the old man, the young waiter, and the old waiter in the story…