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…and war, earthquake and fire, alcoholism and leprosy, surfing and socialism. He wrote one novel set in a prehistoric civilization, another set many centuries in the future. He wrote a murder mystery; he wrote a short novel about a devastating disease…

…point in an argument or theory fails, the entire theory fails. Religious institutions came into fire and played an important role in the shift of ideology. Religion puts faith in the mysteries of the world can only be explained through God and his…

…Good Book, Bad Movie There have been many book to movie conversions, yet Rising Sun by Michael Crichton was one that had gone horribly wrong. Rising Sun, in addition to being a gripping mystery/thriller, functioned as a scathing attack on American…

…. In this story he is basically the only character. In " The Fall of the House of Usher" the narrator who is the central character among only two Other characters remain nameless and vague as well. The characters in Poe's Stories are enigmatic, mysterious…

…famed of Shakespeare's plays offers us a literary mystery which has taken the attention of all who have come into contact with it. T.S. Eliot has called “Hamlet” the "'Mona Lisa' of literature." Like the painting, the play smiles at us from a distance…

…a sense of mystery permeates the beginning of the plot with the mysterious appearance of the ghost, but as quickly as the ghost comes, it goes. We are left only with one question in our minds, why has the ghost returned from the dead? This question leads us…

…as tokens of love. Similar to the handkerchief in Othello this story uses a green girdle as a sign of temptation and love. Green symbolizing the magic armor worn by the mysterious Green knight. If the mysticism were not there then Othello would be a bit bland…

…. The reader can put to terms our own fearful fantasy. In “Once by the Pacific”, he uses a scheme of starting with a storm, but it turns out to be more than just a storm (line 1-5). It turns out to be mysterious, because something doesn’t like…

…by a mysterious female fan in her hotel room. This calamitous injury ends his career in 1949. In the novel, a mysterious woman shoots Roy Hobbs as he was trying to catch the bullet in his hand. The woman “…pulled the trigger…the bullet cut a silver line across…

…really urgent in their longing, and became dependent on a mysterious power from beads. The title of the story makes me wonder about how the title can associate with the power of belief. First I tried to think function of the faucet. It is a type…