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…in it. She then goes on to describe what she thinks life as a mirror is like 'most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall'. She writes how she thinks 'it is part of my heart', this could be interpreted as the opposite wall 'pink, with speckles' is reflected…

…response comes from his insides when, to his shame, he throws up. "My heart was pounding like I had been running a long ways, and I bent over and let my insides go" (233). But his newfound empathy is tempered by the vastness of the racial divide: "Every time I…

…All throughout Acts two and three Macbeth slowly goes mad. He changes from a calm and cautious man into a cold-hearted power happy king. These acts show how his guilty conscious got to him and how they slowly turned his mind inside out. They also prove…

…of the inside of the house is "a dim hall from which a staircase mounted into still more shadow" with the house smelling of "dust and disuse" (315). The darkness and the smell of the house connect with Miss Emily, "a small, fat woman in black" with a voice…

…knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts. This sort of isolation and thinking causes Hester to form some feminist viewpoints which were uncommon in her seventeenth century setting. She faces dark questions about the feminine race, and this even leads her…

…Edgar Allan Poe was an amazing writer who was able to dive into the depths of a person’s soul and bring out his or her worst fears and paranoia. He wrote what is inside of everyone, the dark evil side that resides inside of each of us. He showed…

…. Odysseus and his men are captured by this brute and enslaved in his cave. The darkness of the cave, along with the cannibalism of Polyphemos, is symbolic of death. To further emphasize this motif, Odysseus clevely tricks the kyklopes into calling him Nohbdy…

…. Some other books by Greene are Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Comedians, The Quiet American, The Heart of the Matter, and many others. The conflict involved the British Secret Service including Mr. Wormold, the Cuban authorities, and foreign…

…as individuals and together throughout the book. Their relationship becomes imperative to the plot of the story. The first encounter of the two characters happens in chapter two, “Our Gang’s Dark Oath”. Huck sneaks out in the middle of the night to meet up with Tom…

…of the heart. After hearing voices proclaiming, "If you build it, they will come," Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. At first, Ray Kinsella was highly skeptical, but eventually he realized…