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     Elliot also presents a theme of regeneration and fertility, which symbolizes a longing for the past. In the opening of The Wasteland, April is shown as a time of revival after the bleak winter. Regeneration is portrayed as painful, because the new spring can’t measure up to the springs of the past. This is portrayed by Marie’s experiences from the past, which become painful when she considers that the time she lives in now is one of great political and cultural consequences.

Fireshadow - Analytical Essay: “Throughout the novel, characters encounter challenges and setbacks, but the novel’s message is optimistic.”

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is vividly real to its readers, its issues continually relevant to society, but through its structure and moral lessons, it is intended to be read as a 'fairy tale'.

Ennait discovers that te world can be a very bad plae but there are small amounts of good in it as well. Enaiat discovers how to live in this world and how to never give up when he is aced with hard times. Despite the many bad things in his journey he also faced some good moments. He has seen people die, been ied to and he has had people help him with his journey.

In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, failure to reach one’s potential causes mental and physical wear. Ethan’s life exemplifies this concept. He is stuck in Starkfield where he does not want to be, living in poverty when he is capable of so much more. He must pay for Zeena’s medical expenses and help her with housekeeping, while also maintaining the farm.

The novel opens, twenty years later, in Starkfield with The Narrator who develops the desire to know all about Ethan Frome’s past life. His curiosity gets him bits and pieces from the locals, but Ethan Frome remained mysterious. Due to a horrendous blizzard, The Narrator is given the opportunity to live in Ethan’s past and answer all of his questions. The reader starts off with the knowledge of Ethan Frome’s younger life. He desired to become an engineer ,but while pursuing his dreams, his father passes away and his mother becomes very ill. During that winter, Ethan hires Zeena, his cousin, to take care of his mother because he realized that it was too much for him to do on his own. When his mother passes away, he suffers from isolophobia, the fear of isolation, and decides to marry Zeena. The reader is made aware that the environment is cold representing a sense of isolation from the outside world. The Narrator finally learns about the “smash-up”(Wharton 1) according to the locals, that threw away all of Ethan Frome’s chances of escaping prison, also known as life.

More than once in every man’s life he has yearned for something that is out of his reach. Whether it be fashionable clothes, an elaborate home, a newer car, or a more desirable career, some things are unattainable. George Milton, one of the main characters

In Unwind, people often question if Connor, Lev, and Risa are actually friends because of what Lev was going to do at the end of the book. Connor and Risa are definitely friends, Lev well, I’m standing on the no side because Lev betrayed them before. When they were at the school after running away, Lev went and told the office that he was kidnapped by two unwinds(Shusterman, 2007). In the article I read to be a good friend you are supposed to loyal and trustworthy (Degges-White,2015). What he did wasn’t very loyal and then it caused Connor and Risa to lose trust in Lev. From personal experiences that happened to me a day or so ago, I now know that I can no longer trust one of my “good friends.” I told my friend to not tell certain people a

“Can you choose something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?” (228). In A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace the audience is taken into the author’s life, from childhood to adulthood. Wallace went on different journeys and he tells the reality of all of them, both what he expected and what truly happened. He is trying to assure the audience that even though expectations are meant to tell someone exactly what will happen, do not believe that and follow your own path in life. The idea that expectations can be so unrealistic it can change a person until they understand reality and what it means is shown

In the story “Happy Endings” the author Margaret Atwood gives 6 scenarios in alphabetical order from A to F of how a couples life could play out over the span of their lives. In these six scenarios Atwood uses satire to emphasize how interchangeable and simple each couples life is. In this story Atwood uses character, style, and point of view to chastise the desire for the everyday common life and the concern for only the “whats” in life and not “how or why”.

It is human nature to expect a lot from the people around us. Expectations are all achievable with effort, but what if those expectations prevented the chance to make our lives extraordinary? Carpe diem, seize the day, it is this principle that makes life worth pursuing, others expectations should not interfere in the making of a pleasant life. In the play, Death of a Salesman, “Oedipus the King”, and the novel Handmaid’s Tale, Willy Loman, Oedipus, and Offred all strive to meet these expectations set by others. In attempts to do so, the main characters decide to prevent their own satisfactory lives for the betterment of the people around them and neglect the potential consequences of

The novel tells us that the fear of failure is the greatest obstacle to happiness. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” So often we hide behind excuses of not being able to do this or that, but the real story is that we are too afraid to take a chance. It is our

In 2008, author J.K. Rowling wrote and gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Harvard University. Rowling aptly named the speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”. In this speech Rowling tries to convey the message that failing can be beneficial or an individual and that people should not be afraid to use their imagination. Rowling begins the speech with a reflection on what went through her mind while writing the speech and how the process affected her. During this time Rowling asked herself what she wished she had known at her graduation and came up with the two main ideas of this speech; the merits of failure and significance of imagination. Rowling explains the benefits of failure by using her own personal failure of living in poverty with her daughter and what that failure taught her. For the significance of imagination, Rowling describes it not in terms of how it helped her out of poverty, but of how it opens up people to the world and other individuals around them.

   This cynical look at a less than ideal marriage keeps the reader at a distance. The opening sentence startles in its baldness "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot tried very hard to have a baby" and the second sentence destroys any illusions that the Elliots are enjoying this by stating that "They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it"(Hemingway 85).

Everybody has certain dreams and expectations that they wish to be fulfilled in their lives. However when the chance finally occurs to realize one's dream, it may in fact be so overwhelming that it goes straight over your heads, and when we finally realize what had happened it will be far too late. Such a realisation occurs to the main character in Miranda July’s short story “Roy Spivey”, when the protagonist suddenly realizes that her life could have easily been very different, if she had just made a single phone call to a man she met a long time ago.