Essay on Louis de Bernieres's Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

They both declared their grief when they learned that the other was from the opposite family, through the lines:

Entry #5: “In that moment, I became aware of how I had put myself in this unimaginably dire situation...I couldn’t deny it was my own stupid fault. I didn’t have the energy for a romantic rebellion…”(Moore 83).

“I was their plaything and their idol, and something better- their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or  misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me. With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life.”

The son next tells his father how wild and grave men also struggled with death. Wild men spent their lives frivolously, wishing time on its way. They learn when it is too late that they hurried time too fast and now they cannot recapture what they so wantonly spent. Their lives were foolishly wasted. The son also mentions grave or serious men who review their lives with a swift lucidity when death is upon them. These solemn, sober men now realize life could have been more joyous had they been a little more "blind." If life is taken a little less seriously, one "could blaze like meteors and be gay."

“The boy went back to the corner where he had been studying and pulled out a thick book carefully covered in brown paper.” (pg 233)

“It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you

“He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was beautiful, strange, and mysterious.” (page 39)

“Father! Get up from here! Immediately! You’re killing yourself…’ I seized him by the arm. He continued to groan. ‘Don’t shout, son… Take pity on your old father… Leave me to rest here… Just for a bit, I’m so tired… at the end of my strength…’ He had become like a child, weak, timid, vulnerable. ‘Father,” I said. “You can’t stay here.” I showed him the corpses all around him; they too had wanted to rest here. ‘I can see them, son. I can see them all right. Let them sleep. It’s so long since they’ve closed their eyes… They are exhausted… exhausted…’ His voice was tender. I yelled against the wind: ‘They’ll never wake again! Never! Don’t you understamd?’”(Wiesel 57 ONLINE

that it was on death that the soul either went to Heaven or Hell, thus

. . . Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith, and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled, and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone; for his dying

Through life, we often lose someone we loved and cared deeply for and supported us through life. This is demonstrated by the loss of a loved one when Esther's father died when she was nine. "My German speaking father, dead since I was nine came from some

The reader will get an increasingly detailed image of how the soldiers emotionally respond to the happenings throughout the war due to this composition.

The opening paragraph of the story describes how peaceful the dead woman looked in her bed before her children could say the final goodbye to their loving mother. Her facial features looked calm, and her long white hair was carefully arranged as though she wanted to leave this world as beautiful and blameless as her life was. At the beginning of the story her character was introduced as a "sweet soul that lived in that body," who managed to raise two successful children alone by "arming them with a strict moral code, teaching them religion, without weakness, and duty, without compromise."

on the island) is not the only thing that Dr. Iannis does. In his free

a homosexual and he wants to be able to love and be loved, or the