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    Dreams depend on the person and whether they can make them happen. In The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a boy named Santiago is on a journey to find his treasure. He later pursues finding this treasure with the help of many other characters, and develops into a well-rounded, knowledgeable person. Paulo Coelho explains that if an individual keeps dreaming about one’s “treasure,” not only should one go and find it but also learn from your journey as one gets there. Paulo Coelho shows how Santiago overcomes

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    money for the dream they have to own some acres but they ended up having to go through some hard times which made it to never happen. Steinbeck wants us to know that dreams aren’t real, because they aren’t achievable, they don’t take actions to make it happen. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing and symbolism to express the theme by creating suspense and emotional connections to the characters and their dreams. Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show how most characters had a dream of their own

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    Kamalu Short Story

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    Kamalu who was only 18 was tall, strong, tan, and had a beach boy appearance, but he was very different from the other boys in Hawaii. Growing up, Kamalu had always wanted to become royal and famous, but his mother always told him, “Don’t let your dreams travel too far, our island is only so small and you have to wake up to reality every day.” Every day that Kamalu went to go to the market, his friends would always tell him about the large amounts of fish they caught, or the big pua’a that they had

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    Analysis Of Paperboy

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    stubbing at the shafts of grass” to set the scene of her first viewing of the paperboy (3-5). These images allow for readers to get a feeling of familiarity with the subject of the speaker’s lecherous desires before the poem shifts to the abstract dream world. Just as many children who are experiencing their first encounter with their own sexual drive, the speaker sees the boy mostly as an object instead of a real human being with emotions as evidenced by her distinct memory of his body--his muscles--and

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    different. This is because Ostin is a genuis and he knows almost everything and Jack is a used to be bully, yet both had very good friendships with Micheal. While sleeping on a resistance’s boat, they both had the same dream, Micheal their supposedly dead friend coming to them in a dream. He tells them that they need to switch coures because the rest of the rebellion is on a different island. This proves that even though Micheal was gone they will never lose him. Another example of theme is in the end

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    My Life Narrative Story

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    lessons we’ll never forget! Lessons we can learn/take throughout life! Stories that inspire us every day to work harder. To inspire us to take on the hard challenges we face each day. To inspire us to grab on/hold on to our dreams. To believe in our dreams and to achieve our dreams throughout life! To not let anyone bring us down and tell us what we can and can’t do. To be ourselves and not someone we’re not. Many stories have good and bad endings. We remember some stories while others drift away. Stories

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    Mango Street as she struggles to find herself as an individual/her identity. During the story, Esperanza discovers how her culture and social class affects her, how she relates to the roles of women in her community, and how to process her hopes and dreams as she matures. These pieces eventually come together in order to help Esperanza form her identity. The shabby old house on Mango Street is all that Esperanza and her family can afford at the moment, as they are very poor. Esperanza is happy that

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    by its creator, it deals with all manners of the human psyche, from the human ego, to our dreams, and to our unconscious and conscious minds. In his work, “Revision of the Theory of Dreams” Freud’s unwavering persistence to cement psycho-analysis, and his method of dream interpretation, as an established science becomes apparent. He implies that only a psycho-analysist is capable of correctly analyzing dreams, and in making this implication he commits a series grievous mistakes, he overestimates the

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    until this present day, dreams has always been significance to people in society. Some people have had the perception of having a dream as a symbolism for something happening in the near future (something similar to a prophesy). People believe that a dream holds some sort of power that cannot only affect the dreamer, but also the people around them. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, there are a lot of dreams of dreams that occurs to symbolize the power that is given to a dream. An example would be the

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    The Vine Poem

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    The speaker is turned on by his sexual dream and has woken up with the feeling of pleasure. The pop of joy rising from this line interrupts the feelings of embarrassment and confusion, as the speaker is happy that this dream actually occurred. The (ah me!) also interrupts the poem, where the speaker’s dream is interrupted by him waking up. The poem in its entirety is the relationship between the speaker and the vine. The speaker is reflecting back onto his dream where

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