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  2. Car symbolism - online-literature.com

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    Car are typically a symbol of power, and this is closely tied into wealth. Gatsby, The Buchanan's and even Nick have a car, whereas if you compare this to the Wilson's' they desperately try to make a life servicing their cars, and the only one they own in in a dilapidated state of repairs in the garage. The cars in the novel illustrate how ...

  3. After The Race by James Joyce - online literature

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    The five young men strolled along Stephen's Green in a faint cloud of aromatic smoke. They talked loudly and gaily and their cloaks dangled from their shoulders. The people made way for them. At the corner of Grafton Street a short fat man was putting two handsome ladies on a car in charge of another fat man.

  4. Hearts And Hands by O Henry - online literature

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    Hearts And Hands. At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler. Among the newcomers were two young men, one of handsome presence with a bold, frank ...

  5. Through the Looking Glass - online literature

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    Hello all, I was wondering about dreaming and narrative reference. In the last chapter of Through the Looking Glass, Alice wonders if it is she who dreamed the red king, or if she had been a player in his dream. The narration at this point is in the third centered upon Alice, then this curious poem is attached to theend which seems a break in ...

  6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - online literature

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    The Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll invented the Alice story on a river trip with his 10-year-old friend Alice Liddell, a self-possessed little girl, we were told, with whom Carroll was entranced. This BBC documentary examined Carroll's relationship with children. He took photographs of Alice Liddell's two sisters in 1859.

  7. Eveline by James Joyce - online literature

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    Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.

  8. Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant - online literature

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    Two Friends. Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get. As Monsieur Morissot, watchmaker by profession and idler for the nonce, was strolling along the boulevard one bright January morning, his hands in his trousers ...

  9. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Search eText, Read...

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    The Great Gatsby Discussion. So I recently read The Great Gatsby, and I wanted to ask a few questions. My Language Arts teacher in response to the quote " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (189). " said that Fitzgerald wanted the reader to follow his or her dreams, but the feeling I got was you should not follow your dreams.

  10. A Self-Made Man by Stephen Crane - online literature

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    In conclusion, I might say that if you have any eastern friends who are after good western investments inform them of the glorious future of Tin Can. We now have three railroads, a bank, an electric light plant, a projected horse-car line, and an art society. Also, a saw manufactory, a patent car-wheel mill, and a Methodist Church.

  11. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe - online literature

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    With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven. Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling. My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her high-born kinsmen came. And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre.