Frost is already whitening the fresh earth on the grave and I think of Theresa cold in the coffin, the red hair, the green eyes. I can't understand the feelings going through me but I know that with all the people who died in my family and all the people who died in the lanes aro...
Years later, they came back—really bald this time, except for the blood, tears, and fingers on their heads as they clawed at themselves in distress—to the ominous wards of mental institutions in the Eastern U.S. These included the stinking wards of New York's Pilgrim State Hospital, New...
and they still have wants and needs like their flesh-and-blood counterparts.Pauley McCoy, also known as Dixie Flatline, died years earlier, but was reconstructed as a “ROMpersonality matrix.” Case meets Dixie’s construct in the matrix, where Dixie helps Case on his mission for Armitage. ...
The wine is running through Hurstwood's body, almost as if it is replacing his other vital fluids. This metaphor emphasizes the profound impact drinking has on his psyche, coloring his judgment and risk assessment. By likening the wine's influence to blood in the bloodstream, the narrative ...
when this man, whose blood has been made cold by time, renounces at the brink of the grave his entire past and his entire future, it’s because he’s made the mature judgment that peacefulness neither exists nor is the supreme good. Why would I live out such miserable days in a forei...
in the charcoal pits of those puckered sockets, something like the cold jewels in the eyes of Egyptian scarab beetles. And although the wind was the wrong way, it seemed to him that he could smell cinnamon and spice, rotting cerements treated with weird drugs, sand, blood so old it had...
Part 1, Chapter 2 Quotes My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. She opened Popo’s mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. She fed her this soup, but that night...
In Act 5, Scene 5, during the play’s final bloodbath, Bosola is accidentally stabbed, at which point he gives his dying speech about the nature of the world. Bosola’s final sentences are rife with metaphors that communicate the depth of violence in his life and his resulting pessimism....
Part 6, Chapter 7 Explanation and Analysis—Spill Like Champagne: In a scene in which he finally confesses to Dunya that he murdered the pawnbroker and Lizaveta, Raskolnikov uses metaphor, simile, and allusion: “Brother, brother, what are you saying! You shed blood!” Dunya cried out ...