is about seventeen-year old Lena Holoway does the unthinkable by falling in love in a society where love is considered as a deadly disease. I thought the In the story the government considers love or amor deliria nervosa as a deadly disease. A surgical cure has been developed that was mandatory to every citizen at the of 18 or above. However‚ mere months before her scheduled procedure Lena meets Alex and immediately falls for him. Later on‚ Alex tries to convince Lena to escape to the wilds permanently
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Beneath Clouds Beneath Clouds is Ivan Senâs first full feature. It follows the journey of two teenagers‚ Lena and Vaughn‚ thrown together as their paths cross on the way to Sydney. They travel on foot along the roadside‚ not together but not alone. Barriers are drawn between the two‚ defensive lines laid‚ as the film progresses we sense a relationship start emerge between the two‚ a kind of unspoken affiliation‚ something which Sen rightly refuses to pursue at a romantic level. Although similar
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Max McKeon December 11‚ 2014 English 32L Two Strong Individual Women Characters In My Antonia‚ Willa Cather portrays the two characters of Antonia Shimerda and Lena Lingard as strong‚ proud‚ and forceful individuals. These two have similarities but at the same time they are two very different characters. First off‚ in Jim’s nostalgic memoir of his childhood Antonia is a shy individual character‚ that doesn’t know where she belongs. Throughout the novel Antonia gradually escapes Jim’s emotional
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spending time in the city. The topic of memories is very apparent throughout the story as the main character‚ Lena‚ is reminiscing through most of it. Whether we like it or not‚ life always goes on and sometimes‚ there are things we don’t really pay attention to until it’s too late. Memories can help to keep the past alive and get us through some pretty tough situations. In the story‚ Lena thinks about her time in the city and how she got through it with her memories of the place she grew up in. Armstrong
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themselves. Vaughn and Lena both embarks on a journey to find their parents. Vaughn and Lena goes a journey to find their parents. The main themes of Beneath Clouds are Family‚ friends and racism. Family is important to the protagonist of Beneath Clouds. Lena embarks on a journey to find her Irish father and to find out who she is going to be. Lena who never seems her father before went on a journey to Sydney to find him. Lena’s Father is her motivation to embrace on the long journey. Lena who has lived
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the South Side of Chicago‚ in the late 1950’s. The play follows the lives of a poor‚ urban‚ African-American family‚ the Younger’s‚ during a period of heightened racial discrimination in the United States. In this passage‚ the matriarch of the family Lena Younger‚ also known as Mama‚ is arguing with her adult son Walter‚ about what to do with a windfall to be acquired from a life insurance policy on her deceased husband. This quote reflects the ideological differences between the two generations‚ about
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Dreams are whimsical. In a dream‚ one could be a pilot‚ a queen‚ and even have the ability to fly. Dreaming occurs during sleeping hours‚ but dreaming is not restricted to only sleeping hours. People dream while they are awake. Some people dream of becoming a teacher‚ having a family‚ or becoming a professional dancer. Dreams that people have when they are awake are their goals and what they want in life. The characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun dream and express their dreams throughout
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cranky and fed up with each other. Would you dream for a better dwelling? Would that new place help your family grow closer together? Lena Younger‚ from “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry‚ believed the positive in this situation. She dreams of a means to improve her family situation so that they all can life happily with each other in love and respect. Lena Younger always believed and hoped for a brighter future for her family. She desires to own a lovely house with a garden and a yard for
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Country vs. City In the novel My Antonia by Willa Cather‚ Antonia Shimerda and Lena Lingard share a few similarities: they are both immigrants to America; they are both in their own way very beautiful women; and they are both very independent and accomplished women. However‚ they differ in personal appearance‚ lifestyle‚ and values. Antonia was very beautiful as a young girl‚ but as the years have passed‚ the struggles she has faced growing up in her life show in her outward appearance. She
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Ántonia (1918) by using the oft brazen sexuality of her female characters. While there are shades of a clearer take on the viability of an independent woman in Lena Lindgard’s aversion to marriage and Antonia’s willful determination as a single mother jilted by her lover‚ Cather uses the increasingly unabashed sensuality of both Ántonia and Lena in the second book of her novel (entitled “The Hired Girls”) as a means by which to capture the wildly independent spirit a woman is capable of successfully
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