Christopher Stockdale
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Answered a Question in This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
To answer simply: Thomas Builds-the-Fire tells stories because he is a storyteller. He says that the stories come to him in dreams, which often lead him to a vision (he clearly distinguishes the... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Oedipus deals with the vicissitudes of human fortune (ups and downs) throughout this play, and the play that follows in the Theban Cycle. At the onset, Oedipus is motivated by hubris,... -
Answered a Question in Le Morte d'Arthur
Arthur reputedly received the sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, and in a simple explanation, he was returning it to her, if one can assume that it was her arm that reached up to catch it.... -
Answered a Question in This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
"This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is one of the most significant stories in Sherman Alexie's collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. In this narrative, Victor... -
Answered a Question in The Plague
The last sentence of the novel begins with the juxtaposition of the sound of joy "rising from the town" with Rieux's knowledge that their joy will be short-lived. It is a philosophy of despair, one... -
Answered a Question in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
People living the middle ages often attributed to a postlapsarian (after the fall of man) view of society in general. One of the tenets of this philosophy is the idea that women somehow exist to... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Following Beowulf's defeat of the monster Grendel, the Danes and Geats celebrate with quite traditional mead-hall revelry. Warriors from all over the kingdom gathered both inside and outside of the... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
The treasure hoard guarded by the dragon in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf was a mass of cursed gold, which myth told could only be uncovered by a chosen one of God himself. Even though Heaney's... -
Answered a Question in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar, the main character from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, can easily be seen as a hero on a journey. He is a bit of an underdog, and he doesn't fit into the mold... -
Answered a Question in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie has received much criticism for his realistic portrayal of life on an American Indian reservation in Spokane, Washington as depicted in the collection of short stories The Lone... -
Answered a Question in Henry V
Although there are times in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Henry V, where the dialogue seems to be glorifying war, the author’s message becomes clearly the opposite. Young Henry has been duped by...