* We Need to Talk about Kevin ( 2003 ) is a monologic epistolary novel, written as a series of letters to the narrator's husband Franklin.

The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.

The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald, whom he hails as his mentor, just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy ; and MacDonald becomes the narrator's guide in his journey, just as Virgil became Dante's.

In answer to the narrator's question MacDonald confirms that what is going on is a dream.

The use of chess imagery as well as the correspondence of dream elements to elements in the narrator's waking life is reminiscent of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Such anxiety is ironic to the reader, who knows of the narrator's implicit survival: the text refers to the black-robed judges having lips " whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words ", showing that he himself is writing the story after the events have happened.

Scholars have traditionally focused attention on Melville's treatment of race, and the narrator's portrayal of his hosts as noble savages, but there is considerable disagreement as to what extent the values, attitudes and beliefs expressed are Melville's own, and whether Typee reinforces or challenges racist assessments of Pacific culture.

Their sequential mismanagement of the estate is resolved through the machinations-and to the benefit-of the narrator's astute son, Jason Quirk.

For the next 37 years, Edith performs the duties of farmer, housewife and nurse without ever seriously complaining, renouncing her personal freedom and refusing to get involved with men ( except for a brief romance with the narrator's father who, as would be expected, is rejected by her father as a " half-breed bastard ").

In the following years, Edith draws some pleasure from spending afternoons with Rena, the narrator's daughter, who is born in 1969.

The narrator's final admission is that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted " Nevermore ".

This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is " from the Night's Plutonian shore ", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld ( also known as Hades in Greek mythology ).

An example is " The Mad Trist " in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story-within-a-story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in " the Mad Trist " begins happening in " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

Each narrator's text is printed in a distinct font, making it easier for the reader to follow the occasionally challenging format of the novel ( Truant in Courier New in the footnotes, and the main narrative in Times New Roman in the American version ).

Perspective, interpretive knowledge, focalization and structure are the narrator's characterisa viewpoint character is Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Point of view is the narrator's relationship to the story.

The latter part of the work, however, is concerned with the narrator's search for Dowel, Dobet and Dobest.

Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the hallucination that the man's heart is still beating under the floorboards.

The story is driven not by the narrator's insistence upon his innocence but by insistence on his sanity.

The story's final scene, however, is a result of the narrator's feelings of guilt.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

Uncertainty overcoming itself is the precondition of the quest for new and more precise information about the world.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The quest of the historical Homer is likely never to have further success ; ;

The quest for new elements is usually described using atomic numbers.

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

Continuing from Evil Dead II, Ash Williams is trapped in the Middle Ages and battles the undead in his quest to return to the present.

Heidegger, in his quest to re-pose the original pre-Socratic question of Being, wondered at how to meaningfully ask the question of the meaning of being, since it is both the greatest, as it includes everything that is, and the least, since no particular thing can be said of it.

" Buddhism teaches that such a quest is bound to fail.

The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine ; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.

According to Locke, our knowledge of things is a perception of ideas that are in accordance or discordance with each other, which is very different from the quest for certainty of Descartes.

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.

According to Tracey R. Rich of the website " Judaism 101 ", Judaism, unlike other world-religions, is not focused on the quest of getting into heaven but on life and how to live it.

; Mistrust authority — promote decentralization: The best way to promote the free exchange of information is to have an open system that presents no boundaries between a hacker and a piece of information or an item of equipment that he needs in his quest for knowledge, improvement, and time on-line.

# " the quest for such union through the Jesus Prayer ", the earliest reference to which is in Diadochos of Photiki ( c. 450 );

For him " the chief importance is given not to Anarchism as the aim but to Anarchy as the continuous quest for the aim ".

and the Jewish society in the British Mandate Palestine generally disapproved and denounced violent attacks both on grounds moral rejection and political disagreement, stressing that terrorism is counter-productive in the Zionist quest for Jewish self-determination.

According to Avi Shlaim, this condemnation of the use of violence is one of the key features of ' the conventional Zionist account or old history ' whose ' popular-heroic-moralistic version ' is ' taught in Israeli schools and used extensively in the quest for legitimacy abroad '.

Bathing, wearing of perfume or cologne, wearing of leather shoes, and sexual relations are some of the other prohibitions on Yom Kippur-all them designed to ensure one's attention is completely and absolutely focused on the quest for atonement with God.

This series of texts was quickly followed by the Post-Vulgate Cycle ( c. 1230 – 40 ), of which the Suite du Merlin is a part, which greatly reduced the importance of Lancelot's affair with Guinevere but continued to sideline Arthur, now in order to focus more on the Grail quest.

King Arthur does attempt to fulfil this quest in the second act until the Lady of the Lake tells him that he is already in a musical.