ESSAY CEMETERY

Summary Introduction All Europe fears communism. The term is used and misused as a curse by various political parties. This indicates that Communism is a powerful force. It is time to officially present the party's views. Bourgeois and Proletarians All through history there have been classes and class struggles. Attempts at revolution resulted in a big change or massive death. Today's society is still one of oppression, by the bourgeois of the proletariat, who must labor for their livelihood. With advances of technology the industrial system emerged and with it the current social order. The explosion in manufacture has resulted in great riches for a few and massive exploitation. The bourgeois, along with financial dominance, have managed to establish political dominance. They managed to abolish the system of slave and master by their very emergence and left a world in which men operate out of monetary self-interest. Exploitation under religious pretenses has become straightforw...

Themes Attempt at objectivity (Mock) pleasure at being chosen Celebrity culture Fascination and intimidation by celebrities or educated people Everyone's going to Europe ·        Tourism is like home away from home When it rained the passengers had to stay in the house, of course—or at least the cabins ·        Writing is important part of travel but gets tedious some twenty or thirty gentlemen and ladies sat them down under the swaying lamps and for two or three hours wrote diligently in their journals. Alas! that journals so voluminously begun should come to so lame and impotent a conclusion as most of them did! I doubt if there is a single pilgrim of all that host but can show a hundred fair pages of journal concerning the first twenty days' voyaging in the Quaker City, and I am morally certain that not ten of the party can show twenty pages of journal for the succeeding twenty thousand miles o...

Chapter I Twain, in America, signs on to a steamer expedition to the Holy Land and many other locations. He shows mock excitement and mock intimidation at the celebrities that are to be on board. Chapter II Everyone seems to be going to Europe. The journey begins, and they spend the first few days miserable stranded on the ship in the port in a storm. Chapter III They finally embark on the voyage. The sea is rough and half the passengers are seasick. They amuse themselves with half-rate music. Chapter IV Quaker City's passengers are becoming accustomed to life aboard ship. They play games and low-key sports and dance. Many passengers start keeping a journal, an attempt which they soon abandon. They have a mock trial and pray and find other amusements. Chapter V After ten days, they reach the Azores islands, a Portuguese colony in the Atlantic. They let local guides lead them ashore and are followed around by unclean beggar locals. Blucher invites...

Themes Metaliterature Appearance and reality Establishing respectability Establishing verity Excitement and risk regarding the sea Fear of the sea Anti- alcohol? Death wish It might be supposed that a catastrophe such as I have just related would have effectually cooled my incipient passion for the sea. On the contrary, I never experienced a more ardent longing for the wild adventures incident to the life of a navigator than within a week after our miraculous deliverance. ·         Selective memory This short period proved amply long enough to erase from my memory the shadows, and bring out in vivid light all the pleasurably exciting points of colour, all the picturesqueness of the late perilous accident. ·         Racism – the negro is particularly vicious ·         Close calls had made a narrow escape indeed; for ...