The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Superstitutions
.... taught to
him and he is so ignorant he does not know better.
One morning Huck turned over the salt-cellar at breakfast. He went
to throw the salt- cellar over his left shoulder to cancel the bad luck,
but Miss Watson stopped him. All day he wondered when something would fall
on him and what it would be. This all implies that Huck thinks something
is going to fall on him, because of his accident. I have heard about bad
luck from spilling salt so I think this Superstition started in the North
or ma .....
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Mila 18: The Affair
.... When in bed Deborah served her
sentence. The guilt of sex was deeply implanted in her. She practiced
pretending to enjoy love-making so as to not offend her husband. Deborah
didn't experience either fulfillment or the smaller pleasures of love-
making. She was totally unemotional.
When Deborah met Christopher she said she was drawn to him like a
little girl that took his hand and was led through the black evil forest to
the golden castle that sat on a cloud. The time when they had done
everything bu .....
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Analysis Of Children's Fairy Tales
.... mystical about them. Only places that children dreamed about were
used. These were places such as palaces, and Kingdoms, mystical forests or
a witches castle. One story was of a lonely cabin located in a mystical
forest. I suppose places like these were used to provoke the children
imagination.
Many of the themes I found to be quite common. I quite often found them
to be about a boy and a girl and them getting together. There was also
usually some sort of a competition were the protagonist woul .....
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The Andromeda Strain: Summary
.... and
containment facility where a microorganism could be isolated. They named
the facility Wildfire.
The outbreak starts when two people are sent out to search for Scoop VII.
When the two men sent neared Piedmont they noticed vultures circling the
town, watching, waiting. At their last check point there was only a scream
and static as the virus took two more lives.
Hours later a military helicopter with Jeremy Stone and Charles Burton took
off from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was headed for Piedmon .....
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Summary Of The Andromeda Strain By Crichton
.... get out of the vehicle to investigate, they die too, while being
monitored by radio.
The person in charge is back at base, listening to them. When, after
the two find all the dead bodies in the town, everything goes silent, he
knows something has gone very wrong, and calls in the problem. The systems
that have been set up to take over in the event that something that like
this happened start to take over, and certain people are contacted. Years
before, a group of biologists proposed to the .....
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz: Duddy
.... potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the
others." (p.279) I think that this was the best advice he ever got, but he
didn't need it; in the end he allows himself to become the con-artist, the
sly scammer person without even realising that he had a decision in the
matter.
Simcha, Duddy's grandfather, was the person whom Duddy looked up to
and wanted to please because he was the only one who truly respected and
loved Duddy. It was also Simcha who planted the dream for land into Duddy's
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The Awakening Vs. A Doll's House
.... to be true or good. The first of these is the
theory that husbands will most likely treat their wives as inferiors after
they are married. In A Doll's House, Torvald is blatantly condescending to
Nora. He calls her his ³little squirrel² or ³little skylark² and requires
her to ³do tricks² to please him. In addition, he treats her like a child,
a ³feather head² who can't understand anything important. In The Awakening,
Leonce is more subtle in his mistreatment of his wife. He tries to control
Edn .....
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The Beast In The Jungle: The Beast Of James
.... of Marcher's destiny by treating it as a symbolic crouching beast
waiting to spring. The reader will ask why James has done this? Wouldn't it
be more effective to speak plainly of Marcher's and Bartram's relationship?
The author could tell us exactly why John Marcher does not marry May
Bartram. The narrator tells us that Marcher's situation "was not a
condition he could invite a woman to share" and "that a man of feeling
didn't cause himself to be accompanied by a lady on a tiger hunt" (p. 417).
This i .....
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Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms
.... off and finds his wife to be.
The plot in A Farewell to Arms was always active. They were never
staying in one place too long. It had a very good story line, which was a
love story that ended up in a tragedy. The main character's wife got
pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring.
They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when the mother of the
child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over for his wife and he
was right.
From the beginning .....
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The Caine Mutiny: Willie Keith - A Life Changed
.... really rely on his
mother for everything. He was still careless and naïve about some things
but he did learn that he was on his own. At Furnand Hall he had received
48 demerits and was almost expelled. Willie then had to push himself to be
on top of everything. The 48 demerits were not just going to go away and
he couldn't have his mother do something about it. Willie had to be the
one to get himself out of the mess he had created. Even when his father
came to tell Willie that he could probably g .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Chapter By Chapter Summary
.... awful. He returns to his school, Pencey Prep.
When he's in his room, in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing, he's trying to
read a book, but Ackley, a guy that sleeps in the room next door, comes in
through the shower curtains and disturbes him by picking up and laying
down everything in the room and asking stupid questions. Finally,
Stradlater, Holden's roommate comes in in a big hurry and makes Ackley
think of leaving the room.
Chapter 4 ---------
Stradlater tells Holden he's going out tonight with Jane .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
.... New York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once
again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to
the end of term, and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning
to his parents' inevitable wrath.
Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and
activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing
nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression,
impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic beh .....
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The Catcher In The Rye: Holden; A Teenager With Definite Moral Values
.... One occurrence of this is when Holden
went to Phoebe's school and found “fuck you” written on the wall. He was
infuriated because he knew all the children would see it. He said, “
Somebody'd written ‘Fuck you' on the wall. It damn near drove me crazy”
(201). Holden wiped it off because he wanted to protect the children form
seeing it. In fact, the title of the book deals with Holden wanting to
protect kids. Holden told Phoebe, “...I have to catch everybody if they
start to go over the cliff... .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front: "The Cause Of Death"
.... forth between present and
past. The main topics throughout the book is the change from idealism to
disillusionment, the loss of Paul's friends, and especially the loss of
Paul's innocence.
The change from idealism to disillusionment is really the driving
force behind the novel. From young school boys, listening to their
schoolmaster asking "Won't you join up comrades?"(11) to "weary,
broken"(294) men, idealism and disillusionment play a major role on Paul's
decisions and thoughts. For example, .....
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A Review Of "The Cay" By Theodore Taylor
.... ignore his mother's predujices and respect the people with
dignity.
Plot
Phillip lives in Williamsted with his mother and father.They had lived
in the United States but they moved there when Phillip's father was offered
a job in an oil refinery nearby. Williamsted is very quaint and the harbour
is always full of black people on their fishing boats, called schooners.
One day a German U-boat is spotted near the harbour. The whole harbour is
on edge . When everyone calms down, the first tanker in a w .....
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