How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room
.... the castle is haunted. The way that the past suspicious happenings appear in the middle of the story also creates a lot of tension, as reading from the beginning, the reader does not know the circumstances responsible for the fear felt by the three residing custodians.
"for he had opened the door and fallen headlong down the steps I had just ascended."
"the tale of a timid wife and the tragic end that came to her husband's jest of frightening her."
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A Separate Peace: Changes
.... not care about what anyone thought of him or was saying about him as long as he was having a good time.
Gene, one of his friends, talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise, by this and every other shift in our life at Devon,” (85). .....
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The Gift: Review
.... father. Tommy got to know Maribeth and soon without realizing it he had fallen in love with her. Tommy's parent had a lot of difficulty accepting Maribeth because she was so young and alone and also pregnant. But very soon they became supportive of Tommy and his love for Maribeth because they realized how good-hearted she was. Tommy's parents soon decide to adopt Maribeth's child, knowing that this was another chance to share their love with a child, knowing that this child was a gift from God, and that M .....
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Alice Walker’s Everyday Use: Family Characters
.... uses the hand made items in her life, experiences the life of her ancestors, and learns the history of both.
Contrasting with mama and Maggie, Dee seeks her heritage without understanding the heritage itself. Unlike Mama who is rough and man-like, and Maggie who is shy and scared, Dee is confident, " determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts" (73) she is beautiful and dresses eloquently. Also she has a higher education having being sent " to school in Augusta " (73). She attempts t .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... able to tell everything. That is why it is so hard for him. He is trapped between a rock and a hard space. If he tells the citizens, he is no longer the great reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woo .....
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Mark Twain's The Adventures Of HuckleBerry Finn
.... that could only be for the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island along the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments about man and society.
It is when they stop off at various towns along the river that various human character flaws always seem to come out. Examples of this would include the happenings after the bringing on of the Duke and King. These two con .....
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Of Mice And Men: Loneliness And Friendship
.... no place…. With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that cares about us….”
The theme of loneliness is explained in many ways. Old Candy has only one dog and when it is killed, he hears of George and Lennie’s dream and attaches himself to them so that he won’t end up someday totally alone and friendless. Even after Lennie kills Curley’s wife, old Candy still wants to join George and carry out the dream. Also, Crooks is betrayed to be on the verge of destruction, be .....
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Maus
.... capture by the Nazis in 1939, and his release and return. Vladek tells about how the Nazis policies of extermination were put into practice. The concentration camps began to fill; yet Vladek and Anja manage to survive using strategies, and blind luck, until they are caught and sent to Auschwitz. “We had to make for ourselves “bunkers,” places to hide” (Spiegelman, pg. 110). By hiding in these bunkers they are able to avoid the Germans. For instance Vladek tells Art about one of the bunkers they staye .....
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Cry, The Beloved Country: Differences Of The Ruled And The Rulers
.... looking for work in the mines. After a couple months, Steven became concerned since he had heard no word from his son. When he travels to Johannesburg to search for his sister and son, he is abject to find that his sister, who had become very frail, was forced to become a prostitute to support her child. Then discovers his son had murdered a white man who ironically was abetting the black people.
The first portions shows how work forced the ruled Africans to migrate from rural areas into cities, causin .....
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The Awakening: Edna And True Love
.... to living rather than the life that she had always yearned for.
With the winds of change came a person that she found contrasting to her current life. This man was Alcee Arobin. His role in her life was not true love either. He merely introduced the taste of tangible love to a searching body. This love was not the kind that Edna was longing for either. Arobin's role was to introduce her to the importance of sex. This was something that was foreign between her and her husband. She felt more like an indivi .....
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The Call Of The Wild: Effect Of The Environment
.... body became accustomed to the harsh snow and he toughened and learned how to use it for his advantage. For example, Buck learned how to dig into the snow and use it to insulate him from the outside air. Buck was built for hard work; he was a huge, muscular and intimidating dog. However, Buck had to learn how to adapt to pulling a sled in every type of snow imaginable.
Buck’s environment was not exclusively made up of his surroundings; those who accompanied him were also a large part of his envi .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird
.... prejudice. She thought every person was the same as her. But she found that out at last. She also finally found out that most people were nice. She just had to put herself in those people's situations. "As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra." This statement showed that she understood the prejudice and people's thinking at last. That would make her life a lot different.
Jem was Scout's brother. He was a littl .....
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Bigger Thomas
.... that fell to the floor from the metaphorical table of civilization.
In the first book, Fear, Bigger stands out on the street with Gus. He and Gus see an airplane in the sky and Bigger says:
“…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.”
“God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said.
The racial tension that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where a black person’s only hope of real freedom lies in his or her deat .....
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Beloved: The Symbolism Of Trees
.... that only in nature could these oppressed people find comfort and escape from unwanted thoughts. Almost every one of Morrison's characters find refuge in trees and nature, especially the main characters such as Sethe and Paul D. During Sethe's time in slavery, she has witnessed many gruesome and horrible events that blacks endure such as whippings and lynchings. However, Sethe seemingly chooses to remember the sight of sycamore trees over the sight of lynched boys, thus revealing her comfort in a tr .....
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Black Boy
.... took his money and beat him up. Richard then went back home, and begged her to let him in. All she did was give him some more money, but this time, she handed Richard a stick. Richard, scared and terrified, went back down the street to the store and saw the same group of kids. Richard started to swing the stick like a crazy man and hit those kids in the head. His mother showed Richard how to stand up for himself and that anything is possible.
Another influence on Richard’s life was when a cat was meo .....
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