Huck Finn Notes
.... secret call. Huck puts out the light, slides to the ground, and finds Tom waiting for him among the trees.CHAPTERS 2 and 3As Huck joins Tom Sawyer in the garden, he accidentally trips over a root and alerts Miss Watson's slave, Jim, to the fact that something unusual is happening. Jim sits down on the ground between Tom and Huck, and he would have discovered them if he had not gone to sleep. Tom then plays a trick on Jim -a trick which multiplies in size as Jim tells the story after he awakes. With .....
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Huckleberry Finn
.... always spell better than they pronounce." Even in the opening paragraph of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Clemens states, "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
There were many groups that Clemens contrasted in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The interaction of these different social groups is what makes up the main plot of the novel. Fo .....
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Catcher In The Rye 2
.... had any direction and gave him something to focus on. Holden expresses his wish of becoming a catcher in a quiet speech to himself:
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody big. I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to c .....
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Imaginary Invalid
.... Later in Act I his “illnesses” prove to have relevance to the conflict when she speaks of Cleante, the man she loves. Cleante is not a doctor; therefore, Argon will not give his blessings for Angelica to marry him.
The conflict of the play was that Argon would not give his blessings for the marriage of his daughter, Angelica, and the man she loves, Cleante. The main characters involved in the conflict besides Angelica and Cleante is Argon, the problem, Toinette and Argon’s brother, Beralde, which .....
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In The Skin Of The Lion
.... as those that "have seen this one lighted room and traveled towards it. A summer night's inquiry." (9). In the Garden of the Blind, Patrick observes the blind woman's remaining eye "darting", "moving with delight", "and alighting", all easily visualized. Later in the story, Carvaggio watches a woman in the boathouse. "In this light, and with all the small panes of glass around here, she was inside a diamond, mothlike on the edge of burning kerosene, caught in the center of all the facets" (198).
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Influence Of Realism On Litera
.... instead attempted to show the different classes, manners, and
stratification of life in America. Realists created this picture of
America by combining a wide variety of "details derived from
observation and documentation..." to "approach the norm of
experience..." (3). Along with this technique, realists compared the
"objective or absolute existence" in America to that of the "universal
truths, or observed facts of life" (Harvey 12). In other words,
realists objectively l .....
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Character Analysis Macbeth
.... confused. He begins to think that murdering certain people is the only way to stay on top. In a confrontation between MacBeth and MacDuff, MacBeth said,"I bear charmed life, which must not yield to one of a woman born." He is going mad with evilness and uses this for a false sense of security to say that MacDuff can't kill him so that he does not need be worried. MacBeth has to use that false sense because he thoroughly believes in what the witches said. To answer MacBeth, MacDuff
commented that h .....
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Innocence Of Ophelia And Gertr
.... disillusion. The ghost’s revelation that Gertrude dishonored Hamlet’s father but also their marriage by the adultery with Claudius is contemplated by Hamlet until he goes into Ophelia’s room to look upon her. As Hamlet searches Ophelia’s face for some sign that might restore his faith in her, he instead believes her face shows guilt and thinks she is another false Gertrude.
There is much similarity between Gertrude and Ophelia in the play. Both are attractive and simple minded, and are easily .....
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Iowa- An American Portrait
.... than the other crops they were growing, such as barley, oats, wheat, and apples. With this newfound “wonder crop”, Iowans found that farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made them stronger through hardships and great opportunities.
Draft horses used for plowing later became a luxury and farming soon lost its fun and joyful qualities. It was a time of greater hardship than ever before, but the .....
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Identity In Metamorphasis And
.... has been transformed into a large, roach like creature, representative of his place in society. A common laborer, toiling away at his daily routine, Gregor is nothing more than an insect to the powers that be in society. Even his family has no repect for him and forces him to provide, rather than sharing that duty. Throughout the story, as Gregor's awareness of his true position proceeds, he loses more and more of his human attributes. The culmination of his transformation occurs when he has lost the .....
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Character Analysis Of Jordan B
.... going around that she moved her golf ball during a tournament to win (58). It was said of her that she would do almost anything to win or at least to get her way. Nick Carraway, who was very fond of Jordan also said that "She was incurably dishonest."(58). Jordan Baker is also shown to be a very reckless driver. She carelessly stated that "It takes two to make to make an accident."(59). She also strongly suggested that she hoped she would never meet anyone as careless as herself. (59). Jordan Baker i .....
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Identity In Sula
.... in the hallway, and dirty dishes left for hours at a time in the sink, and where a one-legged grandmother named Eva handed you goobers from deep inside her pockets or read you a dream. (p.29)
Where Nel is confined, Sula is free. Where Nel has been raised to be an extension of her mother, Sula has surprisingly few ties to hers. Nel's imagination has been so restricted that the messiness of Sula's house along with its strange inhabitants and many visitors must seem like an absolute dream world. Simila .....
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Images Of Apple Picking
.... In one very simple line, “ The scent of apples: I am drowsing off” line 8, Frost gives the reader an opportunity to smell apples. As he does not specify the type of apples being picked it is left to the reader’s imagination as to what type of apples he or smells.
From olfactory, the author moves on to tactile paired with visual imagery as seen in lines 11-13:
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
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Illusions In The Glass Menager
.... Even when he runs away from St. Louis, he takes along his memories as some sort of mental baggage. He can’t escape the past, however hard he tries. Escape, he finds in the end, is an illusion, too.
Laura is shown in the play as a shy and sensitive person. Laura is like this because she possesses a limp. She magnifies this limp to an extent where it affects her whole personality. Her oversensitive nature makes her think that people notice the limp and thus, she cannot live normally. Her inability to .....
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Character Sketch Of Nora
.... the seriousness of the offense that she is committed, but it hardly meant anything for the man that she loved.
Nora committed a small moral thing by going behind is back to do it, and forging her father’s signature, but she knew that was the only way she would ever be able to do it. Torvald was not able to cope the idea what she had done for him. She really worked to save him, but he just wasn’t able to see that. So she left him.
Everything Nora did, she did it out of the love and car .....
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