The Cherry Orchard
.... help Lyuboff and her family to get them out of debt. He suggests several ideas such as tearing down buildings and the house, and renting homes on the land that the cherry orchard now grows. He cares not about the sentimental value the orchard holds, but the money that could be made selling it. When told the personal value of the orchard, Lopahin replies: "The only remarkable thing about this cherry orchard is that it’s very big." He also says: "There’s a crop of cherries once every two .....
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The Child By Tiger
.... the reader find outs how an innocent god fearing man can turn violent. Overall, Wolfe\'s characterization is key to the short stories meaning.
Outstanding tone and mood choice also help show the truth about the weak human sole. First, the Wolfe\'s informal tone of the story is significant. I believe Wolfe\'s tone help set up the readers for the shock of what Dick does. However, the tone the author sets is important because of the shock we get, we also see how fragile the human sole is and how it .....
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The Chimmney Sweeper
.... so happy by "clothing in clothes of death and teaching him to sing notes of woe." It is very obvious the sweeper’s feels hate towards his parents for putting him in such sadness, but instead he chooses to hide it by making himself look happy and satisfied.
It is clear in the last Stanza that Blake’s criticizing the Church , especially, and the state for letting a lot of these things happen. During this time many children were dying from being, either, worked to death or from malnutrition. .....
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The Chocolate War
.... 92) Jerry realizes that Brother Leon is struggling with the candy sale and that he is trying to hide his anger for Jerry’s’ refusal. Jerry knows Brother Leon’s hate for him and his fear of failure with the chocolate sale. "He had met Brother Leon in the corridor late one afternoon after football practice and had seen hate flashing in the teachers eyes. More than hate: something sick." (Cormier 92) Jerry knows that Leon hates him for refusing the chocolates but he doesn’ .....
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The Chocolate War
.... sale.
The climax of the novel was on the eleventh day of the chocolate sale when Jerry was supposed to start selling the chocolates but he didn’t.
As a result of Jerry not selling any chocolates, the other students’ sales began to plummet during the falling action of the story. Brother Leon began to feel nervous and had to go to Archie and the Vigils for help. Incredibly, the Vigils turned the whole school against Jerry and made selling chocolates the "cool" thing. Students bega .....
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The Chosen
.... and Danny grow older and they get into the same college. Due to Reuven\'s father support for the creation of a Jewish state, Danny\'s father, who thinks a Jewish state can only be created when the Messiah comes, forbids Danny to speak to Reuven. This goes on for a while before Danny\'s father accepts that a Jewish states is in the best interest of Jews everywhere and allows them to be friends again.
In an emotional lecture, Danny\'s father finally acknowledges Danny\'s dream and allows him .....
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The Chosen
.... prowess of his English and Hebrew studies—qualities greatly revered in traditional Jewish culture. Danny’s revelations startle Reuven; he confesses he would rather be a psychologist than accept his inherited role as spiritual leader of his father’s sect. Reuven’s confessions surprise Danny; he reveals his desire to become a rabbi, though his scholar-father would prefer him to follow his talent and become a mathematician. Danny cannot understand how anyone would choose the very position he secretly wish .....
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The Chosen
.... Dickinson\'s quote can be related to the novel in several ways. \"Silence is all we dread,\" can relate to Danny\'s lifestyle and how he cannot stand the silence in which his father lives. The only time Danny makes conversation with his father is when he is studying the Talmud. \" It occurred to me suddenly that not a single word had passed between him and his father all evening, except for the Talmud contest\" (145). This silence is basically what drove Danny to search for guidance or someone to talk .....
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The Chosen
.... soul.
The other protagonist in the novel is Danny Saunders. Danny is the son of a very devoted Hasidic Jewish tzaddik. However, Danny is not a very enthusiastic Hasid. He has earlocks, grows a beard, and wears the traditional Hasidic outfit, but he doesn\'t have the reverence for it that he should. Danny is a genius. His religion forbids him to read literature from the outside world, so he struggles with his thirst for knowledge and the restraints that have been put on him by both his father an .....
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The Chosen By Chaim Potok
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Reuven and Danny grow older and they get into the same college. Due to Reuven\'s father support for the creation of a Jewish state, Danny\'s father, who thinks a Jewish state can only be created when the Messiah comes, forbids Danny to speak to Reuven. This goes on for a while before Danny\'s father accepts that a Jewish states is in the best interest of Jews everywhere and allows them to be friends again.
In an emotional lecture, Danny\'s father finally acknowledges Danny\'s dream and .....
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The Chrysalids
.... to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it\'s nothing much!\" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong, and she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: \"I shall pray God to send into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate.\" (p.73) Aunt Harriet is also the proof of what happens to people who have a deviation or are trying to protect someone with a deviation: \"Aunt Harriet\'s body has been found in a river, no one mentioned a baby….\" (p .....
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The Chrysalids
.... Michael, Rosalind and David. When Michael mentioned that his girlfriend was stuck in Waknuk and that he would like to go and fetch her she made no effort. She simply said that there was not enough fuel to fetch her and that they could only leave her behind. When Michael told her about the problem getting home she was disinterested. Michael was forced to stay behind so that he could go to Waknuk and be with his girlfriend.
When David described the Sealand woman he described her as the image of perfecti .....
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The Chrysanthemums
.... business. As Elisa works on her garden, she looks through the fence out to where her husband, Henry, is talking with two men in business suits. They look at a tractor and smoke, manly things, as they conclude their man\'s work. Just as their environment surrounds all persons, fences surround animals and men surround women.
As she looks out to these men, we look at Elisa. Although she is doing the \"feminine\" work of gardening, she is dressed like a man. She wore a black hat low on her forehead to cover .....
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The Chrysanthemums
.... a figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron with four big pockets to hold the snips, the trowel and scratcher, the seeds and the knife she worked with.\" As evidenced by this excerpt you can see that she has covered up her hair with a \"man\'s hat\" and has thrown an apron over her dress in attempts to cover up her femininity. This apron also takes on a similar role as a man\'s tool belt as he works the land. Other phrases used by Steinbeck further the above points. He ment .....
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The Chysanthemums - Feminism
.... a glowing there’" (paragraph 92). As Elisa retreats into her house to get ready for her night out with her husband she is truly feminized. She bathes and "primps" carefully, putting on "her newest under-clothing and her nicest stockings and the dress which was the symbol of her prettiness" (paragraph 94). She is pleased with the way she looks. As Elisa’s husband Henry comes outside and comments on her beauty Elisa quickly stiffens. "What do you mean by ‘nice?’" she a .....
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