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- 1911: A Clockwork Orange
- ... s willingness overshadows any curiosities of the treatment. Transferred from a state prison to a private facility insures his release from incarceration. "In a little over a fortnight you will be out again in the big free world, no longer a number"(Burgess 108). With the increase in population comes an increase crime, this has also brought on encouraging new rehabilitating techniques to corrections. Stated by one government official the importance ...
- 1912: War of the Worlds
- ... their father died. The twins and the mother are starting to have some problems, because the mother has the opinion that the twins no longer have respect for other people. As a results of this big discussion the mother says that the twins can leave. The twins were real evil to the young men who wanted to be with them, and we hear about how the twins enjoyed to go out ...
- 1913: The Anasazi Indians
- ... humpbacked, flute playing man named Kokopelli, or the Watersprinkler. On many walls all over the area, a drawing of Kokopelli can be found. These Indians also drew wide shouldered forms called Kackina Spirits, and a "Big Chief" looking out from a red stained shield. There were many odd things about this tribe, such as, "Why did these people disappear after being around for over 1,000 years?" No one knows where ...
- 1914: Tom Sawyer
- ... they all became so home sick that they could not bear it anymore. The next day Tom, Huck, and Joe showed up for their own funerals and there was much thanks and praise. The next big event in the town was the trial of Muff Potter for the murder in the graveyard. The whole town believed Injun Joe, and poor Muff was sent to a temporary jail cell for a week ...
- 1915: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Test of One Knight's Chivalric Attributes
- ... almost too convenient. There is an entire hall full of knights, why does Gawain alone step up? Why is it that a superior knight such as Lancelot does not step up? The Green Knight is big and of course he is green, which might explain some of the delay in acceptance of the challenge, but these knights are warriors. The color green is not a frightening enough color, even combined with ...
- 1916: The Sun Also Rises: A Review
- ... through with two-and-a-half, but a "one-page response" always wants to be twenty pages long?] I finished reading SAR around ten o'clock tonight. I could have taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, but I couldn't do that. It wanted me to bring it out slowly, so I often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it aside ...
- 1917: The Summer of The Falcon
- ... told June about growing. She said: "Growing up is a long process of needing things and not needing things, like mothers and fathers and birds." Then finally, one day, you find you can make a big decision happily with convection. That's what we call maturity. Someday, may be in a summer or two you'll come together in one piece - your head and your feelings." (P.110, George) That speech ...
- 1918: Alvarez Shows Language is A Tremendous Difference In Everyone's Lives In His Story
- ... laugh about it. She always went to class early, had all of her books and was well prepared for class. She also got extremely embarrassed when he laughed about the pencil, which he considered no big deal, but a chance to show off. Rudy and Yolanda had been raised differently, and this affected how they interacted socially. This is one of the most pronounced differences between them that is brought about ...
- 1919: The Grapes of Wrath: Symbols and the Theme of Man vs. A Hostile Environment
- ... hit it. The driver of the truck works for a large company, who try to stop the migrants from going west, when the driver attempts to hit the turtle it is another example of the big powerful guy trying to flatten or kill the little guy. Everything the turtle encounters trys its best to stop the turtle from making its westerly journey. Steadily the turtle advances on, ironically to the southwest ...
- 1920: Mildred Taylor's "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry": Hardships of The Logan Family
- ... their powers to take the land from them, "because he's [Mr. Granger] one of those people who has to believe that white people are better are better than black people to make himself feel big"(p.276). When T.J., a friend of the family, gets into serious trouble with the law, Cassie watches her family's strength defy Mississippi racism. "I cried for T.J.for T.J.and ...
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