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- 5371: Gimple The Fool
- ... life forever. He lived the rest of his wife's life believing her bastard son was her brother, that her second son was his son, and her daughter, born not to long after, was his child also. The people of the town loved every minute of his life, laughing and giggling at every lie he believed to be true. Even though his marriage was a big hoax, he did begin loving ...
- 5372: Fried Green Tomatoes
- Fannie Flagg: Fried Green Tomatoes Fannie Flagg, the author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, has had an astounding life. As a child she was named Patricia Neal and was a native to Birmingham, Alabama. She was born there in September of 1941, and was the daughter of a small business owner named William H. Neal. Even when ...
- 5373: Far From The Madding Crowd
- ... where she eventually died at the gates of the workhouse she was struggling to reach. Her body, weak and thin as it was, was taken to Bathshebas house and laid there for the night, child and all. When Bathsheba eventually did discover that Troy had jilted another woman and left her holding a baby and facing a life in the gutter, she was too shocked to do anything and when ...
- 5374: Ernest Hemingway
- ... It was in Chicago that he met a very pretty lady named Elizabeth Hadly Richerdson. Hemingway badly wanted to marry her but money was a problem so they moved to Paris. Because he had a child on the way and no real publications, he decided to move back to Canada. It was there that John Hadly Hemingway was born in 1923. His nick name was Bumby, that was also the name ...
- 5375: Epic Of Gilgamesh
- ... some forms of their strategies are effective; in the long run, they are both terribly wrong. By choosing to live in denial about the way blacks are treated; Berniece is actually allowing this kind of abuse to continue. Unless people speak out when they are unjustly treated, no change can ever occur. One must look within himself to find the courage to stand up for what he believes in despite what ...
- 5376: Emma
- ... very little to distress her or vex her." (Austen, 3) Emma was the youngest of two daughters and she was spoiled by her old, affectionate father. Her mother had died when she was only a child and her sister, Isabelle, had married at an early age. This made her mistress of his house from a very early period. Emmas self image is very strong and she is doubly pleased with ...
- 5377: Emma
- ... The Westons, the Woodhouses, and Mr. Knightly (who owns the estate Donwell Abbey) are at the top of Highbury society. Mr. Weston had been married earlier. When his previous wife died, he sent their one child (Frank Churchill) to be raised by her brother and his wife, for the now-wealthy Mr. Weston could not at that time provide for the boy. Without Miss Taylor as a companion, Emma adopts the ...
- 5378: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... was orphaned at the early age of two, his father deserted the family and his mother died all before he was three in 1811, then Poe became a ward and was raised as a foster child by John Allan, a wealthy merchant of tobacco, and his wife Frances in Richmond, VA but they never legally adopted him. Taken by the Allan family to England at the age of six, Poe was ...
- 5379: Eating Gilbert Grape
- ... problem is, his boss saw him carrying a product from FoodLand, and we as the audience can see the anguish and guilt portrayed by Gilbert's facial expression. It could be described as an innocent child's face who has been caught opening a Christmas present a day early. The average person would have no worries shopping somewhere else, yet Gilbert is especially regrettable as he already told Lamson that he ...
- 5380: Dulce Et Decorum Est
- ... gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sections, each dealing with a different stage of this experience. He makes use of a simple, regular rhyme scheme, which makes the poem sound almost like a child's poem or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasize the solemn and serious content. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base from the front line. The ...
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