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- 12851: The Client
- ... you wanting to read more and more, do not read this book. Summary of "The Client" Eleven-year-old Mark, and his brother Ricky (8), were just in the woods to have a smoke they'd stolen from their mother, Diane Sway (27), when a Lincoln arrived at the same area. Filled with curiosity, Ricky fooled his brother to get closer to the car. A few minutes later they could watch ...
- 12852: Critiscisms Of My Antonia
- ... realizes that Antonia's and his love does not depend on physical proximity. "The fittest place to talk to each other." (Cather 239) Also in coming back to his psychological childhood he asks Antonia, " 'I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything that a woman can be to a man.'" (Cather 240) The end of the novel is also ...
- 12853: The Chysanthemums - Feminism
- ... great interest in Elisas chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. He tells her he knows a lady who said to him "if you ever come across some nice chrysanthemums I wish youd try to get me a few seeds" (paragraph 56). Elisa is overjoyed by any interest in her flowers and gives the man chrysanthemum sprouts to bring to his friend. Her bubbly enthusiasm for her flowers ...
- 12854: The Chrysanthemums
- ... the scissors was "over-powerful," and her fingers "destroyed such pests." She hints to the reader that she would like to take on more masculine responsibilities after her husband Henry says that he wishes she'd work out in the orchard and "raise some apples that big." She reacts to this by saying "Maybe I could do it too. I've got a gift with things." All of these descriptions show ...
- 12855: The Chrysanthemums
- ... As her husband comes to talk with her, while she enjoys showing off her garden, she seems to feel sub-subservient to him. As he kids her about going to the prize fights later that day, she responds in a breathless tone that she would not like them, uncomprehending the joking nature of his comment. She goes back to her work, back to her orderly world of the earth and the ...
- 12856: Do You Have A Voice
- ... terrible monstrosity, so that no one could make that mistake again. Wiesel is making a difference, the difference he is making is getting people to realize the terrible things that are happening each and every day. In a letter, Wiesel wrote, Have you seen pictures of emaciated children in Somalia? Look at them. If they don t move you to rage or compassion, look at them again. He is trying to ...
- 12857: Fate In Macbeth
- ... warp of some vast fabric on it; we were attending her, and she said to us: Young men, my suitors, now my lord is dead, let me finish my weaving before I marry, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So every day she wove on the great loom- But every night by torchlight she unwove it; (98-103, 110-111, 2.3) By sneaking to the loom at night to unweave her threads she is able to ...
- 12858: The Cask Of The Amontillado - Revenge
- ... Montresor intends to seek vengeance in support of his family motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit."("No one assails me with impunity.") On the coat of arms, which bears this motto, appears " [a] huge human foot d'or, in a field of azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are embedded in the heel." It is important for Montresor to have his victim know what is happening to him. Montresor ...
- 12859: The Cask Of Amontillado: The Dangers Of Pride
- ... does not ring true. The coat of arms of Montressor's family is perhaps the best example of symbolism and foreshadowing in the whole story. Montressor's description of it is "A huge human foot d'or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel" (1148). In this image, the foot is symbolic of Montressor and the serpent of Fortunato. Montressor is ...
- 12860: The Bridge Of San Luis Rey. By Thornton Wilder
- ... fact that in her own household her faithful little teenage maid is miserable from the lack of being loved. When she accidentally learns this from reading one of Pepitas letters (coincidentally on the same day that the Marquesa receives a criticizes letter from her own daughter) she goes in and touches the hair of the sleeping Pepita and says, "Let me begin again" (Wilder, 39). Wilder concludes the chapter with ...
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