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- 3591: Old Man And The Sea
- ... that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin, his helper, comes to his aid with food and drink. Also a point that might be good is that he has had bad luck with his goal ... painful experience with his hand which is in great pain and won't move. This is useful in the place where Christ loses his physical self and has less to deal with. On the third day, he recovers himself and returns to his home even though his only remaining treasure was a broken skiff, experience, and a torn up marlin. And in the final conclusion, you can see him dragging ...
- 3592: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... the matter when I happened to think of the old tub room...We don't use the room at all...So how would a group like to have that room as a sort of second day room, a game room, shall we say?" (p.99) This is one of many battles between McMurphy and the system. This one he happened to win, but in real life many fights against the system ... with a bunch of my fellow classmates, tried to protest the date of a test because it gave us an insufficient amount of time to study. We plead with the teacher to postpone it another day, but to no avail. The test stayed on the same day as scheduled. It was an attempt to change the system, not much of one, but still it was an honest attempt. It is evident that it's very difficult to change the system, but ...
- 3593: Stephen King
- ... on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how ... in the same fashion the way it was done on the radio (Beaham 17). King’s fascination with horror early on continued and was pushed along only a couple weeks after Bradbury’s story. One day little Stephen was looking through his mother’s books and came across one named “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” After his mother finished reading the book to him, Stephen was hooked ... experiences and observations from his life and places them into his unique works. What seems to make Stephen King’s stories almost magical is that the settings of his stories are placed into common every day places. Additionally, Stephen’s writings are true to life in peoples mind’s because he draws upon common fears. Just as King’s writing style and genre had been influenced by movies throughout his ...
- 3594: Summer Of The Monkeys
- ... was well again he went back to his grandpa's store. This time his grandpa suggested talking to Jimbo and getting the small monkeys to follow along. Jay Berry and Rowdy found them the next day. The monkeys had found some sour mash and were drinking it. When Jay Berry arrived, Jimbo and the other monkeys were too drunk to be scared. Jimbo offered Jay Berry and Rowdy a drink. They ... asleep, Jay Berry visited his grandpa's store and told him everything. His grandpa sent a telegram to the two men from the circus and they came to the Lee family's farm the next day. They took the monkeys away in a truck and gave Jay Berry his one hundred and fifty-six dollars. He gave six dollars to his sister, Daisy. Then he ran to his grandpa's store ... and mother, along with Daisy, went to Oklahoma City. They were there for six weeks. During that time, Jay Berry and his father had to run the barn and his grandpa's store. Then one day they got a letter saying Daisy and Jay Berry's mother would be coming in on the afternoon train. Jay Berry, Rowdy, and his papa met them there. When Daisy got off the train, ...
- 3595: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... example of the phoniest that Holden will talk about all through book. Oh and one I almost missed it is a little before the conversation with Faith it is a very important event. When J.D. Salinger had Holden look about of the window I think it was a big simile, of which I think about more in theme number 3, of the theme of the book. I'm sure Holden ... to her dad and told him how it was, but she still asked how it was. Holden when call her "quite a little phony," she even sounded phony through the book with lines like "I'd love to grand." And when they got through with the play on the Lunts it didn't get any better. They ran into this guy that Sally knew and both of their phoniest began to ... about getting kicked out of school again saying "you don't like anything" Holden was forced to come up with something he would enjoy to be or do. After minutes of pondering Holden said "I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all." He just wanted to save the little innocent kids from falling. The kids I think represent the innocents of the young just playing and when ...
- 3596: The Pearl
- ... fortunate. However it seemed that he had been stereotypical of the less fortunate, as he soon discovered when hearing of a great pearl discovered by the peasants who had knocked upon his door earlier that day. A hunger for wealth was what pushed him to visit the peasants house and aid their destitute son. However he had already ended Coyito's life without knowing he'd done so, for if he had administered aid to Coyito when they were first at the doctors door, Kino would have no reason to seek his fortune in the ocean, and would not be led ...
- 3597: The Pearl - Greed
- ... just that-less fortunate. However it seemed that he had been stereotypicalof the less fortunate, as he soon discovered when hearing of agreat pearl discovered by the peasants who had knocked upon hisdoor earlier that day. A hunger for wealth was what pushed himto visit the peasants house and aid their destitute son. Howeverhe had already ended Coyito's life without knowing he'd done so,for if he had administered aid to Coyito when they were first atthe doctors door, Kino would have no reason to seek his fortunein the ocean, and would not be led down the ...
- 3598: Tom Clancy
- ... make. This is not the story of machines run by artificial intelligence, these are real people, friends, and neighbors of the reader. Bob Toland was a middle-level analyst at the National Security Agency. He’d left the Navy after six years whey the adventure of uniformed service had palled, but he remained an active reservist. His work at NSA dovetailed nicely with his naval reserve service. A communications expert with a degree in electronics, his current job eas monitoring Sovien signals gathered by the NSA’s numerous listening posts and ferret satellites. Along the way he’d also gotten a masters in the Russian language (Clancy 55). The description of Bob Toland could apply to anyone in the Washington D.C. area or any neighborhood across the U.S. With the ending of world communism, reunification of Germany, and breakup of the Soviet Union, Tom Clancy’s books evolved to present more modern enemies ...
- 3599: Touch Wood By Renée Roth-Hano
- ... growing as a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renée and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then one day, a war with Germany is announced on the radio. The Germans wanted to annex Alsace and forced the Jews to leave. France was split into two zones- the Free Zone and the German occupied zone ... more of a home and helps Renée to miss Alsace a little less. Renée¹s parents had left Poland and then Hungary to find a freer, better life. They settled in France and thought they¹d be safe. Then Adolf Hitler, a German man who hated Jewish people, started trouble all over again. First, seven synagogues were blown up. Then, the Germans created a curfew prohibiting Jews to go during certain ...
- 3600: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... much despised. The Ewells are given the privilege to hunt out of season, so that the residents of the small town of Maycomb would not have to tolerate their continuous begging twenty-four hours a day for seven days a week. These two families show the respectability of hard workers or, in the Ewells case, can fill their peers with sorrow. The Cunninghams have pride, as for the Ewells, they have ... daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and a total adversity trip for the teacher. Walter Cunningham being raised in a very hard working environment was taught not to take what he could ... to him. For example he drowned his waffles in a lake of syrup. Bob Ewell's son, Burris was also faced in the same way but in an total opposite direction and purpose. The same day as the Walter Cunningham incident there was another incident concerning the Ewells. Burris had "cooties." A "cootie" came frantically flying out of the assumed Afro of Burris's hair, and scared the overseer of ...
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