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- 3831: In The Skin Of The Lion
- ... with no mention of a mother, any siblings or school friends, we can imagine the solitude Patrick lived in. Perhaps the moths are more of an interest to Patrick (than other insects) because of his day to day living. Working around the farm during the day he might not have developed an eye for them, or had the time to stop and examine them. During the evening when chores where done and his life was quiet, the insects attracted to ...
- 3832: In Cold Blood
- ... But Perry, thinking it was grotesque, stopped him from doing so. Finally, Perry and Dick were inhumane because of their lack of compassion. The whole town loved and respected the Clutter family, and on the day of their executions, neither Perry nor Dick apologized to anybody when given the chance to do so. This tragic murder was inhumane because of the actions of Perry and Dick. When Perry and Dick killed ... that Perry has feelings when talking about Nancy: "...she [Nancy] was trying to act friendly and casual. She was a very pretty girl, not spoiled or anything, I really liked her" (Capote 243). To this day, nobody ever proved why it was necessary for the Clutter family to die, and they probably never will. This was a murder that was definitely done without motivation. Perry and Dick picked this family because ... and respect from all. They did not need to have their lives taken away at such an early stage in life. We will never know if Bobby and Nancy would have married, or if one day Mr. Clutter would become a millionaire. These lives were taken for no concrete reason, just the greed for the Clutter's wealth. "In the book In Cold Blood, the murderers Richard Hickock and Perry ...
- 3833: Ibsen And Strindberg - Hedda Gabler And Miss Julie
- ... your findings with comments on the writers attitudes to their characters." August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen were both great playwrights of the 19th century, and both played a large role in the evolution of modern day naturalism/ realism. The plays I will be discussing are Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, (1890) and Strindberg’s Miss Julie (1888). In Karen’s lecture on Strindberg, she told how the two playwrights were rivals in ... Miss Julie quite clearly. Strindberg believed that Women were a secondary form, which can be seen through reading his preface to the play. The translation of the play I examined was from the "Drama Classics" (D.C) Series. I found a very interesting piece of writing in this version of the play; In an editors note, it is explained that the translation was based on the original text, and contained some ...
- 3834: Huckleberry Finn - Superstitions
- ... who have sought the coolness of the church and notes "most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different"(122). The narration of Huck's final day with the Grangerfords is prefaced by: "I don't want to talk much about the next day"(124). For Huck's easy-going fluid dialogue to become stilted and censored, the reader knows the young boy has been hurt. A senseless fatal feud is not the only tragedy depicted through the events of that day, also shown is the heartbreak of a young boy who loses every vestige of the hopeful trust he put in a father, brothers and sisters. Huck is shocked to hear the fatherless, brotherless Buck ...
- 3835: Huckleberry Finn - Influences On Huck
- ... Jim prove the reader correct in his assumption. Huck has now subconsciously decided to protect Jim at all costs. This is the second voice that Jim hears. This voice tells him that, "…s’pose you’d a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? Now, says I, I’d feel bad-I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to ...
- 3836: Huckleberry Finn
- ... who have sought the coolness of the church and notes "most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different"(122) The narration of Huck's final day with the Grangerfords is prefaced by: "I don't want to talk much about the next day"(124). For Huck's easy-going fluid dialogue to become stilted and censored, the reader knows the young boy has been hurt. A senseless fatal feud is not the only tragedy depicted through the events of that day, also shown is the heartbreak of a young boy who loses every vestige of the hopeful trust he put in a father, brothers and sisters. Huck is shocked to hear the fatherless, brotherless Buck ...
- 3837: Home Burial
- ... of dealing with their grief, and go on with their lives. This the young mother cannot do. The baby is buried in the family graveyard, which is visible from an upstairs window of their house. Day after day she goes to the stairway window looking out upon the nearby family plot. The sight of the raw mound where her child lies buried reopens her grief. But, another emotion wells up as well – anger ... specifically at what he did say, for in those lines lies the whole heart of the poem. After he dug his child’s grave, he came inside and said, "Three foggy mornings and one rainy day/Will rot the best birch fence a man can build" (92-93). This remark was not hateful at all; it was it was closely related to his remark a few lines earlier in the ...
- 3838: Hiroshima
- ... took her in his arms and carried her to it. She was grateful until she noticed 2 other people even more injured than her. (I will not get into details.) For the rest of the day, Mr. Tanimoto and Father Kleinsorge did nothing but help the injured people. Mr. Tanimoto mainly ferried people across the river to Asano Park. Father Kleinsorge began asking people go out to Nagatsuka where it was ... a bomb at all. It was a big mass of magnesium powder that exploded when it come into contact with the live wires of the city power system. (Woah) Dr. Sasaki Dr. Sasaki, working all day to tend the wounded, was worn out. He went outside with the other survivors and slept. Then the people woke him up a few minutes later and then he was forced to help them, Dr ... her children to her sister-in-law in Kabe. She then set back to Hiroshima and then later found out all her family were dead. She then later went back to Kabe, depressed. The next day, she met her younger-sister who had not been in Hiroshima, who said that the war was over. Chapter 4 – Panic Grass and Feverfew Father Kleinsorge, Mrs. Nakamura, her daughter Myeko, and Mr. Tanimoto ...
- 3839: Hills Like White Elephants
- ... of the brothers gets caught. At his captured brother’s urging, the other brother cuts his sibling’s head off, taking it with his, so the family’s identity would not be known. The next day, the king was bewildered at the sight of a headless thief. He then ordered his sentries to hang the body on the outer wall and arrest anybody seen mourning the headless corpse. The two thieves ... daughter in a room with the order to consort with all the men that came to her. But before they enjoy her she must compel each man to tell her the cleverest thing that they’d ever done. If a man told a story similar to that of the thief, then she should hold him and not let him get away. The thief, seeing through the king’s trap, wanted to ...
- 3840: Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
- ... only as Sirius Black, whom no one had seen before. The pursuit of Serious continues for a long time and doesn’t’ end too soon. Harry counts as the days pass by, waiting for the day when he travels out to catch the train "9 3/4", the train to Hogwarts hidden between trains 9 and 10. There is a big problem now, though. Aunt Marge was coming over to visit ... to Hogwarts, Harry was the laughing stock of Draco Malfoy and his friends because of his fainting from the Dementor that came into the train. Harry shook it all off and had a great first day feast with a good sleep thinking about what the rest of the year would be like. Over the next few weeks Harry was getting used to Hogwarts again for the third time, picking his magical ... to guard the school which means trouble for Harry and the rest of the students. The Quidditch finals are coming up and Gryffindor has a good chance of winning. Harry receives a large parcel one day, to reveal a fine broomstick, the Firebolt. No one knows who sent it to him and Dumbledore takes it from him to inspect it for a few weeks. In a class tought by Hagrid ...
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