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- 6741: Billy Budd - Criminal Without
- ... from the crew. Captain Vere does believe that Billy is not a mutineer and he states in court “I believe you, my man”(67). As much as it hurts Vere to sentence Billy to his death, he knows that Billy must pay for his sin. To abide by the law, Vere tells the jury “The prisoner’s deed – with that alone we have to do”(69). When the jury convicts Billy ...
- 6742: Belove Analysis
- ... under the headstone "Beloved." Sethe chose to have this engraved on the tomb, because this was the "word she heard the preacher say at the funeral...Dearly Beloved" (5). The baby is first christened at death, with a name by which the preacher refers to the spectators at the burial. Sethe thus named the child after herself, insofar as she, Sethe, was whom the preacher was addressing as "dearly beloved." In ...
- 6743: A Tale Of Two Cities - Charact
- ... passionately. Along with that, in his speech in which he confesses his love for her, he speaks of how his love will continue till the day he dies. He says, “In the hour of my death…that my last avowal of myself was made to you”. In addition, both are very strong characters. The stand up for what they believe in and will not give up. An example is Sydney Carton ...
- 6744: A Journey To The Center Of The
- ... of a certain mountain. Verne got the idea that maybe it would be possible to descend even further into the earth. Many of Verne’s “fantasy” stories have come true in the years following his death in the year 1905. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is farthest from reality. Even with the technology we have today, it would be impossible for one to descend into the earth. For ...
- 6745: A Farewell To Arms - Response
- ... have yet to read? Am I really a reader? Will I ever finish them all? What will I do if I tire of reading?] When I finished FTA I was of course stunned by the death of Catherine and the baby and Henry's sudden solitude. "What happens now?" I felt, as I so often do when I finish a book that I want to go on forever. This is infinitely ...
- 6746: Animal Farm Book Report
- ... difference between the writer’s attitude and what is really meant. A major ironic thing that happened in Animal Farm is when Boxer is sent to the hospital. After Boxer had almost worked himself to death he is told that he is going to go to the hospital and when the van comes to get him it says "Alfred Simmons, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willington. Dealer in Hides and Bone ...
- 6747: Name And Naming In Beloved
- ... the surface, Beloved’s name, part of ‘Dearly Beloved’ is appropriate as her short epitaph is her only worldly description. Beloved is also significant to describe her mother’s thick love, the cause of her death, and the attention she receives when she returns her to her mother. The Thirty-Mile-Woman, so named because of her distance from Sixo, is a noteworthy name. It is somewhat absurd to name someone ...
- 6748: Night
- ... for information on the Overlap’s accomplices. The Pipel was hung because his he would not reveal the Overlap’s accomplices. “For more than a half an hour, he stayed there struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.”(page 62). As Elie stood and watched he heard the other prisoners repeatedly ask, “Where is God?” A third cruel act the Nazi’s did was make the ...
- 6749: Lord Of The Flies
- ... of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralph (the head and last of the fire-watchers). After lighting half of the island on fire in an attempt to smoke Ralph ...
- 6750: Killer Angels
- ... conversation between Longstreet and Lee as they survey the ridge, planning for the next day's battle. Here Lee observes that in order to be a good officer, one must be willing "to order the death of that thing which he loves above all others", namely his men. Such is the terrible irony of war. On the cover of the book, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf is quoted as saying that the ...
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