|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1221 - 1230 of 6744 matching essays
- 1221: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... Rachael is Dill's aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is a friends with Jem and Scout. According to Scout they are married. (Boo) Arthur Radley is the person that takes Jem back to his house after Jem gets hurt by Bob Ewell. Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell is Mayella's father. He is out for revenge on Atticus for what ... spend the summer with his Aunt Rachael. Dill is fascinated by the neighborhood gossip about "Boo" Radley. Egged on by Dill, Jem and Scout try to think up ways to lure him out of his house. Soon it is Summer again , and Dill returns for another visit. The children's plans for making contact with Boo Radley grew bolder this year, and on Dill's last night they decide to sneak ... from a shot gun. Jem realizes that Boo is not a monster after all, but has been playing along with them. Scout does not figure this out until the winter, on the night that the house of their neighbor burns to the ground. While Scout is standing outside in the cold, someone sneaks up behind her and places a blanket around her. Later, Scout and Jem realize that there was ...
- 1222: How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room
- ... to his growing fears. The corridors echo and they appeared not to have been touched since the previous owner had left. "the shadow if 'Ganymede and Eagle' becomes 'someone crouching to way lay me'" "the house might have been deserted on the yesterday instead of eighteen months ago." "my candle flared and made the shadows cower and quiver." Wells creates tension by suggesting emptiness and by using unflattering adjectives, which if ... reader becomes apprehensive about the narrator's future as it is reminded that the same thing could happen again. For example: Does the narrator meet the same fate as those who have died in the house before him? Does his scepticism prevent him from seeing any paranormal activity? Was the story written before he encountered anything unusual or life threatening? Alternatively, does he live to tell the tale about the evil ... up before the fire" "Eight and twenty years I have lived and never a ghost have I seen as yet." "I half suspected the old people were trying to enhance the spiritual terrors of their house" The narrator catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror and the reflection suggests that he is brave and this gives him an image of strength. This is a contrast to how he sees ...
- 1223: Dawn
- ... Man ordered that a military officer be kidnapped. They kidnapped Captain John Dawson who walked alone at night. (6) This made the country very tense. The English ordered a 24 hour curfew. They searched every house, and also arrested hundreds of suspects. Tanks were stationed at the crossroads, barbed wire barricades at street corners. They did not find the hostage. The High Commissioner of Palestine said that the whole country would ... in Buchenwald, a prison camp during the World War. The Americans liberated it and then they offered to send him home. He rejected it because he knew that his parents were dead and that his house and lands were under the control of foreign hands. He went to Paris and that is where he met Gad. He was offered asylum in France. He wanted to learn the language and go to ... feel bad about planning the raids. They were at night. The movements plan was to kill as many English as possible. That was all. The Captain was being held at a Professor of Language's house. This is where they held prisoners and people wanted by the police. There was a dungeon built in the basement. When the dogs searched the house they smelled him and came within inches of ...
- 1224: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... they hit deep holes in the road. No one minds that they are often nearly thrown from them. A broken bone means they will not have to fight until it mends again. They pass a house, and Paul detects the cackle of geese. He and Kat agree to make a surreptitious visit later. The sound of gunfire and shells fills the air. The veteran fighters are not gripped with fear like ... them and play cards where they are enclosed by a wire netting, the confines of open arrest. Kat and Paul bribe a driver of a munitions wagon with two cigarettes to take them to the house where the geese are kept. Paul climbs over the fence and enters the shed to find two geese. He grabs both and slams their heads against the wall, hoping to avoid a commotion. The maneuver ... his home town, he finds that his mother is ill with cancer. The civilian population is slowly starving. He cannot shake a feeling of "strangeness." He no longer feels at home in his family's house. His mother asks if it was "very bad out there." Paul lies to her. He has no words to describe his experiences that she would understand. A Major becomes angry that Paul does not ...
- 1225: Comparison: Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... in his work, so to the point of it coming before health in terms of priorities. This quote is stated in a way that suggests Jekyll's deteriorating health has become the norm in the house, and surprisingly is not looked upon as life threatening. Because of how this quote was said, it leaves me to think that Jekyll's downward spiral will be down hill from then on, making me ... happens to have a number of puzzling connections to Dr. Henry Jekyll, specifically, next of kin position in Jekyll's will, possible assistant to Jekyll, and an individual that is often seen in Jekyll's house. This description of Hyde is represented exceptionally in the following excerpt, "Particularly small and particularly wicked." This excerpt said what kind of impression Hyde gave to other people about himself, the being small and wicked ... attention to servants, and hardly knows their names, or so it seems, though that may be partly due to how determined Mr. Poole is to keep Master from any bother having to do with the house and what a free rein has over everything that goes on, including who is hired and let go." This long excerpt says that Poole monopolizes the master's attention, and has influence over the ...
- 1226: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- ... robots into society. Battles over land brought on the need for sophisticated weapons. The agricultural system brought on a revolution. The invention of the television can bring media and other forms of entertainment into your house with video and audio combined. Before 1950, newspapers and radio were the only ways to bring media or entertainment into the house. Mass production and other job opportunities brought many people from the suburbs and farms into the city. We can now have forms of electricity directed into our houses for heating and light. Humans are more ... we can enjoy the company of people who share our interests and our views? Where the streets never need to be cleaned and you don't have to keep an eye on your neighbor's house? What happens if the sirens outside become too distracting? Will we simply buy insulated drapes? (Reed 46).” Humans are getting lazy. Almost everything must be done for them in advance. However, sometimes this change ...
- 1227: Twelfth Night: Summary
- ... in. Maria comes down and tells them that they are making to much noise. Malvolio then enters and tells Sir Toby that if he doesn't stop his drinking, he will be banned from the house by Olivia, his niece. He then leaves, as does Feste. Maria makes up a plan that she will leave a note that talks of Olivia's love for Malvolio. Scene Four The Duke, still lovesick ... and Antonio gives Sebastian his purse in case he wants to buy something. Antonio reveals that he is in trouble with the Duke. Scene Four Olivia is pondering how she will invite Cesario to her house. Malvolio enters, and he is wearing yellow cross -gartered stockings. He seems to think that he and Olivia have some sort of understanding. He then leaves to let Cesario in. Meanwhile, Sir Andrew shows Maria ... calls Cesario Sebastian, which gives her/him a hope. Toby and Andrew see this, and are disgusted. Act Four Scene One Feste goes to collect Cesario, and sees Sebastian. He takes him to Olivia's house mistaking him. When he gets there, Andrew hits Sebastian, also mistaking him. The latter then smacks Andrew. Toby draws his sword, and is quickly beaten. Olivia comes out and shouts at Toby. She takes ...
- 1228: Gender Roles In Men and Women
- ... Women Last May ,I went to visit my aunt Martha and her five-years-old daughter, Anna. That day, my cousin Anna was playing with two of her boy friends in the backyard of the house. After a while, she took her T-shirt off because of the bad weather. Then, she was followed by her friends, and they went on playing. As soon as my aunt noticed what her daughter ... friends, and she told me that she does not play with boys anymore. When I interrogated her why, she answered me because they are bad and they do not want to play with sussy -her doll. I ignored what she said that day. After a while I start to think about her words. I start to ask me from where she got that boys are bad and from where she learned ...
- 1229: All My Sons: Summary
- ... death. Mother thinks that Larry isn't dead anyway, what Ann's father did has nothing to do with Larry. Joe tries to explain what he did. He says that military production was a mad house. The army needed the equipment badly and Ann's father panicked. Chris and Ann think that Ann's father is a murderer. Joe tries to find explanations and excuses for the mistake. Ann and Chris ... tells George that his father made many mistakes in the past, for example he gave a businessman some money to invest in oilstock, he lost it. George is more or less thrown out of the house. However, Kate loses her mind because she realizes that Chris is going to marry Ann. This must not happen. Kate believes that Larry can't be dead because if he was dead his own father ... murderer. George: He is Ann's brother. He is very dangerous for George because he is a lawyer and he might open up the case again. That's why he gets thrown out of the house. Problems: The first problem is the war itself. Many persons died because their superiors told them to. Many soldiers died in irrelevant missions. Many of them died of illnesses they got in the unhygienic ...
- 1230: Analysis Of Ethan Frome By Edi
- ... trapped, unspoken resentment on Ethan's isolated and failing farm. Ethan has been caring for his wife for six years now. Due to Zeena's numerous complications they employ her cousin to help in the house, the animated Mattie Silver. With Mattie's youthful presence in the house, Ethan is awoken of the bitterness of his youth's lost opportunities, and a dissatisfaction with his life and empty marriage. Ethan and Mattie in turn, fall in love. However, they never follow their love ... t. For example, when he wants to impress Mattie with beautiful words of love, he mutters, "Come along." In their own ways, Zeena and Mattie are solitary figures, too. For years, Zeena rarely leaves the house. She's consumed by her illness. Mattie, on the other hand, seeks refuge from loneliness at the Fromes' farm. A year later she chooses to die rather than return to a world of solitude. ...
Search results 1221 - 1230 of 6744 matching essays
|
