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- 1241: The Optimist's Daughter: Summary
- ... be carried by trucks now instead of trains, many people would have left Mount Salus. This would account for the small population of the township at the time of the novel. 3.13 The McKelva house represented all of Laurel's fears. She had to face all of her deepest horrors when she finally said good-bye to her father. In the house she discovered several items that contained emotional memories for her and she was forced to face them all. The house is a symbol of all of Laurel's conflicts that she faced before and after her father's death.
- 1242: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... and well-liked, perhaps just a little tired from all his hard work day in and day out. Somehow she makes ends meet at home while New York City grows up around their small, suburban house, blocking out the sunshine and even the fresh air. Meanwhile, Willy's career is stagnant and he resents "the way they boxed us in here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks"Ή. It seems as though ... his past. Willy's entire household is expected to contribute to his delusions, a fact that bothers Biff exceedingly until he bursts, saying angrily, "We haven't told the truth for ten minutes in this house!" (Miller 112). "Willy slips into the past whenever he is confronted with a crisis too difficult for him to accommodate..."(Schlueter & Flanagan 59) and he often asks advice from those who are not actually present ... who hired him, and begs to be taken off the road. He wants to be centralized in New York, which makes sense, because he is an old man and his wife is alone in the house now that the boys are grown. Of course, the play would not be called Death of a Salesman if everything worked out happily and Howard said, "Sure! I'll give you a raise and ...
- 1243: Les Miserables
- ... escape and never made it but finally released. His imprisonment hinders his chances of refuge for the night as shown at Digne where he is repeatedly refused shelter until he arrives at Monseigneur Myriel's house, the bishop, and he welcomes him. The bishop and his take very good care of him, but all Valjean does to repay them is steal their silverware. Valjean also steals money from a little chimney ... where the Thenardiers' inn is located. After burying his money in the woods, he frees Cosette by buying her from the Thenardier's then they move to Paris. In Paris, he lives in the Gorbeau House. Javert finally tracks him down once again but, Valjean flees to a convent where he sees an old friend named Fauchelevent who is a gardener there and who Madeleine has saved once before. Valjean persuades ... a hero of the napolionic wars, lives in retirement in a nearby city. Marius's father dies right before he see's him, but no reaction was shown from Marius. Marius leaves his grandfather's house as a result of his father's love that he wasn't told about and his political views. Marius lives in the Latin Quarter and becomes friends with a group of radical students, the ...
- 1244: "A Raisin In the Sun": An Analysis
- ... belief that the $10,000 should not go towards the liquor store. She ended up giving him this money to boost his "manly" pride, but not before she put a down payment on a new house. Although she was going against her values, she is proud in her family and keeps her faith in them. Walter Lee has never wanted anything mere in his life than that $10,000. He tries ... makes the man. The following conversation between Walter and his mother illustrates Walter's need for his business venture to make him fell like a man: Mama:I don't 'low no yellin' in this house, Walter Lee, and you know it - And there ain't going to be no investing in no liquor stores. I don't aim to speak on that again. Walter: Oh-so you don't aim ... in somebody's kitchen. Yeah, you tell me then. At the end of the play, after Walter lost the money his mother gave him to invest, Walter tries to get some money back for the house. Mama tells Walter to do what he thinks is best, but he has to do it in front of Travis and make sure Travis understands what his father is doing. Mama uses Walter's ...
- 1245: A Short Biography Of Benjamin Franklin
- ... of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to disguise my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. It was found in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they call'd in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of ... Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia) A direct effect of Franklin's work with lightning as electricity was his invention of the lightning rod. The first lightning rod he made he attached to the top of his own house. Soon after, it was hit by lightning, saving his house from damage. He said of the lightning rod, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." News spread about the invention by way of the Royal Society's publications. Soon, buildings as ...
- 1246: Guy Fawkes
- ... The plotters wanted to wrest power away from the king and return the country to the Catholic faith. Today, they would be known as extremists. However, in an attempt to protect a friend in the House of Lords, one of the group members sent an anonymous letter warning his friend to stay away from the parliament. The warning letter reached the king, and the conspirators were caught, tortured and executed. Guy Fawkes and his friends had rolled 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellar and covered them with faggots under the House of parliament(Encyclopedia Americana 91). These days Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire. The ... the plot, among them Sir Everard Digby, John Grant, Ambrose Rokewood, Francis Tresham, Thomas Winters brother Robert, and John Wrights brother Christopher(Infoplease.com 1). The conspirators discovered a vault directly beneath the House of Lords. They rented this cellar and stored in it 36 barrels of gunpowder. In the final arrangement, Fawkes was to set fire to the gunpowder in the cellar on November 5 and then ...
- 1247: The Bluest Eye 3
- ... a room out to Mr. Henry but then find out that they will have another guest soon because Pecola Breedlove is going to come stay with them because her father has just burned down their house. We then hear memories about the time when Pecola is living with the MacTeers and then the second narrator comes in and gives us some background on the Breedlove family. This is when we find ... are black and therefor ugly which hurts Pecola even more. Now we hear from the second narrator again about a woman named Geraldine and her son Junior. Junior sees Pecola and invites her into the house to supposedly show her some kittens and give her one. Junior kills his mother's beloved cat and blames it on Pecola. Geraldine shoves Pecola out of the house calling her "black" as if it was an insult, which just adds to her harassment by others. We hear from Claudia again about the spring where the roomer Mr. Henry sexually harasses Frieda and ...
- 1248: The Challenges Faced In Jane E
- ... friend, Miss Temple, is there. Once Miss Temple decides to marry and leave the school, Jane finds that she has nothing left to hold her there. She applies for and obtains a job at Thornfield House as a tutor to a young girl named Adele Varens. She quickly makes friends with the girl and the housekeeper, Mrs. Fairfax. When Jane meets Mr. Rochester, the owner of Thornfield, she quickly wins him ... love and happiness is about to be ripped away from her. It turns out that Mr. Rochester is already married. But his wife is insane and lives locked away in the upper floors of the house, and the English government will not allow him to legally divorce her, so he suggests eloping to France. Jane, being an intelligent girl, refuses to go with him, and leaves Thornfield the next morning. It ... acceptance that she desperately wanted. She has family. But she also has a loose end to deal with. She returns to Thornfield to deal with her memories of Mr. Rochester, only to find that the house has burned down, Rochester s wife is dead, and Mr. Rochester is blind from the fire. Despite this, they start a new life together. Jane finally has everything she dreamed of having - a family ...
- 1249: The Bluest Eye 2
- ... a room out to Mr. Henry but then find out that they will have another guest soon because Pecola Breedlove is going to come stay with them because her father has just burned down their house. We then hear memories about the time when Pecola is living with the MacTeers and then the second narrator comes in and gives us some background on the Breedlove family. This is when we find ... are black and therefor ugly which hurts Pecola even more. Now we hear from the second narrator again about a woman named Geraldine and her son Junior. Junior sees Pecola and invites her into the house to supposedly show her some kittens and give her one. Junior kills his mother's beloved cat and blames it on Pecola. Geraldine shoves Pecola out of the house calling her "black" as if it was an insult, which just adds to her harassment by others. We hear from Claudia again about the spring where the roomer Mr. Henry sexually harasses Frieda and ...
- 1250: Jeffrey Dalhmer
- ... been the single, happiest moment of his life." The family had moved to Iowa where Lionel was working on his Ph.D. at Iowa When Jeff was four, his father swept out from under their house the remains of some small animals that had been killed by civets. As his father gathered the tiny animal bones, Jeff seemed "oddly thrilled by the sound they made. His small hands dug deep into ... too. What he didn't realise was that Jeff's boyhood condition was far graver than his and that "Jeff had begun to suffer from near isolation." In April of 1967, they bought a new house. Jeff seemed to adjust better to this move and developed a close friendship with a boy named Lee. He was also very fond of one of his teachers and took her a bowl of tadpoles ... and worked on the school newspaper. However, his classmates considered him a loner and an alcoholic, who brought liquor into the classroom. He actually had a prom date, who he later invited to his parents' house for a seance. His classmates remember a stunt he pulled when he sneaked into the yearbook photo of the members of the National Honour Society. The yearbook staff caught the prank in time and ...
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