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- 2771: In the Zoo: Caesar and the Bear
- ... as a woman of "Christian goodness" (p. 1452). In this first paragraph the reader learns that Gran has had tough times herself in the loss of her husband and by single-handedly running a boarding house. Gran seems to be a courteous woman by accepting the care for the orphaned narrator and her sister, but her character is not yet fully developed. This paragraph (p. 1452) is similar to an extent ... the narrator and her sister have in the town of Adams. They enjoy the sincerity and passivity of this character, for he represents a welcome and satisfying alternative to the life around Gran's boarding house. "there was nothing demanding in [Mr. Murphy's] voice, and nothing sickly; on his lips the word 'love' was jocose and forthright, it had no strings attached" (p. 1455). For the most part, Mr. Murphy ...
- 2772: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... home and Beatty orders Montag to burn his own books. "I want you to do this job all by your lonesome, Montag. Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flame thrower. Your house, your clean-up."(15) As Montag burns his home and precious books, Beatty declares not unlike Judge Stein, "When you're quite finished... you're under arrest." (16) These are not isolated cases. In February ... firemen" squirt their kerosene over the books. Montag later explains to his wife, "We burnt copies of Dante and Swift and Marcus Aurelius." (19) When the "firemen" attempt to drag the old woman from her house, she refuses to cooperate. The woman is too proud to give in to the "firemen" and instead carries out the final act of rebellion by striking a match and immolating herself. "On the front porch ...
- 2773: Kingston's “No Name Woman”: Community's Role
- ... an individual. “The village housed no strangers. All the village were kinsmen” shows that villagers knew every family living there well enough. “On the night the baby was to be born the villagers raided our house” implies that the same people who were once considered Maxine Hong Kingston’s aunt’s kinsmen, turned against her in no time. “Women in China did not choose” they were merely objects of desire. They ... family treated her as an “outcast”. They made her, the wrongdoer, be left alone. They considered her an offender when she was not to blame. The villagers had thrown eggs, mud and rocks at her house. “The villagers punished her for acting like she could have a private life, secret and apart from them” and so they slaughtered the stock, broke in from the front and back walls, broke earthenware in ...
- 2774: The Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos
- ... father. Telemachos agrees with her orders, and before his departure he makes it clear to the suitors (robbing his home and proposing marriage to his mother Penelope) that he wants them all out of his house. He then requested a ship and twenty men, and sailed off to the Island of Pylos. There he was immediately greeted by Nestor, in the middle of offering 81 bulls to Poseidon. Peisistratos, son of ... more knowledgeable that he, and kindly provided him with a chariot, so that he could travel to Sparta to speak with him, accompanied by Peisistratos. He arrived at Sparta two days later, sleeping in the house of Diocles the first night, and arriving by nightfall the second day. He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleuss daughter and son. At this point, Homer cleverly ...
- 2775: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
- ... used for cooking” (381) . This disgusted Linda and she didn’t want to eat the food afterwards. Linda went to her grandmother for a decent meal whenever she had a chance to stop by her house. Linda’s grandmother was the only one who could take care of her. She was also the only person left that Linda can put all her trust in and go to whenever she needed advice ... better. There’s no one like family. They’re the one’s that a person can call on whenever they’re feeling lonely. They’re the one’s who kicks a child out of their house and still opens up the door for them whenever they want to come back. Being lonely is a choice.
- 2776: The Color Purple
- ... boy in church. I may have got something in my eye but I didn't wink. I don't even look at men" (6 ). Celie has to do all the cleaning and cooking in the house, but even thought she does not like it she hides it from her stepfather and never complains because she doesn't think she has the rights to argue against him. For example she says, "I don't never git used to it but I can't say nothing"(2) Her stepfather forces her to do everything in the house because she is a female and females in her stepfather's mind have to keep their men happy as well as have a lot of respect for them. "Women are like children. You have to ...
- 2777: The Autobiographical Elements in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... demonstrated within his works was located in The Tell Tale Heart, where Edgar stalked a man and eventually killed him. He then dismembered the body, took out his heart, and buried the man under the house. He later confessed to the police because he believed he could hear the heartbeat of the man. Formed very early in his life, Edgar Allan Poe had quite an attraction to females. It began when ... He wrote some of the most horrific stories of all time including The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher. The Murders in Rue Morgue was considered the first deductive mystery story about a detective who solved a series of murders in the Rue Morgue of Paris, France. Another example of death in ...
- 2778: Oda Nobunaga
- ... in 1568. Oda Nobunaga was not all glamorous and powerful from the start. He was born in 1934 in Nagoya into an obscure family. His family was a sublineage of a deputy military governor (shugodai) house in Owari Province since about 1400. Though his father Nobuhide was a vassal of the Kiyosu branch of the Oda, he was actually a sengoku daimyo. The Oda were shugodai of Owari's lower four ... as an "outsuke", but a great daimyo among the country. He conquered much of northern Ise by the spring of 1568 and placed his second son Nobutaka in succession to the Kambe family (a baronial house dogo, powerful in the area) and similarly set up Nobunaga's brother Nobukane in the Nagano family. Important people, such as Emperor Ogimachi praised him on his "unparallel designs, " and Ashikaga Yoshiaki (claimant to the ...
- 2779: The Chrysalids
- ... who has or is involved with a deviation. The reader would see this attitude when Aunt Harriet visits the Strorms and brings her deviant child with her: "Send her away. Tell her to leave the house - and take that with her." (p.71) Joseph did not show any sympathy at all toward his own sister in law. Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Mrs. Strorm. She enters the ... book, where she goes to Mrs. Strorm seeking help. Yet the help she is looking for is not something Mrs. Strorm agrees with: "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong, and she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: "I shall pray God to send into this hideous ...
- 2780: Creative Writing: A Murder on The Eighth Night Was Caused By an Old Mans "evil" Eye
- ... in the bathtub so there wouldn't be any traces of blood to be found. I then put the body parts under the planks in the floor," explained the butler. "When we went to the house to check out a scream a neighbor heard, the butler opened the door and was real nice, he let us snoop around the house to show us that nothing was wrong. He said he had a bad dream. Then when he took us into the old man's sleeping chamber he started to get real impatient and started to ...
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