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- 2861: Long Days Journey Into Night
- ... The setting of the play is the Tyrones’ Puritan New England home, which provides for many of the arguments that take place in the novel. These arguments often arise due to the fact that their house never really felt like a true home to them. "I never felt it was my home. It was wrong from the start" (44) The town in which the Tyrones made their residence also made for ... the slightest sound, hearing the fog drip the eaves like the uneven tick of a rundown crazy clock…"(152) Symbolism is also utilized by O’Neill as he uses the fog that surrounds the Tyrone house to symbolize the "fog" that Mary is in as she is high on her morphine. "Its such a dismal, foggy evening." (108) Throughout the play, in his reflective style of writing, O’Neill demonstrates how ...
- 2862: Livvie
- ... in the story Welty provides information that Solomon is playing a king type role. Welty says Solomon had a bed "like a throne" (511). "Solomon had never let Livvie go any farther than the chicken house and the well. (515). Welty shows the control Solomon has over Livvie (the young girl). Another sign of control that Welty shows in the story is, "Solomon would not have let Livvie look at them ... somebody I know all the time, and been knowing since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and barefoot" (522). Livvie is basically a story about a young woman whose life is stolen away from her. An older man marries her and moves her far away from everyday ...
- 2863: Personal Writing: My Unforgettable Experience With Drugs
- ... We met at the lockers to drop our hits of acid. We left school grounds and my girlfriends went to Taco Bell for lunch and my crush and I walked to the field by my house. We just laid in the grass for a while and talked. Then I started to feel very strange. I told my friend I couldn’t breathe and he said I should calm down or I ... only two people on earth, everything else seemed to have disappeared. I was beginning to get very paranoid, which is not good when you are doing acid. My friend thought we should go to my house because I was scared. He decided to go home because he did not want to be around when my mom got home, he was feeling a bit strange himself. I walked with him a few ...
- 2864: Little Women
- ... felt right at ease speaking with her because she had a way of making them feel comfortable, despite her frankness. Jo was the one who first had enough courage to go over to the frightening house next door and talk with the Laurence Boy, whom they knew as Laurie after that, and became the best of friends with him. Despite that one good trait, Jo has an uncontrollable temper that can ... of Jo's most precious items-a book that she wrote stories in and had for years. She is so outraged that she cannot even look Amy in the face and storms out of the house. Jo then watches as Amy follows her and Laurie outside to a pond to go ice-skating. Laurie warns Jo that the ice is very thin in the middle, but Amy does not hear him ...
- 2865: Lindo Jong
- ... was to move in with her future in-laws, the Huangs. When she arrived at her new home, the place where she would start her new future, she could see by the outside of the house that the Huangs were much higher in society than her family was. Once she stepped inside, however, she sees that the house is uncomfortable and imposing. Lindo was not welcomed warmly as a new member of the family. Instead she was shown to the servants' quarters which gave her a good idea about her position in this ...
- 2866: Personal Writing: About Me
- ... learn not to judge people by their looks alone, but on their personality and how they treat others. Everyone has a specific story and a background, here is mine. I live in a three-story house with my parents and grandparents. It is very common in Portuguese households to have your grandparents living in the same house as you. My culture has taught me that my elders are to be treated with the utmost respect because they have suffered in the past and have helped in creating us. We are a very ...
- 2867: Like Water For Chocolate - Movie Vs Book
- ... Elena picks up her shotgun and hides it under her petticoat. She meets the revolutionaries, along with two other women, at the entrance of the home. Mama Elena warns the soldiers not to enter the house. The Captain of the bandits sees the grit and determination in Mama Elena’s eyes and agrees not to enter. However, the regiment does manage to round up some feed before leaving. In contrast, the ... see. Nevertheless, Esquirel allows Mama Elena to continue nagging Tita from beyond the grave. "See what you’ve done now? You and Pedro are shameless. If you don’t want blood to flow in this house, go where you can’t do any harm to anybody, before it’s to late"(Esquirel 199). Tita responds by telling Mama Elena she hates her and to leave her alone. With these words Mama ...
- 2868: Pliable Reality
- ... and call a tow truck if it could find him in the boonies. He walked slowly feeling sorry for himself. He finally made it to the front door of what looked like an old farm house. He knocked twice and soon an old man came to the door and greeted him warmly and asked him to come right in out of the cold. He thanked the old man and asked if ... could walk to the neighbors the next morning, she said "They only live a few miles down the road and Bob can drive you." He accepted gracefully, and said he would be out of the house at the crack of dawn. They said that's fine they get up that early all the time. Mrs. Jones led Joe to the guest room which was upstairs. They entered a spacious room which ...
- 2869: Life Of Ma Parker
- ... of infant mortality fell victim to other ills of the late-Victorian underclass: emigration, prostitution, poor health, worse luck" (Lohafer 475). At the present point in the story, Ma Parker arrives to work in the house of the literary gentleman after she buried the previous day her loving grandson, Lennie, who was the only ray of light in her dreary life. According to Irigaray, "all the systems of exchange that organize ... children and herself. Ma begins working as early as the age of sixteen as a "kitching-maid" (143). Later on, "[w]hen that family was sold up she went as ‘help’ to a doctor’s house, and after two years there, on the run from morning till light, she married her husband" (144). Ma is an object of transaction among men, as she transfers from one male employee to another, until ...
- 2870: Cinncinnati: Loveland: Paxton Woods
- ... the town had a single schoolhouse and a police force of one, compared with 23 officers today. Mr. Bodley, 87, was born here, moved away for a brief time until the 1940s, then built a house on Walker Street, where he has lived since. ''I never dreamed there would be a half a million homes here,'' he said, exaggerating the growth around him. Historic downtown Loveland, removed from the mainstream bustle ... high school to spread students out in the other buildings. The housing boom also increased average home values from $97,679 in 1990 to $109,694 in 1995, although the average sales price of a house in Loveland so far this year is $127,882. The farm fields are still around, just fewer. The natural beauty of the Little Miami Scenic River - which has national protection to keep it clean - continues ...
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