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- 2941: Flappers
- ... Gatsby with Daisy for the first time and how they were in love. "One October day in nineteen- seventeen.....The largest of the banners and the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay's house. She was just eighteen....His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years." (Fitzgerald, pg. 80) As the reader can clearly see, Jordan begins to narrate ... pool and then Wilson killing himself. In chapter nine, another flashback is told by Nick. Nick recalls the night of Gatsby's death, and the next day, when all the policemen were at Gatsby's house. "After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men in and out of Gatsby's ...
- 2942: Atticus Finch
- ... person, they knew immediately that there would be much controversy, humiliation from the people of Maycomb and great difficulty keeping Tom alive for the trial. It was not long when Atticus had to leave the house very late to go to jail, where Tom was kept because many white people wanted to kill him. Worrying about their father, Jem and Scout sneak out of the house to find him. A self-appointed lynch mob has gathered on the jail to take justice into their own hands. Scout decides to talk to Walter Cunningham, one of the members of the mob. She ...
- 2943: Three Famous Writings
- ... this is "Let the sole sorry of your parents be that you might become ill." This stresses personal responsibility and respect to your parents. Hammurabi showed responsibility by saying "If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of the man's son, the builder's son shall be put to death." That quote shows a man's responsibility for himself and his family. In ...
- 2944: Far From The Madding Crowd
- ... delight. Fanny even followed him to Casterbridge, where she eventually died at the gates of the workhouse she was struggling to reach. Her body, weak and thin as it was, was taken to Bathsheba’s house and laid there for the night, child and all. When Bathsheba eventually did discover that Troy had jilted another woman and left her holding a baby and facing a life in the gutter, she was ... on a wagon laden with items of furniture, and after a few brief meetings (in one of which she had saved him from suffocating in his shepherd’s hut), he went to her aunt’s house and asked her aunt if he could marry Bathsheba. Bathsheba, of course, refused as she had only known him a week or two, and this shows Gabriel’s bluntness and haste in dealing with affairs ...
- 2945: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... first seen and the narrator says, "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black" (3). Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which books burn and is symbolically written on the firemen’s helmets ... with blood" (105). Here, Bradbury significantly uses the word conscience to show that Montag is still having trouble taking responsibility for his actions (McGiveron 2). When Beatty gives Montag the option to burn down his house and they begin arguing, Montag "twitched the safety catch on the flamethrower…Beatty’s reaction to the hands gave him the final push toward murder…" (119). Again, Montag’s conscience goes through the act with ...
- 2946: Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism
- ... the realization that fire and destruction has indeed destroyed him, wishes to be "reborn". As part of his "rebirth", he goes to Faber with ideas to save the books, and he hides books in his house. Montag even goes as far as stealing books from houses that he is supposed to be destroying. But a Phoenix is "reborn" only to get burnt and destroyed, again. Guy's life is a cycle ... that fire symbolizes the solution, the ultimate solution to all of the world's problems. When in reality, fire destroyed books, it destroyed homes, it destroyed people, it destroyed Capt. Beatty, it destroyed Montag's house, and in the end, it destroyed the city from which Montag barely escaped. "If you can't solve it... burn it!" Is the single statement that can be made about Guy's thoughts of fire ...
- 2947: A Homicide For Emily
- ... for her. During the end of her life the manservant s visits were the only way that the townspeople knew that she was still alive. After her father died Emily kept his body in her house. A few days after Emily s father s death a couple of ladies came to give their condolences. But Emily came to the door dressed in casual clothes and showed no signs of grief. The ... in at the kitchen door. That was the last time anyone would ever see Homer until forty years later. After Emily s death the townspeople broke down a door to a room in Emily s house and there lay Homer s skeleton in a double bed. In the room was the man s toilet set, a collar and a tie. Upon a chair were carefully folded suit and a pair of ...
- 2948: The Y2k Issue
- ... Electricity alone is something we take entirely for granted. To demonstrate this to yourself try this, going to the main circuit breaker box of your home and shut off the main power. Stay in the house for 24 hours and see if you can actually live there! If you survive that, try shutting off the gas and the water too. See how long you make it before you return to "the infrastructure." As another experiment, try to spend an entire month eating only the food you have in your house or your garden. Most people wouldn’t last a week, much less a month. Yet if food supplies experience a shortage, we may all need to live on our supplies for days, weeks, or months ...
- 2949: Everyday Use
- ... make the best of their lives, they admire Dee's fierce pride even as they feel the force of her scorn (Walker 75). As Dee is rejected of the quilts, she storms out of the house without a word. As I read this, the question of why Dee only comes in order to get some of the family heirlooms and bring back with her Hakim-a-barber. Not only does she want the quilts, but she also wants Grandma Dee's butter dish and Uncle Buddy's churn. Dee does not come to see the house, Mama, or Maggie. When Dee leaves, she does not say good-bye, but exits without a word. This is another insult to her family. By leaving without saying anything she is reinforcing all her action ...
- 2950: Ethan Frome
- ... did was complain, and he resented this because it stifled his growing soul. Since his wife was continuously ill, and her cousin needed a place to stay, they took her in to help around the house. Ethan took an immediate liking to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy, and could share ... failure. Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up for himself against his wife. Zeena claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him, without any discussion, that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the next day ...
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