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- 301: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... These characters are named mr. Hooper and Edmund Hooper. The story starts with the death of edmund's grandfather, they visit him and later het dies. Mr. Hooper and Edmund went to live in the house of Edmund's grandfather, it was a big ugly house made of dark, red brick, it was called Warings , there were no other houses near it. one night Edmund got out of bed. He walked across the hall and he took a key from the ... butterflies. Edmund looked in a glass case and he touched a large black moth then the moth became dark dust. The next day mr. Hooper told Edmund that someone will come to look after the house because mr.Hooper has to go to London very oft. He also told him that the one who comes here to look after house has a boy the same age as himself, he doesn' ...
- 302: Bad Luck In Love!
- She moved into the house across the street when I was fifteen. She was fourteen. I was dumb struck. I had never seen a girl like Lilly before, and probably never will again. I had to have her. I fell ... nothing." She just gave me a knowing smile. We swam for a while. I tried to show off doing flips from the diving board. Jenny wasn't very impressed. My mother called us in the house. The barbecue would be ready soon. Jenny and I ate by the pool. I swear I couldn't think of anything to say to her. I tried to tell her about our school. I offered ... had come up. They were deep, but so clear, and knowing. I couldn't think of a thing to say to her. She surprised me. I thought she would just turn and go inside her house. She stepped closer and hypnotized me with those eyes. Then she grabbed me and gave me the first truly erotic kiss I had ever had in my life. I was in shock. She just ...
- 303: Silas Manner
- ... puts his brother Dunstan in a bad position because Dunstan was living off the money that he blackmailed from his brother. Dunstan is walking home late night in the dark when he sees Silas's house he walks towards it to borrow money from Silas because he knows the weaver has a large pot of money he enters the house only to see that Silas is not there, he searches through the house and finds the money he then walks out into the night. Godfrey's wife Molly not had been paid for some time walks up towards Godfrey's house with Godfrey's child a young ...
- 304: Barrio Boy and The House on Mango Street: A Character's Goals
- Barrio Boy and The House on Mango Street: A Character's Goals "Goals determine your thoughts. Thoughts determine your life." The quote means that what you are striving for often influences your thoughts. What you think then influences your life. Therefore your goals indirectly determine your life. Both "Barrio Boy" by Ernesto Galorza and The House on Mango Street by Saundra Cisneros give support to the critical lens. Their characters, Ernesto and Esperanza have very different lives, but they both have goals which effect their thoughts and their lives. Ernesto's ...
- 305: Great Expectations: Miss Havisham an Eccentric Character?
- Great Expectations: Miss Havisham an Eccentric Character? Miss Havisham is an extremely eccentric character. She is a rich and grim lady who lived in a large and dismal house. One way she was eccentric was the Satis House. Another is the weird birthday party Miss Havisham had with her relatives. She also acts in a weird way that tells her apart from the rest. Miss Havisham's house is a dark and spooky house. Inside the house all the furniture were antiques as well as the clocks. One of the strange things were that all the clocks in the room had stopped ...
- 306: A Dolls House - The Transformation Of Nora Helmer
- Going from Child to Woman: The Transformation of Nora Helmer In Henrik Ibsens, A Dolls House, the character of Nora Helmer goes through the dramatic transformation of a kind and loving house wife, to a desperate and bewildered woman, whom will ultimately leave her husband and everything she has known. Ibsen uses both the characters of Torvald and Nora to represent the tones and beliefs of 19th ...
- 307: Robert Johnson
- ... mother described little Robert as a playful little boy, who "Always used to be listenin, listenin to the wind or the chickens cluckin in the backyard or me, when Id be singin round the house. And he just love church
Little Robert set on my lap and try to keep time, look like, or hold on to my skirt and sort of jig up and down and laugh and laugh ... was intrigued by these men, and dreamed of one day singing the blues himself. His half brother Charles taught him the basics on guitar yet Johnsons most influential teacher was the famous bluesman, Son House. Son House was a student of Charlie Patton, one of the first well known Delta Blues musicians. Son also had also learned quite a bit from a gentlemen referred to as Lemon, a name given to ...
- 308: Constantinopolis
- ... in both form and purpose. Chinese Architecture China has a traditional reverence toward ancestors; the stable and hierarchical life of the Chinese extended family is proverbial. It is reflected in the formality of the Chinese house, built in rectangular form, preferably at the northern end of a walled courtyard entered from the south, with auxiliary elements disposed in a symmetrical fashion on either side of the north-south axis. This pattern ... contains the Forbidden City, which sheltered the imperial court and the imperial family. The entire development adheres to symmetry along a strong north-south avenue-the apotheosis, on a grand urban scale, of the Chinese house. Stone, brick, tile, and timber are available in both China and Japan. The most characteristic architectural forms in both countries are based on timber framing. In China, the wooden post carried on its top an ... tile roof. The eaves extended well beyond column lines on cantilevers. The resulting archetype is rectangular in plan, usually one story high, with a prominent roof. See Chinese Art and Architecture. Japanese Architecture The Japanese house developed differently. The Japanese express a deep poetic response to nature, and their houses are more concerned with achieving a satisfying relationship with earth, water, rocks, and trees than with establishing a social order. ...
- 309: Huck Finn Notes
- ... the Widow Douglas has been trying to civilize Huck, and judge Thatcher has invested the money for him, bringing a dollar a day in interest. The widow's sister, Miss Watson, also lives in the house, and she is forever picking at Huck, trying to make him do things her way. Unlike the Widow Douglas, who is kind and patient with Huck, Miss Watson is sharp and nagging. Her insistent interference ... on Pap.CHAPTERS 6 7 Huck is now determined to continue with his schooling, partly to spite his pap, who thrashes Huck every time he can catch him. When Pap hangs around the Widow Douglas' house too much, she threatens him. To get even with her, he kidnaps Huck and takes him across the river to a cabin in the woods where he keeps Huck locked up every time he leaves ... floated loose because of the rising river water. Among the choice possessions they find is a large raft twelve feet wide and fifteen or sixteen feet long. One night, they see a two-story frame house float by. They catch up with it and climb aboard to see if they can find any useful articles. While there, they discover a dead man who had been shot in the back. Jim ...
- 310: The Yellow Wallpaper: Women In Society
- ... Yellow Wall-Paper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist is oppressed and represents the effect of the oppression of women in society. This effect is created by the use of complex symbols such as the house, the window, and the wall-paper which facilitate her oppression as well as her self expression. It is customary to find the symbol of the house as representing a secure place for a woman's transformation and her release of self expression. However, in this story, the house is not her own and she does not want to be in it. She declares it is "haunted," and that "there is something queer about it." Although she acknowledges the beauty of the house ...
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