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- 3431: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... over Boo, and controlled his life. Boo did help the children in “little” times. Like when Gem got his pants stuck on the fence. It was Boo that sewed them up, and when the neighbors’ house was on fire. It was cold out, and Boo came to scout with a blanket. He wanted to be there for people. Another argument about Boo is that he killed someone. I have many sides ...
- 3432: The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, and Mood
- ... mood in the reader, and work to create an unexpected surprise in the final paragraphs. Similarly, Lord Dunsany creates mood and atmosphere in his story The Ghosts with the use of setting. “His great lonely house, in the midst of a dark gathering of old whispering cedars.” This description creates a mood of darkness and loneliness, which is appropriate for a story about ghosts. Dunsany gives great detail to the cedar ...
- 3433: Hiroshima
- ... Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1980. Bradley, Omar. “Address on Armistice Day.” Bartlett 825:2. Dawson, Christopher. “The Judgement of the Nations.” Bartlett 812:11. Hershey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Random House, Inc., 1985. OUTLINE Thesis: Nuclear proliferation should be banned in order to prevent other countries from death and destruction like that of Hiroshima. I. Mankind argues for and against Hershey’s message to ban the ...
- 3434: The Crucible: John Proctor
- ... working for him as a maid. It becomes evident in the first act of the play that when Abigail and John speak he committed adultery. Abigail says “I know you clutched my back behind your house”(22). This sin weighs very heavily on his conscience and causes problems between him and Elizabeth, his wife. At the beginning of Act 2 conversation between the two of them is very strained but eventually ...
- 3435: To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus
- ... other people, one could not get through life easily. Therefore people have to be nice to each other and to themselves. When Scout and Jem are in the situation of walking past Mrs. Dubose’s house, Jem knows not to let his emotions take over him. He remembered what Atticus told him, “…You just hold your head up high and be a gentleman.” Jem knows not to say anything rude back ...
- 3436: Huck Finn and The River
- ... ever-present. There is the threat of the raft being torn apart during storms. Thunderstorms on the river were particularly severe -- capable of breaking away at the shore and carrying away an entire "two-story [house], and [tilting it] over, considerable" (44) -- and this threat was multiplied by the simple fact that they were on a small raft. After the storm and fog in which Huck and Jim were separated, Huck ...
- 3437: Rules of Prey: Serial Killers
- ... her a month before the attack in the courthouse and had a conversation with her in which he got her real estate business card. He phoned her a month later with the excuse of a house that he was interested in. She was very pleased to see him once she recognized him, as he had made a good impression the first time they had met. He was suave in talking to ...
- 3438: Frankenstein: Reflects of Mary Shelley's Life
- ... and female spheres of activity characteristic of the bourgeois family" (Ellis 124). At the time of this novel's creation, males dominated in the society. Females during this period raised the children and cleaned the house. They did not have say in any of the important occurrences of the time. "...Mary Shelley is commenting on in the novel as a whole: one that separates "outer" and "inner," the masculine sphere of ...
- 3439: The Grapes of Wrath: Rose of Sharon and The Starving Man
- ... of others before doing something but in this novel, Rose of Sharon changes into thinking about humanity as a whole rather than herself. Works Cited Bloom, Harold, ed. Twentieth-Century American Literature. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. Draper, James P., ed. World Literature Criticism. Detroit: Pope-Stevenson, 1992. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterpieces of World Literature. New York: Harper and Row, 1989. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of ...
- 3440: Carver’s Characters
- ... though with epilepsy. These seizures are very dangerous. It's how brains are damaged during convulsions” (Halpert 59). Between October of 1976 and January of 1977, he was hospitalized four times for acute alcoholism. His house was sold in October and he began living apart from his wife, all at the same time. When he was asked how alcohol worked for or against his work, he recognized his relationship to alcohol ...
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