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- 3481: Fahrenheit 451: Predictions
- ... to the shortage of the need for firemen, they were given a new job, burning books. When a call would come in all the firemen would rush to their trucks, only though to enter a house a search for illegal books to burn. At the time though all books were illegal so anything found would be burned. The mechanical hound was also very different, it was a machine that was like ...
- 3482: Injustice in To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... of what he really was. The third person to suffer injustice in the novel was Boo Radley. Many accusations were claimed about him even though they were untrue. Just because he didn't leave his house, people began to think something was wrong. Boo was a man who was misunderstood and shouldn't of suffered any injustice. Boo did not handle the injustice because he didn't know about it. In ...
- 3483: Emma
- ... and she was spoiled by her old, affectionate father. Her mother had died when she was only a child and her sister, Isabelle, had married at an early age. This made her mistress of his house from a very early period. Emmas self image is very strong and she is doubly pleased with her match-making skills, which turn out to be disastrous for her friend Harriet. Harriet Smith is ...
- 3484: The Real Thing
- ... exhibited as smart people who make very wise choices. An example of this is when the painter requested them to leave, but they came back three days later, and started doing servant jobs around the house. " The Real Thing " portrays the Monarchs as people who have lost their wealth, but have not yet lost their dignity. They are people who seem to have more pride in themselves to overcome their loss ...
- 3485: Bartleby and A Gathering of Old Men
- ... was no more than five or six when her mother and father were killed in a car wreck, and I had helped raise her. Surely, Mathu here in the quarters, and I at the main house had done as much to raise her as had her uncle and aunt. Maybe even more than they. Yes, he and I had done more than they. (16) Miss Merele and Mathu have an intense ...
- 3486: The Great Gatsby: Death of the American Dream
- ... not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. Gatsby, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them ...
- 3487: The English Patient: Caravaggio
- ... in the English patient's room parallels with Hana's father in the past. From Hana's memory, she remembers her father with a dog: "Whenever her father [is] alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the kin at the base of its paw"(8). Caravaggio's love for Hana is not just the simple love between father and daughter. "She [has] grown older. And ...
- 3488: Walking Across Egypt: A Young Elder
- ... Elder Mattie Rigsbee is the main character in Clyde Edgertons southern style novel, Walking Across Egypt. Mattie is a seventy-eight year old widow with two middle-aged children. Living alone in a small house, she makes sure that everything is taken care of. She cooks, cleans, mows the lawn, and takes up numerous responsibilities with the church. She is a very caring person with many friends and a family ...
- 3489: Chaplin's, The Kid
- ... title card as " a picture with a smile-perhaps a tear." Perhaps! As the lights go up, one look at the picture show audience reveals that there hasn't been a dry eye in the house. But what is so startling about Chaplin's comedy of fathering a lost baby is the fact that he first conceived and immediately began to shoot this film barely two weeks after the death of ...
- 3490: To Kill A Mocking Bird: Injustice
- ... of what he really was. The third person to suffer injustice in the novel was Boo Radley. Many accusations were claimed about him even though they were untrue. Just because he didn't leave his house, people began to think something was wrong. Boo was a man who was misunderstood and shouldn't of suffered any injustice. Boo did not handle the injustice because he didn't know about it. In ...
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