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- 3961: The Martian Chronicles
- ... Mars equal to small-town life on Earth. The rocket landed on a lawn of green grass. Outside, upon this lawn, stood an iron deer. Further up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. If just this quote had been read, one would have thought that ...
- 3962: The Great Gatsby 4
- ... by so many, yet attained by so few. Nick s beliefs are demonstrated at the first of Gatsby s parties that he attended. I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there. As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two ...
- 3963: The Great Gatsby
- ... 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. Nick narrated, I think he half expected her to wander ...
- 3964: The Glass Menagerie
- ... caller, realizes that Laura has an inferiority complex at the root of her problems. Tom, Her brother and narrator of the play, cares very deeply about Laura and her wellbeing. He will not leave the house until he can find a suitable husband to take care of Laura. Laura talks in a very low-toned voice punctuated by her dialog. Her communication skills further emphasize her low self-esteem. She also ...
- 3965: The Bogart By Susan Cooper
- ... would hide the razor in such a place that Mrs. Volink would find it; making Mr. Volink believe that his wife had taken it. Jessup and Emily didn t realize a Boggart was in the house until the Boggart ate Jessup s lunch. What had happened was that the Boggart had gotten trapped in Jessup s lunch box. When Jessup opened the lunch box their was no lunch. Jessup figured someone ...
- 3966: The Animal Farm
- ... portions of food, while he and Squealer would feast on large meals. Napoleon and Squealer took advantage of their role as governor and ate all the food, drank beer, and lived in the owner s house. However, to the farm animals, they considered these to be the 7 commandments: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs and has wings is a friend. 3 ...
- 3967: Tripmaster Monkey
- ... in the American community, but sickeningly disappointed when they find out how small and degrading that role really is. When he returns to the department store, he impulsively mates a toy monkey with a Barbie doll, reflecting his opinion of Mattel (64). This moment also allows Kingston to foreshadow with irony Wittman s later relationship with Ta_a. Their relationship illustrates his insecurities about not being American enough unless he is ...
- 3968: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... song, we characterize it by what the other birds sing. We see the mockingbird through other birds. Throughout the novel Jem, Scout, and Dill are curious about Boo Radley, who never comes out of his house or associates with anyone in the neighborhood. The children are afraid of him because of the stories they hear about him from the other people in town. For example, Miss Stephanie tells the children that ...
- 3969: To Kill A Mocking Bird 2
- ... types of discrimantion and how they affect people around us. In Haper Less novel To Kill A Mockingbird, it is show how racism, sexism and classism affect people of all ages. Brought into the Finch house to teach and act as a female role model for Scout, Aunt Alexandra tries to make the black servant, Calpurnia, look bad. For Aunt Alexandra, Calpurnia would not be a good role model for the ...
- 3970: Themes Of Death And Desire In
- ... out though the "the indulgence of decadent habits, on the part of the men in the family, in succeeding generations had so reduced the estate, that nothing was left during the sisters adolescence, except the house itself and some 20 acres of land".5 Here we see the theme of desire ingrained in the roots of the Dubios family history. The desire for " decadent habits" had not been tempered by reason ...
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