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- 821: To Kill A Mockingbird-- Plot S
- ... Boo Radley, who hasn t been seen by any one for years. The children are scared of Boo because of the morbid legends about him. Dill resolves to get him to come out of his house, but nothing comes of it that summer. Scout dislikes school from the first morning. A few times when Scout and Jem walk home from school, they discover small gifts in the hollow oak tree at ... edge of the Radley yard. When Dill returns for the summer, the children devise a new game of acting out their own version of Boo s story. One night they sneak up to the Radley house to look in at a window. Mr. Radley, Boo s uncle, chases them off with a shotgun, and as the children flee Jem s pants get stuck in a fence and left behind. Later when ... them, but Mr. Radley cements up the knot hole. During the winter it snows and Jem builds a snow man by making a form out of mud and then covering the mud with snow. The house of Miss Maudie, a friendly neighbor, burns down that night. While the children watch the fire from the street in front of the Radley s house, Boo Radley puts a blanket around Scout without ...
- 822: Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
- ... between the sexes when this story took place. The time when this story took place was a time when men and women were not equal. Mothers had traditional roles, which usually left them in the house, while men also had their roles, outside of the house. The male was the dominant figure in the house, while the woman had to be subservient. It was an off thing to see my mother down at the barn. She did not often come out of the house unless it was to do ...
- 823: Moody Landscape
- ... scenes. All because he wants a place to call home. The feelings we get when Jim arrives are awe with hints if loneliness. He pulls into town and is being taken to his grandparent's house. He is riding in a wagon and since he is having trouble sleeping and tries to look at the land and sees nothing. This can be seen in the lines: "There was nothing but land ... as an adult, but to see them through a child's eyes adds another degree and makes the reader feel pity for Jim. The next time we see Jim he is at his grandparent's house. After awakening he decides to explore the house. The scene is set up as a foreshadowing of the landscape to come. The sadness is lifting and he is around family and has friends. You can see his mood start to lift in ...
- 824: Australia
- ... government and the six state governments operate under written constitutions that draw on the British tradition of a Cabinet Government, led by a Prime Minister, which is responsible to a majority in Parliament's lower house. The Federal Constitution, however, also contains some elements that resemble American practice (e.g., a Senate, in which each state has equal representation). The Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning British monarch ... and the Governors of the six states). Australians are debating whether their country should become a republic, give up ties with the Queen, revise the constitution, and adopt a new flag. Members of the Federal House of Representatives are elected for three years, and national elections were last held in March, 1993. Lower-house elections, thus, are due no later than mid-1996, but earlier scheduling is a matter of discretion. (The Prime Minister may recommend that the House be dissolved at any time, and the Governor-General ...
- 825: Hammurabis Code
- ... of silver, but if he fails to cure him, the surgeon will have his hands cut off. More serious ones are like numbers 229, 14 and 3. 229 states that if a builder constructs a house, and that house later collapses killing the owner, the builder shall be put to death. Law 14 states that if a man has stolen a child, he shall be put to death. 3 states that if a man ... 2: "If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused in not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river ...
- 826: Summary Of Kidnapped
- ... of the town (Mr. Campbell, who was friends with David s father) told David that his father left him a will. The will stated, To the hands of Ebenezer Balfour, Esq., of Shaws, in his house of Shaws, these will e delivered by my son, David Balfour. David was to travel to another town, and seek a place called The House Of Shaws. David then finds out that the man living in the gruesome house (where he thought was a palace before he laid his eyes on it) was actually his uncle. His name was Ebenezer, and one of the odd things about him is that he didn t ...
- 827: Fahrenheit 451
- ... it by their actions not by tell him anything. One day the firemen got a call with an address of someone who was hiding books. The firemen, doing their job like always, went to the house to find the books and burn them. When they got there they had found the books, but when they went to burn them the person who owned the books would not leave them. The firemen ... had people helping him find the truth. One of these people was an elderly man by the name Fabian. Montag arrived at finding Fabian after reading a book that he had sneaked out of a house that was raided by the firemen. He had many questions and he wanted to find some answers. The only person that he knew that understood the truth about books was an elderly man he had ... to do with him. Fabian was too much of a coward. Eventually Montag is able to change Fabian s mind, and Fabian decides to help Montag. Still Fabian is scared because he stays in his house and talks to Montag through an ear-piece. Fabian will help Montag by telling him what to say. While Montag executes his plan of sabotaging the firemen by planting books in their houses . Montag ...
- 828: Ethan Frome --- Contrast Betwe
- ... of winter. This, with the addition of appropriate music, creates a bleak atmosphere, and there is no doubt in the audience s mind of an impending sense of gloom and tragedy. The darkness of the house amongst the pure white of the snow is a symbol of the darkness within the house. It shows that the people living in the house, the Fromes, are not happy people. They have their burdens and a darkness in their lives that is further intensified by the joy of the people around them. The audience is perhaps more aware ...
- 829: Wuthering Heights - Setting
- Like the world of Transylvania, the Gothic setting in Wuthering Heights suggests a wild and primitive landscape unconstrained by Orthodox norms. The reader is first introduced to Wuthering Heights, the house and its surroundings, as it appears to the middle class, Mr. Lockwood, on a stormy night. Thus, Lockwood serves the same role and Jonathan Harker as he is the bridge between the world of 19th ... species of churlish inhospitality," (WH-p.29) for leaving the gate locked during a storm, Mr. Lockwood is let inside, by a woman whom he thinks is Mrs. Heathcliff. His experience here within this Gothic house in quite unpleasant, paralleling Harker's in the Count's dark castle. While waiting for Heathcliff in silence he notices how the women "kept her eyes on [him], in a cool regardless manner, exceedingly embarrassing ... Thus, the two houses represent opposite morals and values; one presenting calm, the other representing the storm, the typical gothic anarchical symbol. The wild and primitive landscape of Wuthering Heights represents the storminess of the house, and inflicts unorthodox norm on those who inhabit it. Like Dracula who seems an extension of his dark world, Bronte's hero/villain Heathcliff, is clearly as much as a creature of storm, as ...
- 830: Thomas P. O'Neill
- Thomas P. O'Neill Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself "a man of the house." Thomas P. O'Neill was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed "completely out-of-date as a politician." (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking, card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had ... beaten face symbolizes a political force of five decades, from Roosevelt's new deal to the Reagan retrenchment. He was the last democratic leader of the old school and "the longest-serving speaker of the house (1977-1986) and easily the most loved." (Clift) Thomas P. O'Neill (1912-1994) always knew why he was in Washington, and what he stood for. He was a native of Boston and always prided ... gave Lyndon Johnson full control over all military intervention in Vietnam. He did this because it was a time when Congress did what leadership asked, in fact there was not one descending vote in the house on this issue (414-0). Right away he had speculation that the White House might use this as a device to open up full scale war in Vietnam. Tip had many questions about the ...
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