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- 1091: Chaucers The Pardoner
- ... Pardoner had a beautiful singing voice, which he used to his advantage by singing loud and merrily in order to get more money from the people. The Pardoner tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After learning that someone named Death has killed a friend, the three men decide to find Death and get revenge for their friend. While looking, they come across an old man. They ...
- 1092: Book Report On A Tale Of Two C
- ... scene in which a large cask of wine had dropped and broken in the street. Because many people had very little to eat or drink, a large crowd gathered around the dirty puddle and began drinking what they could of the spilled wine. This scene was very descriptive, explaining how the people tried to scoop up the wine in their hands, and how they soaked it up with handkerchiefs from women ...
- 1093: Beowulf 5
- ... fortune-teller had said that his 37th year would be very dangerous, and he had just started his 37th year (www.byronjournal). In February of 1824, he had an epileptic seizure probably brought on by drinking and stress (www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis). Two months later, he was caught in a sudden rainstorm while horseback riding, and he caught a chill from it which he never recovered. He died on April ...
- 1094: Beloved-water Motif
- ... the woman drank as though she had crossed a desert (p. 51). Water is an essential part of life. It is necessary to survive. In these passages, Beloved has just come back to life. By drinking water, she is in a way being re-born and the water supplies her with a life force to help her survive. Water is again used as a motif that signifies re-birth later on ...
- 1095: Burmese Days
- ... Seven Europeans. (Pg. 16) It is near the jungle and the Irrawaddy River. There are many trees and flowers, including honeysuckle. Though the English have jobs to perform much of their time is consumed with drinking whiskey in the Club, retreating from the prickly heat, napping, and occasionally playing tennis or hunting. Though there is not much physical activity by the English, they do not complain about it. They do complain ...
- 1096: Animal Farm Compare And Contra
- ... the Russian revolution. The theme is fully realized right at the end of the book, when the rest of the animals are segregated from the pigs, who are in the former house of Mr. Jones, drinking alcohol with the humans. Just this one scenario blatantly defies everything the animals stood for when they first had the revolution, and the reasons they had it in the first place. The ending of the ...
- 1097: All The Kings Men
- ... don t see what comes of Jack Burden or Adam s sister Anne. The most pivotal scene in this movie is Willie s change of character at the County Fair in Upton. Willie has been drinking, which is unusual for him because his wife doesn t favor it; still Jack finally manages to pull him out of bed and to the fair. He starts his speech by telling the people, that ...
- 1098: A Farewell To Arms
- ... this order is different from the sort of order found in the army. His comradeship that seems forced upon him by the other men at the mess where he is forced to fit in by drinking and traveling from one house of prostitution, he is discontent by this is because his life is already unsettled and lacking any order: Frederick Henry mentions this earlier in the novel: "They talked too much ...
- 1099: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... red or blue. Untreated trench foot could lead to gangrene which almost certainly mean amputation. Moreover, owing the difficulty in delivering food and water to the trenches during bombardments, soldiers often had to resort to drinking the filthy water in the trenches. It is important to remember that The Great War occurred before the discovery of antibiotics, and that a shortage of medical supplies such as antiseptics, clean bandages, and painkillers ...
- 1100: Addison And Steele
- ... be broken. As time goes on they live so happily together until one day she falls ill and dies. Then he remembered how things went wrong and he had learned from his mistakes by not drinking and lounging around. This was a happy story yet a sad story. The story showed true love and yet it was a tragedy in the way that he had lost what gave him rebirth.(Addison ...
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