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- 511: The Life and Work of Anthony Burgess
- ... play Enderby directed in the USA. Enderby falls in love with the actress that plays the part of 'the Dark Lady', April Egar. When his love is not returned, Enderby deal with the pain by drinking excessively. In the end, Enderby's play was a huge success, but Enderby never wins the heart of April (Burgess Enderby's Dark Lady). For example, the previously mentioned beating of Burgess's wife Lynne ...
- 512: A Christmas Memory: Truman Capote
- ... made them feel connected to the world. After sending the fruitcakes off and spending all of their savings, Sook decides to celebrate with the two inches of whiskey left in the bottle. The thought of drinking straight whiskey somewhat bothered them. Since they have never experienced it before, they began tasting. Prancing around the kitchen, giddy and happy, two angry relatives enter. They began to scold Sook and blamed her for ...
- 513: Farewell To Manzanar
- ... military authority over everyone. Before being imprisoned, as I said, he had great dignity, but now seemed to have lost that. He had lost it because all his loyalty and honor was repeatedly questioned there. Drinking began to take control of him and he never would leave the barracks. He brewed his own rice wine and brandy, and became a drunken tyrant. Jeanne was never aware that her mother and father ...
- 514: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- ... finish it off. Macomber lifts his rifle and "aimed carefully at the center of the huge, jerking, rage-driven neck and shot." Macomber "never felt so good." As the three of them sit talking and drinking, one of the gun bearers approaches and tells Wilson that the first bull has gotten up and gone into the bushes. Unlike the incident with the lion, Macomber "felt wholly without fear. Instead of fear ...
- 515: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- ... is destroyed by his dreams of a better life. The town doctor also demonstrates how the struggle for success can corrupt people. This "healer" is more interested in money than the welfare of others. While drinking expensive tea out of tiny china cups, he sits in his large white house and dreams of returning to Paris. When Juana comes to ask if he will treat Coyotito's scorpion sting, he promptly ...
- 516: The Lord of the Flies
- ... boys did an excellent job, considering the circumstances, of coordinating their actions and surviving while on the island. They had sufficiently fed themselves with the fruit that was available and had a ready supply of drinking water when it was needed. The two previously discussed conflicts were both external and a combination of Man versus Another and Man versus Nature. The novel, The Lord of the Flies, contains many literary devices ...
- 517: Summer of the Monkeys: Jay Berry and His Conflicts
- ... be disastrous. Since Jay Berry has a great deal of confidence in catching the monkeys, it is easy for him to get too cocky. An example of this is when Jay Berry sees the monkeys drinking the alcohol and he does not think to much of it. Then in inedible happened, he got drunk off the alcohol and yet again gets made a fool by Jimbo. These are two examples that ...
- 518: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Everybody Has To Find Out About Living For Themselves
- ... out that a school teacher rapped her mother so she never met her father either. Janie's mother was seventeen, when she was pregnant with Janie. After Janie was born, Janie's mother took to drinking a lot. Janie's grandmother raised Janie since she was born, grandmother says "Maybe it wasn't much, but Ah done de best Ah kin by you. Ah raked and scraped and bought dis lil ...
- 519: Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield
- ... scenes when he gets quite drunk and asks the waiter to complement the singer. This is a show of his drunkenness because the singer is awful or at least the thought so before he started drinking. This is one among a plethora of bad habits like smoking, cursing, and being extremely cynical (everyone is a phony). Holden is by far not all bad, inside he is moral and generous. There are ...
- 520: Animal Farm
- ... the general feeling of the animals and keeps them working hard to reach their goals. Over time, we see the pigs becoming more and more like humans. First we see them sleeping in beds, then drinking alcohol, and finally walking on two legs. Everyone of these things is strictly prohibited in the seven commandments; however, Napoleon has bent the rules to help himself, so when the other animals check the rules ...
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