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- 921: Summary of Dracula
- ... in the late nineteenth century. It starts off in England and then moves to Transylvania in Germany, and eventually back to England. The protagonist Jonathan Harker, after visiting Count Dracula, learns that he lives by drinking human blood. Jonathan tries to kill him but he escapes. The count then takes fifty boxes of earth and a ship and escapes. Ironically, the ship lands in England where Harker's fiancée Mina lives ...
- 922: On As I Lay Dying
- ... to fill her womb. Darl is a very complex and unusual character. He is very perceptive and uses very detailed poetic speech to describe events. In one narration he describes such a simple thing as drinking water For example he sees Anse, his father, as a lazy man and is supported by the story Anse tells people that he once got sick from working out in the sun and that if ...
- 923: Night Flight
- ... shepherd. The Patagonian shepherds move, unhurried, from one flock to another; and he, too, moved from one town to another, the shepherd of those little towns. Every two hours he met another one of them, drinking at its riverside or browsing on its plain. Sometimes, after a hundred miles of steppes as desolate as the sea, he encountered a lonely farmhouse that seemed to be sailing backwards from him in a ...
- 924: Voltaire and Machiavelli
- ... twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another" (9). The last political concept that Voltaire targets is that of the despotic king. At a tavern two men are drinking with Candide and ask him if he loves the king. He asks them to drink to the king's health. At this point, the two men chain him and force him to serve in the ...
- 925: The Flivor King
- ... less for the cost of his house payments had surprisingly escalated. In teh early 1900's it was common for women to face these same problems, in addition to the toleration of men's heavy drinking habits, often resulting in early widowhood. The home life of those employed by the auto industry started to lapse as did the working life. About 1.5 million or more immigrants began heading toward urban ...
- 926: Intertextuality Of To Kill A Mockingbird and A Blow, A Kiss
- ... other so easily. It becomes evident though that the bike rider is heading home, It seems the bike rider is the victim, he has followed in the foot steps of his father as far as drinking goes maybe to drown his sorrows yet the bike rider is obviously only trying to please his father. The reader cant help but receive the impression that maybe the writer has been involved in a ...
- 927: The Pardoner
- ... as his own, he does not care if he takes from very poor people, so that their children starve, so long as he can enjoy himself. The Pardoner tells the tale of three young men drinking at an inn. After a coffin passes by the inn, the three learn that the dead person was a friend of theirs, killed by somebody named Death. The three men decide to find this Death ...
- 928: Animal Farm: Satire About Communism
- ... house, and looked into a window. There sat a half a dozen farmers, and half a dozen pigs. Napoleon was at the head of the table. They had been playing a game of cards, and drinking beer. They called the other animals on the farm “lower animals.” Then Napoleon renamed Animal Farm to Manor Farm. The “lower animals” looked from pig to man and man to pig, but could not tell ...
- 929: A Tale of Two Cities: Love or Hate
- ... well as having to face himself, he has to face the hatefulness of the revolution. Sidney Carton at the begging of the book is a man who has nothing going for him. He has a drinking problem as well as being extremely laid back. “Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men…” Pg. 78 Then his whole life changes when he beholds Lucie. But this is not enough for Lucie does ...
- 930: Say A Prayer for the Youth of America
- ... probably from alcohol poisoning. Her life with him is one of constant fear and hatred. She blames him for the death of her mother, who overdoses on heart medicine to escape from her life. His drinking habits take over his life, and Ellen is left at home alone, sometimes for days at a time, to fend for herself. This is only one of the many hardships she must face. After her ...
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