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- 9311: The Crucible
- ... the road screaming that somebody's "familiar spirit" was chasing them. This anxiety-laden leap backward over nearly three centuries may have been helped along by a particular Upham footnote. At a certain point, the high court of the province made the fatal decision to admit, for the first time, the use of "spectral evidence" as proof of guilt. Spectral evidence, so aptly named, meant that if I swore that you ...
- 9312: The Crucible
- ... save his life, he admits what he did wrong, "Hale: Let you not mistook your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my great faith, blood flowed up." (132). The latter half of this quote displays an entire different theme, "...life is God ...
- 9313: The Color People
- ... had been brought back to Mr.____'s house because she was sick and Celie was to look after her. Shug was also a different person in the introduction of her character. She was a snobbish, high class brat. The Stereotypical rich, spoiled woman. At first she treated Celie and Mr.____ as if they were nothing but her hired help. Then she began to take a liking to Celie. At first they ...
- 9314: The Chrysanthemums
- ... female body including reddening her lips, one of the ultimate signs of femininity. Elisa is working on her physical beauty, rather than her strength. As she waited for her husband, Elisa noticed "that under the high grey fog [the willow trees] seemed a thin band of sunshine" (402). Elisa seems some hope in women's futures at this point. When Henry sees Elisa her is surprised at her appearance. He says ...
- 9315: The Cask Of Amatillado
- ... is Montresor going to do to Fortunato? Why is he taking him underground? The climax of the story is when Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall and begins to layer the bricks. It is our high point of emotional involvement. We are like Fortunato in that we cannot bring ourselves to believe what is about to happen. The denouement lets us know indeed, Montresor was never punished for this crime. Fifty ...
- 9316: The Bluest Eye
- ... Morrison showed this through each of her characters especially the obvious, Pecola Breedlove. One incident, for example, is when Claudia, Frieda, Pecola, and Maureen Peal, a well-loved "beauty" of Lorain, are walking home from school. As the girls saunter down the street, they begin to bicker. The conversation ends with Maureen stomping away and establishing the fact that she is indeed "cute". Claudia then thinks to herself, "If she was ...
- 9317: The Black Cat
- ... that can be seen as a metaphor for paranoia. The narrator becomes superstitious and is controlled by the cat. Throughout the story, the narrator shows common signs of paranoia, such as delusions, irrational actions, and high amounts of anger. Works Cited Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Black Cat." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. PaulLauter. Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath and Company, 1990. 346-353.
- 9318: The Birdcage
- ... long-term relationship with Albert (played by Nathan Lane). Armand has a grown son, Val, from a previous marriage. Trouble starts when Val announces his engagement to a girl named Barbara that he met at school. It turns out that Barbara's father is an ultraconservative United States Senator. He wants to meet his future son-in-law along with his family. After much debate it is decided that both Armand ...
- 9319: The Bell Jar
- ... s history of speaking German and desired to learn it as well: "My mother spoke German during her childhood in America and was stoned for it during the First World War by the children at school" (30). At one point Esther even briefly decides to learn shorthand. This need to be like her mother while at the same time hating her is enough to disturb Esther and stir up fears of ...
- 9320: The Bean Trees
- ... a small rural town where families "had kids just about as fast as they could fall down the well and drown," and a boy with a job as a gas-meter man was considered a "high-class catch." She needs to get out to get ahead and to avoid pregnancy. She succeeds on both counts when she buys a '55 Volkswagen and heads west. She leaves almost everything behind, including her ...
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