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- 2931: Book Report: Bless Me, Ultima
- ... like Tony very much and teases him every chance he gets. The Vitamin Kid is the fastest runner in Guadalupe, and he races Tony across the bridge to school every morning until he takes an interest in girls. Red is a Protestant, so he faces teasing very often from the group. Like Tony, he is a good student. Lloyd enjoys reminding everyone that they can be sued for ever the most ...
- 2932: A Priest’s Death: An Examination of Uncanny Elements in James Joyce’s "The Sisters"
- ... the priest’s death lends to an interpretation that their relationship may have been more than just that of mentor and student. It is hard not to feel that there was a current of sexual interest on the part of the old priest toward the boy and that the boy is, at least subliminally, aware of this. Reflecting on his relationship with the man, the narrator says "[he] let his tongue ...
- 2933: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... lunch Gatsby introduces Nick to his business associate, Meyer Wolfsheim, "the man who fixed the World Series in 1919." At tea that afternoon Nick finds out from Jordan Baker why Gatsby has taken such an interest in him: Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan and wants Nick to arrange a meeting between them. It seems that Gatsby, as a young officer at Camp Taylor in 1917, had fallen in love ...
- 2934: Haliburton Created Sam Slick To Voice His Own Positions
- ... financial obligations, and regulation of the American slave-trade occurred in the late 1830's and Nova Scotia was smack in the middle of this chaos. It may be noted that in addition to the interest these historical and biographical issues have for the scholar and even for the general reader, those issues still can lead us back to more general, historical, questions. In reading the journals of the day, one ...
- 2935: "Evolution of a Naturalist": The Biography of Charles Darwin
- ... of evolution. Darwin had many fine character traits that helped him achieve his goal. One of these traits was the need for adventure. Darwin was a lazy as a child and if something were to interest him, it would have to be an adventure. As he got older, he traveled to many places that helped him discover the theory of evolution. One of these was his expedition to the Galapagos Islands ...
- 2936: A Rose for Remembrance
- ... Kirzner & Mandell 82). Emily's world, however, was almost completely in the past. When she was threatened with desertion and disgrace, she not only took refuge in that world but also took Homer (her romantic interest) with her in the only way possible--death. Emily's room above the stairs was her timeless bubble. In it, the living Emily and the dead Homer remained together as though even death could not ...
- 2937: Review of The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien
- ... travels down the tunnel until he comes out into a huge room filled with treasures that one can't even imagine. There are masterfully crafted suits of mail and ferocious weapons lining the walls which interest Bilbo, but nothing like what is in the center. There is a treasure, which seems like it could contain everything valuable in the world. This treasure contains golden chalices, gems, gold coins, silver and the ...
- 2938: Pudd’nhead Wilson
- ... soon finds out that his fight for success is goi8n to be a protracted one, but he uses his time well.” He liked keeping track of the townsfolk’s fingerprints. Eberhard Alsen wrote, “While his interest in palmistry and finger printing further convinces that he is indeed a fool, Wilson establishes is ‘records’, a collection of fingerprints of every person and child in the town.” People thought him even dumber than ...
- 2939: The Black Box: Symbolic Of Death And Faded Traditions
- ... that delivers the unfortunate winner’s prize which is death by stoning. The storm of immoral and unethical actions is further propelled by the momentum that came from the townspeople’s extreme degree of self interest. The terrible tradition was carried out once again. Instead of considering the effect that the tradition had on their fellow man they were grateful that the black box had blessed them with their own lives ...
- 2940: “Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed with Life”
- ... in the world. Just as Pearl gives her own mother boundless amounts of grief, Pearl makes Arthur Dimmesdale suffer for what he did, making her a living conscience for Dimmesdale. Pearl also shows a special interest in Arthur Dimmesdale, which is odd because she never trusts anyone but her mother. When Pearl is an infant, she first sees Dimmesdale on the scaffold and she “directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr ...
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