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- 1441: Robinson Crusoe
- ... he began to bless" (58) God. He believed so fervently that the sprouting of the corn was an act of God that he walked all over the island "peering into every Corner, and under every Rock, to see for more of it" (58). However, once he realizes that he "had shook a Bag of Chickens Meat out in that Place" he says, "the Wonder began to cease; And I must confess ...
- 1442: On The Road
- ... said to be an account of Kerouac's ("Sal Paradise’s") travels with Neal Cassady ("Dean Moriarty"). According to Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac typed the first draft of On the Road on a fifty-foot long roll of paper. On the Road gave an outlet of release for the dissatisfied young generation of the late forties and early fifties. And although it has been fifty years since the events in On the ...
- 1443: Of Mice And Men - Book Report
- ... George tells Lennie to stay away from Curley. Curley's wife comes into the bunkhouse looking for Curley and Lennie thinks she is "purty." George tells Lennie to stay away from her so they can "roll up a stake" and buy their dream of their own land with crops of their own and rabbits. George promises to ask Slim, the jerkline skinner, for one of his dog's puppies for Lennie ...
- 1444: Lord Of The Flies - Piggy
- ... stealing of Piggy’s glasses illustrates the complete defeat of common sense by the savage. When he tries to get his glasses back he his murdered by a small boy that could barely through a rock at someone in chapter 4. The boy rolled a boulder down on him, striking him and killing him. At the same time the conch, which symbolized the traditional system of authority so cherished by Piggy ...
- 1445: Lord Of The Flies - Discovery
- ... is to serve whomever is the leader. For example when Jack says " Grab them! No one moved. Jack shouted angrily. I said " grab them"! " Samneric finally give into his threats on their travel to Castle Rock. Later, then betray Ralph, by showing his hiding place to Jack. " You’re sure he meant in there? The twin moaned faintly and then squealed again. " " He meant he’d hide in there?" pg. 214 ...
- 1446: Lord Of The Flies
- ... get worse for Ralph and his remaining followers. Jack and his warriors attack them one night and steal the key to fire, Piggy's glasses. The next day Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric journey to Castle Rock to try to talk some sense into the savages but it was no use. Piggy, still holding the conch, desperately tries to be heard over the scuffle but Roger, the most evil of all the ...
- 1447: Livvie
- ... Livvie from the evil spirits. Solomon made one tree each year to keep people like cash from coming to take his lovely wife away from him.. One day in the next year cash threw a rock into one of the bottles. This means there is room for one evil spirit to get hold to Solomon’s wife which happens to be Cash. Welty proves this when, "So here come the man ...
- 1448: Last Of The Mohicans
- ... and killed him too. The chief then ran up the mountain. Hawkeye stopped and aimed his rifle at the murderer. Having gotten a good deal above Hawkeye and Heyward now the chief pushed a large rock down towards them from above and then attempted to jump to a ledge where he could not be reached. As he jumped, he fell short of his target and just managed to grab hold of ...
- 1449: Jane Eyre - Fire And Water
- ... strange marriage proposal of St. John’s. She compares him with imagery of cold, running water when Jane says "he…has no more a husband’s heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge" (459). Thematically, St. John is the antithesis of Rochester, just as water is the opposite of fire. This associated imagery is used since Jane must learn ...
- 1450: Indian Boarding School
- ... use in trying to gain back what was once theirs because no one had succeeded before them. The "sheriff" is much more powerful (much larger in number) than them as well. "The highway doesn't rock, it only hums like a wing of long insults."(lines 14-15). Erlich could have been implying that the road the "sheriff" sits on represents the permanent damage that was done to the land. It ...
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