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The Lottery Winner
1075 Words - 4 Pages.... around his sixties, he has blue eyes with white hair. Willy is a former plumber who quit his job after wining the lottery with his wife Alvirah. Willy enjoys traveling with Alvirah to all the different places. He is very supportive and help full to Alvirah in her interest of helping others with there crimes. He also enjoys helping the poor or just those people that can't afford to hire a plumber so he dose the job for free. 3. Brian who is somewhere around his twenties, he is an up and coming famous play writer. Brian is the nephew of Willy. Brian is first introduced in the first story called "The body in the closet". He was staying at the apartment of Willy and Alvirah were ....
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Don Quixote
1416 Words - 6 Pages.... who were attempting water their mules at the trough where Don has stowed his armor. This was such a commotion at the inn, that the deeper quickly smacks Don on the neck and he is knighted and sent back to his village. On the way back he encounters two adventures; a farmer whipping his servant and the other six merchants, from Toledo who refuse to agrees that Dulcinea is the fairest maiden in the world. Don then attacks them and serves a beating for his troubles. A peasant passing by recognizes Quixote and loads him across his donkey. They head back to their village as Don wildly describes his mishaps. returns to his village where his met by his niece and housekeep ....
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“Minds Eye At Work”
471 Words - 2 Pages.... and frightening love could be. For myself, it was not till the end of the story that I truly understood the character of Mable Pervin. This story without an explicit resolution leaves the reader feeling the frightfulness of Mabel and the actual contentment of Dr. Fergusson.
“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell’s is a wonderful, suspenseful story. Minnie Wright, the character accused of murdering her husband, is brought to life by the opinions of the other characters in this story. The author to be a disheartened, lonely woman, who had changed from a flourishing singer to a desolate housewife, portrayed Minnie. Clues found throughout the house pointed every fi ....
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Huck Finn And The River
1352 Words - 5 Pages.... words, and emotions. "Freedom in this book," as Marx says, "specifically means freedom from society and its imperatives." (346) Huck senses this truth when he mentions how "other places feel so cramped and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." (96) He resents the objectives and beliefs and the so-called "civilized" people of the society around him. He disbelieves what societal beliefs have been ingrained in his mind since his birth, which is shown by his close friendship with Jim, a runaway slave. The river is the only form of separation from this society which Huck has access to, but it still does not completely separate the ....
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Stylistic Analysis Of The Opening Page Of Dracula (Children’s Version)
1589 Words - 6 Pages.... vocabulary, increase their language skills, and to push their reading forward by challenging them. This version of Dracula is primarily written so that children can have access to the classic story in an easy manner which they can understand, since the full version is quite challenging to read, even to many adults.
This version of Dracula is laid out in a series of two-page spreads. This breaks the story into smaller sections which are easier to absorb than a continuous piece of writing, particularly for a child. Each spread is laid out with the text in the middle of the spread, surrounded by colourful pictures relating to the writing, small quotes and sidebars containing ....
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The House Of Seven Gables: Symbolism
2633 Words - 10 Pages.... as
"breathing through the spiracles of one great chimney"(Hawthorne 7). Hawthorne
uses descriptive lines like this to turn the house into a symbol of the lives
that have passed through its halls. The house takes on a persona of a living
creature that exists and influences the lives of everybody who enters through
its doors. (Colacurcio 113) "So much of mankind's varied experience had passed
there - so much had been suffered, and something, too, enjoyed - that the very
timbers were oozy, as with the moisture of a heart." (Hawthorne 27). Hawthorne
turns the house into a symbol of the collection of all the hearts that were
darkened by the house. "It was itself like ....
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Hawthorns Letter A
1263 Words - 5 Pages.... a holy man, as the horrific deed that he committed nearly kills him through self-hate and illness of spirit. Eventually, however, he succeeds in conquering his fears of humiliation and stands triumphant, publicly repenting for his misdeeds and dying clean of soul.
It is not known until well into The Scarlet Letter that Arthur Dimmesdale is Hester Prynne’s lover, but by this point, his conscience has already begun inflicting a woeful penalty on his spirit: "His form grew emaciated; his voice...had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed...to put his hand over his heart with...paleness, indicative of pain" (106). Although his reputation is fl ....
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Catcher In The Rye: Childhood Innocence - What Holden Never Had
713 Words - 3 Pages.... what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even
worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd
written it… But I rubbed it [The ‘fuck you' written on the wall] out
anyway." Another example is on page two hundred and eight, "'So shut up.'
It was the first time she [Phoebe] ever told me to shut up. It sounded
terrible. God, it sounded terrible. It sounded worse than swearing." There
is one more outstanding quotation from the novel which is found on page two
hundred and thirteen. "I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old
Phoebe was going around and around [the carousel]." All these examples
clearly show that Holden appreci ....
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