... are fertile Meddowes, pleasant springs, delightfull Streams, and all sorts of beasts of chase and game, and in the middest thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure, which may be removed from place to place… Kane's house in Citizen Kane fits this description well it had meadows, springs, streams, and statues of all sorts of animals, whether chase or game. Hearst house in California's Santa Lucia Mountains also fits Samuel Purhas description of Xanadu. Hearst house is known as La Cuesta Encantada or The Enchanted Hill. The Enchanted Hill has 165 room's 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and walkways. The rooms are furnished with impressive collection of Spanish an ...
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... novel, when Gatsby was murder, Daisy went to somewhere else with her husband, and did not go to Gatsby's funeray. I called up Daisy half and hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hersitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. Therefore, Nike Carroway's analysis was right by these clear observation. However, Nike Carroway is a good narrator, he sees everything happen and does not trust everybody easily. So during the people discuss about something at a time, he does not believe it is true. After he proves it, he will accept the tr ...
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... mouse. Then he gave me that "guilt trip" and started saying that he could go live and the woods and he would be fine without me. Yes, Lennie was a very smart person. As I look back to those events leading up to Lennie's death I kind of think that it's my fault that he's dead. Not just because I'm the one that killed him but because I should have watched him more closely. I should not have left him in the barn with Curley's wife. I think that they started talking and somehow Curley's wife had him touch her hair. As you know Lennie likes soft things so he kept touching it. She started to panic when he wouldn't let go so she struggled and screamed. Lennie go ...
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... means to meet their desires. And with these precepts in mind, Haggard creates a fantastical tale, taking heed of what is socially acceptable and what is not, all the while maintaining western superiority over the rest of the world. “The fact of the matter is, that I thought that the best plan would be to tell the story in a plain straightforward manner…I cannot help thinking that simple things are always the most impressive, books are easier to understand when they are written in plain language, though I have perhaps no right to set up an opinion on such a matter.” (Haggard 6). In this introduction/disclaimer, Allan Quatermain as our narrator, co ...
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... a cave, facing away from a blazing fire. He stares at the wall opposite him, watching pretty shadow puppets. He listens to the exotic, wonderful, and large words whispered in his ears by the puppeteers. He would naturally turn around, or perhaps even stand, but chains bind him to the ground, and the puppeteers have servants who hold his head in place. One day, a situation arises where he finds that the chains are broken, and he stands. This is against the will of the servants, but they have no physical power over him, if he does not allow it. He turns round and sees the fire and the puppeteers and then he realizes that all has been lies. He is not what they h ...
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... a distressed Holden in the vicinity of Manhattan. The city is decked with decorations and holiday splendor, yet, much to Holden's despair "seldom yields any occasions of peace, charity or even genuine merriment."3 Holden is surrounded by what he views as drunks, perverts, morons and screwballs. These convictions which Holden holds waver very momentarily during only one particular scene in the book. The scene is that with Mr. Antolini. After Mr. Antolini patted Holden on the head while he was sleeping, Holden jumped up and ran out thinking that Mr. Antolini was a pervert as well. This is the only time during the novel where Holden thinks twice about considering so ...
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... to be that you have to do what you think is rite no matter what other people think or say to you, they learned this lesson from there father Atticus he defended Tom Robinson even though every said that he should not defend a black man. He did it because he knew it was the rite thing to do, and the children knew that was the reason that he did it too. There are many things that we all learn about life as we go on through life this book showed us some of the things that people learn from other people in your lifetime, it also showed us some life lessons and they were some pretty good ones. ...
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... and were unable to stop to stop the huge amounts of water that were getting in the boat. They decided to abanden the boat. Everybody got in the life rafts and watched the boat slowly sink till there was nothing left to watch. After a few days at sea the kids and officers land on an island. As soon as they land on the island Jack and his "group" get together and tie up the officers with vines on the local trees. This is Ralph's worst nightmare come true. After they are done Jack tells Ralph, "either your part of the group or your an outsider and that my group will hunt you for the rest of your life." Ralph is thinking that this is great because they will for ...
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... it is wrong what the adults are doing to the children. They are being brought up to believe that it is OK to mistreat somebody who is "different" from you. This is why Joshua felt he should teach the children, and not the adults. Once Joshua started to communicate with the children, and got to know them better the adults were amazed at how Joshua related to the children so well. He knew their names right from the second he met them, he played their games, and he even let himself lose at them too. Eventually the adults in the town began to realize that whoever this Joshua really was, he was a role model for each and every one of them. The Muslim boy was a very imp ...
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... a spark of hope that she and her family would move up in the world, that eventually snowballed into a much larger hatred. She was always ashamed of her past and did everything in her power to improve her status. Even when she was sixteen years old, her mother recalls the urge Dee had to improve everything she could. Her mother said, "Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made form an old suit somebody gave me." Even though she knew her family couldn't afford "nice things" she had a burning desire for them. This desire made her take the time and effort to alter a suit ...
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