... but a major league ballplayer on the train named Whammer Wambold has already caught her eye. Roy becomes jealous and begins to do things to try to get her attention. At a stop in the route, the passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to him. As they arrive in Chicago, Harriet stays at the hotel at which Roy has booked a room. She gives him a call and provocatively invites him to her room. Succumbing to her invitati ...
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... experiences the bonds of unwavering love and equality until the very end. The relationship begins innocently enough. Goldmund is a young student, while Narcissus is his older mentor at the Mariabronn cloister. Goldmund admires the learned mind and discerning wit of Narcissus, while Narcissus respects the "strong, delicate senses" that Goldmund possesses. However, when Narcissus confronts Goldmund with his gifted observations of him, it is a valid indication of the type of relationship that has so far grown between them. "I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes... Natures of your kind ...
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... it effects the main characters of the novel, the Joads. Setting the tone of the novel in the readers mind is another function of Steinbeck's intercalary chapters. In chapter three, Steinbeck emaculatly describes the long tedious journey of a land turtle across a desolate highway. From the onset of his journey, the turtle encounters many set backs. All along the way he is hindered by ants, hills, and oak seeds under his shell. The turtles determination to reach his destination is most apparent when a truck driven by a young man swerves to hit the turtle. The turtle's shell was clipped and he went flying off the highway, but stop the turtle did not. He strugg ...
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... religion as the devil tried to pursue him as the devil did to Goody Clause, the Minister, the Deacon, Brown’s wife, and others. The devil would immediately approach anyone who entered the woods and try to recruit them into his ways. The woods in the Brown story are definitely nowhere anyone would want to journey off into, as they may never leave in the same state of mind. The woods, in my story are creepy in appearance as most woods are, but are very safe and calming . My woods are overcome with nature at it’s best and great scenery. As one passes through my woods, they will notice a large pond where one can sit and watch as animals come from all over to hunt, ...
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... this scene it was used to isolate her from the rest of the community. Then later in the story it is used again when Arthur stands up on the platform of the scaffold giving false penance, which drives him further into isolation. Then at the end of the story it is used again to reunite Arthur with himself, the community and God before dies. It is also used in this scene to reunite Pearl with herself making her normal. He also used the cottage where Hester lived has a place of isolation for her. The cottage was just out side the sphere of the community. It was also on a sterile piece of land where nothing would grow. The forest was also a major setting that in ...
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... can obtain these embryos id to shut down the park power so he can sneak into the freezing chamber. He does while the other visitors are touring the park, and everything goes wrong from there. As he is racing to get to the dock, where a boat is waiting to take the embryos, He realizes that he has gone the wrong way. He gets out of the car to try and figure out where he is and he's attacked and killed by one of the dinosaurs. Now the power is out and all the animals can get out of the no longer electrified fences. The others are stopped in front of the T-Rex holding area and he breaks through and attacks them. Everyone flees and is scattered through the park. The ...
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... a man as long as you can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, ain't good morals. Ain't I right?" This is a very good example of Twain satirizing the idiocy and cruelty of society in general. The man is so misguided that he thinks it's a lesser crime to let a man drown than to just plain kill him Twain a lot of the time makes fun of how whites perceived blacks or how blacks thought of whites. "He judged it was all up with him any way it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was ri ...
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... of the new, clean life that he was going to live from now on. At this time, Henry goes off and finds his wife to be. The plot in A Farewell to Arms was always active. They were never staying in one place too long. It had a very good story line, which was a love story that ended up in a tragedy. The main character's wife got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring. They had to have a caesarean, and the baby dies, and when the mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over for his wife and he was right. From the beginning of the book until the end, the action was up. Ever since the front ...
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... cut Ralph as our spears locked together. ‘My spear slid down his spear and cut him on accident.' (p.177) In a situation like this, Ralph's spear could have easily slipped down and cut me instead. An individual is not controlled by another individual. As for influencing the boys to kill Simon and Piggy, the boys were uncontrollable. On the night that Simon died, we were having a feast while "a thing came crawling out the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly." (p.152) The boys, especially the littluns, were so terrified, they thought Simon was the beast, so they attacked with the thought of killing the beast not Simon. Ralph was at that incident as well. He ...
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... and the family ends up back to where they started, with nothing. Though the money is gone, this lifetime dream of Mama and Ruth is not destroyed. They keep their pride and dignity and contribute to sacrificing their time into working endless hours to keep the house. Ruth says, “Lena—I’ll work… I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to move….” Through the struggle of poverty, one can still achieve success by keeping their pride and confronting the problem. Walter often struggles with his identity and indiv ...
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