... mention influential to his mind set every day. Willy believes that being well-liked and having a personal attractiveness, together, can bring success, money, and many friends. Ironically, Willy does not have many friends and many people do not like him. With a beauty unlike others, Willy thinks that doors will open and problems will all disappear. As a salesman, Willy developed many hindrances that caused his mind to deteriorate. His life as a salesman was built on a dream that he witnessed as a child. At an early age, Willy heard of a salesman, Dave Singleman, who could make his living out of a hotel room. Singleman was very successful and when he died, people fr ...
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... not believe the truth of the stolen money. A person he had loved so much had betrayed him, and it hurt him so much. He left town to go to Raveloe because of his broken heart. He lived in the town of Raveloe as a hermit. People knew very little of him and for a good reason. Silas was isolated because he did not want to get his heart broken again. His love from Sarah grew to love of his work and eventually to money. He was so dedicated that "he seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection." The money he earned meant very little to him. He even donated some of it, but as his worked turned from weaving to the curing of others, the mone ...
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... Brontė uses the weather to show the beginning of a transition from calm to turbulent events in the storyline. The books starts with Lockwood's arrival, a severe winter storm raging outside foreshadows the unfriendly environment he is about to enter and the chaotic events that he is going to witness through Nellie's story telling. When Nelly begins to tell the story of the two neighbouring households, she describes Old Mr. Earnshaw setting out to Liverpool on a "fine summer morning" (p.34). Yet, when Old Mr. Earnshaw dies she relates that "A high wind blustered round the house, and roared in the chimney; it sounded wild and stormy" (p. 41). Emily Brontė of ...
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... and would fight until death. After Henry enlisted, he went to tell his friends, thinking that they would consider him a hero. When Henry first arrived at training, he felt that he was invincible. However, when Henry heard that his regiment was going to battle he started to wonder if he would run. He was afraid to tell anyone of this because he thought they would think he was a coward. When he was returning to the regiment, shortly after he ran, he wondered and cared about what they would say to him. "He wondered what they would remark when later he appeared in camp. His mind heard howls of derision... Where's Henry Fleming? He run, didn't 'e?" (97) Afte ...
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... the house. He was late for Christmas eve dinner so at the dinner table he was not able to be formally introduce to everyone. He see one of the girl who he wanted to get to know but didn't. After dinner they all decided to played . The rules of the game are simple. "Every player is presented with a sheet of paper. All the sheets are blank except one, on which is written "". Nobody knows who is "" except "" hims! elf-or herself, as the case may be. The lights are then turned out and "" slips from the room and goes off to hide, and after an interval the other players go off in search, without knowing whom they are actually in search of. One player meeting anoth ...
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... Simon Finch would have never paddled up to Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn't?" We thought that we were too old to get into a fight over it so we asked Atticus. He said that we were both right. There were many rumors about Boo Radley, many of which, were heard by Jem and me. He was thought to have stabbed his father in the leg with scissors and everyone thinks that he is a freak. Boo Radley was said to have never been seen by anyone but his family for many years ever since he stabbed his father. Dill had the "brilliant" idea that they should try to get Boo Radley to come out so they could see his face. Atticus said that we should just ...
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... he’d do to her only for her dead mother’s sake (Joyce 5).” Eveline wants a new life but is afraid to let go of her past. She dreams of a place where “people would treat her with respect (Joyce 4)” and when contemplating her future, hopes “to explore a new life with Frank (Joyce 5).” When, in a moment of terror she realizes that “she must escape (Joyce 6),” it seems to steel her determination to make a new home for herself elsewhere. On the other hand, she is comfortable with the “familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided (Joyce 4).” She rationalizes that: “In her home ...
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... father's name (67). Though he never actually says that he is not the other parent, he implies it by talking of the father in third person (67). Such as, "If thou feelest it to be for thy soul's peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer" (67). Chillingworth's first reaction is one of shock, but he quickly suppresses it (61). Since his first sight of his wife in two years is of her being punished for being unfaithful to him, he is naturally surprised. It does not last for long though, because it is his nature to control his emotions (61). Pearl' ...
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... own marriage has failed (after marrying for money), she still wishes her daughters to do the same. This desire for her daughter to marry for money can be a form of greed. If her daughters do not marry into wealthy families she knows she will not continue in her present comfortable lifestyle. Mr. Collins has a completely different reason for marriage than simple financial. While proposing to Elizabeth for the first time he states that "...I think it a right for every clergyman in easy circumstances ... to set the example of matrimony in his parish."(p. 91). Further offending Elizabeth he continues to say that "...that it is the particular advice and recommendatio ...
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... lady. However, the minute she buys the silk stockings is the minute she becomes a different Mrs. Sommers. All of a sudden everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as "shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more. She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not thinking at all" at this point. Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the beginning. All of a sudden nothing is too expensive, she eats the expensive rest ...
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