... Johnny Nunsuch into helping her feed a fire. She dismisses him and begins to walk home. Before reaching home, he is frightened by the light coming from the heath and returns to discover Wildeve meeting with Eustacia. By pure chance, Venn discovers the boy and quizzes him. “Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again” [Johnny Nunsuch] “ A gentleman--ah! What did she say to him, my man?” [Diggory Venn] “Told him she supposed he had not married the other woman because he liked his old sweetheart best; and things like that” [Johnny Nunsuch] [Book First, chap ...
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... in his conversation that he no longer wants to know when Clevinger said that he could not be punished. He now wants to know when Clevinger did not say that he could not be punished. Clevinger quickly rebuts and states, “I always didn’t say you couldn’t punish me, sir.” Finally, the colonel is satisfied with that answer even though Clevinger’s statement did not answer the question and has no meaning. Major Major often spoke with a lack of meaning. He simply did not make sense. For instance, he told Sergeant Towser, his assistant, “From now on, I don’t want anyone to come in to see me while I’m here.” According to this statement, when would anyone be able to see h ...
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... of the war. However Remarque is best able to portray the effects the war has on the soldiers and the rest of the people and the scene of the battlefield compared to home. The war scarred the soldiers permanently, if not physically then mentally. After the war the soldiers usually never recovered from the war. Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. When suffering from shell shock a soldier’s brain doesn’t function properly and the man is a “vegetable”. This means the man is alive but he can’t do anything because he is in a state of shock because of the war. Stir crazy is a mental illness caused by the firing of so many ...
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... the 1950's. When developing a comprehensive opinion of the novel, it is important to consider the praises and criticisms of The Catcher in the Rye.When studying a piece of literature, it is meaningful to note the historical background of the piece and the time at which it was written. Two J.D. Salinger short stories, "I'm Crazy" and "Slight Rebellion off Madison," were published in periodicals during the 1940's, and introduced Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye. Both short stories were revised for later inclusion in Salinger's novel. The Catcher in the Rye was written in a literary style similar to prose, which was enhanced by the teen ...
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... 8. Sally Hayes is Holdens friend. She likes poetry, and she also likes to go to the theater. She goes out on a date with Holden. PLOT This story is based on a young boy's life. This young boy's full name is Holden Caulfield. He is twelve years old, and attends a school called Pencey. Holden starts off this story by telling his story about the last Christmas. He starts off by saying that he was at Thomson Hill watching a football game. He returned from New York with the fencing team. He was the manager of the team. Holden went to his room located at Pencey. Holden was very bored; so he took out a hunting hat that he had bought at New York. His next ...
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... elegance which has been appealing to many since it was written in 1845. The theme of “The Raven” is simple: a man suffering the loss of his love is visited by a speaking raven, whose repetitious, meaningless answers torture him to the point of insanity (see Appendix R) (Decoder, Internet). The feeling of lost love portrayed in the poem might have reflected the death of Poe’s wife, Virginia, in 1847 (Qrisse, Internet). As it is read, a definite rhyme scheme is present: internal rhyme in the first and third line, and end rhymes in lines two, four, and five. All eighteen stanzas of the poem are arranged like this, but Poe never makes it ...
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... someday plans to eliminate Snowball as a rival. For example he secretly trained the guard dogs in secret, keeping them completely hidden from view. Napoleon was also very good at developing support for his ideas, after meetings he would talk to the other animals one on one and "psychologically brainwash" them. He is very kiniving in his ways to get more power and is always trying to discredit and undermine the other animals. One time he urinated on Snowball's plans for the windmill. Napoleon's sense of timing is keen and this is very useful is his quest for more power. At just the right time he implies that Snowball's teachings are not beneficial to the other ...
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... I believe he wanted to portray life as best he could, he wanted to show what life was to him: and what better way than a biography closely related to Dickens himself. We could call it a 'Novel of personal memory' but we have to keep in mind the full original title: 'The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger, of Bluderstone Rookery. (Which he never meant to published on any account.) This complete title strongly suggests that this is one man's story written for himself. It was also supposed to 'never have been published on any account.' Later in chap 42 this condition is repeated: 'this manuscript is intended for ...
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... same nationality as her living in the same place. The life living with people who spoke same language as her resulted in her English was "deserting" (p 128) her. Moreover, she had soon realized that she was a "prisoner doing unreal time." (p. 132) By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teachers, my family." (p. 146) In addition, Taylor provided ...
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... and psychologists of his time. James began his professional writing career with book reviews for the North American Review. His first short story, “The Story of the Year,” appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1865. In 1866, the James family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. James had his first novel, Watch and Ward serialized in Atlantic Monthly in 1871. In 1877, James wrote The American, while visiting Paris and Rome. In 1878, The Watch and Ward appeared in book form, and James wrote French Poets and Novelists (criticism), and The Europeans (novel). While visiting Paris and Italy in 1879, he wrote (novella), An International Episode; the critic ...
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