... answer to her conscience if she took the children in a direction where there was a convict on the loose." She is not success-ful with Bailey, so she uses the same antics on her daughter-in-law who doesn't even acknowledge her. Before she has a chance to work on the children, they tell her "stay at home if you don't want to go." The grandmother then decides that she will have to go along after all, but she is already working on her own agenda. The grandmother is very deceitful, and she manages to sneak the cat in the car with her even though she knows Bailey does not "like to arrive at a motel with a cat." She decides that she would like to visit an old plant ...
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... how his qualities make him a good ruler and how he would act in different situations. Furthermore, Creon views himself a good leader because he believes he has the best attributes and no one can compare to him. Creon shows his over-confidence when he boasts of his role as the perfect ruler of Thebes. In addition, Creon believes he is always correct in his judgments and his beliefs. Before the sentry even explains the event that has occurred, the sentry states that he is only a messenger and that he has not committed the act. Yet Creon still accuses the sentry of receiving money for the act and threatens to punish him. ...
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... it is an endless search and therefore pointless. The Other is the story of Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment already. He begins to speak to the man seated besides him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what year it is, the man answers 1918, even though it is 1969. It is then that the narrator figures out he is talking to the person whom he was fifty-one years earlier. He then tells "the other" him of the future, after which they part, knowing they will never meet like this again. This story deals with time. The author is very nostalgic and lives for his ...
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... because she fell in love with him when they were younger. Hedda is living in an apollonian society, but has a great dionysian side to her personality. She wants Eilert Loveborg to come back with vine leaves in his hair, and fantasizes of romantic deaths. HEDDA. What do you intend to do? LOVEBORG. Nothing! Just put an end to it all. The sooner the better. HEDDA (coming a step closer). Eilet Loveborg - listen to me. Couldn't you arrange that - that it's done beautifully? LOVEBORG. Beautifully? (Smiles.) With vine leaves in my hair, as you used to dream in the old days- (Hedda 287) Hedda supplies Eilert with the pistol to kill himself with, so he would ...
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... must make his own jackknife he learns more than another boy who is taught how to do the same work and merely given a jackknife. The boy who has done his own work has achieved the knowledge through experience; he has learned more because he has had to teach himself what to do. The other boy is merely a parrot mimicking the strategy of someone else, he hasn’t had to apply his own thoughts to the work, and he has only had to copy someone else’s work. Thoreau emphasizes his point on learning through experience and nature throughout his book. “But while we are confined to books…we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak…”(p 79) ...
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... just pushed him away. Prince Edward saw this and welcomed Tom into the palace for some food. Edward had the idea to change places for just a few minutes. The few minutes were fun. When it came time to change back, the guard kicked Edward out before the boys could change back. This was a dream come true for Tom, and Edward did not think it was so bad either until… -2- After a few days, Edward met Tom’s drunken dad, John. He was very abusive and if Tom’s mother tried to help Edward, John would just hit her away. No one could tell that Tom was gone because they thought Tom was Edward. Meanwhile, in the Palace, Tom Comty was ...
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... Cody, but that plan ends up failing as well. As a part of what Dan Cody taught him, Gatsby attempted to go into business with a man named Meyer Wolfsheim, but failed at that also. For such a long time Gatsby has had his eye on Daisy and has been in love with her, but this does not. Gatsby has always gazed at the green light on Daisy’s porch. Jordan Baker says,"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be across the bay."(page 79). The color green is traditionally a symbol of hop and youth and that is what Gatsby is hoping to find beyond it. When Gatsby and Daisy meet, he tells her about how he has watched the green light that burns at the end of her ...
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... Darnay, the gentle English family man, who is also related to the evil Marquis Evremonde. I personally like stories that use historical events as backdrops because it brings these seemingly distant events closer to us. This book definitely offers insight into life in the two cities at the time of the French Revolution. I think it does an excellent job of depicting just how totally involved some people became in the revolution. It shows how people were blinded by the desire for freedom from their former oppressors, so much so, that they attacked anyone and anything that was even remotely related to their past rulers. I think this was effectively done by ...
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... front of him; his wife, Elena (Joan Allen) is his quietly despairing mate and mother of Paul (Tobey Maguire) and Wendy (Christina Ricci). Jim Carver (Jamey Sheridan) is an enterprising man, who is seldom home long enough to attend to the needs of his wife Jane (Sigourney Weaver) and their two sons Mike (Elijah Wood) and Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd). These families are linked by relationships, superficially neighborly, but in fact more visceral than they are prepared to admit to even themselves. It takes an outside force, , to force them to come to grips with the realities of their lives, both individually and as families. “The majority of the past and present stu ...
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... a tremendous force in Celie’s attainment of confidence, as the two eventually form a strong bond. Celie’s sister, Nettie, intelligent and caring who “mean[s] everything in the world” to Celie, also faces many of the same obstacles that Celie does, but Nettie first helps Celie overcome hers. As time passes, Celie gains more and more self-respect as well as some respect from others. The central theme flowing throughout the work remains that man often defeats his problems through the nurturing of close intimate relationships. The bond between Shug and Celie allows Celie to conquer her passive behavior. Likewise, her relationship with Nettie also instills a strong sens ...
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