... the well and drown," and a boy with a job as a gas- meter man was considered a "high-class catch." Simply avoiding pregnancy was a major achievement for Taylor. She needed to get away from there to get ahead, and when she goes, she leaves almost everything behind, including her real name. Taylor is the name she adopts at the place where her car runs out of gas, in Taylorville, Illinois. However, what starts out as a commonplace search for personal opportunities soon turns into a test of her character and beliefs, and of her ability to face and overcome obstacles. On her way west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she acquires a completely unexpe ...
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... different parts of the history of this island. is still most definitely a work of the classical tradition, but it is Walcott’s reflection on the island of St. Lucia which occupies the majority of the pages of this epic poem. It just happens that he uses the classical method to tell the story of this island and its history. Before going into the places where the story reflects the history of St. Lucia, it would be beneficial to go over a brief history of the island. It was first settled in around 200 CE by Arawak (or Aruak) Indians. However, by 800, they had intermingled their culture with that of the Caribs. Europe’s relation and discovery of th ...
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... also got him to cheat and drink.Tom knew these things were wrong but it stayed in his routine.Red tested Tom to his fullest and pushed Tom to work harder.Unfortunatley Red did not work quite as hard as Tom. When he was living with the white man he was getting used to the white peoples ways. Mary Redmond who was another of Tom's influences played a big role in encouraging Toms decisions.She was his guardian angel looking over him wile he was staying in the hospital.She was the only person that was in the hospital who truly cared for him.He knew she meant well but he was scared to ask her for help because he had been let down so many times in the times before.She ...
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... that she never reveals. Clarissa expresses her belief in reincarnation. That her inner-communicating self, if not revealed in this body, may be revealed in the next. The belief that herÔ that everything will work out, eventually. Mrs. Dalloway before the party remarks that, 'If it were now to die, 'twere now be most happy.'"(p. 184) Clarissa portrays her sense of happiness as something not monstrumental or grandiose, but rather quite simple. She can be happy in throwing a party. Clarissa has friends. Her parties are to unite the people, who would otherwise never speak to each other. Clarissa communicates ycan, "say things you couldn't say anyhow else." She can her. ...
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... start to wonder about how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to: "Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum... ..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements. Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter My sober house." 3 Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, eve ...
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... when Aunt Harriet visits the Strorms and brings her deviant child with her: "Send her away. Tell her to leave the house - and take that with her." (p.71) Joseph did not show any sympathy at all toward his own sister in law. Aunt Harriet is the sister of David's mother Mrs. Strorm. She enters the story half way through the book, where she goes to Mrs. Strorm seeking help. Yet the help she is looking for is not something Mrs. Strorm agrees with: "Nothing much! You have the effrontery to bring your monster into my house, and tell me it's nothing much!" (p.70) Aunt Harriet is very loving, strong, and she fights for what she thinks is the right thing: "I ...
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... She herself opted for the paintings. All in all he liked her and enjoyed her company, but he grew apart from her after a while. The second writer he talked about was Ezra Pound. He begins his chapter on Ezra Pound by saying that he “was always a good friend and he was always doing things for people”. He also said that Ezra was a kinder and more Christian person with people than Ernest was. He was very impressed by how Ezra could write so perfectly and hit things just right. He was very meticulous about his errors. But, he said that sometimes he could be rather irascible. He also described him as the most generous writer he had ever known ...
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... This indicates that it was not out of the question for her to work for a living, although after she fell into the hands of Gus Eisman she does nothing of the sort. After living under the care of Mr. Eisman, she easily makes the transition from being a part of the working middle class to the life of leisure of the upper class. This of course would be a tremendous event for most people, but Lorelei seems not to dwell too much on it. She chooses, rather to focus on other more important things like diamond tiaras. So, instead, I will focus on it for a moment. It seems completely out of line for a book that claims to be such an intelligent commentary on women’s liv ...
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... reader would most likely look over the words just enough to understand the plot but would not go in detail. The detail in a novel is very important since it helps create atmosphere and mood which results in the reader beginning to imagine himself as the character. In some novels, for example, just the details of the surroundings of the character's location take seven to eight pages to explain and if the detail is missed, the reader fails to imagine the intended atmosphere. The extent to which a novel is studied causes the reader to lose interest in reading the novel because some interpretations of particular moments in the novel may not have anyt ...
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... women play is, “And she is all the time trying to climb through that pattern, it strangles so; I think that is why it has so many heads.”(Gilman 213) This is meaning that if a women tried to play a role in society she was just not taken seriously, or felt like trying to play a role was getting nowhere. The way Gilman describes the wallpaper tells of what the narrator’s mind is thinking, “and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide.”(Gillman 206) She doesn’t think this on the conscious level but more on the unconscious level. When the narrator writes, “(The designs) des ...
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