3. fervor: intensity "If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it."…
Ralph is forced to concede, but he insists on making a signal fire so when his father comes to rescue them on a ship, the men on board will see the smoke and know where to find…
1. “Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him in a withered trunk;”…
the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck,…
Ralph wanted to pretend that the boys were still civilized schoolboys, “Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.” The contrast between light and dark shows how all the violence takes place during the night where their embarrassment of their violent actions are hidden by a veil of shadow. The author implies that most of the…
descriptions clearly. “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets of their branches.”…
A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight. His face darkened with some powerful emotion” (56).…
I often use my subscriptions to online library databases like the National Defense University or the Joint Forces Staff College for research. To narrow the research, I utilized the National Defense University library database for articles and other information available on government and educational websites. These more reliable websites are easily identified by their domain names end in .edu, .gov, a reliable site should describe the evidence opinions, or advice should be clearly…
As I entered his room I was glad to see that he was awake. That’s a good sign, I told myself. Finny greeted me without a trace of friendliness, and I told him, “I’ve been trying to tell you...” His face seemed calm as he spoke, “You simply didn’t know what you were doing in the tree, is that it?” “Yes, yes of course you’re right, but how can you believe that?” “I think I understand that it wasn’t personal. I think I can believe you.”…
Early morning Kinnell describes the vine of the berry allowing for reader’s to once again have a sense of feel on the subject. He uses a transition that is unique, “the stalks very…
“The gardener snipped the stems of the flowers, gathering them into small bunches. Their petals trickled down to the floor in varieties of ebony, ivory, and crimson.”…
“ -and ran away to avoid the ghost which every well-informed boy thereabout knew haunted the spot."…
The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox. The sun was dropping fast now, a soft red sliding egg yolk, and already to the east there was a darkening to purple. Winnie, newly brave with her thoughts of being rescued, climbed boldly into the rowboat.…
The figure walked out of the darkness like a monster from the shadowy depths, dressed in a suit of black. He walked lightly behind Alice, far enough that she hadn't yet noticed his presence behind her but close enough to follow her along her…
Beneath the glimmer of moonlight, the lifeless trees stood motionless as I sprinted frantically, leaping over the dancing leaves, which rustled around my feet. The bustling of the towering trees; the howls of what was around me; the sky of what seemed to be falling in on me.…