talking about are the slippers‚ the hat‚ the portrait‚ the photo album‚ the manuscript and the pistols. In act one Aunt Julle produces Tesman"’"s old slippers‚ much to Tesman"’"s delight. He wants Hedda to examine them but she is not interested. The slippers help Ibsen to prove the status of the marriage between Hedda and Tesman‚ which Hedda calls "’"excruciatingly boring"’". When aunt Julle gives the slippers to Tesman he seems very excited and wants to show Hedda them. He says to Hedda ’"’My old
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Not long ago‚ my aunt had to move from her apartment to go to a nursing home. My aunt was the only family I had in Toronto‚ so it was a very emotional and sad day for me. My aunt was 80 years old and was living with her son. With time her vision was getting worse‚ and her arthritis was giving her a rough time as well. Taking care of my aunt was becoming a challenge for her family so‚ she had no choice but to leave. On the day she was scheduled to move‚ we organized a small farewell‚ so that she gets
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there are two points of view. In the main story is omniscient point of view‚ and the story that the bachelor tells is in third person point of view. Characters in the storyteller the bachelor: flat and static‚ he is indirectly prsented by the aunt saying that he was “a hard unsympathetic man” because of his frown and scowl. Irony in the storyteller the main type of irony that we can find in this story is situational irony. The bachelor being good at story telling is ironic because we wouldn’t
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Celta assignment 1 may use the infinitive oppose to the simple present for example tomorrow Students may fail to understand the reference to a future event because the use of a simple present. Students may struggle to pronounce the weak form in “the” and “at” Students The plane leaves at 10:00 tomorrow. A- Present simple + time marker Subject + verb in present simple tense + time marker B- Talking about a scheduled future event C- Students may find it difficult to use the present tense
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After the incident Julie’s her aunt sue took care of her like she was her own daughter. Aunt Sue did not have any children and she was very lucky to have Julie. Aunt Sue started to get older and older. Years later the doctors diagnosed her with cancer . Julie started to notice that aunt Sue did not look like herself‚ she had lost a lot of weight‚ her face started to sink in and she did not have any hair. Three months later Aunt Sue passed away and Julie was only thirteen years old. Aunt Sue knew she
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To kill a mocking bird is a novel that expresses a wide vireareite of themes; the context is historical‚ social and cultural. Two examples of themes through the novel are education that no one had the same opportunities to get a proper education and social inequality that Maycomb was very raciest. The time period where to kill a mockingbird of set was the 1930’s and is based on life events and experiences of Harper Lee the author. Historically wealthy white’s people had a proper education‚ whereas
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everywhere.Thus‚ how could he possibly remain mad?.The whole story began in a quaint cottage in the countryside of England‚that looked like it almost came out of a fairy tale‚when he was taking care of his terribly ailing grand aunt‚who was almost the extreme opposite of poor.His grand aunt had never wronged him and he loved the old lady like his mom . For it was her pointy‚crooked nose that drove him as crazy as a wild bear‚he never cared for her riches.The idea haunted him every second‚but whenever
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What do we learn about Maycomb society in Chapter 1 – 15? During the Chapters 1 -15 we learn a lot about Maycomb society especially since the novel is set in the 1930s and during the great depression. A couple of the points are: the rich rejecting the poor because of their economic level of life in the Great Depression and whites discriminating against blacks. During the Great Depression Maycomb would have been hit hard‚ “Maycomb was an old town‚ but was a tired old town”. This is Scout talking
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the "toughest" or the "strongest" person. Sometimes a man’s role is to bring comfort to those he loves by doing what they need him to do. That’s the reason Grant actually agrees to go to the prison regularly because it will bring some comfort to his aunt. Also he learns (and teaches) that one cannot stoop to the low-levels that people believe you capable of. He had to live his life with dignity in the face of injustice and not believe that he (and all other black people) were merely animals.Grant
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the settings. Both stories take a twist by continuing the act of telling a story within a story. In “The Storyteller‚” an Aunt and Bachelor compete in telling a tale to three children. Saki seems to acknowledge the Aunt’s lack of talent in storytelling as he proclaims “evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation” (pg.2). Concurrently‚ the Aunt tells a dull‚ moralistic story with no detail to atmosphere. Her lack of acknowledging surroundings unfulfilled the curiosity
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