Miss Lonelyhearts and Betty had some past intimacy. As of my interpretation‚ Betty is the only person who cares for Miss Lonelyhearts in a sense of affection that can be shown from a compassionate person; “Betty came to see Miss Lonelyhearts the next day and every day thereafter. With her she brought soup and boiled chicken for him to eat” (35). He has other affiliations with other woman in the story‚ but none of them are considerably close to the compassionate figure of Betty. Miss Lonelyhearts refers
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In the play The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ Abigail Williams has a major effect on the Salem witch trials. She plays a major role in the development of the plot of the story and is the main antagonist as well. It is learned in Act I that she has had an affair with John Proctor and that she is accusing others‚ later including his wife‚ of witchcraft. Abigail is not only in love and had an affair with a man that is already married‚ she gets innocent people killed with her false accusations and runs
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After our midnight dance with the girls‚ Uncle Parris found us in the woods making all of us scatter immediately. All of us except Betty who collapsed on the ground. She was screaming about how she could not move. Uncle Parris’ face was nothing like I have ever seen before. His face was bright red and looked shocked. He started yelling and screaming at us‚ but Betty still did not move at all. Throughout the day‚ she still laid there like she was as good as dead. The suspicion started to grow in the
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What are Abigail’s feelings towards John Proctor? ... Why is she antagonistic toward Elizabeth Proctor? ... Why has she been asked to leave her home? ... Why does she tell John what happened to Betty? ... Why do Proctor and Rebecca speak out against Hale’s coming? ... Why has Proctor set himself against Parris? ... How does Rebecca’s departure affect those waiting at the bedside? ...
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every word. Abigail Williams falsely accusations was one of the main causes of the Witch Trials in the Crucible. “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? “HALE: Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child? TITUBA: I love me Betty! HALE: You have sent your spirit out upon this child‚ have you not? Are you gathering souls for the Devil? ABIGAIL: She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! PARRIS: She have often laughed at prayer! ABIGAIL: She comes to
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the end for her. Dr. Yalmon’s interpreted by stating that the candle was her‚ Betty is afraid to lose weight because she believes it can susceptible to cancer‚ like her father. “...she had watched her father shrink from an obese man to a skeleton wrapped in great folds of spare skin” (108). As a little girl‚ it was traumatic to see her father change before her eyes‚ vulnerable and weak. Another dream‚ consisted of Betty hiring painters to paint outside trim of the house but found one painter inside
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does. Another difference in the scenes is that in the play the Doctor goes to visit Betty‚ but in the movie he goes to see Ruth and Reverend Parris says that Betty is the same
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Devil in a Blue Dress‚ by Walter Mosley Devil in a Blue Dress is the first book in the Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins series. Devil in a Blue Dress is set in 1948 Los Angles‚ California and narrated from an African-American’s‚ Easy‚ point of view. The book is filled with Easy Rawlins being uncomfortable around a white man‚ Dewitt Albright. Easy is confronted by the risky businessman Albright who wants Easy to find a white woman. The white woman is known to be in an African-American jazz club in Los Angles
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days prior Betty‚ Abigail‚ and a few more girls were seen by Reverend Parris in the forest gathered around a fire bearing a boiling pot. But‚ what Parris did not know is that the girls had instructed his slave‚ Tituba to prepare a charm for Abigail to drink that would kill Elizabeth Proctor. Abigail assumed that by Elizabeth’s death‚ John Proctor would marry her because she had had an affair with him in the past. But‚ at the startling sight of Parris the girls were frightened and Betty fainted. After
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lived through this ordeal. If you read the book‚ you will see that over and over again‚ Betty states that not all Iranians are bad. In fact‚ she frequently mentions that without the help of many friendly Iranians‚ she would never have gotten out of Iran alive. One man in particular is the owner of a men’s clothing store‚ who repeatedly lets her use his telephone to call her family back in the U.S. Betty‚ also‚ describes her husband “Moody” as a unstable man who got that way because he was raised
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