“Of course. I’d almost forgotten. They’d crate me up in a car and deliver me like a parcel of old clothes to that place.” (Laurence‚ 185) Since Hagar has not travelled alone in a very long time she is anxious she may be caught. This is proven in the quote: “He’s not starting the bus‚ though. He looks at me‚ even after I’ve managed to sit down in the nearest seat. What is it? Will he make me go back? Are others staring?” She questions everything even though no one is looking at her curiously. (Laurence
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This quote shows that when you do something crazy without even pondering over it‚ then there has to be an emotion controlling it. In Timothy’s case‚ the emotion controlling his actions is love. Another smaller action of his compassion is when he signs up for
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Claude Debussy By: Jackson Mikkelsen One of Debussy’s quotes that really caught my attention said‚ “Music is the space between the notes.” –Claude Debussy. I thought of music in a different way after reading this quote‚ when I heard the word music I always thought of a person singing or lyrics to a song. There is a lot more to music than that and I have learned that from researching Debussy and being in this class has helped me also. Claude Debussy is one of the most famous
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there. As described on page 24 “He ran back to the core‚ back to the skyscrapers and the people dressed in black whose faces and clothes weren’t crushed by the air‚ whose gaze was above his head. Tom ran until he was safe and invisible.” What this quote basically states is that tom referred to the core‚ with all the people made him feel safe and invisible because no one acknowledged him. This is disgusting in my opinion that we cannot notice people during their darkest days and when there at “Rock
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“…tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable…” this came from Vivian in the novel‚ Orphan Train. This quote made me think of my energetic‚ quirky dad‚ Dean Dahlhauser. He is the toughest person I know and he has remained my best friend for as long as I can remember while also making a giant impact on me. My dad is so important to me because he has taught me lessons‚ taken me on trips I’ll never forget‚ and he has shown me what it is to be a strong individual. My dad has taught me
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She was born to luxury. She also has a general attitude. For example when her husband says‚”Why the dress you go to the theatre in‚ It looks very well to me.” This shows that her husband is trying to tell her she looks good with her own dress. The quote from Madame Loisel‚ “Only i have no dress‚ and therefore i can’t go to this ball.” This shows that Loisel wanted
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the great depression I have to admit that for much of this book I thought we would be just getting a series of increasingly horrible stories about the crash. But this turned out to be an infinitely better book than I anticipated. There are quotable quotes – “If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale”. Or “This is the rite of the meeting which is called not to do business but to do no business.” And haven’t we all been in one of those. There is the dismantling of
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To keep dignity‚ and give honor where it’s due‚ so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don’t have to do it often (Page 128). This quote shows Ender’s greatness in the way that he has respect and pride even towards people who he is battling against. Ender has a large amount of dignity even towards his enemies. It also demonstrates Ender’s competitiveness and his unwillingness to lose
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Okonkwo and Obierika are talking after Okonkwo had just got back from his exile and Okonkwo wants run the white men out of the tribe‚ but Obierika says‚ “How do you think we can fight when our own brothers have turned against us?” (Achebe p??????). This quote demonstrates how the new culture has shaped Obierika because is shows that Obierika does not desire to go to war to drive out the white men‚ using the excuse that he does not want to fight his brothers. This might seem like a reasonable excuse to
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when I ran from the plantation in Virginia‚ I decided to be twelve years old. COuld’ve been anywhere from nine to fourteen‚ but as Frederick Douglass‚ that great man‚ said‚ you might as well ask a horse how old he is as a slave” (Stolz 3). This quote was said by Cezanne Pinto‚ the main character of the historical novel‚ Cezanne Pinto‚ about a young slave living on a plantation in Virginia with high hopes of freedom and an education. Originally born Deucy Clayburn‚ Cezanne spent his time as a slave
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