where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers‚ and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon‚ which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He expected to stay only about three months‚ at the longest. When a man with as many friends on the outside as Jimmy Valentine had is received in the "stir" it is hardly worth while to cut his hair."Now‚ Valentine‚" said the
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which he was forever known as Saint Valentine. Now! There are always two sides to a story‚ here is the side not told. During Valentine’s studies at the university‚ he discovered cures for ailments such as epilepsy. The world thought he could rectify people through the will of God; however he was healing them with the medication he was cooking in his hidden lab. Consequently‚ medication was not the only entity he was experimenting with in his lab. Saint Valentine had created a serum that would forever
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known for their wit‚ wordplay‚ warm characterization‚ and clever twist endings. In 1909‚ he wrote “A Retrieved Reformation‚” whose title is an example of the literary device‚ alliteration. The short story is about a cunning safe-cracker‚ Jimmy Valentine‚ who decides to give up his thieving to lead an honest life‚ but is still dogged by a persistent detective‚ Bill Price‚ who is hunting him; however‚ when Jimmy rescues a little girl from a safe with his burglar’s tools‚ Detective Bill Price pretends
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Plato ). In the story A Retrieved Reformation Jimmy Valentine is a crook living around the 1890s with a quick-tongue and a great set of safe cracking “tools” . After the governor pardons him from jail‚ he goes back to his old game of cracking safes; with the threat of detective Ben price on his tail. Once Jimmy finds a new life in the city of Elmore‚he marries a young woman named Annabel Adams‚ and he changes into a moral character. Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to a moral life because he demonstrated
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Jack was a person who did not get into a lot of trouble. Then‚ he started hanging out with his new neighbors‚ he kept getting in lots of trouble‚ such as riding a bike down the roof and having an electric chair and almost sitting in it. Jimmy Valentine the main character in “Retrieved information” was walking down the street of Elmore when meeting the love of his
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Claudia Valentine’s Distinctive Voice and Character Analysis Claudia Valentine‚ being the protagonist of The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender‚ has been successfully developed in the text to both support and subvert the stereotype of a male hard-boiled detective‚ where she is portrayed as a female private detective who inheres the traditional characteristics of a tough talking male detective but also presenting feminist points of view. Thus the author‚ Marele Day has created this powerful distinctive
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Set in the mid 1800s in the American Midwest‚ “A Retrieved Reformation” is about a bank robber named Jimmy Valentine and his change to a kind self-sacrificing man. Jimmy Valentine was a selfish criminal notorious for robbing banks. After his release from prison he continues his life of crime‚ feeling no remorse for his previous actions . When Jimmy is in the town of Elmore‚ he sees the most beautiful woman and experiences an abrupt change of heart. He changes his identity‚ opens a shoe store‚ and
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Princess Kate Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton was born on the 9th of January 1982 in England at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading‚ Berkshire (around 29 miles outside of London). She is the eldest of three children born to her mother Carole Elizabeth (née Goldsmith)‚ at the time a flight attendant‚ and Michael Francis Middleton (born 1949)‚ a flight dispatcher (later an airline officer) for British Airways. She was raised in Bucklebury‚ Berkshire. Her father’s family came from Leeds
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by KATE CHOPIN By contrasting the room’s "deep shadow" with the daylight that still exists outside the house‚ the first paragraph of "The Kiss" establishes a dark‚ intimate atmosphere while implying the presence of secrets and illicit emotions. This imagery thus foreshadows the revelation that Nathalie is plotting to marry the good-natured but unattractive and rather foolish Brantain while maintaining an affair with Mr. Harvy. Brantain’s character is reminiscent of several other men in Kate Chopin’s
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Joseph Timbang English Comp 2 18 Feb 2013 The Remarkable Immoral Kate Chopin Authors in the nineteenth century were descriptive and wrote for a cause‚ but the content of each story was relatable. A writer does not just think of a story that is automatically deep and rich in thought; he or she needs to become the character of the story. Kate Chopin modeled her female characters as strong‚ independent women much like herself. She wrote as if each story was an autobiography about different lives
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