In the letter from Scout to Jem‚ we see Scout’s’ point of view and how she feels. It shows that she is sad that Boo gave them so much and they did not give him anything in return like a good neighbor should have. To convey this‚ a flowery background symbolizes a neighbor’s job to look after one another and the items in the pouch exhibits what Scout and Jem were given I feel that this establishes a feeling of growing maturity because the flowery background also symbolizes the growth of a young girl
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English 22211 Journal Chapter 1: I felt anger and disbelief. Why couldn’t they have known where the Jews were being transported? They had many chances to run away and escape‚ but how could they have known what was waiting for them at the end of their “vacation”? Chapter
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The Great Gatsby Journal 1 Quote: "I hope she’ll be a foolthat’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool." This quote‚ from chapter 1 is an important quote said by Daisy Buchanan‚ the second cousin of Nick Carraway‚ narrator of the "Great Gatsby". This quote is significant towards the story because it reveals glimpses into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself‚ but due to the times and the extent of her exposure to the social environment‚ she has not
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1. Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . . bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon‚ after their three-o’clock naps‚ and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there
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A Tale of Two Cities: Dialectal Journal Doubles and opposites: "It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ (...)" In the first chapter of A Tale of Two cities‚ Dickens emphasizes the fact of how bad the people lived. "It was the worst of times‚" due to mistreatment from the third estate. But it was also the "best of times‚" for the nobles‚ and higher class people who could actually afford things‚ and weren’t mistreated and starved. "(...) ’John Solomon‚ or Solomon John?’ (...)"
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn‚ Dialectical Journal · "You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was madeby Mr.Mark Twain‚ and he told the truth‚ mainly. There was things which he stretched‚ but mainly he told the truth. Chapter 1 Page1 - This is an example of foreshadowing. It sets the mood of whats going to happen next. · "There warn’t anybody at church‚ except maybe a hog or two‚ for there warn’t
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Dialectical Journal Passage from the text | Pg #s | Reflection | "Now‚ women forget all those things they don’t want to remember‚ and remember everything they don’t want to forget." | Pg 1 | The narrator has drawn a distinct line between men and women. Perhaps this foreshadows a theme of "the role of women in a man’s world". Also in order to have that kind of perspective‚ I believe the narrator has to be a woman otherwise the narrator could not be that precise about how a woman thinks. | “There
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Secret Life of Bees Book Journal Chapter 1 Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother‚ who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen‚ a black woman who looks after her and her father‚ T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily‚ she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes‚ the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a
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Introduction/Background Info Basically this story takes place in Japan during the end of World War II. Also everyone is zombified but a few people because when the United States dropped bombs on Japan the radiation had strange effects. And this book turns extremely dark towards the end like extremely dark. DAY 1 As the smoke cleared Charlie could barely see anything there were no words to describe it everything was destroyed or being destroyed. The air smelt like death and there was no sign
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Passage 1: “My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless‚ that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America‚ and over the years they were proven right.” (29) Response: James’ mother was always consistent in saying that money means nothing. School and Church was all you really needed to succeed. His mother was deeply religious and her and her kids went to church every Wednesday and every Sunday. Her kids went until
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