Passages from text | Page #’s | Comments & Questions | “The bunk house was a long‚ rectangular building. Inside‚ the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted. In three walls there were small‚ square windows‚ and in the fourth‚ a solid door with a wooden latch. Against the walls were eight bunks‚ five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking. Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal
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At the very start of this section Huck sets out for town disguised as a woman only to find out that Jim was blamed for Huck’s “murder.” Huck raced back to Jim and they set off down the river. These two eventually came upon the wreck of a steamboat where once aboard‚ they discovered two men attempting to plan a murder. Quietly‚ the two stole as much supplies as they could carry‚ along with the two planned murderer’s canoe‚ and set off down the river once again. Down river they warned a steamboat captain
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Page 50. “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman‚ he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.” Page 10. “Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” I think the mere fact that a man of his age is so unyielding in his decision to continue fishing proves his own resolute determination. He is obviously encumbered by a number of physical weaknesses that come with old age‚ and yet it is this cheerful and undeafeated
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Scene1: Scene 1 takes place in a small town. It is nighttime‚ very dark and very silent. Inside the Way-stone Inn there are five men drinking beer and listening to Old Cob telling stories. Old Cob is a very old man with a scratchy high voice. The men are in their early twenties. One‚ the apprentice that is always addressed as boy‚ is a hand taller than the others. Off to the end of the bar a young inn keeper is listening to the story being told. You can tell it is familiar to him. The Innkeeper
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Ethan Frome Theme 1: Lack of love can twist and warp human beings beyond recognition Without love‚ you can back track into a deep depression and craziness. Quote 1: “It pleased Ethan to have surprised a pair of lovers on the spot where he and Mattie had stood with such a thirst for each other in their hearts; but he felt a pang at the thought that these two need not hide their happiness.” (Wharton 41) Quote 2: " She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell
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These two passages are about Harriet Tubman. They tell how she lived her life. They also tell about what she did for slaves. She was known for the slaves and how she helped them with the Underground Railroad‚ but these two passages don’t tell you all the same things. They don’ have the same structure either. The first passage gives you a lot of facts about Tubman. “Her abilities to track through the woods‚ disguise herself‚ and lead others on secret missions equipped her well to help carry on activities
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He’s ten minutes early to first period geography‚ and Veronica Mars is nowhere to be seen. Not that Logan expected punctuality at this point. His fingernails are dug into the skin of his palms when she squeaks in right before the bell‚ forcing him to listen to fifty minutes about South American agriculture before he can get a word with her. Not that he’s sure what to say. Logan Echolls burning holes in the back of her head first thing on a Monday morning tells Veronica she in no way had enough
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The passage is organized in a sequence of events where the reader thinks Hester and William’s relationship is not very good or strong‚ but after revealing what the topic is the couple are discussing the reader begins to see introduced conflict. Later on in the passage when the husband reveals his experience it shows the reader that the couple loves each other still. When the author is introducing the characters‚ it tells what a strong willed woman Hester is. Willa Cather‚ the author‚ gives direct
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Quotation Romeo: “If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep‚ my dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne‚ and all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my lady came and found me dead— strange dream‚ that gives a dead man leave to think— and breathed such life with kisses in my lips that I revived and was an emperor. Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed when but love’s shadows are so rich in
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He smoked his last cigarette As Nat’s wife is trying to put the children to sleep‚ Nat decided to try the wireless one more time to see if there might be any broadcast. "What are you doing?" Nat’s wife asked Nat‚ "I’m checking the wireless one last time for any broadcast" All to be heard from the small speaker was a scratchy irritating noise‚ "Nothing." After the children fell asleep‚ Nat and his wife were discussing what they were going to do‚ when suddenly the noise of the birds stopped.
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