welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford‚ the celebrated hunter‚ to my home… I am General Zaroff.” As you can see from this quote Zaroff is excited to meet Rainsford and immediately wants to get to know him better. My second reason is Zaroff acts strange in general around Rainsford. Conelle page 44 “The menacing look in his eyes did not change… a black uniform trimmed with gray astrakhan.” By this quote you can tell Rainsford is feeling uncertain and curious of him. You can also tell by his first reaction he is
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handle everything life throws at us. According to Bernard in Brave New World‚ ‘[he would] rather be unhappy than have the sort of false‚ lying happiness that he was having here”‚ (179) this quote means that he would rather be unhappy than live in a happy lie. This book describes a utopian world yet there’s a quote in the book that is in direct conflict with the “utopian” world they are living in. What could happiness and unhappiness mean to people? According to dictionaries‚ happiness means good
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drank his new product they all began to compliment it‚ Kanbili tells us “[they] always did‚ each time an employee from one of his factories bought a product sample for us” (Adichie 13). We see that Kambili will do anything to please her father in this quote because she tells us the juice was “watery” and that it tasted nothing like “fresh cashews” as it was supposed to. In other words Kambili is willing to lie just for her father’s sake and in hopes that it’ll please him. Later on i the book Kambili gives
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boy who continuously tries to be seen by his father. His past has contained‚ years of his father‚ Baba‚ trying to make him into a strong‚ athletic boy. However‚ Amir was the exact opposite of his father. “I wasn’t like that.” (Hosseini p.21) This quote was Baba expressing angrily to his friend Rahim Khan about Amir being weak‚ shy‚ unathletic and for taking an interest in writing . Amir is aware of how his father feels and has the need to prove himself. Amir’s life and past experiences has created
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society couldn’t have been more well said by French Novelist Victor Hugo. “Society is a republic‚” he declares‚ “when an individual tries to lift themselves above others‚ they are dragged down by the mass‚ either by ridicule or slander”(Victor Hugo Quotes”). Hugo’s words relate immensely to William Golding’s Lord of the Flies where in the midst of WWII a small group of young boys are suddenly stranded on an island without the help of grownups or an establishment. While trying to concoct a makeshift
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“There are many humorous things in this world among them is the white man’s notion that he is less savage than all of the other savages.” Mark Twain I would have to agree with this quote because it is true in many senses. It is true that many white people think that they are better than the rest of the world. But also‚ there are many white people that are happy with the fact that all men are equal. All men are equal but the arrogance of men during the time of Mark twain proved otherwise. The
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Aditya M. Shah 3rd Period AP Lit Daisy Miller Quotes “I hardly know whether it was the analogies or the differences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American who‚ two or three years ago‚ sat in the garden of the ’Trois Couronnes‚’ looking about him‚ rather idly‚ at some of the graceful objects I have mentioned” (354). James Henry transitions from a lengthy description of the city of Vevey to the introduction of the protagonist of his story. By closing in on a certain character‚ the
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"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie 1. "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -- Bruce Barton 2. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple‚ really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure
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“When one door of happiness closes‚ another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller Body: As we have known‚ most people are too attached to the past‚ to what they are familiar with. Therefore‚ they will miss opportunities that stand right in front of them. Doors may close‚ but there are always other unlimited numbers of doors – new opportunities to get new happiness. Alexander Graham Bell also used to say that:
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Golden country “Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place. In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. There were no telescreens‚ of course‚ but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides‚ it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention” An old‚ close-bitten pasture‚ with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In
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