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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Every day‚ Mike Hawk rolls out of the left side of his queen sized bed and tiredly shuffles to his dresser to turn off his alarm clock. His wife won’t get up for another 2 hours‚ so Mike throws on his Carhartt overalls and plaid shirt then heads downstairs for breakfast. Mike was never allowed sweets and rarely received milk as a child so his breakfast consists of: unfrosted cornflakes with no milk‚ for energy and muscle building he drinks a glass of createne and water‚ and a Viagra because it in
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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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Salvador Avina AP English Lit. Mrs. Butterfield July 05‚ 2012 Review Chapter Four 1. Review the definition of “theme” in fiction. Theme is a perceptive statement on life based upon the literature piece encompassing of significant details without specifying‚ overgeneralizing‚ or restating a familiar cliché. 2. Describe the best way(s) in which the theme of a story may be stated. Theme of a story may be stated very briefly or at greater length (Arp and Johnson 189). If the story is encompassed
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In the second chapter dedicated to Vardaman‚ he found himself captive in his own naïve and childish imagination. While staring at the coffin that Cash had created and being not fully aware of his mother’s condition‚ he got scared at the thought that the members of the family would have to nail shut the casket and that his mother would have no air to breathe. Until the end of the chapter‚ it became obvious that the child did not believe that Addie was dead and that he made incredible efforts to hold
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The novel Huckleberry Finn is a controversial book that uses racist words‚ talks about racism‚ and how Jim was treated extremely poorly. Ever since the book has been published‚ there have been many instances of students‚ teachers‚ and parents feeling uncomfortable about the terminology being used‚ or the way one of the main characters‚ Jim‚ is portrayed. It can be a painful book to read‚ there are still debates about reading a novel that is written by a white author with constant use of the “N word”
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fed‚ but a good a heart as ever any boy had; this is Huck Finn‚ a young boy that seeks to run away from home and flee his life. Throughout American Literature‚ the ’bad boy’ or rebel has fascinated readers. American society flocks typically toward specific characters in literature based on their actions and characters. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Huck Finn is the perfect example of such a rebel. At first blush Huck Finn seems like an incorrigible youth of the period. In
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finished writing the novel in 1884‚ eight years after it was begun‚ he had produced The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ his greatest work and possibly on of the greatest works of American literature. With The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain attempted to illustrate his contempt for certain aspects of specifically pre-Civil War Southern society through the eyes of the innocent Huck Finn. However‚ his focus was not entirely on pre-War Southern society‚ for criticism of aspects of modern society
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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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