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    Soto’s own twelve-year-old self‚ standing before the home of the girl he is about to take his first hand-holding “walk” with‚ notes that‚ “her house [is] the one whose / Porch light burned yellow.” Against the backdrop of a frosty December day thick with “fog hanging like old / Coats between the trees‚” (45-46) the girl’s porch light burns bright yellow “night and day‚ in any weather” (11). Like a beacon providing safe harbor to sea-bound vessels in a storm‚ our protagonist makes his way safely to

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    is in very good condition and receives many visits from tourists around the world. Many ceremonies and weddings are held at the Pantheon each year‚ which makes it the worlds largest concrete dome. It’s structure is that of the Corinthian order. The porch is occupied by 8 large Corinthian columns in the front‚ preceded by 2 sets of four columns. The dome as a opening at the top making the sky visible fro the inside‚ also known as the

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    Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to

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    town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers‚ with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men --some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn‚ talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs‚ believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps‚ confusing time with its mathematical progression‚ as the old do‚ to whom all the past is not a diminishing

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    Then I thought of my fiance he was 20 and was very strong. The lady must have been able to read my face because she said‚ “Oh honey you need to get home before he leaves.” I hopped up from the porch swing we had been sitting on and ran down the street. When I arrived at my little yellow house with a blue porch swing I swung open the gate and raced to the door. Then I got to thinking what if I was too late? What if he decided to go? What if he never came back if he went? I

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    her father talking to the kingdom’s chief priestess. The priestess was frantic about a report that they could not find a single maiden who was unblemished.  Later‚ Anina asked her father what it was all about‚ and the king finally broke down. There had long been a seven-headed dragon threatening the kingdom‚ and the monster could only be appeased if an unblemished maiden was sacrificed to it.  In fear‚ all the women in the kingdom had cut themselves to disqualify themselves from the sacrifice. Parents

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    their lives john told that he was married.  john was travelling to Cincinnati when he saw the finest maiden of all and fell in love then he followed her all the way to her home town keeping a sharp unpredictable distance from her eyes. he went in a hotel for the night to stay where the manager on asking said that the biggest mansion at top of the hill was of colonel allyn.then suddenly the maiden of his dreams came‚he went to her and started the conversation‚which ended with her revealing the truth

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    one thing is applied to another. One of the prevalent metaphors in the novel is the image of the horizon. As Janie climbs the pear tree to see what exists around her‚ she sees the horizon. The horizon also plays a role at sundown‚ a time when the porch sitters sit outside at the end of a working day to watch the sun set. Janie wants to make a trip to the horizon‚ and her journey becomes a principal metaphor in the story. At sunrise‚ Janie travels down the road to the train station to meet and marry

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    would look for stuff like this‚ it’s just a bunch of junk from 60 years ago As we pulled up i saw mama on the porch she was larger than I remember. the sun glistened off her hair ‚and the smell of her lifestyle was strong enough to taste.she loomed over maggie holding the shy girl in place her‚ large hands covering her frail shoulders completely I say hello already at work scanning the porch for the most pronounced things of value while still maintaining eye contact the whole

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    again‚ as I was untalented in this area. 2. The back of the Radley house was less attractive than the front: a broken down porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors. 3. He came up the back steps‚ latched the door behind him‚ and sat on his folding bed. Summary This chapter starts off with Mr. Avery peeing off the porch‚ while Jem‚ Scout‚ and Dill passing by looking. Dill said he must drink a gallon a day. Then‚ Jem and Dill decided to go

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