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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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 Scarlet Letter‚ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ has characters that each bring different feelings and emotions to the story. While reading the novel‚ I noticed that Pearl‚ Hester’s daughter‚ was very different from the other main characters‚ though at the same time‚ she was almost a second Hester. With the addition of Pearl‚ Hawthorne’s story comes to a completely different level. Around the first part of the book‚ Hawthorne doesn’t talk much about Pearl or describe her in any way‚ but this
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Scarlet Letter Vocab Words | Definition | Romanticism (n) | Appeals to the imagination use of the “willing suspension of belief”. Romanticism stresses emotion rather than reason. | Puritan (n) | Religious reformers that emerged during 16th century. Puritan sought to cleanse the culture of what they regarded as corrupt‚ sinful practices. | Sepulchers (n) | A small room or monument cut in rock or built of stone‚ in which a dead person is laid or buried. | Inauspicious (adj.) | Not auspicious;
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December 7‚ 2012 Revenge: A Leech’s Worth Revenge can take a person’s life over. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Roger Chillingworth begins seeking revenge and becomes completely obsessed with getting what he wants. Roger Chillingworth seeks his revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale. Roger Chillingworth is taken over by revenge; ultimately resulting in the physical and mental decay of his body and soul. In the opening of the novel Roger Chillingworth deformities are not as noticeable‚ but
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