Doctor Pax bent and stroked the dog. ‘Here‚ put this collar around him. I removed it from the other dog.’ Clemmie fixed the collar in place but froze when she straightened the tag. She rubbed her thumb against the brass. Her dry skin caught on the engraved letters which stood proud of the smooth surface. A choked noise came from her throat as she felt her mind drift to somewhere just out of reach. ‘Can you remember something?’ Doctor Pax’s voice interrupted her thoughts and she shook her head to
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Cold‚ dark‚ dreary... this is the scene of life as it started. XiniX was one very large planet with many sharp mountains and steep ravines; the weather there was very turbulent and nothing lived there but some very small bugs and one single‚ solitary plant. Orcyn was the only plant on the planet. It was forbidden to touch‚ bother or even smell Orcyn and all the small bugs knew that they must never‚ ever eat the sacred plant. XiniX stayed unchanged for thousands of years. A huge storm raged over
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Now Cole & Peter are friends even after everything they have been through. Later on that evening Peter & Cole returned to the camp &gathered the fire wood. They had already decided that they were going to eat hot dogs for dinner & spice them up with many different ingredients that will create a celebration in your mouth. All of a sudden they heard a ruffling sound in the trees. And at that time they didn’t see anything but white eyes. All of a sudden a big wolf came running out of the bushes in a
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Pam was a unique gifted an older petite caucasian woman‚ she was sixty-nine years old‚ with silver-gray short hair stop below her cheek bones. Had eyes that seemed great. they’re milky watery‚ and the color of her eyes was galaxy-blue‚ beautiful color eyes to stare into. Her skin complexion was peach in pale‚ her skin was fragile‚ time-worn‚ and faded. Gal had a hump on her back‚ from a bone disease she developed over the years. Walked with a limping steady motion‚ her voice was soft weak and fragile
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‘Winton’s Cloudstreet continues to engage readers through its narrative treatment of hardship and optimism.’ In the light of your critical study‚ does this statement resonate with your own interpretation of Cloudstreet? In your response‚ make detailed reference to the novel. The novel Cloudstreet‚ by Tim Winton resonates the idea of engaging readers through its focus on optimism despite hardship throughout the narrative. The text has the ability to be appreciated and understood through its textual
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In Albert Camus’ Nobel Prize winning piece of work‚ The Stranger‚ he presents to his readers one of the most confusing and “strangest” character in the history of literature‚ Meursault. Meursault lives in a town called Algiers‚ and there‚ he gets himself into an unavoidable series of events that will lead up to his unfortunate end. Albert Camus does a wonderful job of weaving hints and traces of significant symbols and references to other famous works of literature to build the atmosphere and the
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shoes‚ the boy thinks he could fly; with the shoes‚ the boy believes in the old ‚kind shoemaker(magic)’s existence; with the shoes‚ the boy could do a little bit show off in front of his friends. The boy finds that his shoes’ “gleam was more dazzling than the September morning.” The other meaning given by the author about the shoes is the external and internal appearance. In the outer face level of the shoes‚ it is fixed‚ newly recovered‚ and as beautiful as a new one. In the inner level the shoes is
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Julie Fallows 6423747 Sean Moreland November 27‚ 2012 Ambiguity of American Gothic Anxieties Since the 19h century‚ American Gothic fiction started to exist independently from the British type. In fact‚ the latter was marked by its use of fantastic‚ externalized and metaphysical elements as opposed to the boundaries of American Gothic fiction in which were expressed by historical‚ internalized‚ racial and psychological characteristics. (Edwards‚ XVII) In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven‚ Fall
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“What do you mean‚ ‘not the first to have been here’?” demands Maxx‚ suddenly sure of himself. The lead female reptilian’s spinal plates click together in distaste. “Did they really tell you that you were the first?” she hisses. I look at Dahteste‚ who’s perched on her heels in the corner. Her eyes meet mine and I remember what she said about it having been a while since she introduced herself in English. “We were recruited to scout this planet for a suitable construction site. All we were told
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Science Fiction essay Science fiction writers clearly find that controlling governments can be dangerous and that these governments attempt to control by limiting information and knowledge. Firstly‚ in the “The Obsolete Man‚” the government controls books by getting rid of them and controls religion by destroying of the idea of God. The Chancellor stated “ ‘The state has proven there is no god.’ ” (The Obsolete Man). In addition‚ the people in “There Will Come Soft Rain‚” the family was having
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