In Pearl Bucks novel The Good Earth she gives an inside look at the Chinese culture. In the novel Wang Lung is poor farmer married to O-Lan‚ a loving wife who takes care of Wang Lung’s father‚ plus her own children. Three themes that Pearl Buck uses are survival‚ family structure‚ and the subjugation of women. One theme used to show Chinese culture is survival. For example‚ when Wang Lung’s family is struggling to find food‚ his sons steal meat‚ and they defend themselves by saying‚ “I took it
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Abbey Nielsen Mrs. Benedetto Contemporary Literature 23 February‚ 2017 Formal Journal One. The book The Martian is full of different perspectives and speeds throughout the story. This book starts in the perspective of an all knowing narrator. This narrator tells what happened to the Areas 3 team. Because it is happening as the story goes on you feel like you are part of the story which makes time go at a normal pass. The Areas 3 team is one of the first group of people to stay on Mars. They were
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Count Camillo Benso Di Cavour Count Camillo Benso has done so many remarkable things in his lifetime. His life started when he joined the Turin Military Academy when he was 10 years old. Joining the Army when he was 17 showed me that he wanted to fight his way through the world. Even though he resigned from the army 4 years later because of boredom‚ he also left because he didn’t like the way the government was leading them into battle. Benso travelled around the world where he saw the places
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Journal #1: Just the Way I liked it When Holden was in New York‚ he purchased the red hat when he got out of the subway in a sporting goods store. He wears his hat by swinging the peaks around the back. Holden always wears his in different ways‚ either the correct way or backwards.The hat symbolizes uniqueness‚ individuality‚ and confidence. When he wears it towards the back means that he is frustrated or mad. His red hunting has is red with long peaks. The purpose of the hat is to make himself comfortable
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obedience to a blundering oracle‚ throwing the stones over their heads behind them‚ and not seeing where they fell. (pg. 9) “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself‚ than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart with a free circulation than to go heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breath a malaria all the way. (pg. 33) This is the first sentence in “Economy” that gave me a hint towards what Thoreau’s thought process is and
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Montalbano AP English‚ 2nd 20 January 2015 Quote Journals (13) Chapter 1 . “I’d never yell ‘Good luck!’ at anybody. It sounds terrible‚ when you think about it” (Salinger 16). I found this quote very peculiar at first‚ because most people would interpret someone saying “good luck” as a sincere farewell‚ but then as I thought about the context in which it is used it dawned on me that Holden was right to some extent. The saying “good luck” is not always a terrible thing to say of course
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“ Paul and his comrades desperately do not want to go back to the front line‚ they feel that they have a good chance of dying. Passage no.14 Page 135 Chapter 11 “Summer of 1918--Never was life in the line more bitter and more full of horror than in the hours of the bombardment‚ when the blanched faces lie in the dirt and the hands clutch at the one
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Word Vex: 1: To bring trouble‚ distress‚ or agitation. 2: to bring physical distress to. 3: To irritate or annoy by petty provocations. “I fret about nothing on earth except papa’s illness‚’ answered my companion. ‘I care for nothing in comparison with papa. And I’ll never—never—oh‚ never‚ while I have my senses‚ do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself‚ Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than
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John Liveringhouse Due Date Tuesday Journal 2 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ and I am on page 42. This book is about the main character Scout and her farther and brother Jem as they try to solve the mystery of Boo Radley. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating. G Predict kids will not meet Boo Y Locked up R Gang R Stab R Family secluded Y Scared R house R Boos scary activities R real life G Wont meet because _________ and _____. I
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Heart of Darkness Journal 2 The native Africans are once again demoralized throughout this section of the novel. The are looked upon as less than the white explorers. They are constantly judging the native on the most miniscule aspects almost as though the amplify the common things flaws that everyone have just because they aren’t the same. One native is shot dead and even as he lays dying he doesn’t mutter a sound. The narrator mentions that they do not speak much this could possible lead to the
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