July 06‚ 2012 Journal #2 – Miss Brill “Behind the rotunda the slender trees with yellow leaves down drooping”. This quote represents Miss Brill’s old age. Using the autumn season means that Miss Brill is long past her prime and is about to enter the final stage of her life – winter. Also‚ the “yellow leaves” described in the story are colourless and decayed‚ just like Miss Brill. At the end of the story‚ the boy and the girl basically say that Miss Brill is decayed and obsolete by calling her
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English 22211 Journal Chapter 1: I felt anger and disbelief. Why couldn’t they have known where the Jews were being transported? They had many chances to run away and escape‚ but how could they have known what was waiting for them at the end of their “vacation”? Chapter
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Sana Farooqui Summer Reading 15 July 2016 Journal 1 After reading the first third of the book The Catcher in the Rye‚ the main event that I thought had a huge impact towards the plot is the part where Holden goes off on Stradlater after his date with Jane. Not much actually happened so far in the book to determine the main event but I think this one had a huge impact on Holden’s life. Holden has liked Jane for a while even before she and Stradlater were together. She and Stradlater started dating
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The Great Gatsby Journals Chapter One: The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He starts off the story by stating that he learned from his father to not judge other people because he could make the mistake of misunderstanding someone. Nick characterizes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions Gatsby. In the summer of 1922‚ Nick moved to New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg
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Book 1: Memories‚ Chapter 8 – Entering the sect? Even though little Hua began to walk‚ in less than one hundred steps she nearly collapsed. Due to the great injury on her leg‚ she walked limping. She thought that with her injuries‚ walking a bit more was easy‚ but she overestimated her body. The temperature remained the same as when she entered‚ but she felt cold. Her blue eyes looked at her surroundings. To the right‚ a lot of trees‚ with no signs of ending. To the left‚ still the same lake. She
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Quote Analysis Literary Features “They told me to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!” (Scene 1‚ Page 6) Sexual desires are a common interest several people tend to have and Blanche Dubois significantly portray and represents the theme of sexual intimacy in A Street Car Named Desire as Tennessee Williams uses allegory‚ allusion‚ symbolism‚ and foreshadow in order to demonstrate how do Blanche’s “trip” through
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that the Germans and followers of the Germans believed that Jews were aliens‚ but I actually believe the Germans were the aliens. How they could go from being decent individuals‚ as stated in this quote‚ to being madmen who slaughter people for no good reason is utterly beyond me. The aliens must have taken over the minds of the Germans at this point in time. It’s the only logical explanation... | “Three days later‚ a new decree: every Jew must wear the yellow star. ’The yellow star? Oh well‚ what
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Passage | Page | Response | "The Cold passed reluctantly from the earth‚ and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills‚ resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green‚ the army awakened‚ and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads‚ which were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to proper thoroughfares. A river‚ amber-tinted in the shadow of its banks‚ purled at the army’s feet; and at night‚ when the stream hand become
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn‚ Dialectical Journal · "You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was madeby Mr.Mark Twain‚ and he told the truth‚ mainly. There was things which he stretched‚ but mainly he told the truth. Chapter 1 Page1 - This is an example of foreshadowing. It sets the mood of whats going to happen next. · "There warn’t anybody at church‚ except maybe a hog or two‚ for there warn’t
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Alas‚ in the midst of our exchange‚ Columbus became extremely furious. His pale skin went from white to boiling red in rage. I had no clue why he was so frustrated‚ when just a second earlier he was the happiest person on earth. He shouted at his men‚ but I couldn’t understand a word he said. The only thing I knew was that we had done something wrong‚ so all I could say was‚ “Sorry‚” over and over again. * * * It was the break of dawn‚ and the sun was barely peaking through the woven straws
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