personalities throughout the book‚ The Hound of the Baskervilles‚ there are seven that stood out to me in this gripping mystery. The first example occurred in the very first chapter of the book‚ when Holmes and Watson are trying to figure out what mysterious man would leave his walking stick on their doorstep. Holmes discovers bite marks on the cane‚ and decides through his skilled sense of observation‚ that somehow the carrier of the item had a dog who toted around the stick in its mouth. Not only
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Sometimes‚ I experience days where I want to move away from everything I am and everything I know. I dream of the day I can start over in a new city‚ town‚ or country. I have lived in the same house since I was one years old. Over the course of my life‚ I have accumulated a large circle of acquaintances from church‚ work‚ and school. It never surprises me when I see someone I know in Target. I dwell in a small world‚ and I want to get out. I want to get out and what else is out there in the world
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within the first line‚ “It was a time of great and exalting excitement.” This tone continues up until the “aged stranger” stalks up the church’s aisle‚ where the tone shifts from celebratory to serious. When the mysterious man appeared in the church‚ “he surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes-” and it was no longer loud and passionate; it was quiet. Before this mysterious figure delivers his speech‚ the church people are praying for the safety of their soldiers and the defeat of their
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How would you feel if you were getting blamed for a crime you didn’t do?Well Max the main character in the book‚Liars‚Inc. by Paula Stokes.What would you do in this kinda situation‚would you run and try and solve the case to prove you didn’t do it or just stay home and possibly get taken to jail?Well Max he runs away and tries to solve the case.I mean‚but we all have different ways of doing things‚ right? In school Max isn’t that “popular”‚but well known because of who his best friend is
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The point made by Mark Twain’s “The War-Prayer” (1905) is simple‚ even simplistic: that the unspoken part of the desire for victory over the enemy is the desire that misery and death befall others. The irony‚ as noted by the stranger who comments on this silent prayer‚ is that it is directed supposedly “in the spirit of love” to “Him who is the Source of Love” (398). In fact‚ Twain’s piece makes this irony unmissable‚ as it ends with the failure of the congregation even to understand the stranger’s
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A mysterious stranger wanders into the small mountain village of Viscos with eleven gold bars in his possession. He buries the first ten in a particular spot in the surrounding forest‚ and places the eleventh in a different location‚ all of this unbeknownst to the villagers. He then brings Miss Chantal Prym‚ a Viscos villager longing for the big city‚ into the forest with him and shows her the location of the gold bars. He then proposes a deal: if she can convince the townspeople to kill any nonspecific
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theme over time. Twain’s writing style changed according what happened during each period of his life. Twain’s writing perspective changed from romanticism (Tom Sawyer) 1876‚ to realism (Life on the Mississippi) 1883‚ then to naturalism (The Mysterious Stranger) 1909. Twain used theme such as: conflict between history and the modern world in The Innocent Abroad‚ race‚ religion‚ dreams‚ supernatural in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ travel in A Tramp Abroad‚ inequality and unfairness in The Prince and
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interest in her chrysanthemums‚ gives her the thought that he does not have interest in her. The flowers and Elisa have interchangeable meanings that are explained later on in the story. When her husband goes off with one of the cattle buyers‚ a mysterious man on a junky wagon approaches her. Although appearance is not the greatest‚ she is interested in him. The reason being is that he shows interest in her chrysanthemums in order to persuade her to find something for him to fix. Again‚ the connection
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The Mysterious Forest In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ life is centered around a rigid Puritan society. In this society‚ people are not allowed to express their true thoughts and feelings. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how they truly feel; otherwise the emotions become bottled up until they begin to hurt the person. Unfortunately‚ the puritans were not allowed this type of expression. Luckily‚ at least for the four main characters‚ Hawthorne has created
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were compared‚ rich/poor. 7. Victor Frankenstein’s personality is naïve‚ pompous‚ intelligent and persistent. 8. The creatures personality is sensitive and emotional. 9. The emotions overall in the novel were fear‚ terror‚ loneliness‚ horror‚ mysterious and unsolved. 10. The symbolism behind Victor Frankenstein’s crime against nature was that he was trying to pay God and human life. Since he’s not God‚ nature symbolically fights him. 11. Elizabeth played a role of quick marriage in the novel
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