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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In her biography Unbroken‚ about Louie Zamperini‚ Laura Hillebrand clarifies that things that occur in your life cause you to change as a person. You are affected a lot by the changes endured throughout your life. Louie is a great example of that. Louie’s experiences in life molded him into the great man he is today. He has had it easy‚ and he has had it rough. He began in his younger years a stubborn boy with a short temper. “It began over a chore that Louie’s father asked him to do.
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Ethan Frome Theme 1: Lack of love can twist and warp human beings beyond recognition Without love‚ you can back track into a deep depression and craziness. Quote 1: “It pleased Ethan to have surprised a pair of lovers on the spot where he and Mattie had stood with such a thirst for each other in their hearts; but he felt a pang at the thought that these two need not hide their happiness.” (Wharton 41) Quote 2: " She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell
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1. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one‚” he told me‚ “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” (p. 1) 2. "… there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion‚ a whispered “Listen‚” a promise that she had done gay‚ exciting things just a while since and that there were gay‚ exciting things hovering in the next hour." (p. 11) 3. "The idea is if we don’t look out the white
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In the book I am reading The Catcher In The Rye a lot happen in the last few chapters. The first thing that happen was Holden meet up with his old acquaintance of his for a drink. He ended up getting drunk. He left the bar and walked to central park and while he was in the park he decided to finally go home and see his sister. He snuck into his house and went to his sister’s room and he woke her up. She was really excited to see him. After that Holden called one of his old teachers at one of his
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These two passages are about Harriet Tubman. They tell how she lived her life. They also tell about what she did for slaves. She was known for the slaves and how she helped them with the Underground Railroad‚ but these two passages don’t tell you all the same things. They don’ have the same structure either. The first passage gives you a lot of facts about Tubman. “Her abilities to track through the woods‚ disguise herself‚ and lead others on secret missions equipped her well to help carry on activities
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