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Cantebury Tales
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 921

.... Tales 65). Nicholas comes up with a plan to trick the carpenter. He tells the husband that he knows another great flood will come and that he, the carpenter, and Alison will be safe if the carpenter builds three separate barrels and hangs them from the ceiling where they can climb to safety. On that night, all three climb into the barrels and the carpenter immediately falls asleep, due to the exhaustion from all of his work. Alison and Nicholas climb down and go into the carpenter’s bed. Absalom appears at the window at midnight. Absalom demands a kiss from .....


The Accidental Tourest
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 996

.... he had managed of his own accord."(339) In thinking this, Macon is realizing that he has dedicated a great deal of time using systems and finding other ways to organize and control the minor aspects of his life, however he has never put much thought, or attempted to take much control of the major aspects of his life. This realization prompts Macon to wonder "Is it to late now to begin." Macon decides that it isn't too late, and begins to take control by deciding to leave Sarah, and return to Muriel, who he really loves. For the first time Macon is doing something differen .....


To Kill A Mockingbird
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1049

.... Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and a total adversity trip for the teacher. Walter Cunningham being raised in a very hard working environment was taught not to take what he could not pay back. The teacher obviously did not know about his background in the most minute way and embarrassed him extensively by almost demanding him to take some lunch money. Knowing th .....


The Odyssey 2
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1441

.... obligated to help. Athena's main motive for going to see Telemachus is to "rouse [him] / to a braver pitch, inspire his heart with courage (page 80, lines 104-105)" She realizes that Telemachus needs to be advised by a wise older man, she disguises herself as an old friend of Odysseus's, Mentes. As opposed to Athena disguising herself as just some stranger, she disguises herself as a very close friend of Odysseus, an equal, in order to seem more reliable. In the following passage Athena tries to convince Telemachus about her close relationship with his father "As for the ties .....


Summer 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 636

.... shows that there is not a great deal of communication in the family. Throughout Act I, there were several more examples of characters yielding to others and not standing up for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept , even though that was possibly not what she wanted. An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love with Romeo, a Montague. She knew that if she informed them of .....


Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 597

.... than the actual business in the home office, and, besides, I’ve got the torture of traveling, worrying about changing trains, eating miserable food at all hours, constantly seeing new faces, no relationships that last or get more intimate. To the devil with it all!” Gregor has a great amount of fury towards his job, which eventually led to his anger towards society as a whole. The fact that his office manager showed up at Gregor’s house plays an immense role in creating trepidation and anxieties in Gregor’s mind. Gregor feels strangled by his job and is too weak to tolerate the .....


Communication Through Pictures
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 744

.... pour them on a clean glass plate. After the chemicals were given time to evaporate, the glass plate would be sensitized by being immersed --in darkness-- in a bath solution. Then placed in a holder, the plate would then be inserted into the camera, which had been previously positioned and focused by the other photographer (Applebee 479). After the picture had been taken the photographer had to rush to develop the plate in the traveling darkroom wagon. The photograph had to be treated with care after development, tough on the battlefield. The best known pictorial records of th .....


The Contempary Enlightend One
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 502

.... expelled from the school, and starts to venture out the world on his own. He goes back down to New York, the dirt and grind capital of the world. He gets more and more sickened by the fakeness, and cruelty of the world. An example of this would be in the Catcher in the Rye, when he goes in to the museum “he notices an obscenity written with a child’s red crayon on the wall”(121 bloom). Holden says in the novel “That’s the whole trouble,” he realizes. “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn .....



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