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THE BOGART
Words: 820 - Pages: 3.... there.
The Boggart is a sprit that is neither good or bad. He mainly plays practical jokes on people. It is like a little child that can be friendly towards mortals. Boggarts cannot be seen or heard..
The Volink family sold the castle right away because it would be to expensive to keep. Emily and Jessup kept two pieces of furniture to bring home. What they didn’t realize was that a Boggart was sleeping in the desk they took home. When the Boggart got up he realized he was no longer home in Scotland in his castle.
As the Boggart got comfortable he began his practical jokes in Toronto. He would take Mr. Volinks razor and hide it. The Bogg .....
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Hard Times: The Gradgrind System Of Education
Words: 2111 - Pages: 8.... powerful people ready to employ the
pupils once graduated. As this type of education teaches its pupil's to be
a passive unthinking work force, therefore the employers could manipulate
their minds, doing whatever they were told. The system forces the pupils
to intake pure hard facts, nothing else, therefore not exercising the
imagination at all. Leading the pupils to be lost in the surrounding world
when a difficult problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the
Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge.
The Gradgrind system of education seems to wipe out any chance of
any fiction or fantasy in th .....
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“The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall” By Katherine Anne Porter
Words: 409 - Pages: 2.... to George that never took place. According to the video, she made the cake just because she wanted to.
Another thing different is that the story starts out with Granny Weatherall lying in bed with Doctor Harry examining her. The movie, on the other hand, starts out with her wanting to make a white cake.
However, even though the movie and the story differ to a certain extent, they both have the two jiltings that happen to Granny Weatherall. The first one happens when Granny Weatherall is on her deathbed surrounded by her children, the doctor and priest. When a memory of 60 years ago, the day she was jilted by her husband-to-be, .....
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Midsummer Nights Dream: Humor
Words: 597 - Pages: 3.... in the society, but totally changes the meaning of the sentence. This humor is obvious to everybody watching that Bottom had made a mistake. This type of humor, while obvious, sometimes doesn't portray the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.
Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other meanings that added to the play. One good example is the character of Puck. Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief. His attitude toward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one. He does not take life seriously, he only does what is fun.
This type of character is total .....
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Drinking: A Love Story - A Review
Words: 1626 - Pages: 6.... lap would have provided to that of the comfort supplied by “the drink” later on in life.
Caroline began to drink to fill the void in her life which was created by a lack of love, affection, and comfort. The drink took on a role as if it were her companion: someone who gave her confidence, support, and LOVE. She drank to ease the tention before meeting friends, continued to drink once they got there to keep the mood light and conversation interesting, was always up for one more round, and was always the last to leave. If she was physically able she would drink alone when she got home, until she hit the point of passing out. More .....
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The Price Of Objectivity (crit
Words: 366 - Pages: 2.... finding himself, he lost nearly everything he had. His ideals were shattered, his
genitals left on a battlefield in Europe with his ability to be subjective and involve himself emotionally with the world around him. His life (as viewed in his narrative) is simply moving from one place to the next, with no deep thought about the people he meets. Merely a simple statement of the facts.
Objectivity as a whole depends upon distancing a person from the events and simply watching with a clinical disattachment as Jake did. And as Jake is the narrator of The Sun Also Rises, this creates a definite lack of caring in the reader for the events .....
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Satire In Lilliput
Words: 1261 - Pages: 5.... of Lilliput. He is released from
his prone position only to be confined in a ruined temple by ninety-one
tiny but unbreakable chains. In spite of his predicament, Gulliver is at
first impressed by the intelligence and organizational abilities of the
Lilliputians.
In this section, Swift introduces us to the essential conflict of Book I:
the naive, ordinary, but compassionate "Everyman" at the mercy of an army
of people with "small minds". Because they are technologically adept,
Gulliver does not yet see how small-minded the Lilliputians are.
In Chapter II, the Emperor of Lilliput arrives to take a look at the
"giant", and Gulliver is equ .....
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The Secret Sharer By Joseph Co
Words: 672 - Pages: 3.... something that a captain would not normally do: he plans to take part in the night watch. “I felt painfully that I - a stranger - was doing something unusual when I directed him to let all hands turn in without setting an anchor watch” (941). The captain is so self-conscious and insecure about his actions that he reacts almost painfully to the crew’s judgement of his orders. He also states that he perceives himself to be a stranger amongst the others. Among his insecurities, the captain also sees himself as a stranger to himself and not fit to run his ship. The captain thinks, “But what I felt most was my being .....
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The Scarlet Ibis: Summary
Words: 263 - Pages: 1.... developed slower and is
challenged to learn how to walk with the help of his brother, six years
older than he is. Doodle's brother didn't want to take Doodle everywhere
in a go-kart, so the both of them were determined to make Doodle walk by
his birthday, and he does.
Throughout the entire story Doodle and his brother are faced with
challenges that people believe he won't be able to accomplish, but they
show them wrong.
As Doodle grows older, his brother makes sure that he doesn't fall
behind the other kids and tries to keep Doodle ahead of, or at least at the
same level as the other children. Doodle learns to walk, run, play, and .....
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Character Analysis Of Arthur Dimmesdale In "The Scarlet Letter"
Words: 475 - Pages: 2.... the willpower to confess himself. Therefore, his sin becomes even larger
than hers, because while hers is an exposed sin. He continues to lie to himself
and his followers by keeping his secret hidden, so his is a concealed sin. Here
Hawthorne shows us just how strong Dimmesdale actually is, by allowing him to
hide his sin and bear the weight of it, he creates an extremely interesting and
tremendously strong character.
The scaffold is the place that Dimmesdale shows the amount of pain and
self-loathing he is truly capable of concealing. He realizes that he is as much
at fault for Hesterÿs torment as any common villager, if not even .....
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