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The Speckled Band
Words: 317 - Pages: 2.... scared for her live. So Sherlock Holmes went to investigate. Holmes investigated the whole house and he build up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there was an air-vent that was inside the house between the sisters room and the stepfathers. Holmes now was in the room that Helen was suposed to be in and suddenly the light was lit in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other room and there was the stepfather dead and with a speckled band on him. It was no band it was a Indian snake that the stepfa .....
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The Hobbit: A Review
Words: 467 - Pages: 2.... of all the places in the story are wonderful. Most scenes in The Hobbit are dark and mysterious, which I thought added to the grave mood of the story. The story of Bilbo's adventures is so dangerous that the many settings of the novel had to be gloomy enough to make up for the danger. There are many outstanding characteristics in this story.
With so many excellent attributes in The Hobbit, I found it difficult to find many things that were not good. Tolkien's choice of a conflict was not very creative. The plot of this novel is based upon the traditional "going out and taking back what is yours" story. The many kinks and side adventur .....
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Essay On By The Pricking Of My
Words: 523 - Pages: 2.... takes off to find the house that is painted in the book.
Tuppence comes to a town that is called Sutton Chancellor where she finds the house and a numerous amount of interesting characters. She meets two gossipy old ladies, a child’s missing grave, and a caretaker of a church. She finds out a lot of information about the house and is planning on returning home the next day but, she finds the child’s missing grave and is about to uncover a secret she is knocked out and falls hard onto the concrete tombstone.
Meanwhile Tommy has returned back from his conference and is waiting for Tuppence to return home like she had infor .....
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The Awakening: Edna
Words: 528 - Pages: 2.... She was
happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the
sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern
day. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why, when it did
not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be dead or alive; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
Pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable
annihilation. (Chopin, 588)
Edna struggled to make her life more fulfilling. Edna wanted what?
Passion, excitement? She states to the Doctor, "But I don't want anything but
my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of .....
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After The Bomb
Words: 1682 - Pages: 7.... Matt, and Cara stop by co¡¦z Cara and Matt can¡¦t walk any far. Here many people where dead, everywhere he walks dead and critically wounded. „« Hospital ¡V here where Philip brought his mother but nobody¡¦s able to help him, many people are there other are burn other lost their limb, arm, foot, and he even saw a half body only, everywhere he walks dead body, critically wounded people and crying voices begging for help and attention. And here where he maid a negotiation for the sake of his mother. „« La Canada ¡V here where the hospital. „« Pasadena ¡V here where his father use to work unfortunately he won¡¦t be abl .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: The True Sign Of Maturity
Words: 835 - Pages: 4.... These two men are complete
strangers, and Huck knows that they are being chased, so they are obviously
troublemakers. Yet he takes them in, and welcomes them aboard, showing
great compassion. Later, the two men lie to Huck and Jim. Huck does not say
a thing, though he realizes they are lying. "But I never said nothing,
never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no
quarrels, and don't get into no trouble...I hadn't no objections, 'long as
it would keep peace in the family." (19). It is now clear to Huck that
these men are not going to be a blessing to him and Jim. Still, he never
says a thing, and just wants to .....
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Stephen Crane
Words: 2458 - Pages: 9.... as they appeared to him: bitterly real. was America’s first realistic writer who exposed the realities of the slums, tenement living and other unfavorable conditions to a very naïve American audience. Through hard work and his great devotion to the examination of the darker side of life Crane finally was able to publish his novel in which explored his experiences of the New York slums. Through his great use of dialect, irony and realism in his novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is able to accomplish his goal of creating a Parra 2 vivid picture in his reader’s mind, portraying the harsh, abusive conditions of the many lives condem .....
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A Tale Of Two Cities: Faults Of The Social Structure
Words: 479 - Pages: 2.... is waiting to speak with him. When he is done with his chocolate all he does is walk out and brushes past everyone else as if they are not there. This shows that all the higher aristocracy cares about is themselves.
Another fault the Dickens points out about the social structure in the society is the lunacy associated with the revolution. The way the people of St. Antoine get crazy from being in such a violent situation is the fault that is being described here. When the wood-sawyer starts talking about his saw as "his little guillotine" it shows that he is affected and is a "typical revolutionary", with a cruel regard for life. Another p .....
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A Clockwork Orange
Words: 1720 - Pages: 7.... to resolve that individual's case, then apply it. This is the case
with the character Alex, a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization
then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral
choice imposed upon Alex creates conflicting situations in which he has no
control over. This is apparent when trying to readjust into society. As
conflicts arise within the spectrum of criminal justice the main focus is
revolved around the corrections aspect of reforming the criminal element.
Within the confines of the seventies Londoner. The character, Alex is
created as the ultimate juvenile delinquen .....
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A Separate Peace: Gene Forrester
Words: 736 - Pages: 3.... feelings. This revelation comes to him back in his room before he and Finny leave for the tree. It surrounds him with the shock of his true self until he finally reacts by jouncing the limb. Up in the tree, before the two friends are about to make their "double-jump", Gene sees Finny in this new light. He realizes that Finny feels no jealousy or hatred towards him and that Finny is indeed perfect in every way. Gene becomes aware that only he is the jealous one. He learns of his hatred and that he really is a "savage underneath". Over a long period of time Gene had been denying his feelings of hatred towards Finny. Now all of the .....
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