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Love In "The Gift Of The Magi" And "The Necklace": Is It Worth The Sacrifice?
Words: 981 - Pages: 4.... couples like
them. In the beginning, Della is counting her money and crying, which
shows she was very poor. Mrs. Loisel often cried a lot, like Della. She
cried about not having enough money and about the invitation her husband
got for her. Both husbands had similar jobs, both which did not pay a lot.
Jim was in love with his wife, and would do anything for her, as would Mr.
Loisel. Both couples were very thrifty when it came to money. Since they
were poor, they were good at saving their money for items they needed,
like groceries, and for special purposes. Both of these stories had
themes, though the themes are very different from ea .....
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The Scarlet Letter And The Cru
Words: 629 - Pages: 3.... of their loyalty to the court. They had to see what was going on with the court, because that is what they held in highest regard.
"Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall; - and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea; - they have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her. The penalty thereof is death. But, in their great mercy and tenderness of heart, they have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, and .....
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Ethan Frome 3
Words: 803 - Pages: 3.... achieve the desired affect of making the reader enjoy and love the setting so that the theme may be elevated. In Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, Wharton first presents Starkfield as a cheery uplifting town saying, ‘The winter morning was clear as a crystal. The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white scintillating fields of far-off forest hung like smoke.’(pg.41) It also seems that whenever Mattie is around, Ethan’s view of the world improves. This is shown on his walk home from the church social with Mattie when the narration states, ‘Th .....
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Pygmalion
Words: 532 - Pages: 2.... in Higgins]....” Eliza starts to go off and loses control of her
emotions later on during the conversation when she misconstrues
the remark of Freddy Eynsford Hill. She starts to get like her old
flower girl self and gets so comfortable that she doesn’t even realize
it. Henry jumps into the conversation and stops her and she finally
realizes what happens. The Eynsford Hills still seem a little bit
puzzled because they have never heard a person of such “high class”
speak in such a manner.
Henry goes on to explain that she is just talking the new small
talk and that everybody who is anybody is doing it. The Eynsford
Hil .....
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Only The Heart 2
Words: 276 - Pages: 2.... about the events which unfold later in the story. She predicts that "evil" or bad things will happen in order to restore the balance of Yin and Yang.
Since coming to Australia the Vo family has been very fortunate. As well as getting away from their communist county to a free one, Toan experiences success in school and later on as an actor. Vo Kin Tueyt believes that in order to restore the balance of good and evil something bad will happen, "good and evil, light and dark".
Near the end of the novel something bad does happen, Linh and Miro are involved in a car accident while being chased by gang member. They end up in hospital and i .....
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The Black Death
Words: 1089 - Pages: 4.... cared for because of her wonderful ability to clean me. Last was the man of the house Bruce. Every night I heard his cries as each family member dies. And then I heard his screams as the plague ate his body alive. I can still remember the scratching on my walls as he struggled with the pain of this great sickness. No matter how hard I tried to be the great shelter I once was. No matter how tight I shut my windows and doors. No matter how I wished them not to leave the house. I could not keep the plague out.
I remember when it all started her in London. The whole family was out when I first heard about this killer. I was anxiousl .....
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Anderson I Want To Know Why
Words: 804 - Pages: 3.... and champions.
The narrator, a white boy, is envious of the black cook, Bildad for his closeness to the horses' life. He states that "he is going all season to the races and working in the livery barn in the winter where horses are and where men like to come and talk horses, wish I was a nigger. It's a foolish thing to say, but that's the way I am about being round horses, just crazy, I can't help it". Young people are ambitious, regardless of color and the similarities in taste demonstrates the similarity of persons of all races.
Disappointed dreams and fantasies play an important role in the theme of shared love. As the young narrator .....
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Words: 757 - Pages: 3.... the harvest=s done.
In this quote the knight is troubled because everything is going as it is supposed to, the granary is full and the harvest is done. This is why the knight is also sad and roaming around on his horse. In the next stanza, the knight is described as exhausted in appearance and afflicted. "And on thy cheeks a fading rose fast withereth too." The colour of his skin is fading away, and he is dying.
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful - a faery=s child.
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
In this stanza, the knight meets a woman in the meadows. He falls in love with her i .....
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Taming Of The Shrew
Words: 2239 - Pages: 9.... 10 Things I Hate About You. This movie is a 1999 adaptation of the . Although the directors have changed almost every part of the Shakespearean play, the underlying story is mostly the same. Kat and Patrick are thrown together, and it becomes Patrick's job to tame Kat. In this adaptation, both Kat and Patrick learn and change from each other. Though there are many adaptations and interpretations of Katherine and the way she turns out, she is not tamed, and she does not tame, instead she is liberated, and learns to live and love.
There is much evidence, which supports the argument that Petruccio tamed Katherine. For instance, in the o .....
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Othello 2 -
Words: 969 - Pages: 4.... and everything seem to work against them, but in the hope that love will conquer all we do not allow ourselves to despair as yet. And indeed, the first act proves us right. After having explained why they love each other the world seems to accept this alliance.
But Brabantio`s comment tells us that everything is not all right: (I.iii.293-4) "Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:/She has deceived her father and may thee." By disobeying her faher Desdemona has shown herself able to betray the person she is supposed to love and--according to Venetian norms--obey. The phrase "look to her" suggests several things: that Desdemona n .....
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