...recently widowed and is looking for work. Christine is hoping that Torvald might be able to hook her up with a job. Nora tells her friend that she'll ask him. Over the course of their conversation, Nora confesses to Christine that she has a secret debt. Nora refuses to tell Christine who she borrowed money from, but does explain why she had to borrow it. Early in the Helmers' marriage, Torvald got sick from overwork. Doctors prescribed a trip south to warmer climates as the only way to save him. At the time, the Helmers didn't have the money for such a trip. To save Torvald's pride, Nora borrowed money without his knowledge and funded a year in Italy. In order to pay off the debt, she's been skimming from the allowance Torvald gives her and secretly working odd jobs. Nora is especially happy about Torvald's new job, because now money won't be a concern. A creepy man named Krogstad shows up. He works at the bank that Torvald is about to manage. It seems like Nora knows him, but we aren't told why. He goes in to see Torvald. Christine tells Nora that she once knew Krogstad. We get the idea that they once had a thing for each other. Dr. Rank enters. He's a Helmer family friend and is dying of tuberculosis of the spine. He talks about how corrupt and morally diseased Krogstad is, to which Christine says we should try to help the diseased. Torvald comes out of his office and Nora asks him about a job for Christine...
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...In 1780, Abigail Adams wrote to her dear son, John Quincy Adams, regarding the matter of his maturity. Mrs. Adams had previously goaded her son into traveling abroad to France amidst the Revolutionary War with his diplomat father, John Adams, and his brother. John was only thirteen years old at the time. His mother saw him as a young, immature, whimsical boy unable to make wise decisions for himself. Thus, Mrs. Adams believed it would be smart to send him on this trip; she had high hopes of maturing his closed mind and heart while under the guidance of his father. In order for him to make the most of the trip, Mrs. Adams wrote to him including lots of advice. The rhetorical devices employed in Abigail’s letter were metaphors, comparison, and allusion – all of which helped drive her message about maturing into a young adult. The primary device used by Mrs. Adams in her letter is a metaphorical reference. She mentions an author that she had met with and how this author referred to a traveler as “a...
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...Michael Henchard sells his wife to a sailor. b False: Henchard stops drinking because of what he did when he was drunk. c True d False: Henchard can be kind but he has a dark, dangerous side to his character. e False: He achieved real success with Far from the Madding Crowd. f False: Some people found the story improbable and were shocked by it. g False: Hardy stopped writing novels because of the reaction to Jude the Obscure. h True i False: As an adult, Hardy did not believe in God. He believed in a blind force that rules the universe and has no interest in human lives. 3 a talk/speak b fair c rum d angry e wedding ring f sorry g wife and child h sailed for Canada 4–5 Open answers 6 a T b F c F d T e T f F g F 7 Possible answers: a … it is the last place where she saw Michael Henchard and she is looking for him. b … Newson has died and she does not want her daughter to grow up in poverty. c … he has sold them bad bread. d … her mother cannot afford the hotel where they want to stay. e … he has a useful invention, and he thinks there is more chance of developing it in America. f … he wants Farfrae to stay, and he tells him many things about his past. 8 Farfrae is a respectable, educated, young Scotsman. He is in the corn business and intends to go to America because he has an invention that can cure bad corn. He thinks there is more chance of developing this invention in America. His...
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...Paris that he does not know Juliet well enough to get married to her. Once alone, Juliet and the Friar talk about what can be done to save Juliet from the fate of becoming the wife of two men. He has a potion that will make her look dead when she drinks it, and it will keep her the lifeless state for forty-two hours. Juliet excitedly approves of the plan and then she goes home to drink the potion. Capulet and his Lady are busy making wedding arrangements.They are indeed planning a big event - Capulet orders 'twenty cunning cooks'.Juliet comes into the main hall to talk with her father. He is cheerful and his inner being are further...
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...Hershaw 11/15/2012 The Scarlet Letter By Nathanial Hawtorne Summary The Scarlet Letter opens with a long chapter explaining how the book came to be written. The narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts, where the novel takes place. In the customhouse’s attic, he finds a number of documents, among them a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet patch in the shape of an “A.” The manuscript detailed events that occurred some two hundred years before the narrator’s time. When the narrator lost his customs post, he decided to write a fictional account of the events recorded in the manuscript. The Scarlet Letter is the final product. The novel begins in the seventeenth-century Boston, when Hester is briefly released from prison so that she can be paraded through town, displaying her scarlet "A" embroided on her chest while standing on top of the town scaffold. She carries her baby daughter, Pearl, in her arms. After being Hester steadfastly refuses to reveal the name of Pearl’s father, so that he might be saved from punishment. Hester Prynne’s long lost husband arrives in the midst of this parade through town. He visits her in prison before her release and asks her not to tell anyone that he’s in town. His plan is to disguise himself so that he can ferret out and seek revenge on her lover. Hester’s husband tells the townspeople...
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...environs . I turned around nervously and was shocked to see her “Grandma , what are you doing here ? And that too on a Sunday?” . Grandma has always been a home bound person, specially so after grandpa’s demise and never ventured out to meet people . “Well , That is a story . But what would bring you here ?” . She asked . her wrinkles twitching a bit surprisedly . “That is also a story . But you have to tell me yours first “. Her then pleasent face became pale for a second . Clutching the walking stick with both hands , she moved towards a worn out bench at the side and beckoned to me . I sat next to her , all ears to take in everything that she has got to say . But all I saw was her eyes fixed on the distant vastness . So it was easy to interpret what it was about . I took the initiative . “ So, who was he ? “ . Grandma gave a sly smile . Yes . So that was it . That was indeed an admissible grin . I convinced myself . “He was my penfriend . And he died yesterday...around this time” . I stared at her , quite confused at seeing her emotionless face that still didn’t break the focus.”I know why you stare at me that way . I have been an invisible friend to him for 30 years “. I let out a loud gasp . ”30 years ? Grandma that’s a long time . All these while you had been texting a foreigner without our knowledge ? “ . “Writing..technically..not texting”. She said .”And I don’t think marriage is any means to stop yourselves from making friends”. I stayed silent for a while , hoping...
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...Buy PDF Buy Paperback The Scarlet Letter Summary Hester is being led to the scaffold, where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter A on her gown at all times. She has stitched a large scarlet A onto her dress with gold thread, giving the letter an air of elegance. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. On the scaffold she is asked to reveal the name of Pearl's father, but she refuses. In the crowd Hester recognizes her husband from Amsterdam, Roger Chillingworth. Chillingworth visits Hester after she is returned to the prison. He tells her that he will find out who the man was, and he will read the truth on the man's heart. Chillingworth then forces her to promise never to reveal his true identity as her cuckolded husband. Hester moves into a cottage bordering the woods. She and Pearl live there in relative solitude. Hester earns her money by doing stitchwork for local dignitaries, but she often spends her time helping the poor and sick. Pearl grows up to be wild, even refusing to obey her mother. Roger Chillingworth earns a reputation as a good physician. He uses his reputation to get transferred into the same home as Arthur Dimmesdale, an ailing minister. Chillingworth eventually discovers that Dimmesdale is the true father of Pearl, at which point he spends every moment trying to torment the minister. One night Dimmesdale is so overcome with shame about hiding his secret that he walks...
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...VII, Occupational disease: Berlin 1934. A ward in the Charité hospital. A new patient enters while the previous two patients ask if either of them knows him. The surgeon enters with three of his students. He tells his students that this patient suffers from the Raynaud’s Disease. The patient was a worker that worked with power tools and just started to treat him correctly. He ask is students what are the three things a good doctor has to able to do. They answer, ask questions, for all three. They move onto the next patient who has open wounds on abdomen and blood in his urine. They say he fell down the stairs. His hands are tied because he keeps trying to take off his clothing. The surgeon ask why but the first patient answers with a question, “ where has the patient come from and here is he going back to?”. The surgeon clear his throat tells the nurse to give him morphine if he acts up again and moves onto the next patient....
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...Sometimes, all we need to say is a simple thank-you. That is exactly what Jillian Benfield did. A new mother who learned that her nine-month-old son needed open-heart surgery, she wrote a thank-you letter to the heart surgeon who did the operation. Her son, Anderson, was born with Down syndrome and a heart defect. Dr. John Nigro, a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Phoenix Children's Hospital, was to do the operation and walked Benfield and her husband through it. But even with a doctor explaining the process to you, heart surgery is heart surgery: a scary prospect. “I can't think of something more terrifying than a doctor cutting open your child's heart, but thankfully everything went well and Dr. Nigro made us feel calm and at ease,” Benfield...
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...The Scarlet Letter uses the central idea of duality to exemplify this. A key symbol of duality Hawthorne presents in The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne's embodiment of her sin: the beautifully embroidered scarlet letter. Forcibly placed upon Hester's bosom, the letter punishes her for committing adultery with the town reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale. The badge also intends to outcast her and her daughter, Pearl, from the Puritan society of Boston. Although the "A" originally acted as Hester's punishment, the interpretation of the scarlet letter varies for Dimmesdale and Pearl to juxtapose Hester's unwavering perspective. Besides Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale has the biggest personal...
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...The Scarlet Letter Study Guide Published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is considered Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous novel--and the first quintessentially American novel in style, theme, and language. Set in seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts, the novel centers around the travails of Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a daughter Pearl after an adulterous affair. Hawthorne's novel is concerned with the effects of the affair rather than the affair itself, using Hester's public shaming as a springboard to explore the lingering taboos of Puritan New England in contemporary society. The Scarlet Letter was an immediate success for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the United States was still a relatively new society, less than one hundred years old at the time of the novel’s publication. Indeed, still tied to Britain in its cultural formation, Hawthorne's novel offered a uniquely American style, language, set of characters, and--most importantly--a uniquely American central dilemma. Besides entertainment, then, Hawthorne's novel had the possibility of goading change, since it addressed a topic that was still relatively controversial, even taboo. Certainly Puritan values had eased somewhat by 1850, but not enough to make the novel completely welcome. It was to some degree a career-threatening decision to center his novel around an adulterous affair (but compare the plot of Fielding's Tom Jones). But Hawthorne was not concerned with a prurient affair here, though the novel’s...
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...Below him, the drop onto the beach is fifteen, maybe twenty, feet. He jumps because he has to, jumps out into the air, and sees as he falls one more thing; a cloud of white birds hanging on the skyline. There is a hot taste filling his mouth, like molten iron, and a black pain, and the knowledge that his teeth are through his lip. It's always this same dream that Lewis has, and he does the same thing when he wakes; he reaches up to feel the place where his bottom lip was opened, running a finger over his chin. He has a scar there still, almost imperceptible to the casual eye, like a ghost mouth that never opens, like a horizon. It has been fifteen years since he jumped and fell, and he has never been back to the beach. He has spent his adult life in the heart of England, at the very core of the city, as if putting himself in the dense centre of a world would protect him from another fall off the edge of it. But now he has returned to his mother's house, and the dream is more vivid here, in colour, with sound effects and rising panic, as if it too has finally come home. “There's a letter for you”, his mother shouts, hearing his footsteps on the stairs, “I've put it on the table.” 1 She says no more, but Lewis can hear excitement in her voice, as if letters are the rarest of things. He's been here a month now, and has spoken to no one, apart from his mother, has had no phone calls, certainly no letters, nothing at all from Anna. He pictures her, lying in their bed, her face...
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...John Gray – Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus Scanned by NOVA Scanner: Canoscan D1250 U2F Software: Omnipage Pro 9 Date: 28 August 2002 Proofed by eb00ks Date: 18 March, 2004 Note: As this proofing was done purely on the scanned text copy, this copy needs to be compared to a hardcopy to correct errors resulting from the source text file. eb00ks Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships John Gray, Ph.D. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Contents: Introduction _________________________________________________________________ i Chapter 1: Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus Chapter 2: Mr. Fix-It and the Home-Improvement Committee Chapter 3: Men Go to Their Caves and Women Talk Chapter 4: How to Motivate the Opposite Sex Chapter 5: Speaking Different Languages Chapter 6: Men Are Like Rubber Bands Chapter 7: Women Are Like Waves Chapter 8: Discovering Our Different Emotional Needs Chapter 9: How to Avoid Arguments Chapter 10: Scoring Points with the Opposite Sex Chapter 11: How to Communicate Difficult Feelings Chapter 12: How to Ask for Support and Get It Chapter 13: Keeping the Magic of Love Alive 1 4 12 18 26 40 50 59 67 78 92 110 122 2 Acknowledgments I thank my wife, Bonnie, for sharing the journey of developing this book with me. I thank her for allowing me to share our stories and especially for expanding my understanding and ability to honor the female...
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...I'm going to analyze an extract from a play "The man of destiny" by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, who was mostly talented for drama. He wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings are devoted to the social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. The fact of his being the only person to be nominated both a Nobel Prize in literarture and an Oscar proves him to be a very talented person. "The man of destiny" is a drama and drama is a kind of a genre which can be personified, leading to the climax through series of events. The play opens with the lieutenant hearing the Lady's voice which he thinks to be the voice of a man who has tricked him out of Napoleon's letters. In fact it was the Lady who has stolen them. Napoleon orders her to give back the letters but the Lady starts to flatter Napoleon in order to distract his attention. Suddenly Napoleon hears the lieutenant's voice and that makes him to remember about the letters again. The Lady agrees to give him the letters except one which is a love letter. The Lady hints that the love letter has been written by Napoleon's wife to his friend Barras. Napoleon doesn't believe her and thinks she has done that because of revenge. The play ends with Napoleon driving the Lady out. There's an external type of a conflict in the play. The two parties are Napoleon, that is protagonist, and the Lady, antagonist. The author doesn't describe Napoleon directly, but it isn't very difficult...
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...“Secrets”. Betrayal is seen all throughout the short story. Betrayal is seen in Aunt Mary’s relationship with the nephew, with the love of her life, and God. Aunt Mary believes the nephew betrays her by reading her private letters, but that is much exaggerated because he is only a child. What makes his “betrayal” so bothersome are the secrets in those letters. Aunt Mary felt betrayed by her love because he left her for the priesthood, meaning she also feels betrayed by God. God took her love and took away her chance at happiness, making her lose her connections to God and her faith. 2. To what extent is Aunt Mary the cause of her own problems? Aunt Mary is very reserved and secretive, and it could be her secretiveness that ruined her relationship with her nephew. There was nothing wrong with him reading the letters, but since she has so much to hide, it hurt her and made her exaggerate an issue that cause the ending to a good relationship between the two. 3. In what ways does the exaggeration of the nephew reading the private letters, show that Aunt Mary is still not over her lover? When Aunt Mary calls the nephew dirt, the audience can see that she is not over her lover because this reminder of him seems to irk her and make her angry. She can’t get over the betrayal she felt, so she takes out her anger the nephew and lashes out on him, because she might actually still love this man and hates the reminder of it. 4. Discuss the importance of the imagery in “Secrets”...
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