...Most people hate their workplace. Seeing the same scenery every day, it drives the normal man insane. This, however, is not the case for Mr. Huxley. No. That's my father. This, however, is not the case for Anthony. Much better. The walls of Requium Library were home to Anthony. You could say he spent a bit of all of his free time ever at this location. Was he ashamed? Of course not. He clocked in this morning with a smile on his face. Then reality struck. “If I’m going to find this book, I’m going to need more to go on than ‘the cover was blue’.” “Don’t you have anything here besides books?” “Don’t dog-ear the page! That’s just disrespectful to the book!” “Hey! Quiet! This is a library!” It was a neverending cycle. I love my job he must repeat...
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...Desiree- A vegetable with yellow, pinkish skin, pale flesh. La Blanche- Means “White”, which is often a symbol of pureness or guiltlessness. L’Abri- French for the “Shelter”. Valmonde- “Family name” which means “the World”. Armand- Is a German baby name. In German, the name Armand is: Army man; soldier. These names are French names. However, Desiree also means “wish”. When Armand fell in love with Desiree, he was obsessed to the degree that her unidentified kin inheritance was not a fear. Tying the knot with a woman whose background was anonymous, their children displayed secret language of Armand’s inheritance, which would be an explanation for the baby’s appearance. La Blanche relates to the story because the name stands for the dispute inside the story about who is white. L’Abri relates to the story because it means “shelter”. L’Abri is the name of Armand’s estate. Valmonde relates to the story because the two of them found Desiree, they adopted her. Their name is the definition of “Family” because they let Desiree and her baby becomes a part of their family. Armand is the owner of L’Abri. 2. Look closely at Armand. Describe him (not physically, but analyze his characteristics). What is his background? Where do you believe his motivation comes from? Does he have a choice at the end of the story regarding Desiree and the baby? Armand Mother dies when he was eight-years old, his Father and him leave Pairs and move to L’Abri. I believe his motivation comes from losing...
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...“Albey, where are you?” Fonsie moved his hand across Albertyne’s face, breaking her concentration. “Albey, there you are!” He smiled a big, loving grin. “I wondered where you’d gone. You stepped out for a bit, did you?” He chuckled and raised his eyebrows for effect. Albertyne stared at his face unfazed and went back to her book. Finding her place, she quickly fell back into the story. “Albey, you can’t waste your time with these books.” Fonsie flicked the back cover of the book. “These aren’t the really good ones. You know that.” Albertyne gave him side eyes and shook her head. “All books are good Fonsie. You would know if you picked up any other type than circus books. This is just as good as the circus books. You can take these anywhere you like, and have a life outside the circus.” “Who would want a life outside the circus? Why would I want to leave?” He settled back against the pillow he had pressed against the furniture stacked up in the trailer. “Father says we’ll be there soon, and you’re old enough to help set up. You’re going to have to put down your book this time and unpack.” Albertyne rolled her eyes and closed her book with a piece of straw holding her place. The French countryside looked promising. Rolling green fields dotted with small farms sat just past the little wooden fences along the road. The curve in the road diverged into a wooded area, fencing the road with silver firs. Leaving the glen behind, Albertyne rested against the pile of blankets at her back...
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...Gatsby’s mind is filled with many ideas of Daisy’s love for him and his connection to the “old money”. 2. Gatsby and Daisy reconnected and he even had the idea that she would leave her husband for him. T.S. Eliot states, “We whisper together / Are quiet and meaningless”. This connects to Daisy and Gatsby’s reconnection because they talked together in Nick’s house, but their connection proves to be meaningless once Daisy claims that she will stay with Tom rather than leave for Gatsby. 3. The poem states, “Let me also wear / Such deliberate disguises”, which connects to Daisy and Gatsby’s personalities. Daisy is shallow but gives Gatsby the appearance that she is perfect and has fallen back into love with him, when later she does not leave for him. Gatsby grew up poor and tries to give the appearance that he has...
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...selfie further describes this interpretation by applying the fairness of which Daisy acts and others view of it. By her overexaggerated lady-like attitude we can further assume she wishes to be shed in a prime lite, the picture would reflect this lite. 2b.) Quote Explanation: I find this quote to be the greatest example of negativity stamped on Daisy. This marks its significance as it’s a complete mirror of the way Daisy wants to be received. Due to being quoted from the narrator these views are likely unfiltered, thus being a great example of how she is seen by others. From the plot we can also draw that Daisy keeps little emotional tie to others. Marrying into money is an example and ties to Daisy’s carelessness that Nick tags her with....
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...Because the story through the eyes of Nick, we have no idea what between Gatsby and Daisy half an hour, he leaves you alone said ji.Tik impression we have is the one that Nick gives it to us, and it is not necessarily reliable. When the trio is going through Gatsby house, he points out that Daisy see his house in the Gulf. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of the pier" .Žalia light is Gatsby and Daisy longing symbol of his desire in general. Gatsby to Daisy even want them. As his success and pasaulisGerovės world. Represented by the green light Gatsby everything. In the distance, he will have Daisy is only part of...
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...it comes as naturally as sleep.” In Book 1, Section II it mentions in the beginning “I do not remember the arrival at my grandmother’s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive nearly twenty miles with heavy work- horses. When I awake, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely bigger than the bed that had held him and the window-shade at his head was flapping softly in a warm wind.” Jim described his grandmother “A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.” Jimmy’s grandmother had been crying, he could see, but when he opened his eyes she smiled, peered at him fearfully and sat down on the foot of his bed. His grandmother asked if he had a great sleep, Then in a very different tone she said “My how you do look like your father had been her little boy; his grandmother must often have arrive to wake him like this when he overslept. She gave him clean clothes then brings him down to the kitchen to have a nice warm bath behind the stove. Jim goes with his grandmother into the basement, it was divided into a dining-room at the right of the stairs and a kitchen at the left. Both rooms were whitewashed and plastered, the floor was of hard cement. Jim smelled gingerbeard baking, he takes a bath a big cat comes along and watches. He then smelled the cakes burning, she came laughing, and waving her apron. Jim described his grandmother “She was a spare, tall woman, a little lowered, and she...
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...1. Jones’s first dream is of a man asking him if he would like to have “a little black dog with stiff black gold-tipped hair and sad eyes that looked something like a wire-haired terrier” (p 1). Jones then goes on to describes how the dog has “a piece of heavy stiff wire twisted about its neck,” and how it was able to break loose and the man proceeded to run and catch the dog again. I believe that the dog represents Jones. Dogs are messy and dogs need their masters to give them orders and groom them in order to be seen as acceptable and to be presented in society. The second dream of Jones being beaten by the two white men is the first event of violence that victimizes Jones. This is the first time he feels helpless and in despair. 2. In addition to the racial divisions that the novel describes, Himes also focuses on skin color. Alice having lighter skin, uses that to her advantage and passes as a white woman. She completely disregards her black side, so that she is not put on the same level as African Americans. Alice being light skinned has more opportunity for a better life. As shown on page 97 Alice states, "I want a husband who is important and respected and wealthy enough so that I can avoid a major part of the discriminatory practices which I am sensible enough to know I cannot change” (p 97). 3. A rare occurrence where there is not a hostile exchange between Bob and a white person is the small interaction between him and a pedestrian, “A well-dressed, slenderly built...
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...“He rationalized that he was so bewildered upon his arrival that he allowed such a thing. The basement was the only place for him as far as he was concerned.” Page 207. In this passage, Max has just awoken from a three day sleep, this after the (no doubt) stressful journey to arrive at what will be his hiding place for the next chapter of his life. As he becomes fully alert and processes his location and situation he is in, he is mortified. Perhaps it was because he discovered he awoke in a room belonging to a young girl and the appearance of impropriety bothered him? Maybe it was because he understood the potential danger to the family, and being in that room (if only in his own mind) increased the risk to his gracious hosts? Or perhaps...
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...The first significant quotation to me is, when the man is studying the country to the south. He walks out onto the road and wonders how long it would take to get somewhere warm before it was too late, even though he has no clue what time of the year it is. “He thought it was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years”(4). I feel like this is a good quotes to be in the novel because it shows loss of time. To them, time doesn't really matter anymore because of how many years have passed and the fact that they don’t know when or if this will ever end. This I feel can relate to me when i’ve been counting down something for so long it just doesn’t seem to matter any more and slips my mind because I feel like it will never come. “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him”(3). This is a major example of how the man cares for the boy. Every second he can, he reassures that the boy is safe. Reasoning to why this relates to me would have to be the fact of how selfless the man is. He puts the boy first in everything by passing all of his own needs. To me, I would try my best to put my loved ones first in a tough situation. “What would you do if I died”(11)? The young boy is faced with a really hard quotations. The instant the man asks the boy, the boy is forced to ponder this situation and start realising that one day that something like this may happen. Basically forcing him to grow up...
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...1. Being the first chapter a good deal important information is established. Among these is the identity of the narrator Nick and of Gatsby himself, and the setting of the story. Likely the most crucial point is the beginning description of Gatsby, limited though it is at this point. 2. Nick claims to be highly tolerant and a good judge of character. He also describes a bit of his background from a well-to-do family with a thoughtful, quiet father who taught him not to judge. He says this results in earning the trust of many people around him and being told numerous dark secrets. 3. Tom Buchanan is described as wealthy, privileged and excruciatingly accomplished so as to be underwhelmed by anything short of his previous level of achievement....
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...Chapter Eight 3:45: Eleven days later: November 3rd... The wild-catting had begun. The powerful twin-engine Caribou fanned the snow behind it like it was a chopper ready to dust off. Easing off the brakes and edging the throttle forward, propelled the craft to where the pilot reached full throttle. The landing skis worked like a charm. The engine hummed–then whined. The cold, swirling air pushed the belly of the fuselage up into the air, as the ailerons redirected the wind flow. Eight thousand feet later, Walter leveled the craft off. Cutting through the air and accelerating to two hundred and seventy-five miles an hour while fighting a strong headwind: it would take the sleek, short-landing-area plane just twenty minutes to reach its destination. It would be dark in forty minutes. Luke wanted the team on the ground with little light left–before the Alberta Clipper assaulted the park like a well-aimed wreaking ball. “There she blows,” the pilot loudly announced, while pointing. Luke leaned closer to his window. There it was. The cozy cabin that was nuzzled within a family of snow-laden pines–with a wide open prairie on the north side of it. The snow had just begun to flounder about: big lazy flakes that took their time falling. Walter did several flyovers, descending each time quickly. On the last approach, he pulled left rudder some, reduced throttle, and used the crosswind too slow him down. Descending like a goose that was ready to splash down on a pond...
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...Chapter 1: Reflect Passage Response “The veselija is a compact, a compact not expressed, but therefore only the more binding upon all. Everyone's share was different—and yet everyone knew perfectly well what his share was, and strove to give a little more. Now, however, since they had come to the new country, all this was changing; it seemed as if there must be some subtle poison in the air that one breathed here—it was affecting all the young men at once. They would come in crowds and fill themselves with a fine dinner, and then sneak off. One would throw another's hat out of the window, and both would go out to get it, and neither could be seen again.” I feel like it’s selfish to go to a wedding/veselija, dance around and enjoy the party, drink the beer being served, but then sneak off so you don’t have to pay. Its their special day, so the bride and groom shouldnt be the ones worrying about the financial situation. Chapter 2: Analyze Passage Response “A full hour before the party reached the city, they began to note the perplexing changes in the atmosphere. It grew darker all the time, and upon the earth the grass seemed to grow less green. Every minute, as the train sped on, the colors of things became dingier; the fields were grown parched and yellow, the landscape hideous and bare. And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance, a strange, pungent odor.” The dark and moody atmosphere helps set the setting of the factory-dominated...
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...Journal Prompts for Their Eyes Were Watching God Directions: Choose ONE of the following prompts to complete for the selected chapter. Please type your response in MLA format. Use as much detail as possible. Chapter 1 Questions: Select quotations from the text that support your answers. 1. Hurston begins the book with an extended metaphor. What are the dreams of men? How are they different from the dreams of women? Who doesn’t get disappointed? 2. Janie has come back to town after doing what and to whom? (Pay attention to and remember their description.) 3. What are the porch-sitters compared to? How are they characterized? What can you infer from that description? 4. The first two pages are loaded with figurative language, as though Hurston was writing poetry in book form. What is the effect of this? Is it hard to understand? What is the effect of having to work a little harder to understand all the layers of her opening pages? 5. Pay attention to porches. What is the function of the porch in this chapter? 6. The author makes a big deal about Janie’s black rope of hair. This metaphor is a central image in the book. What might Janie’s hair symbolize? Follow it through the book. 7. Hurston is careful to give us many of the particulars of Janie’s life since she left this town. What do we know about her? 8. In the last line of the first chapter, Hurston uses a metaphor. What is it and what is its effect on the mood of the story? 9. Briefly discuss the voice...
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...“Pilgrim’s Progress”. The peculiarities of the English literature of the 17th century are determined by the events of the Engl. Bourgeois Revolution, which took place in 1640-60. King Charles I was beheaded in 1649& General Oliver Cromwell became the leader of the new government. In 1660, shortly after Cro-ll’s death, the dynasty of the Stuarts was restored. The establishment of new social&eco-ic relations, the change from feudal to bourgeois ownership, escalating class-struggle, liberation movement and contradictions of the bourgeois society found their reflection in lit-re. The main representatives of this period is: John Milton: was born in London&educated at Christ’s College. He lived a pure life believing that he had a great purpose to complete. At college he was known as the The Lady of Christ’s. he Got master’s degree at Cambridge. It’s convenient to consider his works in 3 divisions. At first he wrote his short poems at Horton. (The Passion, Song on May Morning, L’Allegro). Then he wrote mainly prose. His 3 greatest poems belong to his last group. At the age of 23 he had still done little in life&he admits this in one of his sonnets. (On his 23d B-day) In his another sonnet he wrote on his own blindness. (On his Blindness) Milton wrote diff. kinds of works. His prose works were mainly concerned with church, affairs, divorce & freedom. The English civil war between Charles I & Parliament followed by the 2nd civil war, 1641-1651. During these years...
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