This is where Kate’s life really starts to slip right through her hands; just as water runs through the spaces between your fingers when you run them under water. Part 2 gets off to a rather rough start. Kate gets her decision letter from MIT, and she ended up being declined. Simultaneously she also sets a fire in Chemistry class and then later that night the Litche’s house catches fire. Kate’s father decides to take in Teri and Mikey into their house until the fire damage is taken care of.
At the age of twelve Charles’s mother took him out of school so he could work while his father was in jail for failure to pay debt. Working at a shoe-polish factory, instead of being the kid to grow up and become the intelligent young man he had dreamed of being took its toll on Charles. After a period of time Charles did go back to school. At fifteen he dropped out and resented his mother for it. (Dickens NG) Charles met Catherine Hogarth in 1834, became engaged in 1835 and
Minor characters Christopher Unwin Christopher Unwin was the only surviving son of a wealthy mining family. Christopher is a character who became a victim of Josiah Bont’s Greed as Josiah attempted to pre-bury him in order to steal Christopher’s valuable belongings. But unfortunately for Josiah he was too lazy and greedy to make sure that Christopher was actually fully covered in his grave, so he awoke from his grave and went preaching to the townspeople accusing Josiah of being a “spawn of Satan” for what he had done. Because of Christopher waking and warning everyone about how desperate Josiah had gotten for valuables the townspeople had nailed Josiah on top of a mountain and left him there. Quotes * “Your father tried to kill me in my sleep this night.” (p199) * “That spawn of Satan had laid me there.” (p199) * “Lucky for me, in his laziness and lust to be at my possessions” (p200) * “I had to scramble like a mole to get free.” (p200) Jane Martin Jane Martin was a young Puritan girl who minds Anna’s children when she is at work.
Beneatha is his sister and Travis is his son. During the play Walter and his sister Beneatha do not see eye to eye with their thoughts on the way the rest of the insurance money should be spent, they are getting insurance money because there father died. During the play Mama makes a decision to put a down payment on a house in an all-white neighborhood which is unheard of during this time. But there is money left after she does this and the family discusses what should be done with it. Walter wants it so he could become owner of a Liquor store, whereas Beneatha wants to go to go school to become a doctor.
She lived on the plantation with her family until she was nine, which was when she was sold to a new master because the previous one had died. Serving her new master was very difficult because she only knew Dutch with the new family spoke only English. Therefore, she received many beatings and punishments for the constant miscommunication. Then, about a year and a half later she was sold again to John Dumont of New Paltz, New York. Again, she suffered many harmful
Wayne Brooks C155762 144. Joseph Goodheart was the owner and manager of Goodheart Home for the aged. He was also the payee of a promissory note for $1,000 given him by Nick Nephew to pay for three months' care Goodheart had given to Nephew's elderly aunt, Strange Molly. One day Strange Molly, who was not responsible for her actions, sneaked into Goodheart's empty office and ransacked his files. She found her nephew's promissory note and took a pen and deftly changed the amount to $1,000,000.
But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is. FFor 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash.
After he disappeared, his well-kept secrets began to come to light. My father was a rolling stone and combined, he had a total of 18 children, not including my dead sister. My mother had no clue, as to my father’s whereabouts so she was forced to work full-time to provide for us. Her mother moved in with us to take care of me and Eric, while she was at work. When Eric was 11, he was “allegedly” killed and hanged by two white men.
You Can’t Pray a Lie (pg 209) The King and Duke become desperate after fruitless attempts to earn a living so they sold Jim for forty dollars. The Duke then tells Huck that Jim is at a house “forty miles back here in the country, on the road to Lafayette,” but Huck knows well that Jim is at Silas Phelps’s estate. XXXII. I Have a New Name (Pg 218) Huck devises a plan to sneak into the Phelps’s estate, where he finds out that Phelps was Tom Sawyer’s uncle and is able to
“That’s my grandmothers Bwwow regalia in your window I said. Somebody stole it from her fifty years ago and my family has been searching for it ever since”. The quote means after fifty long years he finally finds the important thing that belongs to his grandmother (her regalia). “That’s too bad he said and though third about the possibilities I’d sell it to you for a thousand dollars if you had it. The pawnbroker would sell Jackson Jackson his grandmother’s regalia back to him but it seems like he doesn’t have that much and he is homeless as well so it’s going to be hard for him to get a thousand dollars.