He says to his wife “You’d never guess what that kid has been doing up there!” After Terry’s uncle and aunt find what he has been doing, they both laughed at the fact that a boy was playing with paper dolls. However, Terry
At the encouragement of Sylvia, Tina start to audition for the school play, Pippi in Tahiti, the Musical, feeding her thirst for stardom. But the Third-grade teacher; Miss Myrna Thorn choose an untalented child, Louise Lerman to be the lead of the musical. That’s really made Tina jealous and misunderstands. She wants to be the lead, want to be a future star. She is the demon seed of a child will do anything to be the lead in her school musical.
KPA of Teaching a Stone to Talk This key passage is from the essay “God in the Doorway” in Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard. This passage occurs towards the end of the essay and describes the authors reaction to the arrival of Santa Claus and her feelings about Santa Claus, Miss White, and God during her time following this meeting. Dillard uses this meeting and the following experiences as a revelation of God to the author. As the passage begins, Annie Dillard uses repetition when describing the reason why one might be afraid of Santa Claus. Using the words “bad”, “good”, and “you” frequently helps to dumb down such an intimidating essay to help the level of the obvious content meet the level of the writing.
In the very first chapter, Nick Caraway, the author and main character, says that he learned to reserve judgment of other people from his father. Then when he later first mentions Gatsby, he states that he represents everything that he resents, but he reserves him from his normal judgment. In chapter 3 he states, “Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known (Fitzgerald 59).” But as the story continues, the reader becomes aware of the irony. Another example of moral flexibility comes from Tom, a wealthy man living in East Egg. He has a fairly public affair with a stout woman named Myrtle.
The "great and powerful Oz" is actually Herman Smith, a failed politician from Illinois, who was transported to Oz when a balloon he was flying to promote his campaign to become the city dogcatcher was lost in a storm. The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion are distraught that they will never receive their respective brain, heart, and courage, but the Wiz makes them realize that they already have these things. However he couldn’t help Dorothy get home. Dorothy remembered he had a balloon and the Wiz agreed to fly her home, but he didn’t, he flew away by himself. Just as it seems as if she will never be able to get home, Glinda, the Good Witch of the South appears and convinces her to find her way home by searching within herself and tapping the heels of her shoes.
Throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ the central theme explored is the notion of friendship, but more specifically the difference between a truthful, reality-based friendship and the form of friendship that develops a barrier between the individual and their dreams. By utilising several literary devices such as symbolism, foreshadowing, vivid imagery, Steinbeck has constructed a powerful illustration of the tragic consequences of a genuine friendship between two very different men disrupted by the difficulties of regional America in the wake of the 1929 crash. At first glance, it would seem that Lennie and George are both exceptionally different people, for example George is described as ‘small, quick, and dark of face with restless eyes and sharp strong features’ whereas Lennie is described as, ‘a huge man, shapeless of face, with large pale eyes, with large sloping shoulders.’ This indicates that from the first sight of Lennie and George, a dynamic in their relationship
Sarah then wished for her baby brother to be whisked away by the goblins to the far-away Goblin Kingdom. In order for Sarah to rescue Toby, she had to go through an immense and mystifying labyrinth, in less than thirteen hours. Sarah soon found out the labyrinth was trickier, and more complicated than it seemed, because she was unable to find a way inside. The theatrical goblin, Hoggle, who was exterminating fairies outside the labyrinth walls, aids Sarah in finding the entrance to the labyrinth. As Sarah enters the labyrinth, she does not realize how much of a psychological struggle this maze will be.
CHAPTER 4 QUESTIONS 1. In Chapter Four, a series of successive crises temporarily relieve David of his concern for Sophie. List these crises. david's gift -the meeting of the fringes leaders -teaching sophie about the world -the inspector's rational views 2. Why does Uncle Axel warn David about his gift?
Peter attempts to escape from the life planned for him by his mother, and runs away as an infant to live with the fairies in Kensington Park. Years later, Wendy, John, and Michael join him in his Neverland. And although Peter deliberately rejects the idea of family and responsibility as a baby, he ends up recreating the very same world in which he escaped. He becomes a father, Wendy the mother, and the Lost Boys become their children. While Peter does everything he can to deny his ‘manhood’ and stay a boy forever, Wendy embraces her womanhood, and is a strong mother figure throughout the story.
This quote shows that Odyseus uses his intelligence to protect himself from his enemies, and to think of a way to convince penelope that it is him, and not anyone fake. Since he is disguised as a beggar later in the epic he proves to his wife and the whole community by stringing his old bow. Intelligence overall helps Odyseus reach is goal by returning to his home and