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. 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
‘Hurt and humbled, brave Richard reigns again.’ Ben Macintyre, The Australian, February 6, 2013, p.8. Adapted for the purposes of this exam paper. The king had an ‘unusually slender, almost feminine build’ but he fought manfully to the end; his body was hacked and abused as he was dragged from the battlefield by his triumphant enemies, and then England’s last Plantagenet monarch was tossed into an unmarked grave to lie there unnoticed for five hundred years. Richard III’s bones – which were confirmed as his on Monday night following their discovery in Leicester, England – cannot tell us whether he was a good king, or the evil monarch of legend and Shakespeare’s imagination. However, they have revealed an astonishing amount about
The boy then inherits a fortune only to become an egotistical newspaperman. Next, Charles wanted to enter the world of politics, and as his career reaches its climax, it all shatters after the exposure of his affair with a singer. Charles’s life was at a downfall, after two unsuccessful marriages, and a lifetime full of happiness and being surrounded by money and fame, he stumbles upon his own death in his mansion crowded with paintings and objects to fill the void in his life. In this diary, I will “analyze how Orson Welles technically constructed his film in order to convey the theme of the corrupting influence of power and wealth and the theme of loss”(Film Diary Handout). Orson Welles used various cinematic techniques to convey his theme in Citizen Kane.
Yoni Spero Page 1 Ms. Hamilton English 10/9/13 The Antihero of America, the British In “The Devil and Tom Walker”, by Washington Irving, the narrator tells the story of a man by the name of Tom Walker. Tom is in a marriage that was so bad that “…they were so miserly that they even conspired to cheat each other”(Irving 1). While walking around Tom stumbles on a skull close to an old Indian fort. At the fort a black person who Tom calls “Old Scratch” converses with him about an opportunity to have a treasure, but there would be conditions. After declining and telling his wife she goes after the devil herself.
John Brown re-emerged in Harper's Ferry, Virginia with a wild plan to abolish slavery. His plan: to take over the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, pass out weapons to local slaves, initiate a huge revolt, and thus free the slaves. What happened: he and his men took over a building but were quickly holed up by Marines led by Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee. He was quickly captured, tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and hanged. Brown's death had a strong impact on the North and South.
F Scott Fitzgerald wrote ‘The Great Gatsby’ based on moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and social status. This classic and supreme novel uses setting as a means of the American dream, social division, consumerism/ corruption and the hollowness of the upper class. The narrator, Nick Carraway tells the story of Jay Gatsby who is chasing his love Daisy Buchanan and has been for years. Through Nick the pair meet again after the long five years he has been searching for her, and the affair starts. Fitzgerald uses the setting of east egg to represent the aristocratic society of old money.
What does it take to make such a decision, and how would one ever truly know if he or she justified in doing so? These are the questions faced by George Milton at the end of John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. After a seemingly endless string of mishaps and misadventures, George’s best friend, a mentally challenged giant by named Lennie Small, finally makes the innocent but fatal mistake of killing a woman at the ranch where they work. As the men of the ranch frantically try to bring Lennie to justice, probably by killing him in cold blood, George must decide whether to try to escape with Lennie, turn him over to the men or the law, or end Lennie’s life quickly and peacefully himself. In the end, George makes the right decision in killing Lennie because __________________, ____________________, and ____________________.
Springer 1st 02 May 2011 Banned Book and Censorship Essay In 1984 by George Orwell, the novel describes a grim, totalitarian society set somewhere in the future. 1984 epitomizes the dystopian society and it depicts the horrific consequences of totalitarianism. Winston, the protagonist of the novel, rebels against the totalitarian government in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One. Life here is constantly filled with never-ending war, intrusive government surveillance, and abusive mind control through physical and mental torture. The novel reveals how Winston comes to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, which eventually leads to his arrest, torture, and brain-washing so that he submits to the Party.
Morgan Christiansen Coach Burleson English 2 Antigone essay Haemon, son of King Creon, is trying to manipulate his father into not killing Antigone, his bride to be, who broke the law by giving her brother a proper burial in a horrific battle he fought between him and his own brother. “She covered her brothers body. Is this indecent? She kept him from the dogs and vultures. Is this crime?
Plot Summary of All The King’s Men This book, All The King’s Men, explores politics during the 1930s. Willie Stark cheats his way to the top by bullying and blackmailing to work his way to become governor of the state. Using these techniques, he has his enemies. Sam MacMurfee, the old governor who was replaced by Willie, is always trying to destroy Willie’s power. Sam still has some power and assets including political allies and hired thugs.