There was a news bulletin on the television given by a ballerina with a hideous mask meaning she was probably beautiful, she broadcasted that their son Harrison escaped from jail and had a plan to overthrow the government. Suddenly there was a noise of a door being broken from its hinges Harrison stood in the middle of the television studio making everyone scared for their lives. He claimed that he was the emperor and ripped off all of his handicaps. Then, he asked for an empress to come up to claim her mate and throne. Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General entered and killed the Emperor and Empress with a shotgun.
• Curley is the confrontational, mean-spirited boss's son who picks on Lennie (until Lennie crushes his hand in a fight). Curley symbolizes the bullying of the weak by the privileged. He suffers from little-man's syndrome. If Curley from Of Mice and Men were alive today, he'd have the biggest truck, biggest dog, and biggest mouth on the block. Everybody would hate him and secretly make fun of him behind his back.
After that, Milo and Teddy get into an argument about Teddys father being a loony. Teddy is very defensive and they go back and forth about it. “your mother blows dead rats!, and if you call my dad a loony again, I’ll fucking kill you, you cocksucker!” (King 344). This line and the whole scene are in the film as well. The only difference is that the dog in the book was a mongrel dog and in the film it was a golden retriever.
Varjak Paw By SF Said Text Varjak Paw is a small Mesopotamian Blue kitten who lives with his family in the Contessa's house on the hill. He is always made fun of because he isn't a proper Mesopotamian blue. When a large gentlemen and two mysterious black cats enter the house, Varjak and his grandfather, Elder Paw, know something is wrong. The family is split apart, leaving Varjak to embark on a quest to the city for help. Using a form of secret cat martial arts called "The Way of Jalal," handed down from his ancestor, the kitten must make his way through the city and overcome obstacles such as angry dogs, gangs of cats, and the mysterious "Vanishings.” Point of view The story is told with a third person omniscient narrator.
Despereaux is a tiny mouse born with open eyes and huge ears. He is seen as an oddball that is constantly sick and shows no interest in things a mouse should show interest in. Then he hears music that the King is playing for his daughter, the Princess Pea, causing him to fall in love with the Princess and speak to her. He is caught doing this and is sentenced by the mouse council to be sent to dungeon where he will surely die from the rats in the dark. DiCamillo does an excellent job of portraying moral values such as the virtues of nonconformity, the power of love and the universal need for forgiveness and redemption.
Porter 1 Aaron Porter Mrs. Godwin AP English IV August 4, 2013 Insult to Injury In Tennessee Williams', Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Brick hides feelings of bitterness, nostalgia, and respect toward his terrible discovery of Skipper’s sexuality preference, being used to effectively demonstrate the importance of facing personal conflicts and moving on with life. Brick demonstrates the negative consequences of holding emotions bottled inside instead of talking to a friend about them. Williams’ use of the “click” to symbolically help the reader discover and understand Brick’s apparent hatred toward his wife, Maggie. Brick tries to hide behind alcohol so he does not have to deal with his problems. Brick’s bitterness provides a camouflage for his desire to recapture the past.
His femininity is derived from his “docility,” “humanity,” and “tenderness of heart” drawn from his childhood along with his failures as a man (No children, no employment) as Bliss mentions. Bliss goes on to suggest that the narrator oppresses this femininity with violent actions in which ultimately leads to the death of his two cats and wife. Upon the discovering of his wife’s body by the police Bliss states that the narrator felt a “veneer of masculinity” as he had acted “un-quivered” by the events but went on to be emasculated as the body is discovered. When the narrator “swoons” this the ultimate degree of femininity, as Bliss states. Bliss’s argument is well presented, thorough, and very psychologically in-depth.
Peekay becomes the only person in the whole school that was British and didn’t speak the language that every other kid spoke. He gets beaten up by the Judge and the jury who are the older kids at school and earns the name Pisskop until Harry Crown, a shop owner, renames him Peekay. Peekay also suffers from bed wetting and gets beaten every morning by Mevrou. During the holidays, Peekay goes back home and tells his nanny about his bed wetting problem, Nanny gets a spiritual doctor to come cure his bed wetting problem. The spiritual doctor gives Peekay a chicken that he names Grandpa Chook as a parting gift.
Their mother confronts Donnie in his bedroom and he calls her a bitch. But then, Donnie resumes taking his medication. On October 2nd, however, he sleepwalks and meets Frank, a man in a menacing bunny costume. Frank tells him that in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds, the world will end. That night, a jet engine strangely crashes through the roof of their house, destroying Donnie's room.
Kimberly Tinoco Professor Staley English 103 14 December 2009 Cats, Claws, and Controversy It was about 10 years ago when our family cat, Sebastian, went missing. He was a beautiful, long haired, black and white male cat that had a dominate alpha male personality. He was an indoor cat and loved to look out windows and sometimes tried to sneak out to the front yard. One afternoon he was successful and went missing for days. My family and I grew weary as each day passed, hoping for the best but fearing the worst.