Act One, Scene Five (Joe comments on Harper’s agoraphobic behavior.) Joe: You never go out in the world, Harper, and you have emotional problems. Act One, Scene Seven (Prior talks to Harper during her drug induced hallucination.) Prior: You are amazingly unhappy. Act Two, Scene Nine (Joe tells Harper that needs to accept changes in her life and the world, and not be afraid) Joe: As long as I’ve known you Harper, you’ve been afraid of men hiding under the bed, men hiding under the sofa, men with knives.
As he thinks he comes to the shocking conclusion that he truly wasn’t. Guy described his previous thoughts of happiness as if “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. “ Guy begins approaching his bedroom where he could hear his wife’s music blaring through her seashells (Earbuds). This wasn’t unusual to him as this has been the case for the past two years but something was wrong… when Guy entered the room and approached the bed he kicks over an empty container that upon further inspection was what had held his wife’s sleeping pills. Guy went into a panic, calling 911 (or whatever the emergency number would be for this time) to get her medical treatment.
The cast is comprised of only seven characters. First there is Charles and his current wife Ruth. His deceased first wife is named Elvira; the psychic who causes it all is Madame Arcati, and a sophisticated couple, the Bradman’s, who are guests at the séance. There is also Edith who serves only as a comic convenience, but is the unseen maid in the house of Charles and Ruth. The main conflict in “Blithe Spirit” is a conflict of love; the ghost of Elvira haunting the couple causes tension between them that brings up deeper problems of the couple.
The current situation in the book is that the main character, Suze, is have a chat with her dead father who is a ghost (since she can speak to ghosts) when all of a sudden her stepbrother David walks into the kitchen and sees her talking to nothing but the wall, since he cannot see the ghost. Suze tries to explain herself to her stepbrother and since he saw her crying early when she was actually crying in her father’s arms he told her that whatever it was to do it quick. So she quickly leaves her kitchen and goes to call Father Dominic, a priest who also shared her power to speak to the dead. Suze tells Father Dominic how Paul Slater (an old friend from school who can also speak to the dead and who tried to kill her and now wants to date her) is planning on going back in time
At the beginning of the novel, Montag thinks that their relationship is just fine; in fact, he declares to himself that he is perfectly happy. However, when he gets home that first night, to find Mildred comatose after a suicide attempt, then he starts to wonder if he and Mildred really are happy. Then, when Clarisse pulls the dandelion "you're not in love with anyone" stunt, he is even more startled. He realizes that he can't even remember when he and Mildred first met. He realizes that they don't really have a relationship at all--he goes to work, she watches her television, and they don't talk.
Telling his parents what awful things Erik does won’t make them believe that, they will just have to find out for themselves when things get in bad shape. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- Things are not always what they seem. While everybody thinks Dr. Jekyll’s house is very normal, it's the exact opposite. All of the butlers and maids act like everything is fine, and of course, they can't say anything about what's going on in the house, even though everything that is going on is unbelievable. While all of
Mr. Charrington, the owner of the antique shop, was an undercover Thought Police agent who caught Julia and Winston in their secret room they rented out above his shop. The Spies encourage children to report thoughtcrime if they have witnessed it as well. Parsons’ daughter reports him to the Thought Police when he unknowingly talked ill of the Party in his sleep. Surprisingly, Parsons was proud of his daughter since she was so loyal to the Party and, to him, it shows how well he raised her (Orwell 233). These ways of surveillance should never take place.
By the end of the story, Nick is dislikes the new people he has met. None of them attend Jay Gatsby’s funeral, Daisy and Tom left town unannounced, and Klipspringer merely asks for his shoes back when Nick notifies him of the funeral. Later on Nick runs into Tom and Daisy in town and describes how they act as if their actions are completely justified. Fitzgerald used Nick to show his true feelings about the prestigious bluebloods and to show how their values are extremely
On the way to the bathroom, he passes out, but he downplays the incident. Phoebe arrives at the museum with a suitcase and begs Holden to take her with him. He feels dizzy and worries that he will pass out again. He tells her that she cannot possibly go with him and feels even closer to fainting. She gets angry, refuses to look at him, and gruffly returns his hunting hat.
“’Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside’”(227). This proves that Boo stays inside so he can stay away from the prejudiced town, but he faces that fear and always finds a way to make Jem and Scout stay safe and feel happy. Additionally, when Bob Ewell attacks the children, Boo shows up to help them and attack Bob himself, kills him in result. “All he wanted to do was to get him and his sister safely home’” (275).