There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time””. by how Jem describes him you can tell that Boo Radley isn’t exactly what you would call normal… you can also tell that by the way Jem describes his house: “the house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-grey around it. Rain rotten shingles drooped over the eaves of the varanda, oak trees kept the sun away.” This very long quote (which appears on page 9) is a typical haunted house picture and it is also the house of Boo Radley. This quote doesn’t say anything about Boo’s personality but you can understand that he isn’t normal. “Inside the house lives a malevolent phantom, people said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him.
All of the houses whereonly a couple of years old, if not brand new. The yards ranged from ¾ of an acre, to 4 acres around. And all were made of seemingly indestructible brick. Every other backyard either had a trampoline, basketball hoop, or both that got heavy use in the summertime. Kids raced go carts and motor scooters up and down the street, careful to avoid the horse dung left from one of the neighbor taking their steed for a ride.
32 My father was particularly found of mockingjays. 43 Whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. 43 Still there's something comforting about that bird. It's like having a piece of my father with me, protecting me. 43-44 The district 12 has always been a bit backwards but that local customs can be charming.
Petrina Chan Hr. 2 Due 9/19/11 “The Birds” Questions 1. Yes, I do think that “The Birds” was suspenseful. Sometimes, the author left you wondering what was happening outside of the house while the family stayed locked inside the house. Not for a few pages did she reveal that the birds had killed the Triggs and the mailman.
‘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 author refers to them as crows because a crow has always, especially because of Edgar Allen Poe, been a symbol of melancholy and horror. They sit in a tree that has been burned meaning they are sitting in the debris of what was once a happy life that was destroyed by the war. The imagery the author uses is overwhelming and thus it makes it easy for the reader to empathize with the situation. The occurrence of a funeral is not clear at beginning because the author describes the men “lined up for reveille, ready/ to roll-call each M-16 propped upright/ between a pair of jungle boots,/ a helmet on its barrel” (4-8). At first glance it may seem as if the men were standing right next to their equipment, but when an officer roll calls, he does not roll-call M-16s.
He has his own room in the barn because he is prohibited from sharing a room with the white men. Candy, looking in awe at Crooks’ room, says “Must be nice to have a room all to yourself”’ Crooks answers with “And a manure pile under the window, Sure it’s swell” (82). This separation makes Crooks more isolated than any other characters because of his lack of human interaction, which causes him extreme loneliness. “I tell ya a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick” (80). This also causes him extreme loneliness.
No two women ever loved each other like they do. | | | OLIVERWhere will the old duke live? | | | CHARLESThey say he’s already in the Forest of Arden. He has many cheerful men with him, and they live like Robin Hood and his outlaws. People say that new batches of young men flock there every day, and that they all pass the time without a care, like people did in the Golden Age.
• Migrant workers moved from place to place to find work • No proper relationship with others - loneliness is a theme in this novel • All the people on the ranch are lonely for different reasons • reflective of the time period in which the novel was written • shows the harsh reality of their lives. • book is set The American Dream • Each individual had their own interpretation of their ideal situation for life Section 1 • Chapter 2 begins with the introduction of a new setting • describes the bunkhouse in considerable detail • 8 beds piled upon each other - half the bunks = have no blankets. • had mattresses made of long burlap sacks stuffed with straw “Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk.” • There are no
Dreamcatcher Long time ago, in a native American village, the old and young people living there earned their own living and were regarded by other people as the ancestors of culture and life in America today. At night, when the storm bursted with a tremendous peal of thunder and a rush of rain, the strange and frightening dreams sneaked into the windows and stayed by the pillows on the children’s bed. Then children started having bad dreams every night. In the morning, people talked about the awful dreams which spreaded everywhere around the town in a short time like a plague. In the evening,with candlelight everywhere, a spiritual spider in the corner of the room heard the parents’ concerns.