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Les Miserables
Number of words: 954 | Number of pages: 4.... his criminal record he would probably never again be able to obtain a job and support himself, saw stealing the silverware as his only choice.
Had he not been caught and returned to the Bishop, Valjean probably would have been forced into a life of corruption. However, to his surprise, the priest told the police he had made a present of the silver to Valjean. He even gave Valjean the two silver candlesticks he had not taken. When the police left, the Bishop explained his action, saying that with his act of kindness, he had bought Valjean’s soul for god and that Valjean must now live a life of good in return. Valjean was saved f .....
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Broken Angel
Number of words: 1162 | Number of pages: 5.... ask his mom to put in some good words for Angel. Conner goes to ask his mom to help Angel. He is very nervous because she is usually drunk. She is an alcoholic. He finally gets his nerve up and knocks on her bedroom door. He walks in and she is cleaned up and sober. It was a big shock to Conner. His mom calls a few people for Angel and makes a few dinner dates.Tia goes to Angel’s house to tell him the good news. He comes to the door smiling from ear to ear. He said he has got good news for her. She tells him the news about Conner’s mom trying to get him a scholarship. He tells her tell Conner to just forget it. He .....
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Darkness At Noon
Number of words: 1151 | Number of pages: 5.... they are being held under the control of the demons, and are also being tortured continually. This continual suffering also accounts for the surplus time these sinners had in manipulating others. In the Second Pouch, flatterers are punished by being made to live in an abysmal pit of excrement. Flatterers are sycophants who try to use insincere and excessive praise to look good in other people’s eyes. These false attentions and comments are commonly called "bull-*censored*" in slang. This applies directly to what these sinners are condemned to live in forever. In the 23rd Canto, Dante and Virgil travel from the Fifth P .....
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Glass Menagerie 3
Number of words: 721 | Number of pages: 3.... like Knox. Tom and Amanda constantly pushed Laura to not hold herself back. Once again, as in "Dead Poet’s Society," a coed is used to free the character from their confinement. In The Glass Menagerie Jim is used exactly like Chris. Jim is used to show the coming of Laura’s character. Not only were Knox’s character and the character of Laura similar in both the works, but Todd from "DPS" and Tom from The Glass Menagerie are also shown to be similar.
Todd kept a certain mystery about him throughout the work, as well as Tom. Tom would go to the movies and keep to himself except for some outbursts of speech .....
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The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoe
Number of words: 988 | Number of pages: 4.... met his wife and learn that he spends not enough time with his family and they really had it with this kind of situation. She also discovers that he again was drinking vine in the middle of the day. Upset she tells him to drink at least white vine so people can not see his red stained teeth. He leaves the house to go to work and after a striking talk to other town officials he leaves to visit Frances. Following his first visit with Frances he realizes that this little distraction will likely be a greater adventure than he had anticipated. When he meets Frances she doesn't recognizes her but soon they talk very much familiar. He d .....
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Escape Theme In The Glass Mena
Number of words: 849 | Number of pages: 4.... apartment is the Paradise Dance Hall. Just the name of the place is a total anomaly in the story. Life with the Wingfields is as far from paradise as it could possibly be. Laura appears to find solace in playing the same records over and over again, day after day. Perhaps the music floating up to the apartment from the dance hall is supposed to be her escape, which she just can't take. Often in the play the music from the Paradise Dance Hall is the background music for the scenes. The Glass Menagerie playing quite frequently. With war ever present in the background, such as the fact that Amanda is in the Daughters of the .....
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Jamestown
Number of words: 2641 | Number of pages: 10.... was an unhappy one because White and his chief pilot, Simon Fernandes, spent a majority of the time quarreling. Fernandes was a suspected of wanting to steal the Spanish ships, but White interfered with his plans and the ship arrived safely at Hatarask Inlet on July 22, 1587. Fernandes was not finished yet, he left the settlers on the island and did not go on the Chesapeake Bay as the arrangements stated. This distraction was only a minor disaster compared to the ones to come.
Summer was ending and it was getting late in the year to establish a new settlement. They would have to make the supplies they had last all wi .....
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The Stranger 3
Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4.... mother's dead body, and at her
funeral, he never cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup
of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a
caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The
following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and
meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a
movie, and then spend the night together. Later in their
relationship, Marie asks Meursault if he wants to marry her. He
responds that it doesn't matter to him, and if she wants to get
married, he would agree. She then asks him if he loves her. To
that que .....
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Follow Your Heart
Number of words: 617 | Number of pages: 3.... him.
Another time where Olga didn't follow her heart was when she didn't go to University. Olga dearly wanted to go to University to receive a "classical education." Her father though, believed there was no point to it and felt that if she wanted to go study something, she should study languages. After Olga finished Grammar School she told her father that she "intended to go to the University of Rome." Her father wouldn't consider sending his daughter to the University, and the quote "as was custom in those days, I obeyed without a murmur" proves to us that Olga really wanted to go to University, but didn't follow her dream .....
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Hamlets Antic Disposition
Number of words: 2049 | Number of pages: 8.... and Marcellus are seen waiting for the Ghost Horatio had encountered the previous night. When it appears before them, Hamlet agrees that the Ghost bears a striking resemblance to his deceased father and it calls him forth to engage in some discourse-as during the previous night, The Ghost eluded the queries of Horatio and Marcellus to retreat at the call of a crow. At this point none of Horatio, Hamlet or Marcellus are certain whether the Ghost had come bearing evil or good sentiments. Hamlet is obviously intrigued by this spectre, and agrees to follow it, forcing his way past the concerned pair of Horatio and Marcellus. Scene .....
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