...Analyse af The death of Tommy Grimes We all have to go through it. We all learn from it, and it will always be in our memory. Growing up. Some just want to pass it and move on, where others try to stay in the phase as long as possible. Some people grows up when they leave home, some kids by becoming 18 and others a third or fourth reason. The short story The Death of Tommy Grimes is about the main character Tommy Grimes and him becoming a man. The Story is written by R.J. Meaddough in 1962. The most important person we here about otherwise is Tommy’s father Tom Grimes also called Pa. The title first let us believe that Tommy is going to die, literally. And when you read the first pages, it is about hunting what makes it more likely that he might die. But in the end he does not die, literally. Tommy’s father is teaching him how to hunt and track down animals. And as the story composes Tommy develops a new side of himself, and becomes a man instead of a boy. Because of this change the main theme is growing up. Tommy is a 12 years old boy who lives with his mom and dad in a house near Collierville. Collierville is in the South-eastern America. We are also in a modern time, because of the tone in the text. They use colloquial language for example the father says: Then you dead, boy”. In that sentence there is missing a subject, this makes it a colloquial language. The story is written in 3th person with an invisible narrator. The point of view lies with Tommy and it is an all-knowing...
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...katedralskole B The Death of Tommy Grimes The text “The Death of Tommy Grimes” is about the eleven-twelve year old boy Tommy and his father. The story starts of in medias res where we hear about Tommy later in the story, and we get no introduction here. We get the introduction few sentences later in a flashback, where we hear about Tommy’s father trying to instruct Tommy in his shooting skill, but at this moment Tommy just can not pull the trigger. Tommy starts practicing his increasing shooting ability while his father teaches him about hunting, and how the nature cycle, in a metaphorical way, works on earth. In the end of the story, Tommy and his father go hunting, and Tommy ends up shooting a black man – something which makes his father awfully proud, and in the very end he boasts about it in the local bar saying the words, “my boy became a man today” The character Tommy is the protagonist in the story, and he lives in a small village with his father and the other inhabitants. From the descriptions in the text, it sounds like the environment Tommy lives in is very stuffy without any significant contact to the outside world. This is also why Tommy’s father has an enormous influence on him, including the fact that he probably does not know anything else, than what his father tells him. This draw the conclusion, that Tommy is completely dependent on his father, because he is the only source to knowledge about the world. During the action of the story, Tommy goes through a dramatic...
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...little girl swallowed by wolf yesterday a little girl called red ridding hood and her grandmother was eaten by a wolf. the horrible scene took place in the forest nearby near the village. Yesterday morning a little girl was walking to deliver some cake and vine to her sick grandmother. But on her way she was stopped by a wolf. “ first I was frightened but he seemed friendly, he asked me where I was going. When I said that I was going to my sick grandmothers house, he gave me the idea to pick up some flowers on my way, so I did” the girl tells. “The wolf attacked me by suprise” now when the little girl was distracted, the wolf went to the grandmothers house. The grandmother tells that she was lying in the bed when she heard the door being opened. “ I would never have expected to see the beast who came walking into my bedroom, I just thought it was my grandchild, he attacked me by surprise.” the wolf swallowed the old woman, and took on her close, then he waited for the girl in the grandmothers bed. Rescued by local lumperjack Some minutes later the girl arrived to her grandmothers house. She went to the bedroom with the cake and wine from her mother. When she saw the wolf wearing her grandmothers close she thought it was the sweet old woman she knew. “ she looked very strange, but I just thought it was because she was sick, when I later realized it was the wolf it was too late. I screamed.” luckily a local lumberjack was near the house and heard the little...
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...Tommy var blevet en del af jorden. I det mindste følte han det sådan, imens han kiggede på duggen og dagslyset som lavede store skinnende spindelvæv over trætoppene. Solen var endnu ikke stået op og en tåge lå over jorden, som fik skoven til at se endnu mere uhyggelig for ham. Hans næse kløede og han længtes efter at klø, bare en lille smule, men Pa sagde ikke flytte, ikke spjæt og ikke træk vejret hårdt. Ikke en arm, en hånd og ikke engang en finger, sagde han. ”Han kender skoven” Pa fortalte ham: ”Du vil aldrig vide at han er her, pludselig vil han kigge på dig, bare kigge.” Det startede for langtid siden huskede Tommy, næsten for et år siden, da han kun var 11år. Den nat i hønsegården med væselts øjne som glinsede i lommelygten. Han affyrede aldrig et skud, stod der bare med munden åben, tåbelig, mens væsel løb ind i skoven igen. Og Pa rev riflen ud af hånden på ham og spurgte ”hvorfor skød du ikke? Hvad venter du på? Hvad er der galt med dig dreng?” Tommy ”Pa, jeg…. Jeg kunne ikke.” Pa knælede ned på den ene balle, og tog et græsstrå. Han sagde ingenting for et minut, han knælede bare imens han tyggede på græsset. ”Du har aldrig kunne lide at slå ihjel, vel dreng? Heller ikke da du var lille.” Tommy kiggede på jorden uden at sige ingenting og hans far sukkede ”Tommy, forhelvede, en mand dør altid lidt når han dræber noget, men det skal bare gøres. Nogle dyr er bare ikke gode og derfor bliver de dræbt, forstået?” Han nikkede uden at svare, stadig kiggende ned...
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...Tommy Grimes: Tommy is a 12 year old boy, who lives somewhere in the U.S.A with both his parents (probably in Mississippi, line 8 page 45). The whole story is taking place in a time before the civil war (before 1861). Hunting plays a vital role in the community Tommy lives in. Despite his father, “the boys” and the rest of the society, Tommy doesn’t like killing. (I can tell from line 6-15 on page 39). Tommy’s father is aware of that (as seen on line 19-20 page 39) and obviously he gets a little embarrassed when the other men bragged about their boys being good hunters (seen on line 26-28 page 40). Tommy realizes that, and in order to fit in, and be a part of the community (consisting of his father, “the boys” and all the other hunters in the village) he needs to accept the fact “that some varmints do damage and just plain got to be killed”. Tommy wants to make his father proud, so he eagerly starts practicing shooting with the rifle. After a while, Tommy is ready to see if he is able to make his first kill. He goes out buck hunting with his father. He managed to kill a runaway-slave with a shot that pierced right through the heart of the slave. – This is even better than killing a predator, and the above-mentioned situation results, that Tommy finally gets accepted as a man. Even though Tommy wasn’t quite happy about killing the slave, he is overwhelmed with...
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...1 Ligninger Du skal redegøre for løsningsmetoder for ligninger. Herunder også andengradsligninger. Ligninger med én ubekendt: En ligning med én ubekendt er et udtryk med en variabel (oftest x) og et lighedstegn. En løsning til ligningen er en værdi for den variable (x), der giver samme resultat på begge sider af lighedstegnet. Der findes mange forskellige ligninger, båge enkle og vanskelige ligninger. En af de enkle ligninger er: x-4=5 Løsningen er det x der gør at venstresiden (3x+4) er lig højresiden (7). I praksis løser man ligninger ved at isolere x på den ene side af lighedstegnet. Regler for omformning af ligninger: Det er tilladt at: * Lægge samme tal eller ubekendt/variabel til på begge sider af lighedstegnet. * Trække samme tal eller ubekendt/variabel fra på begge sider af lighedstegnet. * Gange med samme tal eller ubekendt/variabel på begge sider af lighedstegnet, blot tallet ikke er nul eller den ubekendte/variablen ikke har værdien nul. * Dividere med samme tal eller ubekendt/variabel på begge sider af lighedstegnet, blot tallet ikke er nul eller den ubekendte/variablen ikke har værdien nul. Når vi jeg hjælp af reglerne for omformning af ligninger omformer en ligning til en anden, bruger jeg dobbeltpilen , som her: x-4=5 x=5+4 x=9 Se matematikbog side 20 og 21, for eksempler. To ligninger med to ubekendte: Hvis to variable (x og y) optræder i to ligninger der er sammenhørende kan de værdier af x og y der opfylder begge ligninger i...
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...modern times. Tommy goes hunting in the woods, which is where the action starts. Later it moves on to the bar, where his father is telling his friends about, how brave his son was. In the beginning his father describes the forest particular, the beautiful colors, fresh stream etc. When Tommy is standing there, ready to kill, it is like everything is described in details, and I think it is because it is an important place in the text. The weather and environment reflects to the characters feelings. The sun is shining, when Tommy is waiting the woods, but when he is about to shoot the black man, the sun gets duller and there is a dead silence. I think it is probably because he is scared and nervous. In the end when they are all sitting in the bar, and Tommy is happy, because he is finally one of them, the Mississippi sunshine is mentioned Characters The first persons we are introduced to, is Tommy Grimes and his father Tom. Tommy is a white boy, and I think he is probably 12 years old “Soon they would be calling him Tim Grimes like his father (P.3, Line 6-7)”. It seems like Tommy has a beautiful point of view on life, but his father “brainwashes” him. He wants to grow up and become a real man, just like his father, so he can hang out with him and his friends at the bar. I do not think that he enjoys killing, but it is a duty. After he kills the black person, a part of him dies, like his father told him. He does not think it is that bad. Tommy’s father Tom Grimes is white too...
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...some kids by becoming 18 and others a third or fourth reason. The short story The Death of Tommy Grimes is about the main character Tommy Grimes and him becoming a man. The Story is written by R.J. Meaddough in 1962. The most important person we here about otherwise is Tommy’s father Tom Grimes also called Pa. The title first let us believe that Tommy is going to die, literally. And when you read the first pages, it is about hunting what makes it more likely that he might die. But in the end he does not die, literally. Tommy’s father is teaching him how to hunt and track down animals. And as the story composes Tommy develops a new side of himself, and becomes a man instead of a boy. Because of this change the main theme is growing up. Tommy is a 12 years old boy who lives with his mom and dad in a house near Collierville. Collierville is in the South-eastern America. We are also in a modern time, because of the tone in the text. They use colloquial language for example the father says: Then you dead, boy”. In that sentence there is missing a subject, this makes it a colloquial language. The story is written in 3th person with an invisible narrator. The point of view lies with Tommy and it is an all-knowing person. The story mostly takes place in the woods, in Tommy’s house and in the Hut. But the main act takes place in the woods where Tommy shoots an “animal”. The story starts with Tommy laying in the woods and waiting. While he waits he thinks of a lot about his hunting...
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...We all have to go through it. We all learn from it, and it will always be in our memory. Growing up. Some just want to pass it and move on, where others try to stay in the phase as long as possible. Some people grows up when they leave home, some kids by becoming 18 and others a third or fourth reason. The short story The Death of Tommy Grimes is about the main character Tommy Grimes and him becoming a man. The Story is written by R.J. Meaddough in 1962. The most important person we here about otherwise is Tommy’s father Tom Grimes also called Pa. The title first let us believe that Tommy is going to die, literally. And when you read the first pages, it is about hunting what makes it more likely that he might die. But in the end he does not die, literally. Tommy’s father is teaching him how to hunt and track down animals. And as the story composes Tommy develops a new side of himself, and becomes a man instead of a boy. Because of this change the main theme is growing up. Tommy is a 12 years old boy who lives with his mom and dad in a house near Collierville. Collierville is in the South-eastern America. We are also in a modern time, because of the tone in the text. They use colloquial language for example the father says: Then you dead, boy”. In that sentence there is missing a subject, this makes it a colloquial...
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...R.J Meaddough, III: The Death of Tommy Grimes Setting: When and where does the story take place? Characterize the social environment. Comment on their language, hobbies, the setting and their class. In what way does the setting influence the plot of the story? Back your arguments by finding quotations in the text. Point of View and narrative technique: Which point of view is used in this story, and how does it affect the readers’ comprehension of the text? Account for the plot of the story in a chronological order. What is the effect of the extensive flash back technique that the author uses in this story? Back your findings with quotations from the text. Character characterization: Characterize the father. Among other things you should account for his values. What reasons are there to kill, according to Pa? Account for the nature of the relationship between father and son. In what way does Tommy’s father succeed as a father and in what ways doesn’t he? Back your findings with quotations from the text. The beginning and the ending: Account for what is going on in the opening paragraph, and compare this to its closing counterpart. Pay special attention to the symbols used in both sections. What development has Tommy undergone during this day? Symbols: In this text, nature is often used to describe the characters’ feelings as well as the general atmosphere. Find at least five examples of this in the text...
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...The overwhelming violence and poverty affects the way Maggie and her brother Jimmy mature into young adults. Jimmy becomes a product of the brutality, which leads to him continuing a life of violence as an adult. Maggie sees her life of poverty and dreams to escape this shows her unrealistic life goals. The characters have no choice but to be constantly set back by their social situation and it depicts the suffering and grief they experience. Maggie’s attempt to break free of poverty ultimately leads to her death at the end of the novel. Crane focuses on the difficulties of human life instead of the highlights of human...
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...and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Text copyright © 2011 by James Dashner Jacket art copyright © 2011 by Philip Straub All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Visit us on the Web! randomhouse.com/teens Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at randomhouse.com/teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dashner, James. The death cure / James Dashner. — 1st ed. p. cm. Sequel to: The Scorch trials. Summary: As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus. eISBN: 978-0-375-89612-5 [1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Science fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.D2587De 2011 [Fic]—dc23 2011022236 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. v3.1 This book is for my mom— the best human to ever live. Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 ...
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...CSS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE MCQS General Knowledge Q/A Q/A 1. The river Danube rises in which country? Germany. 2. Which US state has the sugar maple as its state tree and is the leading US producer of maple sugar? Vermont. 3. Which country is nicknamed ‘The Cockpit of Europe’ because of the number of battles throughout history fought on its soil? Belgium. 4. What is the capital of Libya? Tripoli. 5. Apart from French, German and Romansch, what is the fourth official language of the Switzerland? Italian. 6. Which country is the world’s largest producer of coffee? Brazil. 7. In which city was the world’s first underground train was service opened in 1863? London. 8. How many pairs of ribs are there in the human body? 12. 9. Which country is separated form Ethiopia by the Red Sea? Yemen. 10. What is the main port of Italy? Genoa. 11. Mount Logan is the highest peak in which country? Canada. 12. In which state is Harvard University? New Jersey. 13. Which is larger: Norway or Finland? Finland. 14. Which city was the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy until 1865? Turin. 15. What is measured by an ammeter? Electric current. 16. What is a rhinoceros horn made of? Hair. 17. Which three countries, apart from the former Yugoslavia, share borders with Greece? Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey. 18. The Palk Strait separates which two countries? India and Sri Lanka. 19. Ga is the symbol for which element? Gallium. 20....
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