of dripping against the concreate caused my eyes to flutter open. I waited as my eyes began to focus to the dimly lit surrounding. I noticed a pipe just a few inches away from where I was laying had been leaking. The leak must have been there for a while because the now once shiny pipe was now old and rusted. I looked around to see where I was and how did I get here? I noticed the tunnel that extended beyond the naked eye could see. I watched as old castle staged lights from the 1800’s flickered
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across his skin, almost as feminine as a princess’. He looked into my eyes, grazing my face with a tender breath. My own caught in my throat, and I really cannot finish this god damn book With a groan, I crumple up the piece of paper in my hand and toss it to the floor, muttering about deadlines and bards and the Gods know what else. I lean back in my chair, rubbing my temple in frustration; it’s been a month or so since I’ve been hired by the travelling band of entertainers, but my work’s not been
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After reading the first fifty pages of The Glass Castle, there have been many times where I felt skeptical about Jeannette’s parents and the way they raise their children. With issues like injury, moving, and family conflicts, her parents have reacted in ways that many of us may find different compared to our lifestyles today. Although I did disagree with their lifestyle, I was also able to connect to a few of the situations that Jeannette dealt with. In our initial reading, Jeanette mentioned how
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains many themes. Some of these themes are more obvious than others. Love, lust, loyalty, deceit, trust, courage, virtue, and righteousness are most of the themes within the poem. There are some more that are hidden within the concepts of the ideas that the poem presents. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by John Gardner, many different themes are addressed throughout the story. The translation by John Gardner portrays these themes by using specific
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equally as disgusting.” Gawain stepped into the chamber. “I’d rather battle.” “That makes two of us. Now why are you here?” Too full of nervous energy, Gawain paced the chamber, fingering vases and throws, picking up mugs and putting them down. “You are my reasonable, rational friend, and I have a serious, serious problem,” said Gawain. “Sounds serious.” “Don’t joke!” Gawain groaned. “Sorry, I’m overwhelmed.” “That’s all right.” Gawain leaned up against the mantle and drummed his fingers. “Do you find
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this brings about his murder. Tom's murder echoes Aimé Césaire sarcastic statement in his Et les chiens se taisent, that "in the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered" (qtd in Black Skin, White Masks 61). Darren Felty in "An Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird", states: "Lee wants to make explicit the consequences of racism. She accomplishes this goal by employing Tom Robinson's trial to allude to different historical events such as
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Thea was talking about what a great place we were going to for dinner, and how they liked people to dress nicely, which of course was a dig at me, not that I cared about her sense of style. Then she started in on her real agenda – how the house she and my father had recently bought might look big, but it was really just right for two people. I guess she wanted to squelch any ideas
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he witnessed the suicide of his classmate James Castle. A symptom of PTSD is reliving the past. The book itself is a flashback and there are many instances where Holden flashes back to a memory. One instance is when he flashes back to after Allie died “ I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that
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The crowd of heavily armed warriors stood in lines ready to fight back. In front of them their leader Vareath rode from the end of the line to the other , screaming cheerful words, while rising his sword proudly into the air. "My men. This might be our last fight. But it might also be the one that will secure our land from the darkness that is hovering at the Passage Of Werindor. So tonight we will win!" he shout and pointed his sword towards the sky. The men roared and raised their swords as well
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