Death in the Dark The motion picture To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the Pulitzer Prize novel by Harper Lee, depicts the life of Jem and Scout Finch with their father, Atticus Finch, during the last years of the Great Depression in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. There are many scenes that aid in creating the overall tone of the film. In the scene “Death in the Dark,” Jem and Scout are on their way home from a school pageant when Bob Ewell attacks them on a pathway in front of Boo Radley’s
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colored while the other side is dark with three even and centered windows in the back. The Last Supper represents a scene where Jesus tells his disciples one of them will betray him. It was commissioned in 1495 as part of a renovation to the Catholic Church. I think that Da Vinci may have chosen this type of symmetry because it keeps our eye to the center of the painting, Jesus, whom is the center of the Catholic Religion. Found on page 416, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a good example of an asymmetrical
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Conflict in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ Set in Salem, Massachusetts, Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ was written in 1952, the play which successfully portrays the witch trials in 1962 as an allegory for the prosecution of communists. The play contains many conflicts set to tear apart or destroy the small community of Salem, and to cause havoc with neighboring towns. Arthur Miller gives the reader a chance to experience the dangers of hysteria in a community through the conflicts experienced
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Night: The “dark” or “night” represents Meursault’s fear of death. It is at the conclusion of the night that Meursault could be picked up for his execution. He is unable to sleep due to fear that each night may be his last: “After midnight, I would wait and watch” (113). There is some irony in this use of darkness because normally Meursault is comforted by the dark, but here it portends his greatest fear, his execution. () Sounds: Meursault is hyperaware of himself within his environment while
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Neptune · Peter Pan-------J.M Barrie · Six of Crows----- Leigh Barugo Sx of Crows Crooked Kigdom · Dark Water---Georgia Blain · Anna----Kendare Blake Anna Dressed in Blood Girl of Nightmares · The Darkest minds-----Alexandra Bracken The Darkest Minds Never Fade In the Afterlight · Fahrenheit 451-----Ray Bradbury^^^^ · Red Rising-----Pierce Brown C · House of Night----- P.C Cast Marked Betrayed Chosen Untamed Hunted Tempted Burned Awakened
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uncle, Claudius. Claudius killed his brother in order to gain the throne and marry Gertrude, his brother’s wife. All seems to be in favor of the deceptive pair until one night when Hamlet’s father’s ghost appears to his good friend Horatio and two castle guards, who promptly tell Hamlet. Not believing them, Hamlet waits one night on the rampart of Elsinore Castle to see for himself. He is convinced when the apparition appears and speaks to Hamlet. His father tells him of the injustice that has befallen
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o View Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night on p. 61 and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 on p. 64 in Ch. 4 of A World of Art and describe both paintings in terms of their lines. What does each artist’s use of line communicate about the artist’s personality and view of the world? Van Gogh evidently found nature to be as compelling and formidable as God himself. “The Starry Night” emphasizes this. According to Sayre, Van Gogh was mentally tormented and this is evident by the use of the artist’s
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What's A Centerfold? It's ten o'clock, humid and too dark for anything on this free Saturday night I've earned. My stomach uncomfortably queasy for what new experiences this night will hold. In my room all I can hear is the bothersome cliché clicking from the handcrafted cracked oak alarm clock I had received as a graduation present this year, "the calm before the storm" I think, then from out of the awkward silence like a near gunshot in dark woods the phone rings and makes my ears echo in surprise
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care of her studies in the daytime and at same partying the entire night and be a drug addict. We only follow her life about an hour, where she has to buy ink to her printer, but still she is able to go through the entire range of emotions – fear of death, rebelliousness, joy, dejectedness, freedom and so on. The story begins in medias res with the sentence: “It is dark, but the wrong dark. Something is wrong with the dark.” This creates a very gloomy atmosphere right from the beginning. The
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Doctor Harrison Wells, was a scientist and he was married to a woman named Tess Morgan; he was talking to her about an idea of making a laboratory one night. Eobard Thawne, a man with the ability of having super speed who is called “The Reverse-Flash”, was stuck in their timeline and decided to kill Wells and steal his identity. As Harrison Wells, he decided to make the original Harrison Wells Theory of a particle accelerator, but instead of it being ready in the year 2020 he decided to use a futuristic
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