the full text ------------------------------------------------- The End of the Party – By Graham Greene Peter Morton woke with a start to face the first light. Rain tapped against the glass. It was January the fifth. He looked across a table on which a night-light had guttered into a pool of water, at the other bed. Francis Morton was still asleep, and Peter lay down again with his eyes on his brother. It amused him to imagine it was himself whom he watched, the same hair, the same eyes, the
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Life is a slate where experience writes Graham Greene suggests, “Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered”. People’s actions, thoughts, and intentions are based on their assumption of morality. Graham Greene’s views on morality lead him to face many internal conflicts in his life such as alienation and self-doubt which made him to commit suicide six times during his adolescent age (Roisman- Cooper). Graham Greene’s internal conflicts and experiences in
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Children’s Psychology in Graham Greene’s Short Fiction Ковина Алёна Витальевна Студентка Санкт-Петербургского Государственного Университета, Санкт-Петербург, Россия Graham Greene is one of the most prolific and widely read English writers of the 20th century. He is famous for his novels, covering political and social issues of the time and sarcastic short stories. However, another part of ‘Greeneland’ ignored by critics: is his gripping stories of children suffering from
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Dreaded Darkness “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene is a short story about fear. A young boy named Francis Morton has an extreme phobia of darkness. Although his twin brother Peter continuously tries to comfort his brother’s fear, there is little he can do. Francis reminds his mother, nanny, and peers of his terrible fear throughout the story, but they all excuse it and believe it to be silly. Tragically, undermining his terrible fear has a price. The first example of fear in the
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In the United States, Americans are usually seen as respectful persons who are willing to sacrafise themselves for their well big of their country. That is not all true because every single American are different in many factors. They could have different opinions and beliefs. Some might be very quiet, shy, share different political views, wealthy, different race, while others are quite the opposite. Just because one particular American has been involved in something bad, means that every American
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Thursday Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness AND one of: Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier Forster, E. M. Howards End, A Passage to India (plus the essays “What I Believe” and “The Challenge of Our Times” in Two Cheers for Democracy) Galsworthy, John. The Man of Property Greene, Graham. One of: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World Joyce, James. Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
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The End of the Party by Graham Greene (1904-1991) Word Count: 3549 Peter Morton woke with a start to face the first light. Rain tapped against the glass. It was January the fifth. He looked across a table on which a night-light had guttered into a pool of water, at the other bed. Francis Morton was still asleep, and Peter lay down again with his eyes on his brother. It amused him to imagine it was himself whom he watched, the same hair, the same eyes, the same lips and line of cheek.
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Economic Consequences of Firms’ Depreciation Method Choice: Evidence from Capital Investments Scott B. Jackson* University of South Carolina Xiaotao (Kelvin) Liu Northeastern University Mark Cecchini University of South Carolina May 2009 * Corresponding author: Scott B. Jackson, School of Accounting, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. E-mail: scott.jackson@moore.sc.edu. Phone: (803) 777-3100. Fax: (803) 777-0712. We gratefully acknowledge the comments
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100 Best First Lines from famous Novels 1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973) 4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover
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