... . It seems to be some sort of freight business. The lack of explanation shows a disinterest in his work, the same he shows toward life in general. He does mention getting a great deal of enjoyment from washing his hands before going out to lunch, which of course seems strange at first, but it highlights his uncaring almost lazy attitude towards life, he chooses to ... Raymond, his friend Masson and Mersault take a walk down the beach. They encounter the group of Arabs mentioned earlier and a brawl ensues. Raymond gets cut quite badly but manages to land a few blows. The matter remains un...

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... . It seems to be some sort of freight business. The lack of explanation shows a disinterest in his work, the same he shows toward life in general. He does mention getting a great deal of enjoyment from washing his hands before going out to lunch, which of course seems strange at first, but it highlights his uncaring almost lazy attitude towards life, he chooses to ... Raymond, his friend Masson and Mersault take a walk down the beach. They encounter the group of Arabs mentioned earlier and a brawl ensues. Raymond gets cut quite badly but manages to land a few blows. The matter remains un...

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• Grade Level: High School

... kind of hold on Obi. The English try to control him as do the Union. The Union believes in education, and they want him to study law so that he may help them with their land cases. The irony is that he "learned" nothing about the law, studied English instead and ends up ... in court. This is a perfect metaphor for the novel: the idea that he left what the Umuofians wanted him to study which was law in order to pursue the language and ... memory of those who are no longer home. Obi's Nigeria, while in England, is very much one of these "imaginary homelands," fictionalized, in many ways,...

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• Grade Level: High School

... of Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Précis Characters: Orsino, Duke of Illyria. Is madly in love with Lady Olivia. He is a kind and gentle man. Viola/Cesario, Young girl who has found herself in Illyria after being shipwrecked. She is disguised as a boy to insure her safety in a strange land. Lady Olivia, a young and wealthy aristocrat who falls for the young Cesario. Sebastian, Sebastian ... mission. Sir Toby is now with Cesario as he is attempting to leave Olivia's house before finding himself/herself in a duel. Cesario asks Sir Toby to go and find out what he has done wrong to warr...

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... they dreamed of going back to their birthplace and someday making it in their mother-country Africa. All of the characters in the play are caught between two cultures, even Shelley, the only white character in the play. The Mother in Strange Fruit, alike to Max in Bent, also hides her true identity to a certain extent. Unlike ... I"d been reading the wrong books, listening to lies." This shows us the confusion Mother once had about where she felt she belonged. In Strange Fruit it is Alvin's character that changes the most and this is mainly due to the confusion he experiences ... comes ba...

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... of Thebes as "god's prophet- (1262) and is "gifted with the truth as no one else- (1264). And Arnold Friend appears to be just a stranger that drives up in a "jalopy, painted a bright gold- but he too has psychic powers. May Hal sees Arnold Friend as a being with super natural powers, too. She writes ... way about him as he did of Tiresias when he made that rude comment. Tiresias also predicted the future with precision when he told Oedipus: "A seeming stranger, we shall be shown to be Theban born, blind, who once could see, a beggar who was rich. He'll go and point with a stick ... who...

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• Has Bibliography
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... of what has just happened. After dragged from her home she knew all her life with hardly any notice and shipped off to a land that she had only heard of in Ned's stories, she has to learn to cope. This is what she try's to do when she gets to Newfoundland, she tries ... on the rocks. Also of women who float above snowdrifts wailing for lovers or lost children. Kingdoms drowned in the sea and princesses stolen by gypsies. 7) On the beach it looks like some strange festival taking place. Men edge back and forth, testing the floating ice with long gaffs. Children wore ... Ned's relationshi...

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... Jack "flips", goes into the other world, into the Territories. Jack is not the only person that can go between worlds. The Fisherman also has this ability. In the Territories Jack walks along a dirt road and comes across Ty's baseball cap. He believes that the Fisherman is taunting him with the idea that Ty is still alive ... The bikers are driving down the road and come to the "no trespassing" sign the leads to the house. They are all scared and feel strange about going down he road. There is something in the trees that seems to be watching them. They begin to get sick and weak everyth...

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... I could make out small flows of traffic on interstates; red blood cells slowly trekking through an artery. After a while, I always thought to myself how land from the aerial view of an airplane very closely resembled circuitry inside of electronics which I had disassembled at home. Roads and avenues could be mistaken for circuit ... care in the world about where we were going. I was always too distracted by the different contours of the clouds to pay attention. Eventually, as is true with any good thing, it always came to an end. The process of landing on the runway was one that filled ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of India. Fate thought differently. When she brought the manuscript to an Indian editor he immediately loved the book and saw a marketing ... the ability to actually dream each other's dreams and to share each other's happiness and pain." There aren't any lasting positive relationships in the book. Marriages end in divorce; loved ones move away; alcoholism and beatings seep into families; the twins are torn apart; early deaths abound. Does th...

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... the English novel; at the same time they provided a basis for which psychological exploration became a key component in the development of the genre of the novel. They also offered new possibilities for the portrayal of women in fiction. Women became even more of a 'foreign land', but increasingly familiar and central as subjects for fiction. When the novel Wuthering Heights first published, it found ... two people: "If all else perished and he remained, I shall still continue to be and if all else remained and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighthy stranger for me." ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School