It still feels like a fresh nightmare that just happened last night. ... I went right to the bathroom and showered off the sweaty night of dancing. ... It was like any other night, where you go to bed and wake up. ... She was breathing weird last night and, and, and, now she's dead!... The night before I wrote her a letter and slipped it into the casket at this moment. ...
The rest of the household were two very young maids who spoke almost no Tagalog, and two very fierce dogs, chained to the front door in the day time, unchained in the front yard at night. ... So, his compact family group sat around him at night, silent, while Cabading talked and talked. ... One night, unable to bear it any longer he shouted, as they rose to retire: "Lydia, you sleep with your mother tonight. ... Once, late at night, he suddenly showed up at his parents' house in Sta. ... Mesa, where Leonardo spent the night. ...
The unknown and frightening images that can fill a child's room at night are incorporated to show how the belief in hidden truth can often seem to be real and take form. ... This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up. ... It is like being a child and not being given the reason for why bedtime is at eight o"clock while other children can stay up until nine at night; it us upsetting. ...
There were two sides of the platoon and every night the DI would say "Port side shine 'em up, starboard side shower up" or vice versa, meaning that whatever side would shower up would jump in the shower and whatever side would shine had to polish their belt buckle and their boots. ... One night while I was on fire watch I strapped my belt to the washer machine and set it on the spin cycle. ... Once the power was off we ran to his room with our night vision on, broke down his door, and I shot him. ...
Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...
Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely ...
beloved "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave"(Morrison 1987). These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the actions of the central character within the novel, Beloved. That character, Sethe, is presented as a former slave woman who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physically, emotionally, and spiritually oppressive horrors of a life spent in slavery. Sethe's action is indisputable: She has killed her child. ...
THEMES Betrayal Patrick Maloney's unexplained decision to leave his pregnant wife. This violation of the marriage-vow is obviously not the only betrayal in the story, however. Mary's killing of her husband is perhaps the ultimate betrayal. Her elaborately planned alibi and convincing lies to the detectives also constitute betrayal. Love and Passion At the beginning of "Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney feels love and physical passion for her husband Patrick. ...
