Getzel the Monkey I found this to be a very novel story although I am not sure that I am astute enough to comprehend most of what was offered in this reading. ... I also believe that this is a person who has experienced much of life and has a great deal of knowledge to share with us in this reading. The community that the speaker lives in seems to me to be quite like the one in the story, it may be one in the same only years later. ... With regard to the way that Todus responds to Getzel's efforts to mimic him, I think that at first it amuses him, it fact almost all...

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• Grade Level: High School

While reading "The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb," I thought that Bibbs commitment and love for his family were drawbacks in his life. ... When I started reading this book my first thought on Henry Bibb with his slave marriage and child, was that he was very happy. ... Then later on in life his wife Malinda becomes pregnant and Henry expresses how excited he was to become a father. ... Later again Bibb was betrayed by the lady he was working for, captured and sent to a slave prison. ... Later Bibb's owner died and he thought that would be the perfect time runaway to Canada. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I once tried to read a novel of Beckett's and the dialogue, along with the description of the character's surroundings was so confusing that I actually had to stop reading it after the first few chapters. The theme of the play was made more apparent by reading the introduction about Beckett and his style of writing though it is not all that difficult to understand while reading the play. ... I appreciated the fact that I could read the play once over and then the second time catch more details in the beginning that were relevant to Krapp in the later parts of the play. ...

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This is concluded because we learn that he spent his whole honeymoon reading books and partaking in intellectual development instead of developing his newly wed relationship. ... This is initially shown before she enters the scene when Bertha is afraid that she can not be pleased and had to stay up until late unpacking her things. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In reading "The Handmaids Tale" I noticed that everyday items and observations are likened to some kind of sickening or violent image, which indicate that Offred's thought process isn't really all that stable; for example a removed light fixture is described as being "like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out." ... Later on in the novel, Offred greatly covets the Marthas, and the fact that the Commander's Wife is allowed to knit. ... In reading this intriguing novel you can see that there are numerous signs of social breakup, in what used to b...

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• Grade Level: High School

Venita, who is also black, is shot days later during a gang fight and this proves to Macey that no matter how hard her town tries to hide it they are prejudice. ... Opinion: My really liked this book because it keeps you reading until your eyes get tired. ... The pain it can cause, and how it can still effect someone later on in generations, from your family. ...

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His mother's philosophy of suffering to wait for a later reward is equally stagnating to Bigger it appears that she is weak and will not fight to live. ... Just as Bigger later hides himself amidst the catacombs of the old buildings, many people hide themselves deep within their minds in order to bear the ordeal of life and the oppression of an uncaring society. ... His own mother believes in him no more than the billboard reading "you can't win" that he sees each day outside his apartment. ...

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And then the populist movement politically oriented coalition of agrarian reformers in the Middle West and South that advocated a wide range of economic and political legislation in the late 19th century. ... After reading both articles by John D. Hicks and Richard Hofstadter, and reading from the populist movement history, I agree more with John D. ...

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This gives you an approximate idea of how old the box really is because later in the story Old Man Warner says that he has been doing this for 77 years. ... It is very important while reading that you picked up the word allowed because this proves that the people wanted the thought to go away. ...

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I like reading. I know all of you may like reading too, but you just fall asleep the moment you start reading History or Biology. ... So you close the book and say "Oh I'll wake up and do it later when I'm all refreshed and recharged....

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I like reading. I know all of you may like reading too, but you just fall asleep the moment you start reading History or Biology. ... So you close the book and say "Oh I'll wake up and do it later when I'm all refreshed and recharged....

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I didn't realize till later that she was actually getting money for the loan she had to pay off. ... I thought she wasn't able to do anything while I was reading the play, but I didn't think about all the strong and brave things she did until after the play. ...

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In reading the epic Gilgamesh by Herbert Mason I began to understand what an epic actually was, and one thing I leaned was that a heroic feat was not necessarily a physical fight, but could be an emotional battle from within. ... Gilgamesh accomplished more heroic feats than he ever realized, and overcame a fear that could have never been able to be fixed later in his life. ...

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By the time you finish reading my essay I hope you will understand my philosophy in education. ... After the confidence has built up then that student will continue to use the learnt experience at a later time in life. ... This consists of worksheets, reading, etc. ... After reading my philosophy in education; I hope that it has opened at least one door. ...

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"The Doll House" is a play written by Henrik Ibsen more than a hundred years ago. It is probably one of the first attempts to discuss the need for an equality between men and women. The inclusion of this play in a "World's Classics" book series tells us about how great this play is. But on reading i...

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This passage makes it apparent to the reader that she is not getting any better; she may be even getting worse, which becomes apparent in later lines when she talks of herself laying on the bed and trying to follow the lines in the wall-paper to their destinations. ... I am sympathetic to the woman (disturbed wife) in this story because she is definitely a prisoner, struggling within her own mind, and reading "The Yellow Wallpaper" through her mind clearly enhances our insight and interpretation of the story. ...

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Later, when he saw the boyfriend of Kim, he reacted with rage. ... His father/creator wanted Edward to be as human as possible and felt that by reading poems and books on proper manners and etiquette would help to reach his goal. ...

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I do know that when I went back with her a couple of days later the same clerk who had previously ignored her helped her immediately. ... After reading this paper, some would think that my daughter is nothing more than a "gothic gang-banger" who doesn't know how to speak proper English. ...

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I do know that when I went back with her a couple of days later the same clerk who had previously ignored her helped her immediately. ... After reading this paper, some would think that my daughter is nothing more than a "gothic gang-banger" who doesn't know how to speak proper English. ...

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Reading "As A Man Thinketh" opened my mind up about myself and the world that we live in in so many different ways. ... As the author states: "Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. ... Reading this book brings that saying to a much more profound level. ...

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These views become apparent in the readings of "A Doll's House," and "Trifles." ... She acts like a child that has done something wrong and doesn't want his or her parents to find out and tries to hide as much as possible knowing that their parents will find out sooner or later. ... The two women later found a pretty box that someone would keep scissors in or something and the canary was in the box wrapped in silk. ...

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In short, I liked the story for I could easily picture the events and characters in my head and I was comfortable with reading the story for it was told without using too much flowery words and the narration of events were clear, solid, and simple. ... Later on, she was told that there was a letter waiting for her at the post-office and having the queer belief that letters most often mean death, she hurried to the post-office scared and feeling paranoid. ... Sometimes, she delves herself too much and too deep into her fantasy world that she awakes into the harshest of situations but being alr...

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As we later see, Anna wasn't really a good person anyhow. ... Mostly for the fact that Anna later married a rich man, and basically wiped Bazarov completely out of her mind. ... Although it didn't really go far in terms of action, it kept me reading. ...

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Later on during that particular day when the classes went outside, I asked this girl if she understood what the rule meant. ... After my classmates and I went into the room to cool off, it was almost reading time. ... I found out later that he didn't reply because he did not believe in the rule. ...

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"Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane is a story of four men who had to abandon a ship and survive on a life boat until they reached shore. This story is told over approximately one full day. The men had to live out in the water in very bad waves for a day and had to last the night in the boat. Th...

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• Grade Level: High School