She believes that if a woman's main purpose to attract a husband, she should not conceal her feelings regardless of the fact if he loves her or not. ... He goes in depth about his furniture, patron's estate, garden and he even gives cost of every item while Charlotte seems placid. ... Collins is so fond of Catherine de Bourgh and her estate, he usually spends his time in the garden or the study room. ... Because of his pride, he could not love Elizabeth or even find her attractive. ... In the movie, the reason why Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth is not clear, but in the novel Darc...

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• Grade Level: High School

"He was comfortable out there on the water, alone with the city lights and the quiet pressure of the out going tide." p 300 Oriel attempts to find her sense of place by moving out into a tent in the back garden of Cloudstreet. ... "She loved school. When she could avoid the humilities of being poor, when she could sink back into the anonymous mass of the class, she did love it." p 162. ...

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A symbol of Romanticism, Nikolai is a simple-minded, good-natured man with a deep love for his son. ... Katya realizes her love for Arkady when she sees the difference in him and Bazarov. ... The reader sees this when Bazarov is seen kissing Fenichka in the garden by Pavel, Nicholas' brother. ... When he questions her about it, she realizes that she is in love with Nicholas. "Nikolai Petrovich is the only person I love in the whole wide world and I always shall." ...

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William Faulkner in his novel, Absalom, Absalom!, uses all of his customary themes and literary devices in his telling of the story. This story, like all his others, takes a look at the south just after the Civil War, which is the which is the Faulkner lived. Faulkner uses a Southern family, the Su...

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She frequently walked in her garden and her only companion was her Italian greyhound. ... Even to take her own life, she must resort to her sexual power, using Justin's love for her to convince him to let her get the arsenic. ...

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Jewel is very special to his mother Addie, and although both love one another, neither can show this emotion in open situations. He can only express his love in deep-rooted violent acts, just like when he visualizes: It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less. ... (Turner, pp. 33-40) The goddess of fecundity, Dewey Dell, "is often associated with things and places standing for ferti...

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"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. ... "Tolstoy passionately loved life." ... Life for Tolstoy included family happiness, spiritual harmony, love, nature, hunting. ... "In the garden a tree crackled, then all was still again. ... Natasha fell in love with a man at a time when she was engaged to another. ...

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His variety of interests especially the love of fishing almost followed all his life and had important influences on his writing inspiration, and helped to develop his special personality. He loved taking adventures. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ...

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• Grade Level: High School