She is also an atheist with a wooden leg. ... The salesman then took off her wooden leg and would not give it back to her. ... I wasn't born yesterday and I know where I'm going' " (194-195). The boy then proceeded to run off with Hulga's prosthetic leg. ... Sally had prayed to God to allow her graduation to go smoothly. ...
Although Sammy agrees with Lengel that this action will not be soon forgotten, he decides to go through with his decision. ... In the beginning he acts like an immature kid as he dissects how each of the girls look in their respective bathing suits, but in the end, his values appear to have changed and we believe he has matured a little as he notes "[M]y stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world [is] going to be to me hereafter" (104). ... He first notices a chunky kid with a good tan, wearing a plaid green two-piece whom he apparently likes from the back as he describes her "sweet bro...
The grandmother desperately wants to go to eastern Tennessee, to visit some people she knows there. Seemingly willing to go to any lengths necessary to convince Bailey that Tennessee would be better, the grandmother, According to Stephen C. ... Extraordinarily, O"Connor goes on to give the reader more insight as to what will happen in the future when the grandmother says, "Look at the graveyard that was the old family burying ground. ... The grandmother suddenly remembers that the plantation was not in Georgia at all, but in Tennessee, which startles her so badly that she jerks her legs and...
KARBALA, Iraq - With thousands of other Shiite Muslims, I walked through the infamous "Triangle of Death" where suicide bombers, presumably Sunni extremists, had attacked fellow pilgrims two days before. Our trek covered 50 miles from Baghdad to the holy city of Karbala, and we passed through 14 cit...
When he arrived in London he found out that he only had one dollar and that dollar was only going to last him for twenty four hours. ... He and Portia fell in love, and before he knew it, it was time to go back and see the two gentlemen. ... The band of robbers eventually ends up going down the drain. ... One of the bullets shot Tom in the leg. Huck goes to the town to get a doctor and the doctor treats Jim really bad, but once he sees how much of a help Jim is he feels better. ...
Similarly, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" opens with a rather typical family going on a summer holiday trip. ... However, it could be said that it is in the final scene of O'Connor's story that the grotesque meets violence: "The grandmother [was] half sat and half lay in a puddle of blood with her legs crossed under her like a child's and her face smiling up at the cloudless sky" (O'Connor, A Good Man). ... However, it is not only the tradition that is grotesque, but also what makes the tradition keep going, which is the innate human cruelty. ... Next thin...
I am going to explore the ways in which Lu Xun uses characters' physical and verbal actions in "Kong Yiji" to symbolize his concern over China's traditional way of life. ... The second instance was the last time he appeared at the tavern with broken legs and looked more of a mess than before. ...
