The earthquake claimed the lives of nine thousand people, many others died from the White lotus rising, hunger, sickness and banditry. ... The Chinese people of the time were apparently ill tempered as we learn in chapter four, The Feud; this is not surprising considering the enormous amount of stress and anxiety the people of the time experienced. ... Ts'ui's persistence and tenacity helped to rid the community of the parasitic Wang gang as we learn later in the story of T'an-ch'eng. ... Spence mentions in the beginning of the story is finally revealed in chapter four. ....

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Hindley loved his wife Fances, but she dies at a young age. ... It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him..."" ... When Nelly asks how she thinks Heathcliff will bear the separation, Catherine is amazed: "Who is to separate us, pray? ... Chapter I) Heathcliff also admits to "be Cathy-; they are one soul. ... When she dies, the only Heathcliff obsession is revenge, maybe to palliate his sorrow. ...

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I laughed and cried within the first chapter. The entire book makes you think long and hard about life, how precious it is, and how quickly it can be taken from you. We are all given gifts of different kinds in our lives. ... A young healthy five-year-old named Annie senselessly and suddenly dies. ... The first is the little girl Annie, who was born late in the life of her parents, and who died at a very early age due to an illness. ...

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In chapter three Lockwood is grabbed and pleaded to by Catherine's ghost through a window, and in the last chapter Ellen talks about people seeing the ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine walking on the moors. ... Edgar and Heathcliff both want to be with Catherine after she has died. ... Heathcliff hears this speech, and he leaves Wuthering Heights, not to return for three years.2) Nelly, I see now, you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married we should be beggars? ... Isabella thinks Catherine is only jealous, and does not heed her advice.5...

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In chapter 11, Edgar and Heathcliff had a conflict in the kitchen. ... How can I" (360)? ... After Catherine passes away, Heathcliff is grief stricken and while after talks to Ellen about how Catherine dies he says "[b]e with me always-take any form-drive me mad! ... Much after, with Edgar dying soon, Heathcliff locks Nelly and young Catherine in his home. ... And he knows your papa wouldn't let us marry now; and he's afraid of my dying if we wait" (455-6). ...

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In chapter 11, Edgar and Heathcliff had a conflict in the kitchen. ... How can I " (360)? ... After Catherine passes away, Heathcliff is grief stricken and while after talks to Ellen about how Catherine dies he says "[b]e with me always-take any form-drive me mad! ... Much after, with Edgar dying soon, Heathcliff locks Nelly and young Catherine in his home. ... And he knows your papa wouldn't let us marry now; and he's afraid of my dying if we wait " (455-6). ...

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The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. ... But instead, it turns out that Rebecca was dying of cancer, and that furthermore she was infertile; she had lied to Maxim about her pregnancy. ... The only person to whom she could speak of it, we realize shortly, is her husband, whose name we have not yet learned. ... Pieces of a vanished life float vaguely about: the heroine misses her dog, Jasper, and remembers how meals were prepared at Manderley, and then she thinks of a Mrs. ... He is Maxim de Winter, the owner of the famous estate known...

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Throughout the story you learn that her mother controls Tita's life, and until her mother dies, Tita cannot live the life that she wishes to. ... This takes place during the third chapter or the month of March. ... Brown teaches Tita how to make matches. ... Tita and Pedro die a happy and peaceful life. ... Many pieces of literature that we read are full of symbolism. ...

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We preliminarily see Jane's rebellious spirit from her child life and can continually find how the writer develops it to a higher level in the following chapters. ... Just see how Mr. ... When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard." ... We stood at God's feet equal as we are!" ... In followed chapters, Jane's rebellious spirit is lasting. ...

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We see her witnessing her birth and her death and everything between. ... She is born, and her mother Mercy dies. ... This is how Daisy sees her life. ... They will always know her as the woman whose husband died during their honeymoon. ... To hold the chapters of her life in order. ...

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Paula represents all women, because how Anson treats her is how he feels about women in general. ... "Three days before she sailed Paula Legendre Hagerty died in childbirth. I was with him a great deal then, for we were crossing together, but for the first time in our friendship he told me not a word of how he felt, nor did I see the slightest sign of emotion."" ... (Paula dies in childbirth). ... This is how he gains the trust of women before he spoils the relationship. ...

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I couldn't give my advice because was I didn't know anyone who went through divorce because my parents were married for twenty-two years before my dad died. ... Also, after reading the chapter in Lifecycles, I began feeling the loneliness that my sister might be going through. I began wondering if my sister was Jewish and following the halakhah, how would she be viewed in society and by her peers? ... Jewish law, my sister was supposed to be a good wife first, but in the previous sentence I put how she was a good mother first. ... How is divorce looked upon today? ...

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Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. ... Jordon, manufacturer of surgical appliances; William developed pneumonia and died. ... Morel is the driving force in her sons' lives, until the eldest one dies and then she is the main thing in the second son, Paul. ... The Oedipus complex runs rampant in this book, read a few chapters closely and one will see. ...

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