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- 1811: Beloved 2
- ... maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. The best thing she was, was her children. Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing, her beautiful ...
- 1812: Bridge Of San Luis Rey
- ... s decision to send her to live with the Marquesa. The Marquesa was a crazy woman who made Pepita's life even worse then it already was. As her companion Pepita was ignored constantly and lived a life of solitude. Pepita is that life in the novel, she is the only good love that exist in a world of those who either love too much or those who love too little ...
- 1813: Brave New World 8
- ... grandfather was T.H. Huxley , a biologist who led the battle on behalf of the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis. He once almost quit school because of a eye disease but Aldous went and studied at Oxford, lived mainly in Italy in the 1920's, (where he met and befriended D.H. Lawrence) and moved to California in 1937 with is wife Maria Nys. His early writing included poetry, short stories, and literary ...
- 1814: Beowulf 9
- ... eventful life. Both history and legend place the Danes and Swedes within the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.. The North Germanic Heroic ages reflect much of the medieval Icelandic prose and poetry. The Danes lived in what is now called Denmark and the southern tip of Sweden. Hrothgar, whose great hall was somewhere on the island of Zealand, is their king in the beginning of the poem. Other characters are ...
- 1815: Beowulf 3
- ... t believe in themselves. The people need assurance and they found that assurance in Beowulf. Beowulf reassures his people that the Dragon will be dealt with and gives them courage to withstand this threat. I lived in my youth through hard war-moments--- now here I am ready battle weary king battered with winters for final glory-time if that grim hall burner will come to meet me from his mound ...
- 1816: Beowulf 2
- ... do any harm to the great monster. Since Beowulf had a good hold on his arm he just ripped it off. After that Grendel had took off running to the lake where he had once lived to die. Now Beowulf has gotten Grendel's mother mad, her son is dead. So she came to Herot and killed Hrothgar's best friend, and got her sons arm back. Beowulf follows her back ...
- 1817: Beowulf 13
- ... wrong, what they did not know was that Grendel's mother was furious at the death of her child and was planning revenge on the Danes as they celebrating and relaxing. "But a monster still lived, and meant revenge. / She'd brooded on her loss, misery had brewed / In her heart, that female horror "(1257 - 1259). She wanted only to bring the Danes sorrow. Although she was a monster, she still ...
- 1818: Beloved 3
- ... a demon, incapable of love, and her younger daughter began believing that was true. She was deemed insane and others around her felt the devastation of her demise. Denver, who is Sethe s younger daughter, lived in fear after learning the truth about the horrific actions of her mother. She wondered what would stop her mother from killing her, if killing was so easy for her. I love my mother but ...
- 1819: Beloved 2
- ... red heart" and then be forgotten. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting The physical setting of the novel Beloved is a farmhouse known only as 124, situated on Bluestone Road, outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe and her daughter, Denver, have lived in this house for eighteen years. The story begins in the year 1873, but there are many flashbacks to the year Sethe attempted to run away, which is in 1856, four years before the start ...
- 1820: Beloved 2
- ... of strangers. Baby Suggs, holy, believed she had lied." (Morrison, 89) People stayed away from 124, fearing the bad spirit and aura emanating from and inhabiting it. Everything that Baby Suggs had preached, believed, and lived had been thrown in her face and decimated, thus causing her to lose the spirit and will to live. With the death and burial of Baby Suggs came the final insult to the community. "The ...
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