Summary Of The Sign Of Four

Chapter seven of The View from Saturday starts off back at Academic Bowl Day, where Julian has just contradicted the advisory panel’s sources. This does not worry The Souls, who are ready to let Julian risk it all. Julian repeatedly tells the commissioner that the panel’s information is incomplete. Then, in a flashback, Konigsburg tells the reader more about how Mrs. Olinski’s team prepared. This occurs in third person point-of-view. The week of the district competition, The Souls and Mrs. Olinski brown-bagged their lunches in order to practice during lunch. Mrs. Olinski’s team continued to amaze her with their complimentary skills. They seemed to communicate with “a secret stealth language.” The day before the district competition, Conner LeDue, the principal of

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley features the narrator, Leo Colston who has found and is rereading his childhood diary from the summer of 1900. This summer is paramount in Leo’s personal development and the shaping of his views of the world. In the summer of 1900, Leo was approaching his thirteenth birthday and staying with his friend and schoolmate Marcus Maudsley at Marcus’ family’s estate, Brandham Hall. There, Leo is forced to confront class, love, and loss of innocence throughout the course of this summer. Leo’s story is retold when he finds the diary that he kept that summer. Leo’s diary entries show his affinity for Zodiac symbols, which was inspired by the astrological symbols that are at the beginning of the diary. Leo used these symbols

“The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever is a short story about a woman, Miss Dent, whom gets her revenge on a man, Mr. Blake, who has no morals that slept, fires, and ignores her. In “The Five-Forty-Eight” by John Cheever the story engages me by the suspenseful exposition, the anticipation of the climax, and the clever resolution.

For example rebellions were common in many countries. For instance, The Boxer Rebellion in China where “Late in July a proclamation of the Governor was posted in the city in which occurred the words “Exterminate all foreigners, kill devils” (Doc 2). The Boxer Rebellion lasted for about a year and had to be put down by a multinational force. Another rebellion occurred in India that consisted of Indian soldiers called Sepoys. The rebellion was caused by a rumor that the rifle cartridges were sealed with pork and beef fat, both meats that are not allowed to be consumed in muslim and Hindu religions. Because of the rebellion, Britain was forced to take direct control of India, by bringing in their own government officials instead of having some Indian officials who would follow Britain's way of government. Although it was common, not all rebellions were violent. In India the growing tide of nationalism was lead by figures such as Gandhi, who protested the closing of Indian factories by making his own products instead of buying British made products (Doc

The reason the Sepoys’ felt they lost religious control and were being converted to Christianity, was not only because of the insults to their religion, but the fact there were not allowed to be involved in the BEIC legislature. Even if the cartridges were not greased with pig or cow grease, the British had tried in the past to convert the Sepoys. The reason we know this

In India the way the British treated the Indians, made the Indians resist, and this created the Sepoy rebellion. The Sepoy rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising against the British in India. The reason they wanted to resist was the disrespectful treatment of the British. Indians received a lower pay than the British for working in the military. The Indians also had limited opportunities because, the British controlled the country so, they couldn’t do everything they wished. In India there were two main religions, Hindus and Muslims. According to their religion, the Hindus cannot eat cow meat, and the Muslims cannot eat pig meat. The British started using new weapons that made the soldiers put their mouths in cow and pig fat. Part of the Indians didn’t want to do it because, it is against their religion. The British punished the people who were against putting their mouths in the cow and pig fat and they tortured them(The Story of India). The Indians were agitated and, they wanted it to end so, they started the Sepoy rebellion but, it caused ninety years under the British

Lawrence Ross attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. in 1985. Ross also attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history. He also has a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

According to Goia’s glossary of terms “a symbol is person place or thing… that suggest meaning beyond its literal sense…is related to allegory…works complexly... usually contains multiple names and associations.”1 Goia defines symbolic acts as involving “conscious or unconscious acts of ritual like rebirth, purification, forgiveness, vengeance or initiation”.2

In Indian culture there are two dominant religions, Hinduism and Islam. The reason why this is important is because that: “Cows are sacred to the Hindus—worshiped and never ingested. Pigs are vile, filthy animals to Muslims, and to taste any part of them is forbidden” (Sepoy Mutiny Erupts in India). With Christianity being the dominate religion of England they did not necessarily care that they used cow or pig fat. The fundamental disagreements between these religions created an air of hatred for each other, and the British completely disrespects the other two religions by making them use pig and cow

In the short story, “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson the author uses several symbols to tell her story. One symbol are be the roses because it’s the love she has for her family and life. A second symbol is the possibility of evil because she can be harsh to someone and be nice to another person. A third symbol is the letter that she symbolizes her duty to inform people or evilness but doesn’t want to tell them who it is because she wants it to be anonymous. She doesn’t want to know who wrote the letters so they won’t complain to her.

The movie “Signs” by M. Night Shyamalan is a movie about a former priest named Graham Hess who loses his faith in God after the death of his wife Coleen. In the movie, the protagonist Graham restores his faith in God after a series of signs occur that change his opinion on faith. To understand these signs, his daughters obsession with water, his sons asthma problems and his wife’s last words need to be analyzed. 1st: In the movie, Grahams daughter Bo is obsessed with water and can’t take a sip of it without having a complaint about it. During the bookstore scene, Morgan says,” Your water is fine.

SparkNotes is a reliable source because it contains the analysis’ of several books and is used by teachers and students alike. This source explains the book thoroughly, displays the themes of the book, explains some motifs, and sheds light on the symbols hinted throughout the novel. This source is basically uncovering the novel’s true meaning and explaining some of the deeper thoughts of the author that not everyone understands. One of the quotes I will be using is stated on the first page and speaking about Orwell’s thoughts,”...particularly concerned by the role of technology in enabling oppressive governments to monitor and control their citizens.” I will

World War Two left people calloused and experience when it came to see through the eyes of death. This event changed culture, storytelling, as well as literature. Trough these shifts in culture, imagination grew with the thought of what humanity is capable of. Humans learned that they are capable of destroying the Earth. This was a radical shift of thinking for humanity. The short non-fiction piece, “ Three Fragments,” helps capture curiosity through this short essay. The essay is structured to tease the imagination to fill in the gaps of the essay. The language is simple, clear, soft, dry and quick. The simplicity of the language helps the reader creature clear mental pictures as they read the essay. The image of death is behind all of the imagery in this essay.

Images or ideas that contain symbolic meanings aside from their apparent surface can correctly the definition of symbolism. George Orwell’s novel 1984 holds numerous examples of symbolism that pertain to today and the clever references he puts in that predict the book’s conclusion. Some of these symbols include Winston’s paperweight, a prole woman singing outside of a window, the St. Clement’s Church picture and rhyme, the phrase “the place where there is no darkness”, and many more symbols all contain symbols that either reference a theme of the novel or a specific idea that the novel conveys.

The sign of four is a novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was written in 1888. The plot of the novel talks about a number of topics such as murder, hidden treasure, a pact among four persons and corrupt prison guards. As a result, we can conclude that it is a detective novel. However, the novel tries to talk about India which was one of the British colonies. In this novel, there is much focus on the Indian Mutiny that happened in 1857. The sign of four is also a novel about the Victorian abroad. The strangest thing about this novel is that it was written by an author who had never been to India and was born after the events of the Indian Mutiny that happened in 1857. The author got his information and data about the Indian Mutiny