Summary of El Coronel No Tiene Le Escriba (Not Mine)

Then Toddy arrives and sees Victoria, the woman he saw that same morning in the bar. When he entered, he sat at a table near her and ordered a coffee. As soon as he could, he approached her and kissed her hand as a sign of greeting and that it is a pleasure to meet her. They started talking and she invited him to eat with her. They talked about them and the food of the restaurant and now is when she comments that she has a cockroach in her purse and plans to put it in her salad to avoid paying the bill and leave, but he says that that would not work in a restaurant of prestige and class like that one. She ends up opening her purse and throwing the cockroach to the salad. At that moment, the waiter comes and asks if everything is fine and Toddy asks for more wine. When the waiter returns, the cockroach gets off and walks by her hand, she jumps from the chair, frightened and disgusted, and pushes the waiter causing a scandal for the other clients. The two complain about the restaurant service with the waiter and Toddy asks to see the manager. The manager comes and she explains the situation which ends up favoring her but not Toddy since he had to pay his own. In the end, another woman shouted when she felt the cockroach walk down his leg and at that moment, Toddy and Victoria took advantage and escaped without both paying one of the bills for what they had

He then goes on to describe how “Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business preferred this way of repayment.” Remitting Miss Emily’s taxes was a

Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces him by stating that he “had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures.” So what immoral acts did he commit? It is never outrightly stated but through his actions the reader can assume that in his prime he chased after women like some people chase after their dreams and after he got tired of running, he used alcohol to rehydrate. Due to these characteristics the Colonel represents lust. Immediately after the fountain water takes its effect on the group, Colonel Killigrew turns his attention to the female potion drinker. After ogling at her he remarks “My dear widow, you are charming!” It is stated that all of the men once pined for her but their newfound youth gives them a newfound strength and also helps them to forget everything they learned by growing old. A fight erupts over who will win the lady’s favor. The fight soon ends with no winner but it does not really matter because the men were only fighting due to their characteristics of greed, lust, and arrogance.

The book The Prince of Los Cocuyos can relate to my transition into college. The first time Richard Blanco came to America and felt out of place. College is all about experinces and getting to know yourself and learning who you really are. It is hard leaving high school and having to transition to college. Being used to teachers reminding you about assingments to now going online and having to remind yourself. As I begin to start my college experience I thought college would be easier no one telling you what you can and cant do, but its really not easier it might honestly be harder. Having to do so many assignments all at once. I feel like college is all about self motivation and being able to push yourself to work hard. Which I actually am

"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage." (Ch.9, Pg. 61) Jim Conklin, Wilson, and the tattered man are not only alike in some ways, but also have differences. The purpose of this essay is to tell you the similarities between the tall soldier, the loud soldier, and the tattered man, how they are like or unlike Henry Fleming, and what roles these major characters seem to play in the novel.

In this final chapter, O’Brien strings the various threads of plot events together to form a cohesive message. Each of the major themes is illuminated as each of the major stories is retold mostly told about Vietnam and a younger version of himself

He opened a savings account for himself and deposited all of the money he had, except for the correct amount to pay change to Mr. Greyson, whom he owed from a shine the prior day. In paying his debt to Mr. Greyson, he earned his trust and bought himself an invitation to Sunday school and eventually lunch with the gentleman and his family. This was the start to Dick’s better life of saving his money, renting his own room, and meeting Fosdick, his new friend and private tutor. One day he ran an errand with Fosdick for his employer and the two rode the ferry when they witnessed a young boy, the age of 6, fall of the edge of the boat and into the water. Dick, not hearing the father’s offer of a reward for anyone who would save his son, dove in to save the boy anyhow. Once the boy had been returned safely to his father, the father was so grateful to Dick that he took him to have his wet suit dried and provided him with a suit nicer than his original suit from Frank. Dick then went in to speak with the man, as per his request, and was offered a position in his counting room with a wage of ten dollars per week, considerably higher than his wage would be at any other store or counting room. Dick gleefully accepted his offer and lived content knowing how hard he had worked for this day.

8. What does the simile at the end of the first paragraph suggest about the lieutenant?

In Julio Cortazar’s short story, Axolotl, the young man is searching for answers to his life. He finds these answers in the small, Mexican salamander trapped within its enclosure at the Jardin. The axolotl challenges the young man to see the simplicity behind the mysterious guise of the small amphibian. The young man’s daily visits to the Jardin only make the appeal of the axolotls greater. In those visits he begins to see not only the creatures simplicity, but also their neotenous tendencies and connection to death; all of which contribute to his association and union with them.

There cannot be a discussion about borders without also discussing the metaphors that are linked to them. When speaking about the border people know the physical borderlines between countries, but to understand borders one must look pass the physical boundaries. As a society we must be and make ourselves more aware of the cultural identity, language, and community surrounding the Latino American population.

7.) In the novel, a main character that disliked another character in the story was Rawlins. He loathed the young kid Belvins, who accompanied John Grady and Rawlins on their journey to Mexico. Rawlins was not a fan of Belvin’s because he was simply threatened by him, and he believed that Belvins was all trouble. He had a bigger horse, more ambition, and could do many things better than Rawlins even though he was so much younger. For example, in one particular scene, Rawlins is talking about how good of a “shot” he has. Belvins commented on Rawlins claim stating that he has a great shot, in fact the best one in town. Flustered after hearing enough from Belvins, Rawlins asks him to prove his shot by shooting a hole through his wallet. Agreeing, Belvins shoots a hole right through the center of Rawlins wallet when it is thrown into the air. This specific event shuts Rawlins up for the rest of the night.

As he is being chased he stops and finds a stick with a pointy end, he sticks it in the ground with the pointy end facing out. The generals servant runs into the spear stabbing him and killing him. Now Rainsford has only the attack dogs and the general to worry about, he runs up a narrow trail up to a water fall losing most of the generals attack dogs. Rainsford finds himself in a dead end in front of the water fall, the general caught up to him and only has two dogs with him. He commands the dogs to attack rainsford but rainsford throws one of the dogs down the cliff into the water. The other dog lunges onto Rainsford, the general sees the opportunity and brings out his gun and aims it at the dog and Rainsford. He shoots the gun and Rainsford falls off the cliff with the dog into their death.

Jackson’s dilemma begins when he and his friends pass a pawn store window and he notices powwow dance regalia in the storefront window that he recognizes belonged to his grandmother. The powwow dance regalia had been stolen years before, but Jackson is confident that he recognizes the regalia from photos. In an effort to prove the powwow dance regalia belonged to his grandmother, he tells the shop owner that he will find a yellow bead sewn on the inside. While the shop owner is sympathetic to Jackson’s situation, he explains that he has paid one-thousand dollars for the regalia, and can’t give it away. He does however offer to discount the price by one dollar.

Lorca described ‘Romance de la pena negra’ as one of the most representative poems from the ‘Romancero gitano’. The poem was written in 1924, when Lorca had been sent away from Granada, due to his homosexuality and was living in Madrid, the centre of the cultural ferment of the 1920’s. Here, he attended the ‘Institución Libre de Enseñanza’ (ILE), where he was inspired to search for the national Spanish spirit, through literature.

"Someone is blackmailing Carmen, dissolute younger daughter Sternvuda old general, who hires a private detective Marlowe to find and discourage extortion. Tom did not manage to do the job - all the suspects one by one kill.