The Moonstone

Supporting Characters: Kit Slip, Hal Mitchell, Constable Sanders, Mr. Wellington, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Abroscotto, Pap(Oliver Blake)

The brother is the person who has the most information about the family. His knowledge of his uncle’s account and conversation with his mother contribute to the overall completeness of the story that would have been missing otherwise.

In the first few pages of the story,there was a lot of foreshadowing for what was to come, predominantly using Miss Strangeworth’s famous roses and the frequent use of Pleasant Street. On the very first page of the story there was a long description of

There is a lot of vocabulary words that confounded me, for example, tranquility, op-ed, lament, perennial, mundane, indignation, and viable. What I myself gained after reading the critique stemmed from Charles Krauthammer’s “The Moon We Left Behind”, just how he strived towards comparing space travel programs to the importance of spending the countries valuable tax dollars on social, educational, and crime. The key concept that I for one, can explain if I had an 8-year-old sister/brother stands in place as in life, sometimes your opinions are not always accurate and it will be up to you to show evidence. In addition, the economy today will try to knock you down, but it’s important to stay true to your values and do your best at improving your

Chapter 1 – explain the setting an atmosphere of the strangers history. What is his name? What kind of childhood did he have? What other characters are important or close to him? Why is he telling Walton so much about his youth and history?

‘Well do your parents at least know what happened? I mean, am I allowed to know that?’ Because I feel a flash of anger that he won’t tell me something as important as this. ‘Skeeter, I told you I hate talking…’ But then he grits his teeth, lowers his voice. ‘Dad only knows part of it. Mother knows the real story, so do Patricia’s parents. And or course her.’ He throws back the rest of his drink” (244). In this passage, Skeeter is talking to her boyfriend about meeting his parents. He recently came out of a hard relationship with a girl who cheated on him; his parents had really liked this girl. You can see the desperate nature of Skeeter and the annoyance Stuart feels. There is nothing incredibly important about this paragraph, other than the fact it is a great example of the syntax Stockett uses. In some books, the emotion of the character comes after the dialogue, which makes it really confusing and hard to read. Stockett words things in a way where you can tell the emotion of the character while reading the dialogue. This makes the sentences really fluid and easy to read. The whole book has many examples of

When people visit museums and examine the art of painters, they are able to understand that there is a story or theme behind the painting. Humans have the ability to know the symbolism behind the strokes of paint. They can comprehend the emotional turmoil of Van Gogh while he was painting, or see Salvador Dali’s imagination through his work. Music has the same ability to establish a story or theme. There are countless albums that achieve this. One of which is The Dark Side Of The Moon. Pink Floyds album criticizes the people who place values on worldly objects such as money, wars, and time, as well as trying to show listeners that mental illnesses should be taken seriously and not just cut out parts of their brain immediately.

The passage has folly that is weird, but really shows how close family members are. “All of the brothers - Jim, Jon, Tom, Gregg, Brian, and Jeff - spilled out of the puke wagon and fell in the grass, gagging, yelling, and laughing until we couldn't laugh anymore.” This is foolish because normally people would be disgusted but they were giggling and enjoying this event, which really shows how close brothers are to each other. “Gregg upchucked on Tom.” This is also considered foolish because if this was happening you would just

As the family is driving along, the grandmother awakens from a nap and recalls “an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (189). This recollection happens while the family is driving through the town of Toomsboro, GA. The grandmother is extremely manipulative and selfish and coaxes the family into visiting the old plantation by lying to them with the possibility of finding hidden treasure. The name of the town is only a slight indication of the terrible tragedy that is yet to come. It is no

The text is structured with a suspense curve; there is an introduction, a rising action when the doctor operates, a climax when the baby is born and the Indian man is found dead, and then the action fades and Nick and the father return to where they came from.

In the passage “Cover-ups”, Richard has to unveil his thoughts on the negative history between his and his best friends Jenna’s family history. The negativity is that, as the text states, “When Richard was very young, he owned a successful manufacturing

In examining how local and global relationships are mediated during the era of neoliberal globalization, there is a disconnect between appearance and reality. Despite an appearance of prosperity and benefits for both local and global spaces under a system of neoliberal globalization, it is instead an era of inauthentic prosperity in the core built off the exploitation of periphery nations. With the violent realities of neoliberal prosperity displaced to the periphery of the world-system, the genre of Afrofuturism allows literature to mediate and discover the importance of hidden histories while giving a voice to the marginalized. Nalo Hopkinson’s novel The New Moon’s Arms and Pauline Melville’s short story “The Sparkling Bitch” work to reconstruct

The primary locations in this novel is in Sweet Home, a small farm containing slaves in Kentucky, and 124 Bluestone Road on the edge of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the novel starts out in the home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, Sweet Home is where Sethe’s experiences to the past begins. In Sweet Home, the slave system was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Garner, a kind couple who treated their slaves like human beings. 124 becomes personified through the paranormal activities in the house, and through the chapter names; 124 was spiteful, 124 was loud, and 124 was quiet. Mr. Bodwin, the owner of 124, tells how the house has a history of paranoia, "Women died there: his mother, grandmother, an aunt and an older sister before he was born" (259).

The novel commences with the introduction of this particular family setting. Sethe initially had two daughters and two sons. During their escape from their slave master, she lost one of her daughters as her two sons went away from home. Sethe is married to Paul D who is the father figure in the family setting. After their escape from slavery they settled in 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati (Koolish 67). The society in this area is mostly slaves who escaped from their masters. The neighborhood is however, good for settlement as both Sethe and Paul D felt comfortable in the region.