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…he has worked so hard, and the creature is such a disappointment to him. This feeling is increased in the continuation of that same line: “…now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream had vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart…

…by her grandmother, into an arranged marriage with a man named Logan. Janie is told to learn to love Logan, but the love never comes for Logan in Janie’s heart so she leaves him. She meets a man named Joe. Soon after they are married. Joe was sweet at first…

…down and ask of thee forgiveness: so we’ll live, and pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too, who loses and who wins, who’s in, who’s out; and we’ll…

…­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale." As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore…

…As English society’s sense of physical security strengthened, the writings of the periods changed in style and genre, but retained the old values and heroic rhetoric. In Battle of Maldon the characters boast, brag and tell directly what…

…of the Myrmidons of Thessaly, and his mother was the goddess Thetis, a Nereid. In both cases the fathers are rulers, both are kings, but it is not told whether either of the women was a virgin. Odysseus birth is disputed, some traditions tell that his mother Anticlea…

…telling that spoke the hearts of the characters. In 1684 he decided to branch out and form his own theater, and was helped in his effort by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, the greatest playwright in Japanese history, and Takeda Izumo, a famous theater owner and manager…

…to English legend and heraldry would have stimulated the intellect and imaginations of the audience. Even now people are interested in hearing tales about “Merlin” and “dragons;” how much more so in Shakespeare’s time. Mortimer tells Hotspur that it is only…

…a much different story. If you look at the various Trickster tales of the Native Americans you will find a much different way of teaching. The Native Americans teach not through the preachings of hellfire and blood, but through the use of light-hearted stories…

…adventure tales that he has related to Desdemona before their marriage, the Moor recalls Desdemona's response to these stories "yet she wish'd/That heaven had made her such a man/And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her,/I should but teach him how to tell my…