Chapter I — VII Huckleberry Finn, on behalf of whom the story is being narrated, became rich and lives with the widow of Douglas. With the help of her sister, the old maid Miss Watson, the widow is doing her best to raise a cultured person out of him. Only the best friend Tom Sawyer can save Huck from torment
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The action takes place in Spain during the time of King Don Pedro the Just or the Cruel (1350–1369). During the hunt, the King’s brother Infant don Enrique falls from his horse and is unconsciously brought into the house of don Gutierre Alfonso de Solis. They are met by Don Gutierre's wife, Donja Mancia, in which ...
The tenth year after the end of the Trojan War. On the island of the nymph Calypso, where Odysseus has been living for seven years, the Messenger of the Gods Hermes arrives with a report and instructions: It is time for the wanderer to return home and put things in order there. But Odysseus does not seek Ithaca, for he understands that he will again be forced ...
Ingratitude is a moral problem that affects many people, so it is often found in texts to prepare for the exam. In this collection, we have given several literary examples on this issue. All of them are available for download in table format. Thanks to parents ...
This work does not have common characters with the previous books of Murakami, although they have similar images and plots. At the beginning of the Chronicle, the protagonist leaves the law firm, where he was an “errand boy”. He lives on some kind of savings, money left by his parents and what he earns ...
(429 words) Man is a complex organism. Sometimes we cannot say for sure whether our interlocutor is kind or evil, generous or cruel, good or bad. This can be explained by the contradictory nature of each of us. How to answer the question of what controls people to a greater extent - kindness ...
The army regiment is stationed in the town of ***. Life goes according to the routine established in the army, and only the officers acquaintance with a certain person named Silvio living in this place scatters the garrison boredom. He is older than most officers of the regiment, gloomy, has a strong temper and an evil tongue....
(138 words) Moral choice is a situation in which a person has two options for the development of events, one of which is usually correct, but less profitable. The hero of the text V. Droganov faced such a choice when his classmate Kolka Babushkin thought that lying on the desk ...
West coast of Norway. Brand, a middle-aged man in black clothes and a satchel over his shoulders, makes his way through the mountains to the west to the fjord, where his native village lies. Brand is held by fellow travelers - a peasant with his son. They prove that the direct path through the mountains is deadly, you need to go around! But brand ...
: 1933 year. An orphan boy from a village located on the Yenisei is experiencing the most hungry winter in his life. Good luck to his family brings a puppy, saved from fierce death in a snowdrift. In 1933, the village where the boy Vitya lived "was crushed by hunger." There were no pigeons, the dogs and the noisy gangs of boys fell silent....
(304 words) Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930) - an extraordinary person who controlled the “ship of modernity”. He was a man who concealed a thousand personalities, one of whom fell in love with futurism. The wounded, impudent lover and rebel, eager to find his place in life....
Preface Here, the author substantiates the idea that revolution is not a child to be protected. This is lightning, but we will not protect lightning, entering the field during a thunderstorm! To the author, the revolution seems to be a man who at any moment jumps out of the gateway, puts a knife to his throat and takes off ...
(337 words) “Asya” is one of I.S. Turgenev, which in literature is called "Hellenistic", that is, they are based on the unity of two motives - love and death. Turgenev's love is obviously unhappy because his characters are not made for love: they want to love, but in feelings ...
Anna Akhmatova is an outstanding poet of the 20th century. Her life and career can not be called easy. The Soviet propaganda machine slandered it, created difficulties and barriers, but the poetess remained a strong and unshakable patriot of her country. Her civic lyrics aim to ...
Having revealed the secret of the tragic death of Madame D’Espane and her daughter ("Murders on Morgue Street"), Auguste Dupin again plunges into his melancholy thoughts. However, the role of Dupin in the drama on Morgue Street earned him fame as a visionary among the Parisian police, and the prefecture repeatedly tried to resort to him again ...
: 1917 year. A young rural doctor begins the fight against syphilis, which infects entire families in villages. Patients do not finish the treatment, and the doctor seeks to open a special department in the hospital. The narration is on behalf of a young doctor, whose name is not mentioned in the story. Act ...
Consultant mindset Do not rely on intuition, use facts. This will avoid mistakes and give more weight to your idea during the presentation. Think clearly. McKinsey uses the MECE - Mutually Exclusive Collectively Eexhaustive (mutually ...
Jim Dixon, the protagonist of the novel, works as a professor of history at an English provincial university. He teaches there for the first year and has not yet been hired for work, but passes a probationary period. But from the very beginning he makes a bad impression on his colleagues. Still would. In the first ...
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