Plot Summary: Hagar Shipley is an older woman who lives in western Canada with her son and his wife‚ Marvin and Doris.She starts to recall her life in Manawaka where she spent her childhood with family and friends. While the plot returns to present‚ her son Marvin and his wife Doris are trying to persuade Hagar selling their house and buying a smaller one. The proposal has been intensely rejected by Hagar‚ because she believes that the house is hers.Then‚ plot moves to the interview with the minister
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Plot Summary Of A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy is the story he tells upon reflection of the love he had with Jean Davis‚ or Davy as she would come to be called‚ and the evolution they experienced both as a couple in love and as individuals. It is‚ as much as it is the story of their love‚ the story of their coming to know and love Christianity and its Jesus. The two meet in their late teens and are immediately close. They sit engrossed in conversation for hours at a time
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PLOT SUMMARY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Danny Boyle Jamal Malik‚ an 18-year old Mumbai slum kid‚ get right through to the last question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ and the chance to win 20 million rupees. But straight after the show breaks for the night‚ he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The show’s quizmaster Prem Kumar‚ himself a product of the slums‚ is unwilling to share the limelight with the young upstart. A night of mistreatment and torture fails to elicit a confession‚ so
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City of Ember (2008) Plot Summary Showing all 3 plot summaries When mankind is about to come to an end‚ a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The city of Ember is to last for 200 years after which its inhabitants are to retrieve from a strong box instructions to return to the surface. Over time however‚ the message is lost and life in Ember is rapidly deteriorating. Their power supply is failing and food is being rationed. It’s left to two young adults to
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Throughout the investigation taking place in AIC‚ Priestley alludes to Inspector Goole being a higher power‚ or possibly even God himself‚ through his speeches; his manner of speaking; and his perceived omniscience. His investigation follows a chronological order‚ addressing each of the family members only when it progresses the story of Eva Smith’s life. The explanation he gives for his wealth of knowledge is a diary left by the deceased girl‚ however‚ in the final‚ albeit short‚ phone call that
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Plot Summary – The Simple Gift The story The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick‚ focuses on Billy‚ who is a sixteen year old boy living in Australia. Billy reveals himself as a reject‚ a thief and a troubled character who rejects school. Billy’s ‘alienation’ is a cause of the combination of all his troubles‚ his abusive father‚ rejection from school‚ bad neighbourhood. Billy runs away from his family on a freight train‚ and packs a set of unusual things like cigarettes and alcohol. Whilst catching a
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Invisible Man: Plot Summary Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man opens with a prologue describing the main character in time after the beginning of the body of the book. In the prologue‚ Ellison tells of the main characters invisibility. It is not a physical invisiblity‚ but rther he is not recognised‚ and therefore persieved‚ by the world at large. This is coupled with the fact that he is constantly trying to be someone else‚ other than himself‚ creates for his a complete loss of identity‚ and he
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------------------------------------------------- Animal Farm: Plot Summary ‹ Previous PageNext Page › Manor Farm is a small farm in England run by the harsh and often drunk Mr. Jones. One night‚ a boar named Old Major gathers all the animals of Manor Farm together. Knowing that he will soon die‚ Old Major gives a speech in which he reveals to the animals that men cause all the misery that animals endure. Old Major says that all animals are equal and urges them to join together to rebel. He teaches
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Plot summary The story begins in the future‚ in which the time machine has been invented but is still very temperamental. A hunter named Eckels pays to go traveling back into the past on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As the party waits to depart they talk about the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate‚ Deutscher‚ has just been defeated by the more moderate Keith‚ to the relief of many concerned. When the party arrives in the past‚ Travis (the hunting
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and seemingly the most genuine person who has nothing to hide. However‚ she demonstrates a certain reluctance to allocate the Governess with information‚ believing wholeheartedly the children are innocent of the Governess’ claims. Mystery within the plot lingers even before the Governess arrives. Miss Jessel‚ the Governess’ predecessor‚ had died with the cause of death unknown. None of the residents in the house speak of her other than say how she is missed dearly or how beautiful she was. Her
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