The play starts on opening night for Max Bialystock’s latest play‚ and latest flop‚ Funny Boy. Max is devastated as he recounts his previous failures and vows to return as “The King of Broadway”. The next morning‚ his accountant‚ Leo Bloom‚ arrives at Max’s office to audit his books. Just as Leo’s dream of being a producer slips out‚ one of Max’s “Investors” arrives and Leo is forced into a bathroom. They play one of their sex games and Max persuades a check from her‚ before finally‚ she leaves.
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The Nine Guardians �Nine Guardians� takes places in the State of Chiapas‚ in Mexico‚ where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940‚ during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties‚ distributed land to peasants‚ and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals‚ so he demanded
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close friends with a young girl named Helen‚ but typhus swept in and TB took Helen away from Jane. After the head teacher Mr. Brocklehurst is replaced. Jane’s life improves and greatly growing up to finish school and working there as a teacher for two years. She soon gets offered a job as a governess at manor in the countryside called Thornfield and takes the job‚ teaching a lively French student called Adele. But Jane wakes up one nigh to laughing and enters Mr. Rochester’s room before saving
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The Woods Dante’s Inferno opens in the setting on Good Friday in the year 1300. The voyager-narrator‚ Dante Alghieri‚ is lost in a dark forest in the middle of the night. Dante doesn’t recall how he came into the woods and blames it on how he was so full of sleep at the point where he abandoned the right path. Right as he is about to lose hope‚ he sees the sun rising over the mountainside and as he attempts to reach it‚ Dante is stopped by three beasts; a leopard‚ a lion‚ and a she-wolf. Dante
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which an apparently fascist candidate‚ Deutscher‚ has just been defeated by the more moderate Keith‚ to the relief of many people. After the party arrives in the past‚ Travis (the hunting guide) and Lesperance (Travis’s assistant) warn Eckels and the two other hunters‚ Billings and Kramer‚ about the necessity of minimizing their effect on events when they go back‚ since tiny alterations to the distant past could snowball into catastrophic changes in history. The hunters must stay on a path to avoid
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The excerpt from the book A Secret Sorrow‚ by Karen Van Der Zee‚ explains a woman’s challenge of dealing with a permanent internal injury in her love life. The main character‚ Faye‚ was involved in a serious car accident that robbed her of the ability to have children. After the accident‚ Faye broke off an engagement with her fiancé and moved in with her brother. There‚ she fell in love with her brother’s friend‚ Kai‚ to whom she had to reveal her tragic injury. Faye’s dilemma began with Kai when
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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A detective also working as a hired killer‚ tries to save his brother‚ a professional fighter from a ruthless criminal who coerces him into throwing a big fight. MALCOLM MORA (37) lives a double life. He’s a veteran detective and he’s a contract killer that uses a mime mask. He gets his assignments from FRANK. Malcolm forces fighter BULL (30) to leave the city after Malcolm learns that Bull is supposed to fight his brother‚ DIO MORA. Mobster‚ BILL SANTORO‚ who runs an illegal fighting organization
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The novel‚ like the movie‚ follows the story of Dorothy‚ a young girl who lives with her aunt‚ uncle‚ and dog Toto on a farm in Kansas. One day a cyclone sweeps up the farmhouse. Dorothy and Toto are caught inside the house‚ but they survive the storm. When the house is set down again‚ Dorothy and Toto find themselves in Munchkin Country‚ located in Oz. The house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East‚ killing her. The Munchkins are delighted to be freed from their evil ruler. The Good Witch of the
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Plot Summary & Critical Review Winston Smith lives in a totalitarian society‚ in which freedom‚ knowledge and truth are abused. In this society‚ all the citizens must adore one common leader called the Big Brother‚which is the embodiment of the party taking hold of the great nation Oceania.The world is divided into three great nations‚Oceania‚Eurasian and Eastasia. Wars between the three giants never stops.People in Oceania are divided into different classes. Winston lives in the middle class
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