- Your 1st sentence should state and define the topic of theme- For example, wealth, greed, anger, identity, etc. Original Thought, Please.
- State what you think the author is trying to say, without using "I and My", to the reader through the events, characters and conflicts.
- Use one quote along with the conflict, and at least one character that reflect the author's view on life.
- One page in length-Double space-12pt-Times
Monday, December 8, 2008
Thematic Page
Create a One Page Response that discusses one of the many topics of Theme.
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“Pick up that, philosopher and vendor of wine, said the Marquis throwing another gold coin, and spend it as you will (100).”
“I would run over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth (100).”
"Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes." (Page 99)
"As to the men and women, their choice on earth was stated in the prospect - Life on the lowest terms that could sustain it, down in the little village under the mill; or captivity and Death in the dominant prison on the crag" (Page 102)
Rudi Dunlup
“To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd. His hurried right hand parceled out the herbs before him into imaginary beds of flowers in a garden; and his efforts to control and steady his breathing shook the lips from which the colour rushed to his heart (60).”
"What man, pig (103)?"
Mr. Stryver then called his few witnesses, and Mr. Cruncher
had next to attend while Mr. Attorney-General turned the whole suit of clothes Mr. Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse. Lastly, came my Lord himself, turning the suit of clothes, now inside out, now outside in, but on the whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave-clothes for the prisoner. (2.3.66)
I would ride over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from this earth. If I knew which rascal threw at the carriage, and if that brigand were sufficiently near it, should be crushed under the wheels(100).”
“Mr Cruncher’s apartments were not in a savoury neighborhood, but they were very decently kept.”(45)
“Even in my fathers time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and pleasure, what ever it was. This ha let me,’ said the nephew, ‘bound to a system that is frightful to me, responsible for it … (pg. 112)”
“All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine (21).”
"Under the guidance of [France's] Christian pastors, she entered herself, besides, with such humane acheivements as sentancing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks (2)."
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