goose
The goose has a symbolic meaning, which is representing the Loyalty. I remember that the Canadian don't eat the goose meat because the goose represents the English royal.
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“Well, we usually go to France or Belgium or perhaps Germany,” said Gabriel awkwardly.
This sentence reminds me Eveline's boyfriend and Joyce himself. Eveline's boyfriend and Joyce, both of them don't like staying in Ireland and they travel to a lot of European countries. I think Joyce uses Gabriel to present his idea to the Irish people.
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She felt a soft wet substance with her fingers and was surprised that nobody spoke or took off her bandage.
The author didn't mention what did Maria got in the game, the author only described this event as a joke to Maria. At the end Maria got a prayer book. I think the author wanted to use the girl Maria to be similar to the Maria in Catholic.
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Her hopes and visions were so intricate that she no longer saw the white pillows on which her gaze was fixed or remembered that she was waiting for anything.
I have a feeling that Polly might get rejection from Mr. Doran. In the previous paragraphs, Mr.Doran was sure that he didn't want tot get married with Polly because he thought that Polly was not in the same class as him and he thought his mother or friends would not accept Polly. I think Mr.Doran doesn't love Polly at all, he has a lot of excuses to not marry.
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“She’s a fine decent tart,” he said, with appreciation; “that’s what she is.”
This is definitely a female objectification! Notice that, the word "tart" has double meanings. But both of the meanings relate to female objectification. I think the theme of this story is promiscuity, which reminds me there was a time period many European died from the sexual transmitted diseases.
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This knowledge had previously kept his bills within the limits of reasonable recklessness, and, if he had been so conscious of the labour latent in money when there had been question merely of some freak of the higher intelligence, how much more so now when he was about to stake the greater part of his substance!
Jimmy was a rational person, even though he made a lot of troubles in his live, he knew that there were certain limits on squander money. But Jimmy losed all his money in gambling at the end of the story. His behaviors reminded me a sentence which was, "He that lies down with dogs must rise up with flea."
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Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.
Eveline sustains the responsibilities of holding a family, but this responsibilities should not appear at her age. She feels tried from taking care of the family, but she is kind-hearted enough to bear it.
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Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.
The narrative didn't say he likes the girl yet, but I can feel he likes her from reading this sentence. There is one thing that I don't understand, why the narrative says himself is vanity in the night market. I thought he didn't do anything wrong, he just wanted to buy something to the one that he liked.
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“What is this rubbish?” he said. “The Apache Chief! Is this what you read instead of studying your Roman History?
The Father Butler didn't allow his students to read any other books that were not relative to Catholic. There were a lot of rules as being a Catholics, but at the beginning of the story the narrative said that his friends and him had a spirit of unruliness. The story might arise an issue about being a son from a Catholics family and feeling curious about the world without following the rules of Catholics.
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THE SISTERS
The title is The Sisters, it seems like the title is irrelevant to the story, but I think the sisters here means the female christians. I am not a christian but I know that female christians call each other "sister", in the other hand, this story is about the death of a christian father. So "The Sisters" here might be the female christians.
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When I opened the door—believe me or not, madam—that man was gone! I ran out into the road just as I was, in my apron and my house-shoes, and there I stayed in the middle of the road... staring.
This is an interesting scenario. Even though the story was made hundred years ago, but the reactions of a female rejecting a man she likes was similar to a contemporary female.
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A dark porch, half hidden by a passion-vine, that drooped sorrowful, mournful, as though it understood.
The personification is used in this sentence. The passion-vine is a plant, but the author gives it some characteristics as a person whom feels sad. This literature skill is some beautiful. Mr.Neave feels sad, so when he saw a plant, he would think the plant feels sad as well.
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Mr. Hammond’s quick, eager glance, so nervous and yet so friendly and confiding, took in everybody on the wharf, roped in even those old chaps lounging against the gangways.
This long sentence contains a lot of adjective vocabularies to describe the emotions of Mr.Hammond. I even feel breathless when I read this long sentence. Not only the words that indicate the "quick" and "eager" of Mr.Hammond, but also the way to arrange a sentence makes reader feel the rush as well.
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Very stiffly she walked into the middle; very haughtily she put her hand on his sleeve. But in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.
After dancing with a weird fat man, Leila didn't want to dance anymore. But she needed to wait for Meg so she danced with a young man while she was waiting for Meg. I think Leila makes a good decision here. And I think Leila grown up after hearing the negative bloodily truth from the fat man. Because everyone has to be old and everyone has to be lonely at the time of dying. Leila didn't choose to be negative, rather than that she decided to enjoy the moment she had.
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In the glow of their pipes a nose shone out, or the peak of a cap, or a pair of surprised-looking eyebrows. Fenella glanced up.
The author didn't describe the action of a smoking man but readers still could image the picture of a smoking man. The author told readers the effects of the events but without telling what caused them happened. I like this kind of literature skills.
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What about a melon each? Would they have to share that, too? Or a pineapple, for Pad, and a melon for Johnny?
The fruits that are mentioned here, normally people would like to using them to share rather than having them alone. These sentences insinuate the intimate relationships of people.
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When he coughed the sweat sprang out on his head; his eyes bulged, his hands waved, and the great lump bubbled as a potato knocks in a saucepan.
There is a simile used in this sentence, the author uses the lump bubbled compares to a potato. Having a lump bubbled is not a pleasant thing, but when the author describes the lump bubbled as a potato, I feel less heavy.
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We drew up before an immense palace of pink-and-white marble with orange-trees outside the doors in gold-and-black tubs.
There are a lot of colors in this sentence. The vivid visualization pops up from this sentence. Notice the phrases, "pink-and-white", "orange-trees" and "gold-and-black". These short phrases use connective marks to connect the color vocabularies.
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“How can you talk of cutting off now?” said Anne scornfully. She stamped her foot at Reggie; she was crimson. “How can you be so cruel? I can’t let you go until I know for certain that you are just as happy as you were before you asked me to marry you. Surely you must see that, it’s so simple.”
Anne was a decisive woman, she leaded the story from the beginning till the end. Reggie was seem passive, he was under the control of his mother and he was highly emotionally effected by Anne.
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“Let them bu-bury father like that,” said Josephine, breaking down and crying into her new, queer-smelling mourning handkerchief.
The daughters of the colonel were dependent and protected from the colonel, so they didn't know what to do when their father pass away. It showed that the upper class females relyed on their families, once their guardians lose power they wouldn't know what to do or how to live.
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Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
After reading this sentence, I felt that the upper class didn't have sadness at all rather the lower class only lived with the sadness.
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Four men in their shirt-sleeves stood grouped together on the garden path. They carried staves covered with rolls of canvas, and they had big tool-bags slung on their backs. They looked impressive. Laura wished now that she had not got the bread-and-butter, but there was nowhere to put it, and she couldn’t possibly throw it away. She blushed and tried to look severe and even a little bit short-sighted as she came up to them.
Laura might at the age of puberty, so she was curious about the working men in the garden. The following paragraphs also described Laura was shy and uncertain when she talked to the working men. I feel that Laura is naive, she might be the character that has a positive energy.
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“Mr. Blake!” he said. “Look at the man’s face. It is a face disguised–and here’s a proof of it!”
This scene is so scary. The man must know that Cuff and Blake are looking for him, so he prepare the disguised face on the bed. However, I don't understand why Godfrey took the diamond. In the previous narratives, Godfrey was not suspicious as all.
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“Octavius Guy,” answered the boy. “They call me Gooseberry at the office because of my eyes.”
The boy's name is Octavius Guy, notice that Octavius is the name of the Emperor of the Roman. But I don't know are there any commons between the Emperor of the Roman and the boy here. In the history, there are compliments and controversy about the Emperor Octavius. The Emperor Octavius solved the domestic problems of the Roma, but he killed a lot of upper class senior statesmen as well.
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“Do you believe as I believe,” he said, “that you were acting under the influence of the laudanum in doing all that you did, on the night of Miss Verinder’s birthday, in Lady Verinder’s house?”
Was laudanum the reason that made Franklin stole the moonstone? I don't believe it. I trusted Rachel, she said she saw Franklin was consciously when he stole the moonstone. I don't believe people could act consciously after the effects of the laudanum.
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It appeared that Godfrey, far from being discouraged by Rachel’s withdrawal from her engagement to him had made matrimonial advances soon afterwards to another young lady, reputed to be a great heiress. His suit had prospered, and his marriage had been considered as a settled and certain thing. But, here again, the engagement had been suddenly and unexpectedly broken off–owing, it was said, on this occasion, to a serious difference of opinion between the bridegroom and the lady’s father, on the question of settlements.
Godfrey was the person who always helped women to gain more rights and promoted women rights. But he tried so hard to get married with a rich woman, what he behaved contradicted to what he claimed. He is a deceptive person.
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“I want to ask you something,” I said. “I want you to tell me everything that happened, from the time when we wished each other good night, to the time when you saw me take the Diamond.”
I felt confused about Franklin. Did he actually steal the moonstone? Why he reacted like he didn't know anything? At first, I though he wanted to pretend as innocence. However, he kept asking people the truth about how he stole the moonstone. If he stole the moonstone consciously, he behaved unashamedly to keep asking Rachel how he stole the moonstone.
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We left the house in silence. For the first time in my experience of him, I found old Betteredge in my company without a word to say to me. Having something to say on my side, I opened the conversation as soon as we were clear of the lodge gates.
After Betteredge listened the letters from Rosanna to Franklin, Betteredge felt more confused for the lost of the moonstone. He knew the reasons why Rachel hated Franklin, but he liked Franklin and he couldn't believe that Franklin stole the moonstone. However, Betteredge might feel disappointed on Franklin, so he didn't talk to Franklin.
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I heartily agreed in this with Mr. Murthwaite. At the same time, I felt bound to inform him (without, it is needless to say, mentioning Miss Verinder’s name) that Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite had been cleared of all suspicion, on evidence which I could answer for as entirely beyond dispute.
The lawyer believed that Godfrey was innocent. In Betteredge's narrative and Clack's narrative, they didn't make any judgments on whom were innocent or guilty. The truth first came out in lawyer's narrative. This quite meets the characteristics of a lawyer whom stand for the British legal system.
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The tone in which he retorted, and a certain disturbance, after he had spoken, which I detected in his manner, suggested to me that he was possessed of some information which he hesitated to communicate.
The lawyer recorded the conversations between Betteredge and Franklin, but he didn't judge what they said, instead he used neutral tones to narrate what happened. My hypothesis is the lawyer has fewer adjectives in his narrative.
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Little did my poor aunt imagine what a gush of devout thankfulness thrilled through me as she approached the close of her melancholy story. Here was a career of usefulness opened before me!
Clack has interesting personalities. I feel she has her humor. I might have a stereotype about the christian, because I thought only the elder people would behave in very christian. However, Clack is young but she believes and behaves in very christian. It is quite interesting to see a character contains the elements of youth and pedantry at the same time.
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She gave him her hand. Alas, for our fallen nature! Alas, for Mr. Godfrey! He not only forgot himself so far as to kiss her hand–he adopted a gentleness of tone in answering her which, in such a case, was little better than a compromise with sin.
Clack didn't care the case of the lost of Moonstone, instead she interested in the families' gossip. She made a lot of records of the conversations between Rachel and Godfrey, but she only commented Rachel's and Godfrey's behaviors, based on her christian dogma. Clack and Rachel are the representatives of the traditional party and the liberal party in British.
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I kept my spirits from sinking by sticking fast to my pipe and my ROBINSON CRUSOE.
I would want to know the reasons that the author mentions ROBINSON CRUSOE. from the beginning till the end. Are there any connections between ROBINSON CRUSOE and the Moonstone?
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He stopped there, and going back to the billiard-table, began to knock the balls about once more.
Mr Franklin told Mr Betteredge that Rosanna was at the side of him and looking at him. Mr Franklin brought the attentions to Rosanna, he made Rossana as awkward as possible. Mr Franklin went back to the billiard table and knocked the balls out again. The reactions of Mr Franklin were insipid after telling the story.
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I never remember her breaking her word; I never remember her saying No, and meaning Yes.
Rachel has personalities like a morden woman. The author used a bunch of positive and strong vocabularies to describe Rachel. Also, Rachel is seem straight forward unlike Mr Franklin. Even though, the author used a lot of fancy vocabularies to describe Mr Franklin, but Mr Franklin was inconsistent and mysterious.
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But I wonder sometimes whether the life here is too quiet and too good for such a woman as I am, after all I have gone through, Mr. Betteredge–after all I have gone through.
Rosanna might suffer from melancholy. The sadness was around her all the time. This whole chapter was all about Rosanna and her sadness. It seem like Rosanna was an important character in the story.
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Nothing that I know of, except for you to keep your temper, and for me to begin it all over again for the third time.
I am just wondering why the author kept re-starting to tell the story again and again?
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He had his French side, and his German side, and his Italian side–the original English foundation showing through, every now and then, as much as to say, “Here I am, sorely transmogrified, as you see, but there’s something of me left at the bottom of him still.” Miss Rachel used to remark that the Italian side of him was uppermost, on those occasions when he unexpectedly gave in, and asked you in his nice sweet-tempered way to take his own responsibilities on your shoulders.
Mr. Franklin has abroad education background from a lot of countries. He has sophisticated personalities. The author repeated mentioning that Mr. Franklin was a complicated person. Maybe Mr. Franklin has some surprising stories at the end of the story.
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