Playing Beatie Bow Summaries Essay

After some suspicious exchanges between the duke and messengers, they have to move to a new castle. The queen discovers Nicola’s illiteracy and gets a governess named Madam Jacqueline, a cruel woman who loves corporal punishment. Queen finds out of here violent ways of teaching and demands here a new teacher. Nicola learns to read and can communicate with more people. A rival army begins riots within the people and they must again move.

A: Abigail tries to convey that Boston has been left in shambles since her husband was last there. She uses words such as “dirty” and “abominable” to convey her feelings. She chooses these details

For instance, Abigail’s line to Betty, “Your mother is dead and buried,” can be perceived as something said out of pity in the text; as opposed to the film, where the cruel and cold tone of her voice is evident. Furthermore, The film exaggerates Abigail’s sinister and manipulating nature to eliminate anyone who interferes with what she wants. This is depicted in the film in multiple scenes, such as her accusation of witchcraft against Reverend Hale’s wife once he began showing opposition towards her; her attempts to persuade John Proctor into thinking she is victimized, as well as her attempt to persuade him into abandoning Salem together and boarding a ship. All of these scenes, absent from the text, exhibits Abigail’s psychosis, desperation, and the exceeding lengths she is willing to go through to get her

Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you home, child, I have put clothes upon your back- now give me your upright answer. Your name in the town-it is entirely white, is it not?(Page 11).

Abigail comes to discover that 'family' is an important and significant word and part of her when she is kidnapped and utters "I want you, mum" which highlights how Abigail changed prior to her journey in 1870 changed her into an open heart to her mother and missing her family. Kindness, was shown whether in 19th or in the 20th century like when she saved the Gift when Abigail has saved Gibbie and Dovey from the fire or when she accepted her father's hardships between Jan. One example of an important lesson was love from Granny and her mother lecturing "She remembered her mother's dark dewdrop eyes as she said, You don't know how powerful love can be," of the two types of love; romantic and family but before she believed it was only " the sloppy romantic ones" and "love was for young." Abigail finally understood her parents love of each other comforting his father "It's alright about Norway..." Abigail implied deeper relationship with family or loved ones like when "she not only did long for Judah but she was homesick for all the Bows. It is assuredly a good thing that Abigail changed emotionally while going to the past of becoming more

The maim point of this chapter is to show the love developing between John and

The tone of this story seems to portray Granny’s bitterness, which is seen during a part of her consciousness when she hears her daughter and the doctor whispering, “Wait, wait, Cornelia,

The Grandmother identifies herself as having the best values. She completely overdresses for the trip in a "navy straw hat and collars and cuffs, so that if there was an accident, people would know she was a lady" (368). The narrator points out that she looks down upon other people as well. In the beginning of the story, she criticizes the mother for "not taking the children to different parts of the world and being broad" (367), and tells John Wesley that he "should be more respectful of his native state and his parents" (368). Despite being so judgmental, the Grandmother never criticizes her own dishonesty, hypocrisy, and selfishness. When she criticizes John Wesley about the state, she calls a little black boy "a cute pickaninny" (368) in the same sentence. She later says that little black kids do not have things like they do and that "if she could paint, she would paint that picture" (368). The Grandmother paints this picture later with a romantic story of the good old days on the Southern plantations. Her definition of a good man is even flawed. The narrator says she would have married Edgar Teagarden because "he was a gentleman who bought Coca-Cola stock, making him a rich man" (369). In the end, when the Misfit is killing her family members one by one, she tells him to pray for himself. But she never once prays for her own family or begs the Misfit to spare them. She is even dramatic when she pulls a handkerchief out to fan herself and tells the Misfit "you wouldn't kill a lady would you" (373), effectively trying to save herself instead of her family.

Abigail was not happy that she was no longer working for the Proctors, so she went into the woods and did what seemed like some sort of a ritual and wished she could own John Proctor.

First of all, Abigail is an adulterer. In the story it says "I am waiting for you every night"

Abigail starts to accuse and asserts her power over the girls right away as to ensure she is not exposed! “And mark this, let either of you breathe a word, or edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of

The main character, Edie, provides the narration of the story from a first person point of view. She tells her story based on an event from her past. Because she narrates the story the reader is unable to be sure if what she tells of the other characters is completely accurate. Because one does not hear other character's thoughts one could question whether Edie

She then told her that she had visitors, and her aunt and uncle came through the door. They interrupted her thoughts, because their faces were red, most likely from crying. They brought her flowers, and set them next to her bed. None of them knew what was going to happen next.

The violin is a troublesome difficult instrument that takes an entire lifetime to master. Play the violin wrong and the noises that emanate from it sound like they could have originated from the very depths of hell itself. It took me four months to learn the fingering positions and proper bowing technique and a year to work up to playing more complex music.

The only other dynamic character is Laird, her little brother. At the beginning of the story he is very young and obeys his big sister, no matter what she tells him to do; at the end, he too has grown up somewhat and no longer accepts her authority unquestioningly. He puts an end to their bedtime singing ceremony when he tells her, "You sound silly," and tells on her when she lets the horse escape. Laird is the only character beside Henry Bailey that is given a name. His name, a Scotch form of the title "Lord," demonstrates his importance to the family, as the only boy, and his place in society, which will have more respect for him than for his sister. Yet, in the story it is evident that the narrator is just as good a worker as her brother-far better, because of her advantage in age. It is only because she is a girl that her mother expects her to be a help inside the house, not outside of it. The other characters are the narrator's father, her mother, and the hired hand, Henry Bailey. Henry is someone whom the children admire for his "ability to make his stomach growl at will, and for his laughter, which was full of high whistlings and gurglings and involved the whole faulty machinery of his chest," and for other characteristics that adults might find vulgar, but that are wondrous and exciting to the children. The father is a creative, inventive man and a hard worker, who keeps his thoughts to himself but, in the narrator's opinion, can be depended upon. The mother is a