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A summary of Part I: Chapters V–VII in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Crime and Punishment and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Fagin informs Oliver that he will be taken to Sikes’s residence that night. He gives Oliver a book to read. Oliver waits, shivering in horror at the book’s bloody tales of famous criminals and murderers. Nancy arrives to take him away. Oliver considers calling for help
The murderer, then, has slain a beast rather than a human being. A summary of Part 1, Chapters 1–3 in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Murder on the Orient Express and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Analysis: Chapters 1–5. Fog, which appears throughout the beginning of Bleak House, both sets the mood of the novel and highlights the muddled state of the Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. Fog literally covers London when the third-person narrator sets the scene on the first page of the novel. “Fog everywhere,” he says simply.
Full Story Analysis. James Joyce’s “The Dead” is a tale of love and loss as well as a thoughtful contemplation of Irish identity. It centers around a middle-aged professor named Gabriel Conroy who attends a dinner party with his wife Gretta at his aunts’ estate. It is the final short story in Dubliners and, therefore, can be regarded as ...
Summary: Chapter 1. Oliver Twist is born a sickly infant in a workhouse. The parish surgeon and a drunken nurse attend his birth. His mother kisses his forehead and dies, and the nurse announces that Oliver’s mother was found lying in the streets the night before. The surgeon notices that she is not wearing a wedding ring.
Are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous. (A IV, s i) After Shylock explains that he refuses to have mercy on Antonio or take money instead of Antonio’s flesh, even when offered twice what Antonio owes, a disgusted Gratiano compares Shylock’s character to a wolf used to slaughter humans.
