Bridging The Gap
Lily, spencer, danielle
Political Events
Quotes
“She was further troubled because she had neglected to tell her daughter about the freshly opened kit of mackerel in the cellar, that would spoil if it were not used directly.”
Indeed, for her own sake, I could only wish her taste for such things quite dead, and the long struggle mercifully ended at last.”
“I suggested our visiting the Conservatory and the Common before lunch, but she seemed altogether too timid to wish to venture out. ”
“At two o'clock the Boston Symphony Orchestra was to give a Wagner programme, and I intended to take my aunt, though as I conversed with her I grew doubtful about her enjoyment of it.”
“ I had planned a little pleasure for her that afternoon, to repay her for some of the glorious moments she had given me when we used to milk together in the straw-thatched cow-shed, and she, because I was more than usually tired, or because her husband had spoken sharply to me, would tell me of the splendid performance of Meyerbeer's "Huguenots" she had seen in Paris in her youth. ”
Literary Elements
Quotes
“In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king”
“The tiger-cages of the kingdom were searched for the most savage and relentless beast”
“in which he took such great delight and satisfaction. No matter how the affair turned out, the youth would be disposed of, and the king would take an aesthetic pleasure in watching the course of events.”
"Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it."
"Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result."
Attitude of the nation
Quotes
"German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories."
"His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities."
"He did not want to come home."
"The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return."
“her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors, she hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door.”
“should he be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her.”
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-"1890-1910 Timeline." Timetoast. Web. 9 Nov. 2015.