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| The British newpaper from which Franklin learned to write non-fiction |
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| The Newspaper of Ben’s older brother James |
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| The city where Ben is dropped off when trying to get to Philadelphia |
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| A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain |
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| Ben’s first pamphlet (spread in London) |
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| The Nature and Necessity of Paper Money |
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| Ben’s pamphlet about paper money, which ends up winning him the contract to print the money |
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| Ben’s political party idea |
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| First modern fire company in America, developed by Ben, of course |
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| Franklin’s idea for a school, which becomes U-Penn |
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| Commissioner of the Peace |
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| Yet another of Ben’s positions |
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| The thing that traces out the A for Dimmesdale in the Scarlet Letter |
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| Next to the prison door in the Scarlet Letter. Symbol of Femininity, nature, and sin |
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| Pearl throws them at the A |
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| Hester makes a pair of gloves for the Governor |
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| The governor has worn it in battles many times in the Scarlet Letter. It is a symbol of masculinity and strength. |
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| The thing Hester's invited to by Mistress Hibbins, which emphasizes her place as an outcast. |
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| The nickname of the townspeople for Chillingworth, because he's a doctor. Little do they know. |
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| Where Dimmesdale and Chillingworth live when Chillingworth moves in with Dimmesdale. |
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| A sex-symbol. Blatant sex-symbol. From Scarlet Letter. |
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| In a dream Dimmesdale has, Pearl points her forefinger at the A and then at Dimmesdale's chest. |
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| The tool with which Dimmesdale beats himself. |
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| Where Hester is held in front of town for humiliation to punish her for her sin, and later where Dimmesdale holds vigil. Finally, where Dimmesdale confesses. |
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| Hester is asked to sew this for the Governor's funeral, showing her morbid acceptance into society. |
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| Dimmesdale leaves this on the scaffold one night. It's a symbol of his hidden sin. |
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| That which Chillingworth admits to having lost since he began tormenting Dimmesdale. |
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| Pearl puts this on the A. It symbolizes nature and motherhood. |
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| In Scarlet Letter, it represents nature and seclusion from society. |
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| That which Pearl repeatedly claims "avoids" Hester. |
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| In the Scarlet Letter, a religious/civil holiday that marks the opening of the year’s legislative session |
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| Where Pearl is first told that Dimmesdale is her father, and where she symbolically "washes off" his kiss. |
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| From The Fall of the House of Usher. This represents the world of Roderick Usher. Everything that happens to it is happening to his world. |
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| The disease which effects Roderick and his sister Madeline. |
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| That which Roderick tries to play to lift his spirits. |
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| The thing hovering around the House of Usher. It symbolizes imagination and the mind. |
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| The medieval romance which the narrator reads to Roderick to calm his nerves. |
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| The crack in the House of Usher, symbolic of weakness, which causes it to fall. This symbolizes the perfectionism of the artist. |
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| From Huck Finn, it represents freedom, escape, and equality. |
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| A recurring theme in Huck Finn, Huck and Tom always aspire to be robbers. Huck is the only one who ever really becomes one, though, when he steals Jim away from slavery. |
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| Hell, from Huck Finn. When told about it, Huck states that he'd like to be there. This is signifigant because Huck spends most of the book in societal hell, but it seems to be the most heavenly that he gets. |
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| When Huck kills a spider, he feels compelled to repent. |
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| When Huck and Tom steal Jim's hat, they leave a 5-cent piece, which Jim finds. Jim hangs it around his neck and declares it a sign from the devil. This is also the bribe that Tom gives to the "robber" who wants to leave the band of robbers and tell their secrets. |
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| The shoe-print of Pap in Huck Finn. Meant to ward off the devil, but is just as frightening as the devil in Huck's eyes. |
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| The object which Jim claims can talk in order to con people out of money. This proves that he's as clever as anyone else. |
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| The tool used by the townspeople to find Huck when he runs away. |
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| Huck puts this by Jim's bed as a prank, but it almost kills him. This symbolizes/foreshadows Huck's unintentional harm towards Jim. |
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| Huck throws this at a rat, thus inadvertantly proving himself male when pretending to be a woman. |
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| Huck and Jim steal this boat when their own raft breaks loose. This estabilishes them as REAL robbers, rather than something out of Tom's stories. |
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| The name of a boat that Huck and Jim find sunk. Metaphor, metaphor. |
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| Huck and Jim briefly lose each other in the fog, metaphorically showing their complicated relationship. |
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| Foils for Huck and Jim, they emphasize the relatively innocent type of deception inherent in Huck and Jim's plans. |
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| At different points in Huck Finn, a lynch mob is out to get Pap and then the King and the Duke, thus tying them together as frauds. |
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| A rope ladder, case knives, or a shirt (for keeping a journal in his own blood) |
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| By far the three most likely examples of ridiculous items that Tom considers necessary for freeing Jim. |
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| Where Huck and Tom write that Jim has been freed. They throw the pans all over the place saying he's been freed, because Tom read it once. |
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| In The Awakening, the type/condition of birds are a symbolic of the characters nearby. |
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| In The Awakening, the sea is representative of freedom, and often female sexuality. |
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| The only woman in the novel who's allowed to be a mix of anything. In this case, black and white. |
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| The supposed example of what a good husband Léonce is to Edna. In fact, candy is not enough for her. |
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| This is Edna's semi-artistic pass-time. It shows her struggle to become an artist, rather than a "mother-woman." |
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| What Edna wears whenever she goes to the beach. |
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| A nun in The Awakening. Symbolic of the alternative to being a mother-woman. |
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| Constant symbols, representing the blind passion that Edna can never attain. |
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| Played by Madamoiselle Reisz. Symbolic of artistry and independence. |
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| Where Edna changes to and from her beach clothing. |
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| Where Edna sleeps when originally dissatisfied with Léonce. |
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| Edna wears this each tuesday to greet guests. |
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| When unable to destroy her wedding ring, Edna shatters a glass vase. |
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| The way Edna describes Adèle's marital life. |
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| Robert asks Mademoiselle Reisz to play this for Edna while he's in Mexico. It makes her cry. |
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| Mademoiselle Reisz wears them in her hair |
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| Edna greatly enjoys going to the races. This is yet another proof of her manliness. |
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| Where Edna moves when she leaves Léonce. Catch the name? |
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| When Victor mockingly sings "Ah, si tu savais," Edna slams her glass, breaking it by accident. This shows her insistant bond with Robert. |
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| Alcée fills Edna's pigeon house with flowers in an attempt to woo her. |
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| Alcée and Edna have a romantic evening by the lake. |
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| An insect that lives only a day. |
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| The metaphorical abandoned city in Bartleby. "Wall street is as empty as Petra." |
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| From Bartleby, to indicate how helpless the narrator felt when told that Bartleby would prefer not to. |
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| Edna's father has a pair of boots with spurs on them. |
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| In Fall of the House of Usher, the "zig-zag waters of the tarn" are mentioned to express the befuddlement surrounding the house. |
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| Where the narrator goes to church on sunday in Bartleby. |
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| That which Franklin seeks in becoming a deist. |
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| The man who tries to feed Bartleby when he's in the prison. |
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