Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigilographer, an expert on seals. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldavian King Ottokar IV. Tintin then discovers that he and Alembick are under surveillance by some strange men. Tintin's flat is even bombed in an attempt to kill him. Suspecting a Syldavian connection, Tintin offers to accompany Alembick to Syldavia for research. On the plane Tintin begins to suspect his companion. The Alembick travelling with him doesn't smoke and doesn't seem to need the spectacles he wears, while the Alembick he first met smoked heavily and had very poor eyesight. During a layover, Tintin fakes a fall and grabs Alembick's …show more content…
Tintin decides to let the matter drop but then, while flying over Syldavia, it is the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a haywagon. Tintin has a hunch that a plot is afoot to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. In Syldavia, the reigning King must possess the sceptre to rule or he will be forced to abdicate. Every year he rides in a parade during St. Vladimir's Day carrying it, while the people sing the national anthem. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King, Muskar XII, despite the efforts of the conspirators. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre missing. Tintin's friends Thomson and Thompson are summoned to investigate but their theory on how the sceptre was stolen proves bad and painful for them. Later on, Tintin notices a spring cannon in a toy shop and this gives him the clue. Professor Alembick had asked for some photographs to be taken of the sceptre, but the camera was a spring cannon in disguise, which allowed him to catapult it out of the castle into a nearby …show more content…
Following them all the way to the border, he wrests the sceptre from them. In the wallet of one of the thieves he discovers papers that show that the theft of the sceptre was just part of a major plan for the taking over of Syldavia by their long-time political rival, Borduria. Tintin steals a Me-109 from a Bordurian airfield (whose squadron is being kept ready to take part in the envisioned "Anschluss" of Syldavia) to fly it back to the King in time. He is shot down by the Syldavians who have naturally opened fire on an enemy aircraft violating their airspace. He manages to make the rest of the journey by foot. Meanwhile the Interior Minister informs the King that rumours have been spreading that the sceptre has been stolen and that there have been riots against local Bordurian businesses, acts which would justify a Bordurian takeover of the country. The King is about to abdicate when Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket). Tintin then gives the King the papers he took from the man who stole the sceptre. They prove that the plot was masterminded by Müsstler, leader of the Iron Guard, a local political
The author Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado and went to Stanford University. He volunteered to be used for an experiment in the hospital because he would get paid. In the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Kesey brings up the past memories to show how Bromden is trying to be more confident by using those thoughts to make him be himself. He uses Bromden’s hallucinations, Nurse Ratched’s authority, and symbolism to reveal how he’s weak, but he builds up more courage after each memory.
Another characteristic of deindividuation is aroused emotion. They boys in Lord of the Flies are often in a frenzy and become one large group. [T] For example, when Piggy urges (v) Ralph to reassemble the group of boys, they come “together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolve[s]” (Golding 92). [6] The boys become one mass. [5] Because of aroused (adj) emotion, the boys are no longer individuals, but one unit (pn) of deindividuation. Also, when the pig game goes too far with Robert, he starts “screaming and struggling with the strength of the frenzy” (Golding 114). [2] In the pig game, the hunters reenact the killing of the first pig. The boys deindividuated within the large group because (cl) they become aroused by the setting,
music starts off in a minor key and in a slow but simple rhythm. This
In the poem written by Shel Silverstein, “Sleeping Sardines”, the poet was tired of eating beans, so he wanted to try something different but then he changed of mind. The poem can mean a lot of things, but what the poem is really trying to say is to not get bored of the same.
Back in the 1930’s, in Salinas, California, there were ranches on which men from all over the country worked. There is a story about the life of two men on those fields, working, as the author describes what happens to them through literary devices that help the reader understand the moral of it. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, masses of foreshadowing and symbols are used to higher the effect the story gives the reader.
My views about Ehrenreich’s novel that it was filled with educational details of minimum wage job occurrences. The author captures concrete memories of her experiences of several job positions. Working in several jobs of hard manual labor is exhausting for the mind and body. The job experiments involving all these jobs to see what many struggling people endure on a daily basis. I thought the experiments resulted in average, and intolerable work environments. Working one or two jobs was needed to survive and pay for necessities. From my perspective, it was a useful trial to show readers the hardships people of every culture deal with constantly.
The word “bias” has always had a negative connotation. Although it is used synonymously with bigotry and prejudice, its meaning is actually more akin to “point of view,” “personal tendency,” or “preference.” Just as every individual has her own worldview, so she has a set of biases. These biases are often observable in a person’s habits, speech, and, perhaps most explicitly, writings. Daniel Boorstin, renowned University of Chicago professor, historian, author, and librarian of Congress, is undeniably biased towards certain cultures in The Discoverers. A book chronicling mankind’s scientific history, its first words are “My hero is Man the Discoverer.” In his telling of “man’s search to know his world and himself,” Boorstin declares that
In 1937 Mice and Men became produced on a stage in New York. Steinbeck later then accepted an best play award for writing and producing Mice and Men. In the book, George does everything he can to protect Lennie and keep him out of trouble. George clearly sees Lennie as a little brother to care for and to protect.
There are many themes in the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, including the theme that comes from the poem “To a Mouse” written by Robert Burns. Near the end of the poem Burns writes “The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry” which is said to have been the inspiration of Steinbeck when writing his book. That quote is saying, that all plans between mice and men often get messed in some sort of way, shape or form.
Sinek states that doing the wrong thing can make someone feel unsafe with the hero. Therefore, if you make a good decision when coming across a difficult task, you will be given trust in return. Also, the conflict of the movie is running from the police so that Everett may go back to his ex-wife. Her soon-to-be husband, the divorce, and the police within it show the obstacles he must defeat. Also, Odyssey shows how Odysseus overcomes problems, including the Cyclops and the many men trying to stop him from getting to his wife. While stopping the Cyclops from eating his men and trapping them in his cave, Odysseus hit him in his to save his men. Odysseus and his men end up tricking the Cyclops leave the cave, unharmed, underneath the livestock. Also, Odysseus kills the men who want to stop him from getting to his wife. Odysseus, his son and two men, defeat them and take back his wife and his
Lennie sits next to the river gulping down swigs of greenish pool water. From behind him Slim bursted through the autumn brush and all out of breath. Lennie moves from his perch near the water's edge and stands up looking down on Slim.
The next thing he loses is the control of his own body. When he meets with Faber, an old retired English professor, he is given a tool called green bullet.
Sometimes people can be unfair and treat people unequally. Whether you are a boy or a girl
1. Steinbeck describes the setting in such detail so we can picture in our mind exactly what the setting looks like. It is to give the reader a good image of the setting, and have the reader realize how the characters act. Steinbeck uses one of the five senses on page one to connect with his readers. He uses the sense of seeing. I can see in my mind what Steinbeck is talking about when he states “…but on the valley side the water is lined with the trees-willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter’s flooding…” In this quote I can picture everything Steinbeck is saying.
Have you ever wondered if all these dreams that you have will ever come true, or are they just to get our hopes up? In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the theme of utopia or an ideal place is spread upon the entire book. For instance, one of the main characters Lennie has always dreamed of a utopia with his best friend George that they would live in a barn and he would be able to tend the rabbits. Another main character in the book is Curley’s wife who always wanted to be an actress, but her utopia never came true. Overall, our dreams and personal Utopias are often nothing but unrealistic fairy tales we use to maintain some sense of hope in our lives.