※ Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll
※ Seven deadly sins is a Western religious grouping and classification of vices.
Though the sins have fluctuated over time, the currently recognized list includes pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth.
Seven virtues : prudence, justice, temperance, courage (or fortitude), faith, hope, and charity (or love).
※ Nibble
※ Pebble
※ Shirley Temple was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, and public servant, most famous as Hollywood's number-one box-office star from 1935 through 1938.
※ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum.
characters:
Dorothy : she is a young girl who lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto
Scarecrow : he reveals that he lacks a brain and desires above all else to have one.
Tin Woodman : he desires for a heart.
Cowardly Lion : he wants bravery.
※ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English,
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
※ Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school or recruit training.
※ Bildungsroman (novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age)
Origin: famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey
The birth of the Bildungsroman is normally dated to the publication of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1795–96.
later works, for example, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird
His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement.
his works, for example, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, The Sorrows of Young Werther
※ Faust (closet drama) is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge.
※ A contemporary of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, ( Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day) also wrote examples of tragedy in English, notably:
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
※ Christopher Marlowe, in Doctor Faustus, referring to Helen of Troy, or as Marlowe had it 'Helen of Greece':
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
※ Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among siblings, whether blood related or not.
Sibling rivalry is particularly intense when children are very close in age and of the same gender and/or where one or both children are intellectually gifted.
In literature, a number of Shakespeare's plays display the incidences of sibling rivalry.
for example, King Lear
※ there was a parrot on a pirate's shoulder
● sentence
pain in the ass
keep from
backage claiming
● -spect : see
inspect
respect
suspect
● - cide : killing
insectcide
suicide
homocide
genecticide
● ab- : not
abolition
abnormal
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