In the story The Whipping Boy what does the letter to the castle say?
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read it yourself. we're not here to do your homework!!
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Magwitch is a convict who escapes from a prison ship (hulk) near the marshes where Pip lives. They come across each other at a nearby cemetery, and Magwitch threatens Pip to get him food and a file so he can break off his handcuffs(but all this must be done in secret so not to reveal where Magwitch has escpaed to). When Pip returns with Magwitch has asked for, it touches him. A few days pass and guards from the hulks come to Pip's uncle, Joe the blacksmith, to fix some of their handcuffs so  they can capture some escaped convicts. Joe asks the guards if they would mind if him and Pip went with them to see (he thinks it is a treat for Pip. Though secretly Pip is terrified that they will find out that he helped Magwitch, but he goes along regardless). They find and arrest the convict, who Pip's suprise, does not reveal how he got the file and food. Years pass, and Pip grows up wealthy because of an secret benefactor who pays for him becoming a gentleman. On his 21st birthday, Pip is astonished to find out that his benefactor is indeed the convict on marshes so long ago (he had thought it was a wealthy lady named miss havisham who always acted as though she was his benefactor). With help from his friend Herbert, Pip sucessfully hides the convict (if discovered death by hanging would be the punishment). Pip later however learns that the conman(Compeysenson) who got Magwitch arrested in the first place, is in London looking for him. Magwitch still remains sucessfully hidden and Pip decides that it is best that Magwitch be taken out of the country (first by rowboat, then he would be smuggled into a bigger ship). They do this and everything goes well, but just as Magwitch is about to get on the bigger ship, Compeysen shows up in with the police in a rowboat and points him out. They bring magwitch back to their boat to arrest them, but once they get there Magwitch pushes Compeysen under the water and the two wrestle. Magwitch is the only one to return from beneath the surface, and is taken away to a prison where he spends the rest of his life. Pip vists him everyday and tells him about his daughter, Estella (who was beleieved to be dead because of her violent mother (magwitch's ex-wife)) is actually alive and living with the wealthy Miss Havisham. Magwitch does not live much more after this and dies due to illness.\n\n*Hope this helped!*
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If memory serves, because I can't find my book right now, it was the letter telling her that he was going off to do battle. It was supposed to be romantic in the genre of the chivalry romance. Of course the poor girl couldn't read... so.
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It's from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and it means vengeance of the Lord.\n\nUp until the 1800's "terrible" used to mean "causing terror", so the "terrible swift sword" meant the troops would rain down on the enemy and strike terror in their hearts as if the Lord himself were brandishing a mighty sword.
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Chapter 1\n The road was dark. I sat on the park bench waiting for my ride but I knew the stranger watching me from across the street was going to make trouble. He had a sour look of hate, peering at me with his cat-like eyes. In his hand he held what appeared to be a knife. I was scared. If my ride didn't show up the inspector would never get the information that I came here to get. Suddenly......\n\nYeah, I write a lot sometimes.
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The usual form of the English expression is actually "building castles in the air".    It refers to attempting the attractive but impossible, and so often to a futile waste of energy.  Often said of the aspirations of a "daydreamer"; one may even say "he was just sitting there building castles in the air" for "he was daydreaming".\n\nMany European languages have the same expression.  In French they have the curious form, "build castles in Spain" an expression which appears at least as early as the late 17th century (see more below).  I do not know whether the French is the "original" from which others are adapted, though I do know that quite a number of expert "paremiologists" ("paremiology" is the study of proverbs) have written on these different forms. \n\nUnfortunately, I cannot supply more details on what these folks have uncovered before time runs out on your question.  But within the week I hope to have in my hands an article by Wolfgang Mieder, the world's leading paremiologist, on the German form of the expression, but also exploring the French.  The notes to his article should include some good information on your question.  (So feel free to contact me in a couple of weeks, after I've had a chance to look it all over.)\n\nAs for the French expression, from the Memoirs of Madame de Montespan[1641-1707], Volume 6, ch 28:\n\n"She [Francoise d'Aubigne] had seen several notorious friendships collapse in succession; and it is not at the age of forty-six or forty-seven that one can build castles in Spain to dwell in with young love."
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It is Russian but written in Latin letters. Here's the translation:\n\n"She could hardly hide her fear. While the others (shelters dwellers) obediently stepped back forming a circle of ordered 10 meters in diameter, I did not waste my time and was looking for the right for the moment Mobra Key. I was well prepared for this trip. The son has always been on his own, living an altruistic life of a bachelor. He had neither friends nor acquaintances. Traveled from one planet to another through the Known Space Territories, always having some ideas he could understand only. It helped that his Father owned  kerbside mines on the planet Slaj in the Raritet constellation and the money he made allowed the Son to do so much traveling.\nThere were 6 of them and 6 silver swords had to cross over my poor head which did not deserve such a sad destiny.\nAfter the first 7 nubesys came 7 more. They continued forming the common line.\nBut creating a new Key is not such a simple wish as it may seem from the first glance.\nThe Shorty announced 'I'll introduce you to each other, then'.\nThe sharp pain allowed me to re-gain my self-control back.\nAnd then the horrible muzzle gave such a sound that changed everything,\n'You wanted to know about the CITY, Eliot Niksard. But I can not tell you much about it since I arrived on this planed at the same time you did'.
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[For whatever it's worth, I’ve tried recasting it, trying my best not to change the way you wanted to say what you wanted to say, relocating some of your ideas for a more unified presentation, better impact, all the while remaining consistent with your preference for the present tense. The paragraph breakdowns are more for consistency, flow and visual impact. Please verify your quotes; make sure they're verbatim and punctuated as they are in the book. Here goes:]\n\nFear is one of the most powerful emotions that control the way a human being acts in certain circumstances. It contributes to one’s instability and, ultimately, to irrationality.\n\nWilliam Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is all about fear and its irrational consequences. It sheds light on that kind of fear that may not be of something physical at all. It is the irrational fear of fear itself, the big horrid “Beast of Fear” with claws, eyes, and teeth lurking inside us. It is the fear we prefer to ignore. In “Lord of the Flies,” it is the fear which leads to irrational acts.\n\nIn “Lord of the Flies,” the boys fear almost everything they see and hear on the island, assuming them to be beasts. As the novel progresses, their fear of the unknown beast becomes exceedingly powerful their attitudes towards it become increasingly irrational. Terror paralyzes their minds, leaving them too weak to face the truth about their fears. \n\nThe beast in the novel symbolizes fear flying around on the island. Fear is evident in all the boys, from the nightmares to the belief in the existence of a beast. From the moment the first littlun claims to have seen snake-monster in Chapter 2, even the hunters begin having nightmares of their own. In Chapter 5, Jack, addressing Ralph, says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk not only the littluns, but also my hunters sometimes talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.” (p. 83). Indeed, the boys’ fear of the beast becomes an increasingly important aspect of their lives. The fact that all the boys on the island are younger than thirteen greatly affects the amount of fear that control them. Their cries can only reverberate within the walls of their own nightmares.\n\nFurther, a little boy named Phil dreams of weird animals, saying, “And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p. 85) His mind is so obsessed with “beasties” it simply refuses to accept the reality that it is Simon he see in the dark. As a matter of fact, imagination and fear shape their illusory description of the beast which the twins, Samneric, describe, “There were eyes, teeth, claws. The beast followed us, nearly touched me.” (p. 100) [Question: Is this the way you intended to write this part? Your original posting made them appear like sub-topics.] But beast, it was not; it was a dead parachutist.\n\nFear of the beast totally conquers their minds, making their brains too crippled to think straight. Their imaginations are so powerful, so overpowering and wild that they fail to see the fear for what it is: the beast that impels them to crime.\n\nFear so control them to the point of believing and doing anything, even trying to regain peace and freedom from fear itself by killing the beast. Thus, when Simon comes stumbling out of the dark forest while the boys are doing a victory dance, everyone surrounds him, chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" (p. 152) Believing him to be the beast, they poke savagely at him with their spears until the “Beast” is dead. The beast is dead, indeed, and fear has just taken an innocent life.\n\nHowever, not all the boys are too affected by fear. Ralph and Piggy struggle to be logical. \n\nWhen the topic of fear is brought up during one of their assemblies, Ralph declares boldly, “The thing is Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afrai
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Haven't read it, but tip:\n\nLook for when he gives human qualities to objects\nExample: the wind slapped me across the face
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Yankee Doodle \n\n\nRichard Shuckburgh \n\nYankee Doodle went to town \nA-riding on a pony \nStuck a feather in his hat \nAnd called it macaroni. \n. \nYankee Doodle, keep it up \nYankee Doodle dandy \nMind the music and the step \nAnd with the girls be handy. \n. \nFather and I went down to camp \nAlong with Captain Gooding \nAnd there we saw the men and boys \nAs thick as hasty pudding. \n. \nYankee Doodle, keep it up \nYankee Doodle dandy \nMind the music and the step \nAnd with the girls be handy. \n. \nThere was Captain Washington \nUpon a slapping stallion \nA-giving orders to his men \nI guess there was a million. \n. \nYankee Doodle, keep it up \nYankee Doodle dandy \nMind the music and the step \nAnd with the girls be handy.
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From one of the speeches in Henry VI part 2 (that's a Shakespeare play!)\n\nHere's the speech. The origin of Mum's the word comes in the third line:\n\n\n    Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;\n    Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!\n    Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:\n    The business asketh silent secrecy.\n    Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:\n    Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.\n    Yet have I gold flies from another coast;\n    I dare not say, from the rich cardinal\n    And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,\n    Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,\n    They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,\n    Have hired me to undermine the duchess\n    And buz these conjurations in her brain.\n    They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'\n    Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.\n    Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near\n    To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.\n    Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last\n    Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,\n    And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:\n    Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.
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The Princess By Alfred Lord Tennyson\n\nman for the field and women for the hearth:\nMan for the sword and for the needle she:\nMan with the head and woman with the heart:\nMan to command and woman to obey;\nAll else confusion.
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becsuse the sounds and letters were given meaning
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That is something from one of those horrible online translators - someone put in English and got that garbage.  The Latin was butchered, so it is hard to say what exactly it was supposed to say, but they generally retain the original word order.  So something like "The shadow/ghost of a man is onto me".  Those online translators ought to come with a warning.  What they do to Latin is just a crime.
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The story begins with the King's court mingling around the palace. People chat, play games, and take strolls around the court. Dancers appear from the corners and start dancing around the people. They watch in wonder while continuing their daily activities. They grow still and the dancers take their places near the King and start their show. They jump high in the air, Purple, blue, yellow, green, and lavendar. They sit at the front and rise up, dancing and waving their sheer skirts around them. As they conclude, they run and bow to the King. The court looks on with pride.\n\nThe King jumps out of his throne and yells that he is bored! The court is shocked and the dancers run to the corner in fright. The King, followed by his Chancellor and Accountant, is angry. He demands a diversion. The jester grabs a dictionary and the court gathers around him, not knowing what diversion meant. They see it is something to set someone's mind off of the daily chore. A musician says he'd thought that was what they'd been doing everyday. Everyone nods in agreement. The King says it is still boring, the same thing everyday, he wants someone to tell him a fascinating story. Again the jester gets the dictionary and looks up fascinating. To mesmerize and entertain, the crowd nods in agreement. The King asks for the best storyteller. The court gathers round and discusses who the best storyteller is. They unanimously agree it is Scheherazade, and point to her. She is surprised and walks over to the King, followed by her loyal porter. She tells the King that she will tell the story of Aladdin. The crowd cheers in excitement. She says that she will need the help of the entire court to enact the story, excluding the King, who will just sit back and watch. Scheherazade begins with "Once upon a time", and the King yells that he will banish her because he’d heard that before. Scheherazade says that every story begins with once upon a time, and he says he knew that and sits down.\n\nNow, the story begins…….A young boy of 17 lived in China with his poor old mother and camel. Scheherazade begins, she then says that they need someone to play Aladdin. The Vizier’s son asks if Aladdin is smart, and Scheherazade replies with a "not necessarily." The Grand Vizier asks if Aladdin is brave, and Scheherazade again replies with a not necessarily. Then, the cute musician pops up from between the dancers and asks if Aladdin is cute. Scheherazade replies with a big yes! The musician says he can do cute, and Scheherazade says he will be Aladdin. Now, they need someone to be Aladdin’s mother. Scheherazade looks around and chooses the cook. The cook says she is not old enough to be his mother, and as Scheherazade says that age is all in the mind, the dancers gather around the cook to dress her like a mother. Scheherazade sets the first scene at Aladdin’s home. Everyone leaves except Aladdin and his mother. Aladdin’s mother sits on a chair at home while Aladdin sleeps. She needs food for their breakfast, but they have nothing. She sees a fruitseller and stops her to ask for food. There is not much Aladdin’s mother can buy. She talks with the fruitseller about her and her son, and that he was asleep. The fruitseller says that Aladdin is a good for nothing boy who sleeps all day and should be out looking for food. His mother naturally comes to his defense and says that he is a wonderful boy who deserves his sleep. The fruitseller agrees to give his mother one banana, considering that she never forget the fruitseller in the future. As they speak, two beggars come up and steal an apple from the fruitseller’s basket. She turns around and starts running after the beggars. One of them jumps over her head as she is bending down. She looks up and sees the other beggar with the apple and runs after her. She falls, slips, and drops her other fruit. The little beggar runs up the staircase with the fruitseller following closely.\n\nAl
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An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.\n\nThe widow-queen of Portugal\nHad an audacious jester\nWho entered the confessional\nDisguised, and there confessed her.\n\n"Father," she said, "thine ear bend down —\nMy sins are more than scarlet:\nI love my fool — blaspheming clown,\nAnd common, base-born varlet."\n\n"Daughter," the mimic priest replied,\n"That sin, indeed, is awful:\nThe church's pardon is denied\nTo love that is unlawful.\n\n"But since thy stubborn heart will be\nFor him forever pleading,\nThou'dst better make him, by decree,\nA man of birth and breeding."\n\nShe made the fool a duke, in hope\nWith Heaven's taboo to palter;\nThen told a priest, who told the Pope,\nWho damned her from the altar!\n—Barel Dort
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." from the Princess Bride.