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I have read Neil Flambé and the Marco Polo Murders. I, personally, loved this book! It had a very interesting and engaging plot. Although it couldn’t have been so amazing without its many characters. The 3 characters that stood out to me the most were Neil Flambé (the main character), his cousin Larry, and Carlotta Calamari (the villain).
Neil was shown as a young egoistic boy. He was said to be around 14 years old. The one thing about Neil that was stressed in the whole book was his flaming bright red hair. Neil has flaring red hair, a very pointy nose and wide round eyes. Overall Neil was a snobby, selfish boy. 3 characteristics of Neil are rude, egoistic and determined. The characteristic that describes
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Larry is shown as a laid back chill sort of guy. Although there was no exact age for Larry, he has to be older than 18 because he is the owner of Neil’s restaurant AND he has a driver’s license. If I had to roughly guess I would say he is around 22 years old, because he never had any homework. That proves he has graduated from University, and a possible age for him to be is 22 years old. Larry hasn’t got his cousins bright red hair instead he has blond hair, which he has decided to grow. He has small playful eyes and a big nose. Larry is my favorite character as he is just like me! Larry’s characteristics are being lazy, caring and funny. Throughout the text Larry is lazy and doesn’t want to do any work. This can be proved on page 57. Neil wasn’t in his restaurant so Larry decided to make some rice to eat. Larry was too lazy to take the risotto pan of the stove, so he used that to cook his rice! This made Neil very angry, and it also proves that Larry is very lazy. Next Larry is caring as proved on page 225. Neil was really looking forward to going on a date, but his mom had said no, so Larry stepped in to help. Larry said the following sentence to Neil: ‘You’re lucky I called Aunt Marge when I did. She was going to cancel the date all together’. This proves Larry cared for Neil which made him want Neil to be happy. Lastly, Larry is VERY funny. Also on page 57, Larry put noodles on his head (I know…… even I’m not that …show more content…
What I mean by this is that the author had a different setting for the prologue. A different setting for chapter 1 and 2, and finally one last setting for the rest of the book. All 3 of these sections had different time frames, and took place in different places
The beginning of the book started off with talking in the perspective of Marco Polo, in his last breaths. Since Marco Polo was about to die, after doing some research I found out that Marco Polo died in 1324, that to in Venice, Italy. The exact location of the prologue was at Marco Polo’s house. Then the book changed to Chapter 1 which was in Venice (Where in Venice wasn’t specified), One year ago. The time frame and place was written clearly in the book as the chapter sub-heading. The exact location was inside the famous Marco Polo library. After doing some research on this, I found out that the Marco Polo library was just a made up place in the book. After that the story changed to Chapter 3. This was the last change as the book changed to Neil’s side of the story. The setting was present day, Vancouver. The book didn’t state that it was present day, I inferred this. The way I inferred this was that they were all using cellphones, which meant they were in the 21st Century. This part of the story had no actual ‘exact’ location. The author kept on switching the location between Neil’s restaurant, multiple crime scenes and many more.
The setting the setting is mostly in little rock 2014. The reason that it is 2014 is how they describe everything in the book. And it is in new york in the book it tell me a location in the new york area.
Two of the places where the story takes place are in Shalev and Star Valley, 18 years after a nuclear holocaust. Shalev is the main city of the four cities. It’s where Eric, his family,
The book begins with a prologue dated March 4, 1865, on the day of Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration, a photographer is preparing for the event and in the background, the capitol building is under construction. A man is watching, unsatisfied with the events
In “War” Neil’s attempts to communicate non-verbally through his behaviour are ineffective. However, in both stories Neil reaches understanding through powers of observation, even when the adults are unable to communicate through words. In reaching understanding, Neil takes a step towards adulthood himself. Through the process of looking at Effie’s smiles and looking at his father’s wounded face in the photograph, Neil is able to decode the mystery of their actions.
The first trait is his ill-temperedness. This trait is present almost the entire play. A quote backing this up is on page 558 and says “(to Anne) Isn’t it bad enough here without your sprawling all over the place. This excerpt shows how ill-tempered Mr. Van Daan is because Anne is afraid at the moment from hearing a man’s voice and yells at her. Instead of trying to calm her down he just decides to yell at her for being scared and for sprawling on the
Larry Buckman, who has never been married with one son named Cool about 5 years old. Frank, Larry’s father has enmeshed relationship. However, Larry is a gambler and very irresponsible. He gambles and takes chances with his own life. Frank, his father bails him out time after time enabling his life style.
successful than he really is. Linda can be described as “ordinary, loving, and a blind
What prompts his aggression, again, is the conflicts Neil has with himself. Of course, one of the key examples of Neil’s aggression is his violence towards his father. Neil’s father came to the Curries house and began looking for Neil. Neil was running towards the loft “but first [he] had to ward off [his] father … so [he] threw a stone” (131) Neil is fighting off his father here as he does not want to face him and discuss his aggression. Timothy Findley is implying that the protagonist is feeling aggressive due to his internal struggle with himself about feeling ignored and unloved. Furthermore, Neil’s sense of mistreatment leads him to be unresponsive and just violent and aggressive. When Neil’s dad finally approaches him he asks, “Neil aren’t you going to explain why you’re angry? [Neil] thought for a minute and then [he] didn’t answer him after all… [Neil’s dad] looked worried” (132). The audience can infer that Neil resorts to aggression and violence rather than talking because he feels that no one listens to him and no one cares about him, this again, connecting back to Findley’s original theme about internal struggles. Thus, the characteristics of aggression in Neil displays the truths about people struggling with internal issues and
Nothing really happens at the meetings other than the reading of poetry for inspiration in life. Neil, perhaps the most perplexing character in the movie, discovers his dream in life is to be an actor. His father, for a reason none other than...
To start with, in the play Linda makes many excuses for Willy. For example, Willy says, “I suddenly couldn’t drive anymore. The car kept going off onto the shoulder ya know?” Linda replied, “Maybe it’s your glasses” (Miller 22). By making these kinds of excuses, it’s almost like Linda is ignoring the problems Willy has with his head. Also, Willy says, “I suddenly couldn’t drive anymore.” Linda replied, “Oh, maybe it was the steering again” (Miller 27). Willy doesn’t make excuses for himself, its Linda who acts like nothing is wrong. Willy is living half in the past and half in the present. In the play, Willy says, “It took me nearly four hours from Yonkers.” Linda replied, “Well, you’ll just have to take a rest” (Miller 27). By making all of these excuses, it shows that Linda refuses to believe that Willy has problems, and she tries brushing it off like it’s no big deal. She knows there are problems, but she is unwilling to face them.
It can be seen in chapter 7 when Neil goes into the cathedral to basically ask god what he should do with his life, He received his answer supposedly exiting the church from fifth avenue stating “Which prize do you think, schmuck? Gold dinnerware, sporting-goods trees, nectarines, garbage disposals, bumpless noses, Patimkin sink, Bonwit teller.” (100) This was the moment that Neil thought that he finally realized what his American dream was and what he had to do to achieve that dream. One thing that is crucial is that Neil was never planning this, he had no vision nor has a vision for his own future and even stated “What is it I love, Lord?” This meant that Neil didn’t know if he actually loved Brenda or if he only loved the perks for showing love towards her. This can be tied to Don Draper’s happiness speech from “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” Mad Men when he states that “Happiness is the smell of a new car and freedom of fear.” And to Neil, gold dinnerware and garbage disposals are his new car smell which is supposed to make him
of the film, but he altered the way in which the text is portrayed. Franco Zeffirelli’s version is set in the late 1960’s, meaning that. There is a time period difference and it makes it harder for people to understand as it is an older portrayal of the film. The location in this film is set on Verona Beach in Italy, which is contemporary style and twentieth century.
S1:The setting of the prologue opens with zarathustra in the mountains because at the age of thirty he moved into a cave in the mountains so he can isolate himself away from society and humanity.
Frankenstein takes place in many locations all over Europe, and some parts of Asia. The arctic ocean above Russia, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Geneva in Switzerland. The time period for this novel is sometime in the late 1700's. Science is still very much primitive but beginning to develop, that North Pole still had not been discovered as one of the main characters, Walton, is trying to reach it. Arguably one of the most important place settings for Frankenstein is Ingolstadt t...
Though Larry has these qualities, he does not become aggressive when Sylvia denies his hand in marriage. Micheaux shows that though Larry is African American, gambler, and criminal, he is not malicious. This scene highly contrasts Griffith’s scene where the belligerent, black Gus (Walter Long) pursues the frantic, scared, white Flora (Mae Marsh), simply because she denied him her hand in marriage. Griffith tried to warp the image of the African American male by making him appear animalistic and aggressive. Thus, in this early shot, Micheaux attempts to mend Griffith’s distortion by presenting a similar scenario with a realistic and respectable reaction from his character,