Public Enemies
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IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
Actors: Russo James,Wenham David,Stolte Christian,Clarke Jason,Depp Johnny,Judd John,Dorff Stephen,Vieau Michael,Kishline John,Walker Wesley,Scherp John,Nero Jr. William,Tatum Channing,Bale Christian,Crime,Drama,Thriller,
Inherit the Wind quote analysis please!?
i need a a good descriptive analysis of these quotes please help its for a test!
1. (Pg 17) Hornbeck: "a man who wears a cathedral for a cloak, a church spire for a hat…"
2. (Pg 33) Rachel: "a schoolteacher is a public servant: I think he should do what the law and the school-board want him to. if the superintendent says, ‘Miss Brown, youre to teach formt eh Whitley’s Second Reader," i dont feel i have to give him an agreement."
3. ( Pg 34) Rachel: "Matthew Harrison Brady came here to find himself a stump to shout from. thats all."
4. (Pg 47) Drummond: ‘all i want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medival nonsense into the United States Constitution."
5. (Pg 51) Drummond: "im sorry if i offended you. but i dont swear just for the hell of it. you see, i figure language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. so we ought to use all the words we’ve got. besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands."
6. (Pg 51-52) Rachel: "can you buy back his respectability by making him a coward? i understand what berts going through. its the lonliest feeling in the world—to find yourslef standing up when everybody else is sitting down. to have everybody look at you and say, ‘Whats the matter with him?’ i know. i know what it feels like. walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked agaisnt you."
7. (Pg 55) Drummond: " the man who has everything figured out is probably a food. college examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very small fella to say, ‘i dont know the answer!’"
8. (Pg 66) Brown: "O lord of the Tempest and the thunder. o lord of righteousness and wrath! we pray that thou wilt make a sign unto us! strike us down this sinner, as thou didst Thine enemies of old, in the days of the Pharoahs! let him feel the terror of Thy sword! for all eternity let his soul writher in anguish and damination—"
9. (Pg 66-67) Brady: " reverend brown i know it is the great zeal of your faith which makes you utter this prayer. bit is it possible to be overzealous to destroy that which you hope to save—so that nothing is left but emptiness. remember the wisdom of Solomon in the Book of proverbs. ‘he that troubleth his own house…shall inherit the wind’"
10. ( Pg 67) Drummond: "all motion is relative perhaps it is you who have moved away—by standing still."
11. (Pg 68) Howard: "well he said at first the earth was too hot for any life. then it cooled off a mite and cells and things begun to live"
12. (Pg 71) Drummond:"im trying to establish your honor that howard or colonel brady or charles darwin or anyone in this courtroom or you sir has the right to think!"
13. (Pg 72) Drummond: "with allrespect to the bench i hold that the right to think is very much on trial! it is fearfully in dnager in the proceedings of the court!"
14. (Pg 91) Drummond: "it frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had you driving curiousity"
15 ( Pg 93) Drummond: "yes! the individual human mind…. (long speech)"
16. (Pg 94) Drummond: " this man wishes to be accorded the same priviliege as a sponge! he wishes to think!"
17. ( Pg 97) Brady: "i mean to state that the day referred to is not necessarily a twenty-four-hour day"
18. (Pg 110) Drummond: " Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming—all gold, with purple spots—look behind the paint! and if its a lie—show it up for what it really is!"
19. (Pg 115) Cates: "I was a schoolteacher. i fee; i am…i have been convicted on violation an unjust law. i will continue in the future as I have in the past to oppose this law in any way I can. I—"
20. (Pg 119-120) narration: "As the orator is maneuvered into position he seems almost to be an inanimate object like a huge ornate vase which must be precisly centered on a mantel." AND " Then like a figure in a waxworks, toppling from it pedestal, he falls stiffly, face forward"
21. ( Pg 126) Drummond: "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart"
I don’t think most people on this forum want to do your homework for you so I would suggest you go to cliffnotes and read their summary of ITW and also their quote analysis. It may help you find the answers you want. Good luck!
hickcrazy1 | Feb 03, 2010
