| Cade,
Johnny (actor - Ralph Macchio) |
| The doctor came in a while ago but I knew anyway.
I keep getting tireder and tireder. Listen, I don't mind dying now.
It's worth it. It's worth saving those kids. Their lives are
worth more than mine, they have more to live for. Some of their parents
came by to thank me and I know it was worth it. Tell Dally it's worth
it. I'm just going to miss you guys. I've been thinking about
it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he means you're gold when you're
a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn.
It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the
way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's
a good way to be. I want you to tell Dally to look at one.
He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think
he's ever really seen a sunset. And don't be so bugged over being
a greaser. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what
you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally.
I don't think he knows. Your buddy, Johnny. |
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Book: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, 1967
Movie: The Outsiders, 1983 |
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For more information:
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton, Novel Study, Answers and Key
The
Outsiders at the Internet Movie Database |
 |
Recommended reading:
The
Outsiders by S.E. Hinton |
 |
Recommended viewing:
The
Outsiders starring Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emelio Estevez,
Tom Cruise, Robb Lowe, Patrick Swayze, and C. Thomas Howell |
| Carton,
Sidney |
| "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have
ever done: it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever
known." |
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Novel: A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859 |
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For more information:
The Dickens
Page |
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Recommended reading:
A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| Cassandra |
Yet one word more, a prophecy--or, if a dirge,
At least not mine alone. In this sun's light--my last--
I pray: when the sword's edge requites my captor's blood,
Then may his murderers, dying, with that debt pay too
For her they killed in chains, their unresisting prey!
Alas for human destiny! Man's happiest hours
Are pictures drawn in shadow. Then ill fortune comes,
And with two strokes the wet sponge wipes the drawing out.
And grief itself's hardly more pitiable than joy. |
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Play: Agamemnon by Aeschylus |
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For more information:
Agamemnon |
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Recommended reading:
Agamemnon
translated by Howard Rubenstein |
| Chipping,
Charles "Mr. Chips" (actor - Robert Donat) |
| "What, what was that you were saying about me? . . .
I thought I heard you say it was a pity. . . . A pity I never had
children? But you're wrong. . . . I have thousands of them
. . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!" |
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Movie: Good-bye Mr. Chips, 1939 |
|
For more information:
Good-bye Mr. Chips
at Greatest Films |
|
Recommended viewing:
Good-bye
Mr. Chips starring Robert Donat |
| Cleopatra
See
Antony. |
Come thou mortal wretch,
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool,
Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,
That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
Unpoliced. |
Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep? |
As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--
O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too:
What should I stay-- |
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Play: Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare, 1606 |
|
For more information:
"Antony
and Cleopatra" from the History
Western Civilization course at Boise State University
The
Works of the Bard
Mr. William Shakespeare
on the Internet |
|
Recommended reading:
Anthony
and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
The
Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George |
| Clytemnestra |
| "My dream - O Gods! Here is the snake I bore and
fed." |
|
Play: The Choephori (Libation Bearers) |
|
For more information:
The Choephori |
| Conklin,
Jim |
| "I tell yeh what I'm 'fraid of, Henry--I'll tell yeh
what I'm 'fraid of. I'm 'fraid I'll fall down--an' then yeh know
--them damned artillery wagons--they like as not 'll run over me.
That's what I'm 'fraid of. . . . I was allus a good friend t' yeh,
wa'n't I, Henry? I've allus been a pretty good feller, ain't I?
An' it ain't much t' ask, is it? Jest t' pull me along outer th'
road? I'd do it fer you, wouldn't I, Henry? . . . No--no--don't
tech me--leave me be--leave me be. . . . Leave me be, can't yeh?
Leave me be fer a minnit. . . . Leave me be--don't tech me--leave
me be----" |
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Novel: The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, 1895 |
|
For more information:
Imaging
the Civil War: Authenticity in Painting, Photography, and The Red Badge
of Courage
The
Red Badge of Courage e-text version at The
americanliterature.com Library |
|
Recommended reading:
The
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane |
|
Recommended viewing:
The
Red Badge of Courage starring Audie Murphy |
| Cowboy |
"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin
Get six pretty maidens to bear up my pall
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin
Roses to deaden the clods as they fall |
Oh, beat the drums slowly and play the fife lowly
And play the dead march as you carry me along.
Take me to the green valley and lay the sod o'er me.
For I'm a young cowboy, and I know I've done wrong." |
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Song: As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo, traditional |
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For more information:
Old Lyrics that
I typed in so you don't have to |
|
Recommended reading:
Cowboy
Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Lomax |
| De
Baere, Raoul (actor - George Raft) |
| "I'm too good for this joint." |
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Movie: Bolero, 1934 |
|
For more information:
Concerning
Bolero |
| Dido |
Dear pledges of my love, while heav'n so pleas'd
Receive a soul, of mortal anguished eas'e
My fatal course is finish'd; and I go,
A glorious name, among the ghosts below.
A lofty city by my hands is rais'd
Pygmalion punish'd, and my lord appeas'd
What could my fortune have afforded more,
Had the false Trojan never touch'd my shore!
Must I die and unreveng'd? 'T is doubly to be dead
Yet ev'n this death with pleasure I receive:
On any terms, 'T is better than to live.
These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view;
These boding omens his base flight pursue! |
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Epic: The Aeneid by Virgil, 19 BC |
|
For more information:
The Aenid
of Virgil |
|
Recommended reading:
The
Aenid by Virgil |
| Earnshaw,
Catherine "Cathy" (actress - Merle Oberon) |
| In the movie: "Take me to the window. Let
me look at the moors with you once more, my darling. Once more.
Heathcliffe, can you see the Crag over there where our castle is?
I'll wait for you 'till you come." |
| In the novel: "You must not go! You shall
not, I tell you. . . . Not for one minute. . . . No!
Oh, don't, don't go! It is the last time! Edgar will not hurt us.
Heathcliffe, I shall die! I shall die!" |
|
Novel: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
Movie: Wuthering Heights, 1939 |
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For more information:
Emily Jane Bronte
Wuthering
Heights (electronic text)
Wuthering Heights
(the movie) at Greatest Films |
|
Recommended reading:
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte |
|
Recommended viewing:
Wuthering
Heights starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier |
| Enkidu |
| "My friend, the great goddess cursed me and I must die
in shame. I shall not die like a man fallen in battle: I feared to
fall, but happy is the man who falls in battle, for I must die in shame." |
|
Epic: Gilgamesh |
|
For more information:
Gilgamesh Summary |
|
Recommended reading:
The
Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Fortunato |
| "Ha! ha! ha!--he! he!--a very good joke indeed--an excellent
jest. We will have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo--he!
he! he!--over our wine--he! he! he! . . . He! he! he!--he! he! he!--yes,
the Amontillado. But is it not getting late? Will not they
be awaiting us at the palazzo, the Lady Fortunato and the rest? Let
us be gone. . . . For the love of God, Montresor!" |
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Short Story: "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe,
1846 |
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For more information:
The Complete
Online Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
|
Recommended reading:
18
Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe |
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