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In The Great Gatsby, how does Nick catch Gatsby in a lie? #gatsby...

Nick catches Gatsby in a lie when Gatsby blunders saying it took 3 years to earn his money. Earlier Gatsby claimed to inherit his money.

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In the book "fahrenheit 451", why is it significant that Mildred was the...

Bradbury has Mildred call in the alarm to show the absence of loyalty to family in Montag's society!

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How many Dirk Pitts (Clive Cussler author) exist in Cussler novels? #novels...

There is one Dirk Pitt, but Clive Cussler has based a novel on him 21 times. Cussler also has a series of novels known as the NUMA Files that sometimes include Pitt novel characters including Pitt...

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Was there a Japanese cargo ship named Tsimtsum that sank in 1977

No, only in "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel does a Japanese cargo ship named Tsimtsum sink July 2, 1977.

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In the novel 1984. Why is Winston attracted to the glass paper weight in Mr....

Winston is attracted to the paperweight because he is strongly interested in anything from the pre-revolutionary times, of which the paperweight is a part of. The paperweight becomes a symbol of...

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who was the original inventor of the superman comic series 7-21-09

Joseph Shuster and Jerry Speiling co-created the original Superman comic series. The first issue was published on April 18, 1938 by Action Comics #1 with a June cover date and introduced Superman/Clark...

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At the inquest, what testimony doed Catherine give regarding her sister...

At the inquest, Catherine testified that Myrtle loved her husband and would never cheat on him.

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what's the order of the reacher trilogies

To date Lee Child has written 17 Jack Reacher novels. Chronological order: The Enemy (2004) Prequel set eight years before Killing Floor. The Affair (2011) This is another prequel set just before...

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In Farenheit 451 did Montag want Mildred to die in the bomb blast #fahrenheit451

No. He pictured her "leaning anxiously, nervously, as if to plunge, drop, fall into that swarming immensity of color to drown in its bright happiness."

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What is sherlock holmes' and watson's dogs name? #sherman #toby #sherlockholmes

Watson had a bull pup before he moved into 221B Baker Street in the first Sherlock Holmes book ,"A Study in Scarlet." It was not named and never heard of again. The name of Holmes and Watson's bulldog...

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In Hamlet who does Ophelia give flowers to? Who get what flowers? #laertes...

In act 4, scene 5 of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, Ophelia gives flowers to several people to express her grief. She gives rosemary flowers to Laertes (symbolizes remembrance), pansies to Laertes...

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How is kat a foil for kantorek in the book all quiet on the western front?...

Katczinsky is a foil for Kantorek because he supported his friends who have realized that the teachings of Kantorek are simply empty cliches.

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Why Is Brutus awake all night in act two scene one in the story the tragedy...

In Act 2 Scene 1, Brutus is up late at his house thinking about Caesar. He reads the message thrown through his window.

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The realistic details shown in European paintings of the 14th and 15th...

The invention of oil painting made it easier to paint details during these centuries. The artist Jan van Eyck contributed to the development of oil painting.

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What shakespeare play is the movie clueless based off of? #clueless #1995movie

Clueless is not based on a Shakespearean play, but rather the novel Emma by Jane Austen from 1815, though some say that the movie does mimic the style of a typical Shakespearean comedy. Additionally,...

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whats the correct MLA citation for kate chopins novel "the awakening"? GAME....

Assuming you have a first edition copy of Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening (1899), the correction MLA (7th edition) citation is: Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1 ed. Chicago, New York: H.S. Stone &...

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Who is Barrios in the book the count of monte cristo? #monsieur #montecristo...

In the book The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Barrois is the faithful servant of Monsieur de Noirtier, Valentine's grandfather. In chapter 44 of the book Barrois ends up dead after...

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In the fifty shades of grey series did Anastasia and Christian stay married...

Spoiler alert: In Fifty Shades Freed, book three of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Ana and Christian have a happy ending. They do stay married and have children together. In the epilogue of the book...

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What are 10 adjectives that would describe the titular character in the Great...

The titular character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is Jay Gatsby. Adjectives that describe him include naive, loyal, good-hearted, ambitious, optimistic, imaginative, obsessive,...

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What was the little gremlin's name in Lord of the Rings that was obsessed...

The roughly 3' 8" hobbit from the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, was called Gollum. He was also known as Stinker, Slinker, and Trahald, though his formal pre-Gollum name was Smeagol. His obsession...

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