Tom Sawyer convinces Aunt Polly that dreams can hold truth when he told her that he had a dream about the night he went "missing" and she was sitting in her rocking chair and after she fell asleep he kissed her on the head. She later on found out that he was there the whole time and it was not a dream.
I hate you saying bad things about me.
Frederick Douglass's purpose<span> in </span>writing his<span> autobiography was not only to show the way in which slavery degraded slaves but also to show the way the institution of slavery degraded slave masters.</span>
The reader is introduced to the marlin because Santiago sees one of the projecting sticks dip in the water (B).
In <em>The Old Man and the Sea</em>, the main character becomes aware of the presence of the marlin when he realizes something is tugging at his hundred-fathom-deep fishing line. Because of the strength of the bite, the stick to which the line is attached is pulled into the water. Santiago immediately recognizes the fish as being a large marlin.
