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"the strongbox is still safely hidden beneath a hollow stair. They’re alive, and the house is still standing. "
"when Mattie hangs Grandfather’s sword, there’s a sense that his role as protector of the house is being transferred to her."
Cryptic: Puzzling, Obscure
Balmy: Temperate, Soothing
Quarry: Prey, Target
Retribution: Punishment, Revenge
Coveted: Desirable, Longed For
One place is probably more home which is is new york home. But depending how long he has stayed on the island his home as probably developed into the home on the island. It really depends.
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I could not find the play that you are talking about in you question but I will try to answer it with some information that could be helpful to you.
Anne Frank did receive her diary on her thirteenth birthday but maybe it was hard for directors to show that in the play, since Anne Frank did write in her diary all of the horror situations that she was experiencing.
It was easier for them to show her diary receiving when she has entered the Secret Annex because the<em><u> bookcase</u></em> was considered as the entrance to the Secret Annex that was the hiding place for her and her family.
Character, as if the two were gladiators, waging war on the sands of the Coliseum in some winner-take-all death battle. Both sides of the debate claim a definitive superiority for their chosen gladiator, and for the most part, the battle splits nicely down the lines of literary and commercial fiction, the commercialists placing the emphasis on plot in the interest of producing “page turners,” while the literati poke up their noses at the thought of anything so crude and artless.