Alfred Doolittle is a smooth-talking garbage man, a serial monogamist (although he's not always really<span> married), a drunk, and a deadbeat dad. He's got a lot to say about "middle class morality" and complicated theories about the deserving and undeserving poor. He has principles, too, but they're not exactly conventional: he has no trouble milking five pounds from Higgins, but he doesn't want anymore than that. He wants just enough money to have a few drinks and some fun.</span>
In order to understand Doolittle, you have to understand how he speaks. This exchange is notable:
<span>DOOLITTLE ["most musical, most melancholy"] I'll tell you, Governor, if you'll only let me get a word in. I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you.
HIGGINS. Pickering: this chap has a certain natural gift of rhetoric. Observe the rhythm of his native woodnotes wild. "I'm willing to tell you: I'm wanting to tell you: I'm waiting to tell you." Sentimental rhetoric! That's the Welsh strain in him. It also accounts for his mendacity and dishonesty.</span><span> (2.232-3)</span>
He is the sum of his mysterious speaking ability. You can describe what Doolittle's saying with all sorts of fancy Greek words, but it's enough to note how he repeats those three phrases that Higgins singles out, and how his speech is sort of singsong-y. Whether or not we believe what Doolittle's talking about doesn't matter, it sounds nice. These skills get Doolittle into trouble when Higgins nominates him for some such speaking position…and he gets it, along with a generous income. He can't handle all the money; he doesn't want to be "touched" – asked to spare some change – in the same way he touched Higgins.
<span>Doolittle demonstrates how powerful and potentially dangerous words can be. Lucky for us, his intentions are (mostly) honorable. He's the character most prone to lecturing – yes, even more so than Higgins – and though his theories may not be entirely logical, his little sermons do raise some issues regarding class relations. Think of him this way: he's a stereotype of a drunken poor guy…with an oratorical twist.</span>
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Examples of the clutch in a Sentence
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The verb I had to clutch the counter to keep from falling. The child clutched her mother's hand firmly. He had a book clutched in his hand. Adjective She scored a clutch basket.
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It seems the main idea is that the different perspectives of the whites and blacks in communities contrast how they think about police treatment.
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This is FALSE, based on general knowledge of language arts and literacy.
Introductions can be many things, it does NOT ALWAYS HAVE TO start with a question.
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Option C. The central idea of the passage is that Van Lew was a spymaster, a leading force in the espionage activities for the Union.
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The passage's central idea is that Elizabeth Van Lew was a central piece for the Union's objectives. She worked as a spy in the Confederate capital city, she was responsible for running several safe houses that were of vital importance during the war and she also let her personal house in Church Hill be used a safe house and Union's spies headquarter.
"The Dark Game" is a non-fiction spy story written by American author Paul Janeczko that was originally published in 2010.
