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Within the first few chapters of the novel, the owner of WayForward Technologies II, Gordon Way, is shot mysteriously for no reason. However, his death fulfills an enormous portion of the story's structure: it is the crime that brings the main…

This phone call transpires in the beginning of Storm Front between Harry Dresden, the consulting wizard, and Monica Sells, his future client. This exchange instigates the conflict of the novel, gives readers a comphrehensive idea of Dresden's…

The golden plaque adhered to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. When people approach the office, they see this plaque. It gives Dirk's office a certain level of legitimacy, and it makes people wonder just why in the world they need a holistic…

Groosling is type of wild bird that looks like wild turkey, but is about the size of chickens. Katniss Everdeen often hunts them to trade when she is in District 12. She also hunts them and eats them when she is in the 74th Hunger Games.

Rue,…

Lady was a birthday present from Katniss to Prim. Originally owned by the Goatman, Katniss bought the goat at a good price due to its lame leg.

The goat produced milk for the family. When Katniss is sent to the 74th Hunger Games, she tells Prim…

Buttercup is Primrose's pet cat. He is considered to be an ugly cat because of his matted, dirty fur and his scrunched up nose. He also has an ear with a chunk missing. His name is derived from Prim's belief that his yellow fur is comparable to the…

Famine rides upon a black horse. His horse holds all of the absorption of what Famine has stolen from the world just as the color black swallows up the light.

In the story Ligeia, there is a censer, which is an incense burner, that puts off light in the brides chamber where the narrator's second wife, Lady Rowena Trevanion, is dying. The narrator keeps seeing shadows from the light but there is nothing…

The story The Balloon Hoax actually appeared in the April 13, 1844 New York Sun, and was about the fictitious first transatlantic voyage, which people that read it were actually believing. Even though this article is real, I decided to include a…

This is a drawing or model of the balloon that used to carry eight men across the Atlantic Ocean. The story The Balloon Hoax actually appeared in the New York Sun, and was about the fictitious first transatlantic voyage, which people that read it…