What is the summary for Chapter 17 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?

Chapter Seventeen:  The Man with Two Faces

Instead of seeing Snape in the next room, Harry is surprised to find Professor Quirrell who reveals himself as the villain.  It was Quirrell, not Snape, who had been trying to kill Harry all along.  Snape had been trying to save Harry.  Ropes appear and bind Harry tightly as Quirrell ponders the last enchantment:  the Mirror of Erised.  Quirrell sees himself in the mirror presenting the Sorcerer’s Stone to Lord Voldemort, but Quirrell can’t figure out how to get the stone.  Harry realizes that the mirror will show Harry finding the Sorcerer’s Stone.  As Harry steps closer to the mirror, Harry hears another voice telling Quirrell to use Harry to find the Sorcerer’s Stone.  Harry looks into the mirror and sees himself pulling the Sorcerer’s Stone out of his own pocket, but lies to Quirrell about it.  The strange voice asks to speak to Harry, so Quirrell unwraps his turban to reveal the face of Voldemort at the rear.  Voldemort explains how the unicorn blood kept him alive and asks for the stone in Harry’s pocket.  Quirrell lunges at Harry, whose scar is burning beyond belief, and grabs Harry around the neck.  Suddenly, Quirrells hands begin to blister and burn.  Harry grabs Quirrell’s arm (burning it as well) before he faints into blackness.

Harry awakens to find Dumbledore sitting beside him in the hospital wing.  Harry is surrounded by gifts from his fellow Griffindors.  Dumbledore reveals that he was the one to pull Quirrell off of Harry, that Nicholas Flamel has decided to destroy the Sorcerer’s Stone, that Dumbledore was the one who sent the invisibility cloak, that the reason why Harry’s touch burned Quirrell was because of Harry’s mother’s love for him, that Harry’s own father had once saved Snape’s life, and that Voldemort will continue to try and return.  Dumbledore also says that there are things he won’t reveal to Harry until he is older.  Dumbledore is particularly proud of the Mirror of Erised because only the person who wanted to find the Sorcerer’s Stone (and not use it) would be able to get it.

As Dumbledore leaves, Ron and Hermione appear and contemplate Dumbledore’s involvement in all of this.  After a few days, Harry feels well enough to go to the feast at the end of the year where he comforts a crying Hagrid who is upset about revealing Fluffy’s secret.  Hagrid gives Harry a special present with pictures of his family.  At the feast, it first seems that the Griffindors lose horribly, but it isn’t long before Dumbledore awards some final points to Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Neville.  The Griffindors are victorious!

Harry and his friends find out they have passed their exams before they all return home for the summer holidays.  Harry returns to the Dursleys to await the start of the next school year.

How does Ken Sleight believe that Everett Ruess died in Into the Wild?Ken Sleight is an expert of the Davis Gulch area

Ken Sleight believes that Everett Ruess drowned in the San Juan River.

Sleight is a professional river guide who has visited all the places Ruess visited, having lived and worked in the area for over forty years.  He has "spent as much time investigating the riddle of Everett Ruess as any other person", and is convinced the young man drowned in 1934 or early 1935.  While hiking down Grand Gulch, Sleight had discovered the name "Nemo", an alias adopted by Ruess, carved into the soft mud of an Anasazi granary.  Sleight believes that after departing Davis Gulch, Ruess hid all his gear in a cave and headed down to visit Indian friends on the Navajo Reservation.  His route would have taken him across the Colorado River, along a rugged trail across Wilson Mesa and the Clay Hills, and then down Grand Gulch to the San Juan River.  Ruess would have had to cross the river to reach the reservation, and it is here that Sleight believes he died. 

Sleight thinks that if Ruess had made it across the river and reached the reservation, he would not have been able to keep his presence a secret.  He bases his theory on Ruess's tendency to disappear for awhile, then come back to civilization, only to disappear again.  Sleight believes that since one of the last known signs of Ruess's presence appears at Grand Gulch, after which he is never heard from again, he must have met his demise somewhere there along the river (Chapter 9).

What do "night" and "light" represent in "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"? What clues do you use?

Night represents death, or dying.  The poem is written about Dylan Thomas's father, who is dying at the time, and the opening line implores him to "not go gentle into that good night", or to not die without a strong fight.  Further evidence comes in fourth line where Thomas states, "Though wise men at their end know dark is right."  At their end means at the end of their lives, and the dark refers to the night, or death.

Light in the poem represents life, or life's force and vitality.  Dylan wants his father to "rage against the dying of the light", or to fight against his life draining from him.  Various forms of light are discussed in the poem, all representing different forms and strengths of living.  You have men whose "words had forked no lightning", the light there representing the activating, and powerful words that men might have used in their lifetimes; there is "how bright their frail deeds" might have been in life, so men regretting not living more "brightly", or powerfully; and men "who caught and sang the sun in flight" representing those powerful figures who seem to blaze with light in all that they do.  For all of these examples, light represents life, and the different things men do or do not do in their lives.  And in the end, Dylan wants all men, regretful or not, to rage against the dying of the light.

Light and night are opposites, just as death and life are, so they are apt descriptions to use in this poem.

What happened to the Pilot-in-Training who flew over Jonas's community in "The Giver"?

The Pilot-in-Training who flew over Jonas's community by mistake was "released".

The Pilot-in-Training had "misread his navigational instructions and made a wrong turn...desperately the Pilot had been trying to make his way back before his error was noticed".  Unfortunately, in attempting to get back on course, the Pilot had flown over the community twice.  It was "against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community", and when the Pilot in question inadvertently did so, he threw the citizens into a panic.  A "rasping voice through...speakers" instructed all citizens to leave what they were doing and "go into the nearest building and stay there".  Within minutes, the plane had been identified, and the voice on the speakers explained what had happened, ending with the somber pronouncement, "Needless to say, (the Pilot) will be released".

Even though Jonas detected "an ironic tone" to the voice on the speaker's final message, to be "released" was a grim statement.  Although the particulars of the process were not discussed, what it meant to the citizens was that the Pilot would be erased from the community.  Children were taught at a very young age the seriousness of the concept of "release", and they were scolded if they ever used the term lightly, even at play.  For "a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure" (Chapter 1).

In 1984, Winston says he has no desire to lie to Julia. Why wouldn't he? How was that a success of his training?

Winston sees the lives every person leads as some semblance of a lie. He knows how information is mangled in his own office, and he has a vague idea that the government is indeed building and rebuilding memories from scratch every day. (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4). He sees his relationship with Julie as the only true thing in the world, and therefore sacrosanct from lies.

This is a success of his training because he is so focused on this newfound freedom, he completely allows himself to believe that the government really allows free pockets. He really believes that "memory holes" make the thing go away. He lets himself be caught out completely by his willingness to believe that truth can still exist.

What are some symbols in "The Demon Lover," and what is the main conflict?

Do you mean the poem? If so, note that the conflict concerns a woman who is tempted to forsake husband and child, hearth and home, to run away with a man she is infatuated with.

It was a common folk belief of the time that Satan could never disguise himself completely but had to reveal some body part portraying him for who he really was. (Kind of a "rule" in the game of deception.) Thus, he is often shown with horn, a hoof, a tail or something unnatural. That way the temptation was at least "fair play."

Note that running away to sea is a universal symbol in itself of escapism or the desire for emancipation. It also symbolises the desire for new experiences and absolute freedom.

In 1945 Elizabeth Bowen had a short story published inspired by this medieval poem. Check out the site below for symbolism in this work and the correlation between it and the original poem. Note that this is a source where not all information is verifiable since its information is contributed by the general public.

What is the theme of Wordsworth's "The Rainbow?"

William Wordsworth was a Nature poet who worshipped Nature as his God and it was his main source of spirtual comfort  and escape from all the cares of this world. His association with life giving and life sustaining Nature began even when he was only a child and remained with him till his death.

In this short lyric, the 'rainbow' symbolizes the life sustaining and life nourishing goodness of Nature. The sight of the beautiful rainbow which he saw when he was only a child is deeply etched in his memory and the same joy that he experienced when he saw it as a child contiunes to remain with him through his adulthood. He desires that this same childhoood joy should continue to sustain him even in his old age. Wordsworth says that he would rather die than not being able to experience the same joy that he experienced when he saw the rainbow when he was a small boy after he becomes an old man.

The memory of the beautiful rainbow and its pleasant associations form the link between his childhood, adulthood and his old age:past, present and future. Wordsworth concludes the poem by expressing the desire that each day of his existence be linked with the next by beautiful and simple natural sights like the rainbow.

For Wordsworth the life nourishing and life sustaining memories of beautiful natural sights like the rainbow are very precious and he deeply desires that they link each day of his life on this earth and remain with him till his death.