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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 42, narrated by Isaac Birchall
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Time passes after Lydia’s departure, and eventually Kitty gets better. Lydia sends letters to her mother, saying that she is visiting libraries and is spending time with Mr and Mrs Forster with the officers, and sends letters to her sister Kitty, saying far more interesting things with a lot of hidden details. Elizabeth isn’t feeling amazing, and the thoughts of her northern tour with her aunt and uncle keep her morale above water. Her aunt however writes saying that her work is preventing them from coming at the expected time, and that their tour is also going to have to be cut short, meaning that they should only really be able to go as far north as Derbyshire… Eventually her family arrives, and they set off for the North with Elizabeth. When they get to Derbyshire, they explore the area where Mrs Gardiner used to live, Lambton, only 5 miles from Pemberly. Both of the Gardiners wish to visit the grounds and ask Elizabeth if she would go there. After asking the chambermaid if Darcy would be there and finding out he wouldn’t, she agrees to go.

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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka part 3, narrated by Isaac Birchall
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Gregor’s family start to leave his bedroom door open for him so that he can watch them. He sees his family start to break down as a result of his transformation and their poverty. Greta starts to clean his room less and less, and Gregor’s family fires the maid for a cheap cleaning lady who finds Gregor funny. As a goal to get more money, his family has also taken 3 renters and have been forced to put their extra furniture in Gregor’s room, causing Gregor to become very cramped. One evening, the cleaning lady leaves the door to Gregor’s room ajar, and he observes the boarders eat in the living room. From the kitchen he hears his sister play the violin, and the boarders invites his sister to play for them. Gregor sneaks out of his room to watch her play. The boarders see Gregor and demand not only say that they are leaving the house but refuse to pay for any of the time they have stayed there.
The family is exhausted and fed up of Gregor and they decide that they need to find a way to get rid of him. Gregor wishes that his family could understand him and wishes that they would understand that he would leave by his own accord. He tries slowly to move back to his room with his parents watching him and the moment he moves beyond the threshold of his room, his sister slams and locks the door behind him where soon after, he dies…

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen chapter 36, narrated by Isaac Birchall
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Elizabeth reflects on Darcy’s letter. Her emotions while reading are all over the place. She reads the letter in parts, first reading of Jane and Bingley. She disregards what Darcy initially states about their relationship and takes no time to take in the meaning behind Darcy’s words before starting on the next sentence. When she gets to the parts on Wickham she is at first shocked, exclaiming “This Can’t Be.” She closes the letter and leaves it unfinished while trying to walk away. She can’t resist however and rereads the part on Wickham. Her second read provides her with a lot more insight to Darcy’s story, and greatly opens her mind on the terrible character of Mr Wickham, beginning to think again about how Wickham presented himself to the society of Hertfordshire. 
Coming to the realisation that what Darcy had to say about Wickham must be true, she rereads the part of the letter on Jane. Slowly taking in every line and trying to understand their meaning, she thinks back on Jane’s actual behaviour towards Bingley, and remembering something that Charlotte said, comes to agree that Jane wasn’t as outwardly in Love with Bingley as she believed. Darcy’s comments about her family are like ice in her veins, and the thought that it was because of her family that Bingley could have been removed and not Jane hurts like nothing ever before. Elizabeth cries out that everything she has known about herself has been false, she has been blinded by her Pride and her Prejudice against him. 
After 2 hours Elizabeth thinks that she should head home and tries to set her face right so that none of the Collins’ can guess that she might not be fine. On her arrival, she is informed that both of the Darcy’s had been at the cottage to visit Elizabeth and give them their leave. 

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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 19, narrated by Isaac Birchall

Huck and Jim are adrift down the river again, they spend their days sleeping and their nights making their way down the river. The tie up on towheads and cast their lines into the river to feed themselves. Huck reminisces about these good days, but you can’t help but feel that these good, peaceful times are foreshadowing another darkness. Huck and Jim spend their days just talking about life, the universe and everything, and they start talking about the thousands of stars that they light their journey down the river, and where they came from. 

One day, Huck starts to paddle towards shore, and he encounters two men running for their lives. They call to him and beg for Huck to let them climb onboard his canoe. Huck is cautious at first, but after a few minutes he tells the men to run up the river a bit more and then to jump in the water and wade to him to get rid of any sent trails. After they get back to the raft, the men introduce themselves and they claim that they don’t know each other and start to tell the tale of how they came to be on the run. After a little while though, the younger of the two starts to cry and he claims that he is actually a Duke and that he is devastated that he has to live in squalid conditions. Huck and Jim pity the man and ask if they can do anything to make it better, and the man says that they could address him in a regal manner, and that they could wait on him at mealtimes. After this, the older of the two tells of his own magical Royal birth, and he claims that he is the legitimate son of louis 16 and Marie Antoinette and asks Huck and Jim if they could treat him like a king too. Huck and Jim agree to these terms, but Huck also states that he knows that the two men are nothing but conmen.

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Isaac Birchall
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The Tell-Tale Heart follows a narrator as he tried to convince the reader that he is sane. The trouble is that he is anything but sane. He has murdered his landlord because of their evil blue eye, and has hidden the body under the floorboards of his bedroom. The problem however is that the police come knocking at the door, and the heart of the victim doesn't stop beating...

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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 18, narrated by Isaac Birchall

The colonel is a true southern gentleman, he treats everyone with respect, and talks gently. He is shaved every day, and dresses impeccably. He radiates a warmth from him that is very comforting. When he and his wife come downstairs each morning, all members of the family stand up and drink a toast to the elders of the family. Huck then goes on to describe the other members of the family and describes how hospitable they are to any passersby.

Huck then talks about the other rich family in the area, and then recounts a time when he and Buck came across a member of the other family. Buck pulled his gun on the man and fired at the man. Buck didn’t get the man, and he and Huck had to run to get away from him. Once Huck and Buck had a moment alone, Huck asks Buck why he fired at the man, and Buck goes to tell Huck about the feud between the two families. 

On the following Sunday, Huck and the family go to church and after getting home, the girl Sophia asks Huck if he could go back to the church and collect her bible that she forgot there. Inside of the bible is a note labled “half-past two.” As soon and Huck is home, he gives the bible to the girl and she immediately lights up when she sees the note. Huck sets out to think the situation over, and eventually his servant comes to find him, and leads him to a hidden away nook where Jim has been hiding for a couple of weeks. They are finally reunited, and more importantly, Jim tells Huck that the raft wasn’t destroyed. 

After this encounter with Jim, Huck heads back to the house and wakes up the next day to find the house empty. The girl Sophia, and the Sheperdson boy that Buck shot at ran off together, and the families were at “War…”

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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 17, narrated by Isaac Birchall

A head pokes out of one of the windows of the house and calls out to Huck asking him who he is and what he is doing on their property. Huck gives a fake name and tells the man that he fell off of a ferry boat and made his way to shore to look for help. The man asks Huck if he came with anyone else, and when Huck says “No,” he is asked to approach the house, slowly. Huck moves as slowly as he can and eventually makes it to the door. They give him enough room to poke his head into the sitting room, and after a couple of minutes, they determine that Huck isn’t a member of “The Shepperton” family and is thus allowed to stay with them. The old woman calls to her youngest son, who is around Huck’s age, and asks him to lend Huck some of his clothes so that Huck can get out of his wet ones. Once in the boy’s bedroom, Huck is asked some riddle by the boy, and Huck doesn’t quite follow as he is too logical for these silly games. Huck and the boy then go downstairs to get some food and Huck makes up a story about his fake family, and how he came to be at their home. They tell Huck that he can stay with them as long as he likes. 

Some time passes, and Huck inserts himself into the family’s life. The family is extremely wealthy, and all of their furniture and fixtures show it. Everything is exquisite. The family had a daughter who sadly passed away, she was a poet and an artist, and was very gifted. She used to write poetry about people she read about in the obituaries, and she became renowned in the area for her work. Her paintings and drawings were all over the house, and her last work, left unfinished is hanging as the pride and joy of the family. Huck is blown away by this girl’s work, and loves to read her poetry, and he laments that she passed away before her time. 

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The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Isaac Birchall

The unnamed narrator sits in his chamber on a dark and dreary December night, reading old books to try and distract himself from the passing of his love "Lenore." He has just started to drift off to sleep when he hears a knocking at the door. He is weary at first, not knowing if the noise was real or dreamed. He calls out to the "knocker" and apologises for is lateness, but when he finally swings open the door, he is greeted only by an empty hallway. He whispers out the word "Lenore" but the only reply is the echo of the name bouncing around the walls of the hallway. Ominously, the knocking noise continues, this time from the window. He goes to open the shutter, looking for his phantom visitor, but is only greeted by the night air. He opens the window, and strangely a raven hops over the threshold and flutters up to a bust of Pallas Athena above the chamber door. The Speaker is chuckled by this, and jokingly asks the bird for its name, but is frightened to kingdom come when the bird replies, "Nevermore."

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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain chapter 16, narrated by Isaac Birchall

The boys are continuing to make their way to Cairo where Jim could finally be free. As the get closer Jim starts rambling about all of his plans once free; he wants to start working right away and wants to save enough money to but his wife and children. This freaks Huck out, he is very conflicted about helping Jim get to freedom, especially helping him get to freedom where he could get other slaves free. Huck beats himself up more and more as they are going down the river, and he starts thinking that the best thing to do would be to paddle to shore as soon as he can and to tell somebody that there is a runaway slave in a raft. Once he decides that he is going to tell, Huck starts to feel a little better, and eventually he sees two rafts going upriver. He paddles across to see them, and they mention that they are looking for 5 runaway slaves and they ask Huck if there is anyone with him. He isn’t sure why, but he lies to these men, he tells them that his sick father is on the raft, and he would love some help getting the raft to shore. The men start to make their way over to the raft and they question huck about the type of sickness that his father has. Huck tries to avoid the questions, but the men conclude that Huck’s father must have smallpox and tell Huck to go away so they don’t get sick too.

After the men leave, Huck heads back to the raft and he asks himself what the point of doing “good” is if he feels just as bad now, having refused to give up Jim as before.  He finds Jim hiding in the water, with only his nose breaching the surface and after getting back onto the raft, he asks Huck how he was able to fool the two men. Jim then tells Huck that he is the only white person to have ever shown him any kindness. They continue to make their way down the river, and after not finding any other towns the two of them start to think that they missed Cairo in the fog, Jim says it was because of the snakeskin, and he states that the worst of their luck is yet to come. They tie up their canoe and raft and go to rest for the day and when they come back at night, the canoe has been stolen! They get onto the raft and continue down the river, hoping to find a place where they can buy a new canoe, but in the dark, a River boat heads straight for them, and destroys the raft, with Jim and Huck having to dive away in different directions to avoid getting squashed. When Huck surfaces, Jim is nowhere to be found. He makes his way to the bank, scrambles up, and tries to find some help…

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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, chapter 15, narrated by Isaac Birchall

The boys are making their way down to the free states, but as a fog rolls in the boys have trouble heading their way. They try to paddle towards a towhead and hunker down for the night, but the reeds aren’t thick enough to attach to. The canoe and raft break off, and split off with Huck going one way, and Jim the other; with the fog too thick to see through, the boys have to try and whoop to guide themselves towards each other. Huck paddles all over, and he hears the voice in front, behind, left, and right of him, and he has no idea which way to paddle, and he realises that the big towhead must have actually been an island. The river is moving quickly, and Huck keeps hitting the island, and assumes that Jim must be doing the same thing and eventually concludes that there isn’t anything he can do to catch him and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, he finds that the fog has lifted a little, and he sets out again to try and find Jim. He eventually finds Jim and plays a foul trick on him.

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