... and not to ever get yelled at again. Even after trying to stay out of trouble, Billy continues to slip up. These small threats and incidents establish the tension between Claggart and Billy, and set the stage for a later confrontation. They also force Billy to search for help. The person he goes to is the old Dansker. Billy recognizes Dansker as a figure of experience, and after showing respect and courtesy which Billy believes due to his elder, finally seeks his advice. But what Billy is told thoroughly astonishes him. Dansker tells Billy that for some reason, Claggart is after him. Dansker says to Billy, “Baby Budd, Jimmy Legs is down on you” (785). Billy i ...
... be able to learn whatever their interests are. John believes that all the subjects connect together so there is no point for "Majors." In our society today, majors are very important to our course of studies and our future because we can get pay doing what we enjoy. The problems that emerge when it comes to Newman's points of views, is that; people don't get to learn what they want, there are not enough opportunities for jobs if everyone learned the same subjects, and the fact that we have to learn all the subjects that we might not even use in life. There should be specific people doing and studying specific things so we all don't have to learn and do it. In ...
... Golding presents to the readers of LORD OF THE FLIE S is one that suggests what might happen when a group of young boys is faced with the challenge of creating a new civilization for themselves without the help of adults. The boys must take what they have been taught and incorporate that into a new society governed by themselves. Before long these boys will deal with the many fears associated with this new life and the power struggles for survival that will exist along the way. The boys' creation of a new society helps the reader to see what might really happen if a group of young boys is thrown together and must fend for themselves without a ...
... he believed that it was not possible to obtain true enlightenment through the words of others but that it must be experienced empirically. Siddhartha therefore rejects the life of a Brahmin to become a Samana (a wandering person who gives up material possessions for his faith). After he tires of this life, he moves on to learn the art of love from a woman named Kamala and the art of business from a man named Kamaswami. He lives his new life for many years but then begins to feel that his mind has become stagnant and that he needs something new in his life. He abandons the surroundings he now finds decadent and becomes friends and lives with a ferry-man who ...
... his hearth and honor." (p. 44) Just as both are about to shoot, a tree branch from above crashes upon the men. The feeling of suspense flees, and a feeling of sorrow and pity for Georg and Ulrich fills one's heart. The reader feels immense sympathy for the situation: how many times in one's own life has a mere squabble gotten out of control and wrecked everything? The men lay, crippled beneath the tree in the cold and realize the foolishness of their ways. Ulrich says to Georg, "Neighbor, do as you please if your men come first. It was a fair compact. But as for me, I've changed my mind. If my men are the first to come you shall be the first to be helped. ...
... To understand the new technology, ideas and measures that are being taken today, it is important to understand how pesticides were being used in the past. Furthermore, one must go a step further to conclude why the past measurements were considered to be inappropriate thus bringing us to the measures being taken today. In the past, we were not quite sure what long-term effects, if any that pesticides might have. When applying pesticides one must take into consideration the amount that actually remains on the plant as compared to the amount that is washed away by rain, carried off by wind, or absorbed by microorganisms and other living animals. In the case of DDT ...
... but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind-) perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!"(507) The men are under the impression that what they say goes and therefore the woman has no choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses hi ...
... a form of satire using situations that are at first humorous but are actually very disturbing. The way in which these situations take on such a drastic change in meaning results in a type of emotional experience for the reader. At first, the reader is entertained, but then they realize the seriousness of the situation, and the reader realizes that the joke is on them. The author knew that they would laugh, and the author knew that the reader would be disgusted with themselves because of it. Consequently, the very nature of this process and the sense of personal guilt that is involved invokes a sense of anger. This anger is directed towards the reason for the s ...
... remembered hanging Bobinot’s Sunday coat on the front gallery and as she was retrieving it Alcee rode up seeking shelter from the storm. “May I come and wait on your gallery till the storm is over, Calixta?” he asked. Although Alcee wished to remain on the gallery, Calixta insisted that he come inside and stay until the storm passed. Although it was dark outside, inside Alcee admired the fact that “she was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon.” Calixta realized that “her firm, elastic flesh that was knowing for the first time it’s birthright, was like a creamy lily that the sun invites to contribut ...
... Kimball O'hara became Kim, and under the hot Indian sun his skin grew so dark that one good not tell that he was of the Caucasian race. One day a Tibetan lama, in search of the Holy River of the Arrow that would wash away all sin, came to Lahore. Struck by all possibility for an exciting adventure, Kim attached himself to the lama as his chela. His adventures began almost at once. That night, at the edge of Lahore, Mahubub Ali, a horse trader, gave Kim a cryptic message to deliver to a British author in Umballa. What Kim did not know was that Mahbub was a member of the British Secret Service. He delivered the message as directed, and then lay in the grass and watche ...
