... illegitimate son that he neglects. His girlfriend has to threaten him to get him to pay for something as little as milk. Willie believes he has the right to treat his son the way he was treated, coldly, without love and attention. His son was actually the lucky one compared to the way Willie treated his girlfriend. Although Willie's son was neglected, the baby's mother was beat. Willie's father had more influence on his life than he wanted to. Willie treated his girlfriend as if she were beneath him, as his father did to him. On page (9) Willie shows his disrespect for women. The best thing that could have happened to Willie was the accident his father w ...
... when slavery was the biggest issue that people were dealing with. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an unexpected factor in the dispute between the North and South. The book sold more than 300,000 copies during the first year of publication, taking thousands of people, even our nation's leaders, by surprise. Mr. Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner who is forced by debt to sell two of his slaves to a trader named Haley. Uncle Tom, the manager of the plantation, understands why he must be sold. The other slave marked for sale is Harry, a four-year-old. His mother, Mrs. Shelby's servant, Eliza, overhears the news and runs away with the little boy. She makes her way up to ...
... us of a future we are on a path to – a future of mind manipulation, misused technology, ignorance, and hatred. He challenges the reader to remain open-minded by promoting individualism, the appreciation of literature, the defiance of censorship and conformity, and most importantly, change. Bradbury’s inspiration to convey the themes involved in the novel resulted mainly from the social situation of the time. First of all, the novel was written shortly after World War II and increasing numbers of authors began writing about serious topics. Also, the invention of the atom bomb had aroused the Cold War and the use of technology as a form of destruction ...
... She is finally forgiven of her sin by society, but never forgives herself for it. I believe that God redeems her. The Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale was Hester’s partner in sin although the public knows not of it and thinks him to be almost a saint. He has mental anguish for the rest of his life and punishes himself by not eating properly, and by beating himself with a whip. Roger Chillingworth, his physician and Hester’s husband constantly reminds him of his sin. Near the end of the book, Dimmesdale finally tells the people of his sin and is redeemed just before he dies. Roger Chillingworth was Hester’s husband in the Old World. He sent her to the coloni ...
... the house the more absolutely unequal Paul felt to the sight of it all; his ugly sleeping chamber, the cold bathroom with the grimy zinc tub..." His school was described with having "bare floors and naked walls". Paul's uplifting arena was either glaring up at the actors, divas, or performers at the Schenley Hotel or at the works of art at Carnegie Hall. Even though he had spent numerous days fantasizing at masterpieces and stage plays, Paul "had no desire to become an actor, any more thatn he had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of these things; what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be carried out, ...
... effect on one key player in the novel, Toohey. Toohey with all the power he had with the public and through the newspaper, was not able to manipulate Howard into his way of thinking. The general public who read the Banner had been convinced that Toohey new what he was talking about on all subjects. His plan to manipulate the public and gather them as a whole was directly countered with every move that Howard made. One of these major moves was the building of the Stoddard Temple. With the temple, Roark had the freedom to build whatsoever he choose. This gave him a medium to express his viewpoint without having any restrictions. After the delayed unveiling ...
... indifference of unhappy savages"(Conrad, 80). Marlow's advancements into the jungle, acted parallel with my discovery: In our deepest nature, all men are savages. Marlow connects with the very backbone in which constitutes Conrad's theme "The shade of the original Kurtz frequented the beside of the hollow sham, whose fate it was buried presently in the mold of primeval earth. But both diabolic love and the unearthly hate of the mysteries it had penetrated fought for the possession of that soul satisfied with primitive emotions, avid of lying fame, of sham distinction, of all the appearances of success and power"(Conrad 146). Our enlightenment into ...
... Florence, for his sins, even though he stood up to all his peers to do so. When Tony ran 10 miles home to warn Ultima, a kind whitch about Tenorio, whose desire is to destroy her spirit, he realized he or Ultima could both be exterminated. During the run, Tony thought of the future, which he hardly thought of before this event. Almost every child Tony's age was preoccupied with activities, such as playing and horsing around, and certainly not thinking what the future could pertain. This proves Tony understood the aknowledgement of reality, unlike most of his peers. When Florence, his freind, questions God, it made Tony gain skeptisicm. Before, Tony's parents, ...
... old man suffering from grippe. While talking with Mr. Spencer, Holden shows his first signs of his depression. After an unpleasant evening with his arrogant roommate Stradlater and their pimply faced next-door neighbor, Ackley, he decides to leave Pencey for good and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and depression brought on by the ugliness of the adult world; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother, Allie's death. Holden’s sexual confusion further complicates his increasingly haphazardness lifestyle ...
... (79). Throughout the book, Salinger emphasizes how much Holden wants to protect the innocence of children. One occurrence of this is when Holden went to Phoebe's school and found “fuck you” written on the wall. He was infuriated because he knew all the children would see it. He said, “ Somebody'd written ‘Fuck you' on the wall. It damn near drove me crazy” (201). Holden wiped it off because he wanted to protect the children form seeing it. In fact, the title of the book deals with Holden wanting to protect kids. Holden told Phoebe, “...I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff... I'd just be the catcher in the rye and a ...
