... absent at Sunday service. This was due to the fact he needed to tend to his crops. Also, Proctor did not agree with the appointment of Mr. Parris as the newest minister, and therefore did not have his last child baptized. With the latest craze of witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about w ...
... the finder and find its way back to the sea. This conference I told you about is a great as well as horrible experience for all the oysters. Triumph and defeat lurks around all corners. The contending oysters must run the test and those standing at the end must do it again until one oyster stands. This was the first time in history that more than three tests had to be run. It came down to Chuck the clan favorite and Tinagel the outcast. Finally with a little cheating and a lot of dishonesty Chuck took the pearl to gain its power till the coming year when he would relinquish control of the pearl. Tintagel knew this fact but was jealous and devised a plan to steal ...
... Wong was born in San Jose. Still living with his parents, he has experienced situations where he felt torn between two cultures. Wong's parents came to America in 1974. For the first couple of years, they lived a life not exposing themselves to the American culture. Once Wong started school, his surrounding influenced him, as in his friends who spoke "perfect" English and his teachers who taught and exposed him to the American culture. "It was like I was bringing home the American culture to my parents everytime I learned something new in school," Wong recalls. "I remember bringing home the first permission slip to go on a field trip when I was in k ...
... its values. This creates not only the comic effect of the play but also makes the audience think of the serious things of life. Oscar Wilde begins with a joke in the title that is not only a piece of frivolity. It concerns the problem of recognising and defining human identity. The use of earnest and Earnest is a pun, which makes the title not only more comic, but also leads to a paradox. The farce in The Importance of Being Earnest consists in the trifle that it is important not only to be earnest by nature but to have the name Earnest too. Jack realizes "the vital Importance of Being Earnest"(53) not till the end of the play. Algernon calls the act of not ...
... family. He saw Heathcliff as “a usurper of his father’s affections and his privileges.”(42) The young vagabond was quieter and gentler so he became a favourite of Mr. Earnshaw. Hindley’s luck took a turn for the worst when his wife, Frances, died. When she passed away, a part of himself died too. His common sense and rationality slowly disintegrated into ashes. “The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long.”(68) He soon turned to alcohol for salvation, but his drinking habits only made him worse. Soon enough, Hindley was “degrading himself past redemption, and became daily more notable for savage ...
... although sometimes a pain in the butt, is a necessity for mankind. Without time, we are sheep without a sheperd, wandering aimlessly in the vast fields of eternity, searching for nothing, living without a purpose. Time gives man a time frame. That time frame is life. Time is everything. I’m sure that if you asked any person what time is, they would respond by saying some thing about minutes and seconds. Mankind, unfortunately, sees time as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; Wh ...
... He likes that there are no grownups around to supervise them. The boys have the entire island to themselves. But Ralph is a strange boy. He wears a belt with a snake-clasp that implies menace. Snakes are an important symbol that we will encounter again. Ralph then takes off his clothes which implies goodness and naturalness. He accepts the island as his home. The fat boy who follows Ralph is worried. As I mentioned before Piggy is an asthmatic, nearly blind without glasses, he sees his life easily threatened because of his weaknesses. He doesn't belong in a wild place. When Piggy asks Ralph his name, we realize that not all of the boys on the plane knew each other ...
... fled to America after she had lost all her possessions; however, she does not lose hope. When the swan is ripped from her arms she is only left with a single swan's feather to symbolize all her hopes and dream for the future. When June was a child her mother encouraged her to pursue many different activities especially the piano. Suyuan was obsessed with June becoming a child prodigy because she wanted the best for her, not just because she was jealous of her best-friend, Lindo Jong. When June refused to play, her mother insisted and forced her to sit at the piano and play. June was unable to understand why her mother had such an unrelenting need for June to ...
... he suffers. He attempts to justify his behavior but does not convince himself. Santiago believes in killing the giant marlin but he knows the fish is his brother. He struggles over whether he should kill him or not. He decides to kill. " 'I'll kill him though,' he said. 'In all his greatness and his glory.' Although it is unjust, he thought." The tragic man can endure pain and does not fear death. The old man sits in his skiff with the fishing line wrapped around his back. He is in a very uncomfortable position and the moving rope slices his hands. "I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pa ...
... books and attending press interviews. Throughout these hard times, one can read this book and find out the characteristics of the author, how he saw the light bulb, and the truth that he wanted people to understand. Mr. Griffin was a middle age white man who lived with his wife and children. He was not oriented to his family. He decided to pass his own society to the black society. Although this decision might help most of the African Americans, he had to sacrifice his gathering time with his family. “She offered, as her part of the project, her willingness to lead, with our three children, the unsatisfactory family life of a household deprived of ...
