... summer but ended up going longer. Toni and Julie have grown up together and have never been separated. It is very hard and frustrating for them only to be able to communicate through letters. Another adjustment Toni has to make is having to live with her sister. Toni has an older sister, Martine, who lives in New York. Toni's father has a small heart attack and he and Toni's mother are placed in a care center for a few months. Her parents decide it would be best for Toni to go stay with Martine while her father is recuperating. Martine and Toni don't get along at all and it is hard for them to adjust to living with each other. A big change in Toni's life ...
... are expecting and encouraging this dependence.Elaine and Robert, Mattie's two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight year old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get rest because she is slowing down and can't keep going as steady as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Mattie was sick. Pearl Turnage, Mattie's older sister, has given in to the stereotypes that are now plaguing Mattie, and insists that she do the same. I ...
... “Like a knight of the Round Table, Marlow sets off in search of strange adventures. He only gradually acquires a grail, as he picks up more and more hints about Kurtz. Like a knight he is frequently tested by signs he must confront, question and interpret. Among these signs we can count the title of the novel, the contrasts made by the narrator throughout the story, the jungle, the ivory trade, the shadows of the jungle, pilgrims, Kurtz, the painting of Kurtz and the last words of Kurtz, and the lies of Marlow when he returns home. On the other hand, since for us all these signs were applied by Conrad for one thing; that is to uncover the evil side hidden in ...
... continues greedily and foolishly in his actions. Despite his high aspirations, Faustus still has desires of the flesh, as he requests a wife from Mephostophelis: “…I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without a wife.” (p. 43) Here Faustus is shown to have internal conflict between godly aspirations and human aspirations. Nevertheless, it is shown that is intent on becoming more powerful than any human, and he has gone to great lengths to do so. After selling his soul for twenty-four years of power and knowledge, soon realizes what he has done. He tries to repent his bond with the devil, yet the devil will not have it and binds him to his contract. Fo ...
... He knows that the widow is right, but his reaction is still childish. Another character who tries to help Huck is the widow's sister, Miss Watson, who lives with them and was trying to teach Huck spelling. From Huck's standpoint, “Miss Watson she kept on pecking at me, and it got tiresome lonesome” (5). Huck's immaturity is obvious as he expresses his dislike of how Miss Watson wanted him to sit up straight and stop fidgeting. Huck's immaturity is clear in the beginning of the book. All of Huck's discipline leaves his life as the book progresses, and Huck's father shows up to take him to live in a cabin in the woods. All of the bad habits from his past retu ...
... how she is expected to act in late sixteenth century society and abide by the unspoken rules. The play ends with her conformance to the norms of society but it isn't a wholehearted choice, it's in her actions but not in her mind. Katherine assumes the role of an obedient, polite wife but she still retains her innate assertiveness. Katherine's being tamed is not a matter of her being cured of her shrewishness but rather her having learned to get along in a man's world. In this play courtship and marriage aren't the result of love but rather an institution that people are expected to take part in. Suitors are not judged by how much they love the woman but h ...
... trap. He wanted to be something that he was not. He knew that he couldn't be that, but he kept trying, and he kept lying. He tried and tried to be the best salesman, to die, and have the death of a salesman, but in the end, it all backfired on him, everything was the opposite of what he strived for. He started going crazy, and then he lost it. He started to have his own conversations with people that were not with him; people that were in his mind. He had a imaginary girlfriend and many other friends that he would talk to. He put most of his time into the people in his head, that he forgot about reality, and went on a voyage with one of the people in his m ...
... a warning of the consequences of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to bring about. Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four “A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rests on a fiction and can not be substantiated by reality or truth. “ But perhaps this future is realizing itself mo ...
... complex. Joseph K struggles to find the true meaning behind his arrest. He searches for answers related to his case, but no one can give him a clear answer as to why he was arrested. Not even the inspector that arrested him, "These gentlemen here and myself have no standing whatever in this affair of yours, indeed we know hardly anything about it. We might wear the most official uniforms and your case would not be a penny worse. I can't even confirm that you are charged with an offense, or rather, I don't know whether you are." (p 12) As you can see, K has no luck getting information regarding his case. In fact, from the time he was first put under arrest to when ...
... Emotions of all types are strictly controlled to provide stability and predictability within the population. Another of the panaceas for social ills is the belief that everyone would enjoy his or her work because he or she was "made" or trained for it when young. Consequently, from birth, everyone in Brave New World is slotted to belong to a specific social and intellectual strata. In conjunction with this idea, all births are completely planned and monitored. There are different classes of people with different intelligence and different "career plans." The social order was divided into the most highly educated, the Alpha+, and then in descending intel ...
