... is an example of humor through language and incomplete education although sometimes he is not that far from the truth. "They [royalty] don't do nothing! Why, how you talk! They just set around." "No; is dat so?" "Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking— just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they hang round the harem." However, by using Huck's language Twain creates character and establishes realism. Huck is capable of making Twain write something mer ...
... if he could have a piece of wood, because that morning he had an impulse to make a puppet. The lumberjack agreeing and relieved to find a way of getting rid of the piece of wood and handed it over immediately, but just as the two hands transferred the wood the piece of wood cried out "Pollendina"! Geppetto outraged at being ca lled this scr eamed at the Cherry for he did not know that the wood had said it, so Ô úú‰ú?ú€% úÔ Cherry then said that ÃúÃÃ ÃÄ ÄÄúÄthe wood had said that, Geppetto furious struck Cherry for thinking he was a imbecile and a huge fight occurred. After the fight the two men got up and shook hands and promised t ...
... Chillingworth wanted to keep Dimmesdale alive to suffer through his own guilt. Evidence exists very early in the novel that deems Dr. Kahn’s theory untrue. During Chillingworth and Hester’s talk about who had wronged whom. Chillingworth says “…I shall contrive aught against his life…”(Hawthorne 70). Speaking of Dimmesdale, Chillingworth goes on to say, “…he be a man of fair repute” (Hawthorne 70). This passage alone shows that Chillingworth did not want to kill Dimmesdale, but would rather let him suffer through what he had done because after all he was suppose to be the epitome of puritan society and Chi ...
... was related to devil-worship, such as dancing and chanting. It was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. After the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods and one of them falls sick, rumors circulated about witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl has been bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened as being accused as witches, so Abigail, the main character and the principle accuser, starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. They lied not only to protect themselves but the reputation of their families. The accusations grow and grow until the jails overflow with accused witches. ...
... marked for slander and defamation(Miller, “The Crucible” 20). Although he may come across as a steady mannered individual, Proctor is not an untroubled man. His was a sinner against his wife, a sinner against his community, a sinner against his own morals, and a sinner against his Puritanical society. He was so troubled by this sin of adultery, that he came to regard himself as a kind of a fraud, although he does not show it on the surface for even a second. Elizabeth Proctor, John’s wife, is a strong woman who knows about her husband’s sin but, like John, does not let on to her secret. She spends most of the novel trying to cope with ...
... to him. Renne acknowledges his parent’s intentions when he says: Originally they had planned to have more children, but in view of my father to focus all of their attention and resources on me. (Salzman 4) This is the first example of Renne being a soloist, in which he is the only child and his parents are going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t that interested in playing sports, his mother forbidden him to play. She excluded him from contact with other children after he moved to Germany with Von Kempen. Renne was forced to be alone and that is all he kn ...
... river. Huck, being the mischievous boy that he is,often showed much ignorance to others. He did not recognize the feelings of others- as many young boys his age don’t realize. The unrecognizable feeling was ignorance towards others and the way they feel. Many times Huck could be found causing trouble for others. One situation was when Tom and Huck decided to play a trick on Jim by putting his hat above a tree he was lying by, leading Jim to think he was "bewitched" by witches. Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn’t wake. Afterward Jim said the witches bewitched him and put h ...
... daughter Patsy, who is married to Ding. Patsy is pregnant. The other main character is Dmitriy Arkadeyevich Popov, he is an ex-KGB agent who is now working as a ‘special consultant'. He will become very important later on in the book. Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European anti- terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; Team 1 and Team 2. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but any European country can call on them at any time. They run 3 miles in 20 minutes every morning at 6:00 am. Only one team will be on-call at a time. The team that is not on-call will be doi ...
... superficial, as he was only interested in a girl's appearance. Thinking of Biddy, Pip thought to himself, "She was not beautiful--She was common and could not be like Estella..." (p 600) Estella's beauty had made Pip blind as to what was really important in a person. No matter how coldly Pip was treated by Estella, he went on loving her only because of her astounding beauty. As Pip progressed in life, he became increasingly ungrateful to the people that had raised and cared for him as a child. His disrespect was most strongly shown towards Joe. Having not seen Joe for a number of years, Pip shows that he would rather have continued his now prosperous life wi ...
... in the idea that they "ain't got nothing to look ahead to." Even though George and Lennie have a dream about owning "a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and rabbits"someday, their own individual faults hinder their dream from ever coming true. George's fatal flaw is that he puts to much trust in Lennie. Lennie is mentally handicapped, and everyone refers to him as "a cuckoo". George becomes too reliant in Lennie, and Lennieends up breaking Curley's wife's neck, and killing her. With the death of Curley's wife, George and Lennie's dream also die. George replies to Candy when he asks if they can still "get that little place", "--I ...
