... he spotted celebrating the Christmas holiday. He would even put down his nephew because of his Christmas Spirit. The Cratchit's, however, spent their Christmas enjoying the company and warmth of each other. They found a way to have a wonderful time, despite their money problems. In this day and age, Christmas is also known as a time to spend with loved ones. The winter holidays are the most joyful because of the time we spend with our close friends and relatives. No one could ever be happy spending Christmas by themselves, especially in our society. However, there is a difference between Christmas one hundred years ago and Christmas in the present. ...
... in a desolate mountain pass and kills a man under self-defense. He then marries a woman from a different city. An Athenian of the time could have considered both of these misfortunes. Imperfections come within all men. This brings forth the difference between voluntary and the involuntary crimes. Oedipus is in fact a good man, who was “the unfortunate man who had committed an unintentional crime.” Sheppard states his philosophy of a good man. “Of the best it may be said that they are in a sense ‘good’ since there is nothing ‘shameful’ in their intentional and purposed deed and thought. But even so, they are not secure. Perfection, if calamity ...
... story of Beowulf, has become the classic foundation of many modern stories. Beowulf and Grendel represent the ultimate struggle of good and evil. Grendel tries to destroy everything around him. To Beowulf, this is another conquest. It allows him to do yet another good deed that people will talk about. Beowulf represents God and Grendel is Satan. The struggle between God and Satan has existed throughout time. Beowulf is all that is good, moral, and ethical. He lives by the rules of God. Grendel denounces those rules to live by his own. Thinking only of that which gives him pleasure, he attempts to destroy everything good and kind. Beowulf is like a parent ...
... to her, but a major league ballplayer on the train named Whammer Wambold has already caught her eye. Roy becomes jealous and begins to do things to try to get her attention. At a stop in the route, the passengers get off for a break and go to a local carnival where Roy and the big leaguer clash in a contest of talent, a David-and-Goliath-type confrontation (Solotaroff 9). Roy strikes out the batter with three blistering pitches, each of which make Harriet pay more and more attention to him. As they arrive in Chicago, Harriet stays at the hotel at which Roy has booked a room. She gives him a call and provocatively invites him to her room. Succumbing to her in ...
... bent / She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent. /… Bold was her face, handsome, and red in hue. / A worthy woman all her life…(31)" These passages depict a woman who has a normal physical appearance and who is good at making clothes, a typical female ability. The general prologue does not show the strong willed, intelligent, independent woman that the Wife of Bath is. The Wife of Bath only reveals this in her own prologue. Chaucer does not go into much detail about the Wife of Bath because he only reveals what he sees. The Wife of Bath Contrary to this, Chaucer brings to life the Squire by his description of the Squires physical appearance and details abou ...
... watch so that he would have money to buy her combs for her hair. They both sacrificed themselves for gifts for each other. On the other hand, in "The Necklace", the main character, a middle class woman named Madame Loisel is selfish, greedy, and an uncaring woman. Although she is beautiful, she only cares about money. In the story, she and her husband are invited to a party. She has her husband spend the 400 francs he has saved for a gun, on a dress she wants to wear to the ball. She also wants something beautiful to go with her dress, so she borrows a gorgeous necklace from a friend. Madame Loisel was the hit of the party. At the end of the night, she discovered ...
... least amount of sin in the novel. In the eyes of the Puritan community, though, she has committed one of the worst possible sins that can be imagined: adultery. They feel she is horrendously corrupt, yet it is not truly her fault. Hester is the victim of her husband, Roger Chillingworth’s (formerly Roger Prynne) stupidity by sending her to New England by herself, while he remained in Europe. Chillingworth even admitted that it was his fault when he voiced, “It was my folly! I have said it. But, up to that epoch of my life, I have lived in vain.”(Ch.4, p. 68) Hester is also a victim of fate. She has no way of knowing if Chillingworth is dead or alive when ...
... The feeling is mutual, too. White men then considered Indians as barbaric, uncivilized, and also useless. These two groups of people acted extremely hostile towards each other. But that is sure to change. Dunbar only goes out because he wants to see the frontier, or land that hasn’t been settled. This just so happens to be Indian land. As the story progresses, Dunbar befriends the tribe, turns against his Northern army, and goes to live with the Sioux. The tone here is a more warm and friendly environment, because Dunbar realizes that his new friends are more civil than men of his own kind. Things really start to turn around when Dunbar’s tr ...
... split her time between New York and Monroeville, Alabama. "In her native town she was surrounded by the setting of her novel; an old house where a mysterious recluse might live, the courtroom, and the lawyer's office" (Matuz 239). This environment and her southern background proved to be the perfect combination for writing a story about life in a quiet town in Alabama. The only way to be a good writer is to write from experience, and since she lived most of her life in the setting of the story, her writing proved to be good. The timing for the release of To Kill a Mockingbird could not have been more perfect. "In a time of the burgeoning civil rights movement, ...
... is along for the ride. In every smokey little jazz club and every cramped run down apartment, the reader shares the experience. The way that Kerouac is able to create a detailed portrait of every situation shows that he is a master in the use of imagery. The main contributor to this imagery, however, is Kerouac's use of extensive, though necessary, detailed description. The magnitude of the imagery in this story could never have been attained without the use of the vivid details that brought every place and situation to life. Sal's experience in Mexico, for example, uses wide ranges of description to let the reader know just how Sal is feeling through ev ...
