... boys watched as Injun Joe kills the doctor and frames a drunk by the name of Muff Potter who just happens to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys swear never to speak of this again. Soon after this Tom falls in love with his new neighbor, Becky Thatcher. Eventually the two become engaged but the engagement falls through when Tom accidentally mentions his former love while talking with Becky. The two fued and do not speak. Meanwhile, the whole town is gossiping of the murder of Dr. Robinson and the prosecution of Muff Potter. A trail quickly forms and Muff is put on the stand. Tom knows he can not let the innocent Muff go to jail so as the tr ...
... and he becomes a tyrant (ruler) over Heathcliff. “He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour outdoors instead, compelling him to do as hard as any other lad on the farm” (49). Hindley is also envious of the love that Catherine has for Heathcliff, and he tries to force them to live apart from each other, but Heathcliff and Catherine: “… they forgot everything the minute they were together again – at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge…” (50). Even so, Hindley’s abuse is almost solely directly towards Heathcliff. The only time H ...
... Her mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her. All she had was her grandmother, Nanny, who protected and looked after her when she was a child. But that was it. She was even unaware that she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded that matter as unnecessary for her as well as for Janie. And for that reason, when Janie was about to enter her womanhood in searching for that love, Nan ...
... to smell the roses and taking long walks in the rain. I can do those things in many countries, America is not the only one. I wish more people in America would have these type of dreams. Instead, people are slaving for companies for more than half of their lives only to retire and be too old to hike Half-Dome in Yosemite, or play softball with their children. Willy Loman was too wrapped up in getting ahead of the next guy. This philosophy of getting ahead is what makes up America and compromises the dreams of man. Sometimes this greed can draw man to great things, sometimes it can draw man to ruin, I guess it depends on what the man's dream is. If your dream is t ...
... to form wrinkles and such ugly (in Dorian's opinion) ugly things. He believed that that day would deprive him of triumphs that would result in him being miserable. The degree of evil within Dorian increases as the plot develops. By trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of himself. The plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an individual. From the moment that he becomes forever young he begins to deteriorate. Even once he reached his epiphany and saw his evil through the portrait he simply denied seeing it and continued his malicious deeds. The characterisation of the book is one of the most important elements of this b ...
... her young child against her bosom as she is scorned by the crowd. Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,” (Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced to not be able to show their humiliation. “No outrage more flagrant to forbid the culprit to hide his face from shame,” is in Hawthorne's commentary on page 53. Hawthorne's commentary appears twice on this page (about more than one topic) and you can see them in my highlighted sections. What really go ...
... family and left them to go with the others to the Klondike. He realized during the trip that he needed to go back to them because he was abandoning them. He left Jon and went back. He later returned with his family. That proves that he was a man that had good values and cared about his family. Acquisitive instinct- Most of the people that went to the Klondike went to find gold, because they wanted more than they already had. Lots of us do that same thing. We always seem to want more than we already have. So we can relate to the book in that way. Even if it is not right to always want more we can see where they are coming from. Plain Folks- When books are about a ...
... than the average peasant girl living on a farm. We conclude this because she attended a boarding school where she was taught “dancing, geography, needlework and piano.” (p.15) Charles, on the other hand, gives her more credit than she deserves. He regards her as well very educated, sophisticated, sensitive and loving, with the last characteristic being the one she lacks most. Soon after Emma marries Charles we see her unhappiness, and we are faced with a dilemma, why did she marry him? There are numerous possible answers to this, but the end conclusion is the same: if she had not married him it would have been better for both of them. Emma would not have bee ...
... experience in prison and his resurrection back into society. The famous quote, "Recalled to life" (Dickens page 8), is used many times in A Tale Of Two Cities to describe Dr. Manette's escape from sure death in the Bastille. Dr. Manette's story begins when he is imprisoned unjustly for eighteen years. The solitary time spent in the prison waiting for his certain death is so excruciating it makes Manette go insane. When Dr. Manette is finally released he does not even know his own name: "one hundred and five north tower" (Dickens p 37) is all he says when asked. Mr. Lorry and Lucie Manette have the emotional stressful task of restoring Dr. Manette back to he ...
... as well as a dramatist. His works include Big as Life, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, , Lives of the Poets: Six Stories and a Novella, a play entitled Drinks Before Dinner and of course his most recent work Billy Bathgate. Billy Bathgate is Doctorow’s most famous piece of literature. In fact, the book grasped so much attention that it was later made into a movie with an all star cast including Bruce Willis, Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman. Although the film left out a lot of detail, as so many movies based on novels tend to do, it was interesting to see the elaborate detail given to the clothing, attitude, and backdrop that so accu ...
