... machines, they also have much larger speed limits, so people could get where they want a lot faster. Clarisse and Montag make it obvious to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet each other. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast drivers go that they "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. 'If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. My uncle drove slowly on a highway once. He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days'"(9). Their speed limit is so hig ...
... oppression of women during this time period. The narrator sets up the story to convey a certain opinion on the repercussions that a woman faces in the care of a man. The wife loves her husband, but she has an underlying feeling that maybe his prescription of total bed rest is not working for her. The story mentions that she has an older brother who is also a physician and concurs with her husband's theory, thus leaving her no choice but to subject herself to the torment of being alone in the room with the yellow wallpaper. The young woman stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a woman behind the paper. "I didn't realize for a long t ...
... high expectations. Williams shows us how Amanda who's love that can be overwhelming also has particular goals set for children. Her former husband had left her with a always present "larger than life photograph" (1900) of himself. He also left behind Laura and Tom for her to raise. he left so he could go and "skip the light fantastic" (1900). Amanda knows all of what is going on with her children. She watches her children very closely with every eye movement. There are many times when it appears that she lives vicarious into her children's lives, making their every move and decision hers too. In doing this all of her children's accomplishments and failures become h ...
... got too see what the Holocaust was all about. Certainly it must be the best book for the subject. The diary brings together her childhood and then only known surviving footage of Anne Frank. This is a great way to describe a portrait of Anne’s life, character flaws, and everything else. In order to enjoy this piece of literary work, you must first learn the importance on Jewish culture. This work is like no other of any Holocaust books. This is actually a way to experience the painful experience the Jewish people had to endure during this awful and evil period of time. This story takes us into the eyes of Anne Frank. The Holocaust in literally brought to lif ...
... who were not killed in the war went somewhat crazy. When one of the boys (the name I don’t remember) goes back to his class to tell the new students about war, he couldn’t contain himself. His teacher had made war sound like a great adventure that everyone should experience. When the boy got up to talk, he told everyone that it was horrible, and his teacher went crazy. War films that are made now are certainly anti-wars films (usually), but this film in particular showed that war was a horrible, horrible thing. The way the director decided to portray the war scenes suprised me. For the time the film was made, I didn’t think films were that ...
... war was about and what exactly was going on. The soldiers did see that, and more, everyday, everynight, never to not be faced with it. The phrase "war is kind" is mentioned several times throught out the poem, which is not what most people would use to describe the war. That is probably the reason that the certain phrase was used. By saying that war is kind, it made the reader think, really think, about why would Crane use that phrase about the war. The reader then would figure out that the war wasn't kind, and think of reasons why it wasn't kind. That wouldn't have happened if Crane had stated that the war is not kind in the first place. By using a phrase ...
... women are cooking, cleaning, and sewing, which is manual work. In America, when women go out in public, they try to look presentable, pleasing to the human eye. After Moon Orchid arrives, one of the first things that Brave Orchid does is point out that Moon Orchid is fat and looks very old. “You’re an old woman...your hair is white and your face wrinkled...you’re so fat.” In Asia, fat people are considered to be rich. Being fat is a sign of being rich because only rich people can afford to eat so much that it would make them fat. In America, obesity is often times something to be ashamed of. Americans seem to desire the body of a m ...
... that he has forgotten his sword, he refers to Arthur as a squire and orders him to retrieve it. David and Arthur both become heroes while running an errand. David is taking food to his brothers by order of Jesse, his father. When the brothers tell David of Goliath, David immediately says that he will fight him. A desperate King Saul learns of this and prepares David for battle. Arthur is trying to find a sword for Sir Kay. When they become heroes, both David and Arthur save an entire population. By defeating Goliath, David saves all of the Israelites from the Philistines. By coming to power, Arthur saves a kingless England. Both stories have someone who is ...
... In fact, the word "Wuthering, being a significant provincial adjective, [is] descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to stormy weather," (WH-p.25) thus emphasizing the darkness and cruelty in nature. As in Dracula, the storm is a presence of sin and unnatural desires. After ejaculating that his "wretched inmates deserv[ed] perpetual isolation from [their] species of churlish inhospitality," (WH-p.29) for leaving the gate locked during a storm, Mr. Lockwood is let inside, by a woman whom he thinks is Mrs. Heathcliff. His experience here within this Gothic house in quite unpleasant, paralleling Harker's in the Count's dark castle. W ...
... wife. Thus, if Helen had not possessed beauty, then Paris would not have wanted her, and the Trojan War would not have occurred. Pallas Athena also wields an influential power, through her intelligence and her supernatural power as a goddess. She directs the actions of men, such as Achilles, by making herself invisible to all others except Achilles, and then plucking his hair and warning him not to strike Agamemnon. Achilles does not strike Agamemnon, and a grand mistake is avoided. Athena also influences the actions of Achilles by handing him a spear during the final battle against Hector. By handing Achilles the spear, Achilles knows that he is to kill h ...
