... point in American history.
What is so interesting about Crane's Red Badge of Courage? I found out that war turns boys into mature men, the real dialect and slang used during the war, and what it's like to be a soldier in the Civil War.
The whole novel covers only two days in the life of Henry Flemming, the main character. In that amount of time, war can turn a boy into a man. It does not physically turn an individual into a grown man, but it mentally matures them. War matures boys into a men is by experiencing new, unpredictable env ...
... a peep at him, just to see what Boo looked like. Scout connects Boo with the Mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines a mockingbird as one who "…don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (90). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pants that tore on Dill's last night. Boo was the one who ...
... pose a challenge only a
Hemingway hero can affront successfully. As the epitome of a code hero,
Frederick is a man of action, self-discipline, and one who maintains grace
under pressure.
Whenever the situation requires, Henry rises to the occasion taking
control of potentially dangerous incidents with quick decision leaving no
room for second thought. After Frederick is captured by the battle police,
he foresees his inevitable death if no action was taken and instinctively
escaped detainment. "I looked at the carabineri, they were ...
... are often as interesting as its successes. It doesn’t pretend to offer an ultimate truth of personal freedom. It does not present an simplified picture of achieving freedom and personal integrity; in fact, it presents the very dangers inherent in defying social traditions. Jane suffers through the cruel regimen of Lowood because her aunt wants to punish her for her defiance. She suffers heart-break for her attempt to marry her beloved Rochester. When she chooses her own personal beliefs over Rochester's desires, she spends three days wande ...
... asks the question and arrives in his home. Montag observes "
Darkness. He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to
himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs " (12). Montag's
awareness is triggered at the point in which Clarisse states " But you're
just a man, after all " (7). This statement by Clarisse makes Montag think
of a time when he was a child during power failure, and he wishes it not
to end.
In Montag's second meeting with Clarisse, the two of them find a
dandelion and Clarisse tells Montag ...
... house,” which is extravagant. Gatsby wants to impress Daisy with his newfound wealth in order to bring her back to him. Gatsby is also highly optimistic about achieving his goal, and thinks that he “is going to fix everything just the way it was before.” Gatsby does not want to lose sight of his dream through petty pessimism. Gatsby also has unending loyalty to his goal of pursuing Daisy. When Daisy strikes and hits Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, Gatsby takes the blame for it. He believes that lying for her will hel ...
... monkey or task must be done by the subordinates and
supervised by the supervisor, if the supervisor is doing all of the work
then what are the subordinates doing. I have found that the same problem
written about in the book has also happened at my office. My supervisor
was killing herself trying to get all of the work done when she should have
been making the subordinates do their own work. This may require the
subordinates to go through a training process or just motivate them to do
the work they know is theirs. The supervisor must lear ...
... brilliancy might have befitted Aladdin’s palace, rather then the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler.” (pg. 98) Bellingham’s extravagant house shows the hypocrisy of the Puritans. They seek to punish those, like Hester, who break the laws of Puritan society but at the same time they too violate their own laws. The Puritans can not see the faults within themselves. Puritan society is seen as a place where “iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people.” (pg. 58) The ...
... dives right
into a quickly formed friendship through the rivalry for leadership between
Ralph and Jack. We later find that it was not meant to be and that as time
passes Ralph and Jack's rivalry develops into a hatred for each other and
Jack's true colors shine through. Through the rivalry between Ralph and
Jack an opening is formed for Piggy to become Ralph's friend. Ralph and
Piggy soon realize that they need each other to stay sane and alive while
on the island and that they are in reality best friends.
While stranded on the island ...
... above all. He sympathizes with the tragic plight of King Oedipus and asserts no
apparent ambition himself. His attitude toward the king is one of yielding and fulfilling
reverence. Creon's notion of justice in OK stems directly from the divine. That which the gods
have decreed must become law. It pains Creon to have Oedipus exiled, but he must do so as
the gods have willed it. Creon's respect for divinity and prophecy seems to be his defining trait
in OK. His attitude is one of unquestioning reverence.
In Oedipus at Colonus (OC), one sees t ...
... high and high schools for English
classes. There were plays made about the book too.
The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis,
a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and
Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two-Bit, that were also gang
members and Ponyboy's friends. This story deals with two forms of social
classes: the socs, the rich kids, and the greasers, the poor kids. The socs go
around looking for trouble and greasers to beat up, and then the greasers are ...
