Examine the importance of the following line from Oedipus Rex: "All the generations of the mortal man add up to nothing! Show me the man whose...

I tend to
think that this particular line captures much of the basic thematic significance of the drama.
 Thethat is intrinsic to human consciousness is illuminated in this line.  The "generations
of mortal man" are fairly insignificant, although humans place a primacy on it.  In the
final analysis, the accomplishments ofdo not really stack up to much in comparison to the larger
issues of fate and predestination posited against him.  Oedipus is shown to be an individual who
has to come to such a realization in the most brutal of manners.  In the end, his own sense of
happiness was an illusion, shattered by the reality of what confronted him.  His was on of
"illusion followed by disillusion."  He could not see this as a mortal, with physical
sight.  It is for this reason that he blinds himself, in order to gain greater sight and greater
significance in vision into his own sense of self and his place in the world.  The quote brings
out the predicament of Oedipus as well as the thematic reality that governs the play.   vision
of humanity is one in which myopia reigns supreme, reflecting how individuals see the issue of
their own happiness as being real, but in actuality being nothing more than
disillusion.

Why does Atticus think he can't win Tom Robinson's case?

understands that winning the Tom Robinson case is virtually impossible due to the systemic
racism and prejudice that is prevalent throughout Maycomb, Alabama. In ,asks her father if he
has a chance of winning the case, and Atticus says, "No, honey"
(Lee 48). Scout then asks her father why he is even trying, and Atticus says,
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for
us not to try to win" (Lee 48). Later on, Uncle Jack asks Atticus if he has a
chance of winning the case, and Atticus says,

"It couldnt be worse, Jack. The only thing weve got is a black mans word
against the Ewells. The evidence boils down to you-didI-didnt. The jury couldnt possibly be
expected to take Tom Robinsons word against the Ewells'" (Lee 55).

Atticus realizes that the jury will not accept Tom's testimony as
truth for the simple fact that Tom is an African American. In 1930s Alabama, segregation was
commonplace, and Jim Crow laws were enacted to separate and discriminate against black people.
The Post-Reconstruction era promoted systemic racism
throughout the South and Atticus is essentially challenging the entire culture by defending a
black man. The jury could not possibly rule in favor of Tom and subject themselves to the
cultural taboo of favoring "Negroes."

Please explain the theme of man vs. nature throughout "Hunting Snake" by Judith Wright.

The theme of man vs.
nature in this poem is best expressed through the snake as representing the forces of nature and
the audience, the "we" in the poem, made up of the speaker and her companions who see
the snake pass them by. Nature is shown to be a formidable, breathtaking force, literally
breathtaking, as shown by the response of the speaker, as they "lost breath" to see
the snake pass by them. The snake is presented as being both beautiful and deadly: he has
"fierce intent," and the way he easily "quested" through the grass presents
him as a lethal predator. However, at the same time, the description of how "the sun glazed
his curves of diamond scale" likewise presents a picture of natural beauty that is
stunning, just as the sight is one that invokes fear. The concluding remark about the snake
paints him as "Cold, dark and splendid," and these adjectives seem to highlight both
the danger and fear the snake inspires but also the majesty he commands.

The
speaker and her companions, as shown by the last two lines of the poem, which expresses both
their fear but also the recognition of the power and might of nature:

We took a deeper breath of day,

Looked at each
other, and went on.

There is a sense in which the
encounter with the snake gives the speaker and her companions a newfound appreciation of nature
and how deadly it can be. The phrase "a deeper breath of day," seems to indicate that
having seen the snake in all of its deadly might, they are now able to appreciate nature more
truly and purely, recognising their own place in it. Man vs. nature therefore is reflected in
the figure of the snake and how this creates a kind of epiphany in its audience: they carry on
walking, but not the same, and with a newfound respect for the territory that they recognise
they are intruding upon.

Why must Meg go alone to Camazotz? How is her relationship with Charles Wallace important to her ability to free him?

Meg has to
venture alone to Camazotz to free Charles Wallace because she knows him better than anyone
elseand more importantly, he knows her. Mr. Murry has been away so long as a prisoner on
Camazotz that he hardly has any relationship with his son, and Calvin has only been a friend of
the Murry family for a short time. Meg realizes this herself, saying,

[I]t has to be me. It can't be anyone else. I don't understand
Charles, but he understands me. I'm the one who's closest to him.

Analyse Pilgrim at Tinker Creek as a spiritual excursion into the natural world.

As the
contemporary Emerson or Thoreau,typically offers meditations on transcendental themes found by
venturing into nature and observing it with keen sight and insight.

Like her
predecessors, Dillard sees in nature a manifestation of a higher power that, when attended to
properly (with care to observe minutiae), offers a spiritual clarity not available in the world
of urban busyness.

Covering each...

What literary devices are in the following quote from Romeo and Juliet?: "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too...

"My
only love sprung from my only hate!" is an example of an exclamatory sentence. Shakespeare
has written this sentence as an exclamatory sentence to indicate to the actor playingthat her
tone here should express an intense emotionwhether shock, deep frustration, or something else.
In the same quotation, the repetition of the word "only"
emphasizes how unfortunate Juliet thinks she is. She has "only" one love and
"only" one hate, and so the fact that they are both linked seems highly
unfortunate.

There is also repetition of the
word "too" in the next part of the quotation. The repetition here again emphasizes
Juliet's misfortune. She saw"too early," and found out about his family name "too
late." There is also in this part of the quotation, and in the previous part of the
quotation, syntactical . This is when the first half of a sentence
mirrors the second half. For example, in the first sentence, we have "My only love"
and "my only hate," and in the second sentence,...

nonverbal communication different cultural ,and different language ,how can they communicate by using nonverbal singles and to what extend they can...

There are some signs
that are almost universal to humans.It's fascinating if you think about it.The most obvious ones
are the smile, hug and shrug.However handshakes, high fives and waves are also pretty common in
different cultures.We have to have a way of communicating with people who don't speak our
language, so evolutionarily we seem to be hardwired for these signals.]]>

In Kindred, how does Dana come to feel at home at the Weylin plantation? What is Octavia Butler's idea of home in Kindred?

When all is said and done, Kevin is Dana's home. He is the place she longs to return to
each time she is sent back to the Weylin plantation. He supports Dana, encourages her, and tries
to protect her. In fact, he tries to desperately hold on to her and ends up being transported
back in time himself, eventually risking it all to help black slaves escape from the South.
Kevin and Dana enjoy their life together, and although their view of the present shifts after
their experiences, Kevin is Dana's ultimate sense of home.

However, Dana is
forced to spend years living on the Weylin plantation and even comes to feel fairly at home in
those surroundings. Part of this hinges on Rufus, whom she meets as a child; although she finds
him spoiled and prone to getting into trouble because of it, she hopes that she can help him
overcome his surroundings of racism and slavery and make him a better person. Sadly, she
doesn't. And this is conflicting because Rufus also represents her home because he
is...

Is the title "Hills Like White Elephants" symbolism or a metaphor?

In order for something
to be a symbol, it must be have both literal meaning and figurative
meaning. Therefore, there would actually have to be white elephants present
in some literal way, and then they'd have to carry some figurative meaning on top of that (such
as referring to something that is generally unwanted, or a burden, as other educators have
said), in order to function as a symbol. Since there is no literal white
elephant, it is not a symbol.

That being said, a
is, technically speaking, literal, because a simile only says that
something is like or as something else, not that it
is something else (as a does). If the title
of the story were "The Hills Are White Elephants," this would be a clear-cut
metaphor). At the same time, however, I have sometimes seen the simile, as a , lumped in under
the broader category of "metaphor" because similes are similar to, though less
powerful than, strict metaphors. Therefore, if you are only given two optionseither symbolic or
metaphoricalI would place the title in the metaphorical category.

Why does Scrooge like the darkness in Stave One of A Christmas Carol?

Scrooge's
office is dark because he constantly tries to save money in being stingy with candles and coal.
But Dickens is also using a classical binary opposition (light/dark) to symbolize good/evil.
Binary oppositions have been a staple in most movements of literature: Male/female,
Public/private, Light/dark, Majority/minority. (With the emergence of Modernism and particularly
Postmodernism, these oppositions began to be questioned and deconstructed as a result of the
inequality of privileging one term over another - such as Male/female.) 

So
the binary opposition is something theorists have used to note symbolism but also for purposes
of criticism. In this case, the use of light and dark to symbolize good and evil is a classic,
traditional technique; not some unfair privileging of light....

What types of conflict are present in the story "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Conflict
types, as used when it comes to literature, describe one of five kinds of conflict found in
stories: man versus man, man versus nature, man versus himself, man versus society, and man
versus fate/God (this is a bit of an expansion...it seems like when I was in school they only
had the first three.)  Anyhow, let's run with the five when looking at "."

1. First, man versus man.  I don't think this one
   so much applies.  There is no one real adversary described in the story.  The things trying to
   kill him are really traps.  You could maybe make a case that the guy who comes in and ties him
   to the table would be an adversary, but I don 't think that was Poe's intention.  His real
   opponents in the story are inanimate.
2. Secondly, man versus
   nature. This one does not apply either.  There is no "natural" force at
   work in the story, such as a storm or an avalanche.
3. Third,
   man versus himself. This one is present, though not totally obvious
   through Poe's prose.  The main character is reasoably self controlled and doesn't seem to
   "lose it."  Nevertheless, to overcome the blackness of the "pit scenario"
   and the dread of the "pendulum" once must come to terms with one's own fear.  So I
   think this conflict is present, though not explicit (if that makes sense!)


4. Fourth, man versus society. This one is a biggie in the
   story.  The reason he is being executed in the first place is because he has wronged society (at
   least as the judges of the inquisition see it.)  That is the crux of the conflict of the
   story...the man is up against the social structure of the inquisition.


5. Lastly, man versus fate/God. I don't see this one.  Even
   though the Inquisition was religiously based, it's not really developed in the course of the
   story.

So, anyhow, there you are.  Good luck with your
class!

Discuss Gulliver's Travels as a satire.

pokes fun
at social problems and human weaknesses, often using exaggeration.

In
, Swift pokes fun at the human tendency to equate physical beauty with
moral beauty and physical ugliness with being a morally bad person. The tiny, dainty, pretty
Lilliputians seem doll-like and good at first but turn out to be petty, nasty, cruel, and
vindictive people who focus on trivial things. The huge and therefore ugly people of Brobdingnag
are actually more kind and compassionate (though not excessively so). The king, for instance, is
quite shocked as the naive Gulliver earnestly describes the way war is waged in Europe with
bombs and guns.

Gulliver's trip to the Grand Academy at Lagado, where he
witnesses vast resources spent on useless experiments, such as making marble soft so it can be
used in pillows and trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, satirizes the experiments going
on in the British Royal Society.

The rational society of the Houyhnhnms, who
are horses, and the...

In "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone," why does Harry Potter have a scar? no

To best answer
this question, you will need to go all the way back to "," book one in the series.
There, we are told by Rowling that Harry received his forehead scar when Voldemort (he who shall
not be named)attempted to kill Harry as a baby, but failed because Harry was protected by a
cosmic force.

When Voldemort is near, Harry's scar agitates him by aching or
hurting. Through this, Harry always knows when his nemesis is close by. In book one, during the
final confrontation scene between Voldemort and Harry, the scar begins to bother him when the
villain is within close proximity.

In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle, how is Meg impatient?

Meg reveals
her impatience early in the novel when she tackles a boy from school who calls Charles Wallace
"dumb" and gets a black eye as a result of her efforts. But it is on Camazotz that her
impatience shows itself most fully. She doesn't want to linger when they arrive. She wants to
get straight to her father and save him.

She is...

In A People's History Of The United States why was the emergence of the American Indian Movement (AIM) a surprise to whites?

The answer
to this question can be found in Chapter 19 of A Peoples History of the United
States.  This chapter is entitled Surprises.  The brief answer is that, according
to , the white people of the United States had felt that the Native Americans had been oppressed
so much that they would not be heard from again.

In this chapter, Zinn
argues that the American government and people...

Why was Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, thus leading to WWI?

At the time
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination, Serbia was technically independent, yet many Serbs
lived in Bosnia, Herzegovina, etc. In 1905, Austria had formally annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina,
over which Austria had previously held the right to "occupy and administer." This
annexation enraged Serbs throughout the Balkans, but little could be done. Later, a series of
wars broke out in which Austria intervened. As a result of the wars, Serbia was forced to cede
Albania to Austria. Austria, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had hoped to use
its...

What does the name Jig mean in "Hills Like White Elephants" and why does he call her that?

The jig
is a dance in Ireland. Giving the girl the nickname of Jig may suggest that she is from Ireland
and that she is, or has been, a lively, spirited girl, since the jig is an extremely lively
dance. The girl may have performed this dance on more than one occasion during their travels.
They have been together a long time. This is shown by all the hotel stickers on their
luggage--possibly also indicated by the fact that they are carrying so much luggage. Jig is
obviously an affectionate nickname. Hemingway is writing this story from an strictly objective
perspective. That is why he doesn't give his characters names. The reader only knows what he can
see, hear, and deduce from what he sees and hears. The nickname Jig may suggest the girl is
Irish. She has to be from someplace, and evidently she is not from America. She speaks good
English, so she would have to be frp, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Australia or
New Zealand--most likely from the European places since the American must have met her in
European.

In Guns, Germs, and Steel,how does Diamond explain the fact that it was Europe and not Southwest Asia that ended up spreading its culture to the rest...

Diamond
actually does not make that broad an argument. Instead he simply argues that European cultures
spread farther, but that they were the beneficiaries of advancements first made by Middle
Eastern and North African cultures.

The obvious examples of Mideast cultural
spread are monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that all began in the Near
East. Hierarchical societies and centralized states also began in the region, only later
spreading to Europe. Alexander the Great conquered Persia and Egypt and spread these ideas and
systems to Europe.

Later technology that Europeans used was also Mideastern
or African, algebra, Arabic numerals, navigation, iron and steel swords and armor, cavalry
armies. Gunpowder, guns, and cannons all came through the Mideast from China. Part of how Europe
differed was that they had a more brutal warfare tradition. The Greeks and Romans, and later
European...

In Chapter 1 of Catcher in the Rye, what do we learn about the narrator's brother D.B.?

The narrator
in the story isCaulfield, and inof Catcher in the Rye, we learn that the
Holden's brother D.B. is in Hollywood.  Hollywood is not too far from where Holden is staying
right now, and D.B. comes to visit his brother "practically every weekend".  D.B has a
Jaguar, and is planning on possibly driving Holden home next month, if Holden ends up going home
at that time.  D.B.'s car cost a lot of money.  It is an English car and "can do around two
hundred miles an hour".  According to Holden, the Jaguar cost D.B. close to four thousand
dollars.

Holden says that D.B. is rich, but he didn't used to be.  D.B. used
to be "a regular writer", and he wrote a "terrific book of short stories"
called The Secret Goldfish.  Holden thinks that the best story in the book
is "The Secret Goldfish", which is about a little kid who "wouldn't let anybody
look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money". 

D.B.
no longer writes what Holden considers to be serious literature.  He works in Hollywood now,
probably writing screenplays or something along that line, and he makes a lot of money.  Holden
does not approve of what his brother is doing.  He thinks that D.B. is prostituting himself just
to make money, writing material that is unworthy of his great talent (Chapter
1).

Compare and contrast Samuel Pepys's style in his diary entries with Jonathan Swift's style in Gulliver's Travels.

A
comparison of a section of a description of a place in both Samuel Pepys's diaries and 's
will illustrate differences and likenesses between the two authors'
styles.

A section of Pepys's diary, from September 7, 1665, recounting his
visit to Swakeley's estate is as follows:

A very pleasant
place, bought by him of Sir James Harringtons lady. He took us up and down with great respect,
and showed us all his house and grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor
house, but the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess. Pretty to see
over the screene of the hall (put up by Sir J. Harrington, a Long Parliamentman) the Kings head,
and my Lord of Essex on one side, and Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the
screene, the parson of the parish, and the lord of the manor and his sisters. The window-cases,
door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble.

A
section from Gulliver's account of his time in...

How did Augustus Caesars reign inaugurate a new era in not only Roman history,but also in Western civilization? Discuss the key elements of his...

The metamorphosis of Octavian into Augustus

Caesar and the Roman Republic into the Empire looks very different with hindsight from
the way
it must have appeared at the time, and certainly from the way
Augustus intended it to look.
Augustus claimed that he had restored the
Republic after the defeat of Antony at the Battle of
Actium and he never took
a title with any of the royal associations which are suggested by the
English
word Emperor. Augustus was the Imperator, which means general or commander,
the
Princeps, which means first citizen and took upon himself many titles
from the Republican era.
However, he ostensibly derived his power from the
Senate and the various offices he held within
it.

The most
important element in the creation of the Augustan Age (which
has connotations
of peace, prosperity and splendor even now) was the Pax Romana, the largely

peaceful and stable administration of a vast area under exceptionally tolerant rule. It
could be
said that it was under Augustus, rather than the Republic, that the
Romans first came close to
the modern conception of a government by consent.
This is a government which collects taxes and
in exchange provides services
and protects its citizens both through the rule of law and
military repulsion
of external threats, but otherwise leaves them alone to live as they

wish.

The only difference most Romans would have noticed under the
rule of
Augustus was that life became more peaceful and stable. Augustus used
what we would now call
soft power whenever possible, pretended to consult the
Senate on policy and generally behaved
less like a king or a dictator than
Julius Caesar had. Meanwhile, of course, he had the sanction
of being the
adopted son of the Divine Julius. This is why his de
facto
autocracy was accepted.

The
Julio-Claudian Dynasty that followed Augustus was
a dismal failure. Tiberius
was a competent administrator, but was never particularly popular or
highly
respected and became increasingly withdrawn and autocratic towards the end of his
rule.
Caligula may not have been quite as monstrous as his popular reputation
suggests, but his
grandiose caprices were, at the very least, utterly unlike
Augustuss stable, careful
administration. With him, the dynasty started to
spiral into tyranny and
madness.

What Message Is Edwards Conveying In This Sermon

Like the
Puritans of his time,believed that all sinners were destined to damnation and that the only way
toward salvation was a true conversion to the church. The title, "Sinners in the hands of
an angry God," refers to the belief that the only thing keeping members of the audience
(all sinners) from falling into the pit of hell, is Gods will, or his hand,...

How does the essay "Aiding Impoverished Gentlewomen: Power and Class in Emma" by Beth Fowkes Tobin illuminate Marxist literary theory in Emmaby Jane...

Marxist theory explores the ideas of socio-economic
oppression and, its , socio-economic power from the perspective and within the framework of
economic base and superstructure. In other words, while some other criticisms (e.g., Feminism)
look for meaning, societal understanding and authorial intent through things like gender roles
and historical background, Marxist theory looks for these things through the "lens" of
economic relationships and the locus of economic power.

Tobin discusses the
the concepts of class and power in through this lens: economic
relationships and the locus of economic power. Thus Tobin is exploring Marxist ideology in the
narrative. Thus her conclusions can be said to illuminate Marxist literary
theory as applied to Emma.

The quote
recorded above demonstrates Tobin's working premise: Women were disempowered by stripping away
their valid contributions to production and to...

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In "A Good Man is Hard to Find," some critics disagree with redemptive readings of the story's ending, including O'Connor's. They assert that the...

The
grandmother is not the agent of grace; on the contrary, the Misfit is the agent of grace. This
grace through violence is a trope of O'Connor's, suggestive, perhaps, of the earlier martyrs of
O'Connor's Roman Catholic Church. Because the grandmother has dismissed all her platitudes and
instead embraced her faith, repeating, "Jesus, Jesus...." she recognizes that, like
her, the Misfit is a sinner. But, it is her faith that saves her, while the Misfit recoils from
the grace she receives.

In O'Connor's own words, her story becomes

...a duel of sorts between the Grandmother and her superficial
beliefs and the Misfit's more profoundly felt involvement with Christ's action which set the
world off balance for him."

But, the grandmother
receives grace from outside of her because of her faith. Again, in O'Connor's words,

...you must believe in order to understand, not understand in order
to believe.

Further, O'Connor urges readers to "...
be on the lookout for such things as the action of grace in the Grandmother's soul, and not for
the dead bodies." For, grace can come to anyone who has faith, and it can come through acts
of violence. This is why the Misfit observes,

"She
would have been a good woman,...if it had been somebody ther to shoot her every minute of her
life."

Those who perceive the grandmother as neither
the recipient of grace nor the agent of grace, find the character satirical. In her efforts to
appear aristocratic and ladylike, she fails; in her recognition of "a good man," she
is completely wrong; her memory fails her and she leads the family to its destruction by
bringing her cat along and by identifying the Misfit. Her illusionary world is brought
down.

What's the theme of "Young Goodman Brown"?

The
theme of is the fragility of human spirituality.

frames his short story
as an , and the names of the two main characters, Goodman and Faith, immediately reinforce the
religious undertone. Hawthorne uses seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts as the setting for
many of his works, which allows him to critique the Puritans and specifically their teaching of
predestination.

After young Goodman Brown encounters the devil and the
seemingly dark religious event in the woods, his religious beliefs are clearly shaken. The woods
are described as...

Use the following article to answer these questions: "Interpretations and Explanations of Deviance Among College Athletes: A Case Study." How does the...

"Interpretations and Explanations of
Deviance
Among College Athletes: A Case Study" by Eldon E. Snyder was published in the

Sociology of Sport Journal in September 1994. The study seeks to
define and
analyze the factors that may have contributed to criminal actions
perpetrated by a group of
college athletes at a major American
university.

In the introductory
literature review, Snyder
summarizes the conclusions reached by sport sociologists in the 1960s,
70s,
and 80s: there is a negative relationship between athletic participation and
deviant
behavior. Explanations for the correlation include widely-held
cultural presumptions that the
dynamic between a coach and team members
encourages discipline and adherence to conventional
values, as well as a
differential association theory, which posits that athletes spend most of

their time with other athletes and therefore have fewer chances to interact with
societys more
corrupt influences.

When deviance does occur
among athletes, prior research
suggests that it is due to stimulus seeking
and sensation seeking behavior arising out of
boredom or a need to assert
ones masculinity, or else due to the tendency of sports to promote
excessive
commitment, which encourages behavior that pushes conventional
limits.

Snyder builds upon these studies with qualitative
data about a group of college
athletes who, in defiance of social
expectation, committed deviant actsprimarily burglariesover
a two year
period. Interpretations of Deviance analyzes evidence
relating
to:

emergent explanations
within a naturalistic setting
that includes the way family, friends,
officials, and the athletes interpreted the deviant
behavior

that is, rather than performing experiments to

test a priori theories, the case study explores the social context and expressed motives
of a
group of all-American white kids from middle- and upper-middle class
homes in upscale
midwestern suburbs.

The athletes are
deviant because they have subverted the
norms and values of their
socioeconomic class, undermined the presumption that sport builds
character,
and complicated the notion that athletes make good role models. Headlines at the
time
referred to them collectively as swimmers and athletes, promoting the
concept that their actions
were an aberrationout of character for the
traditional public image of high achievers. Quotes
attributed to university
officials and investigators note perceived incongruence between the
athletes
backgrounds and their criminal activities, and regularly referenceeven
complimentthe
students likability, wealth, and appearance.

The wider implication of the
case study relates to the hierarchy of
perceived deviance among disparate groups. Investigators
are baffled by the
potential motives of the athletes to steal items they could acquire legally

and without difficulty. The all-American white kids carry the presumption of
psychological
stresses, addiction, and a somewhat childlike need for
excitement. In contrast, offenses
committed by other identifiable groups or
classes, especially people of color and people who
earn lower incomes, are
less likely to be attributed to benign motivations.

Unlike
the student athletes whose group-affiliation carries social prestige,
criminal
behavior among poor people and people of color is often presumed.
Snyder notes that many of the
athletes received lenient sentences based on
the belief that they made a mistake. People
without their advantages are far
less likely to receive the same consideration. Societys primary
challenge is
to understand and rectify these disparities.

As you
consider
recent events that are relevant to this case study, I would suggest
thinking about the use of
rituals in group cohesion and how perception of the
groups respectability affects perception of
the rituals relative
deviance.

As an example, how do headlines and articles

that portray affluent members of college fraternities or sports teams who injure someone
during
a hazing ritual differ from those that portray young gang initiates
who injure someone during an
initiation ritual? Are the perpetrators
presented as guileless children or hardened criminals?
What kind of
photographs are used to show the public what they look like? How were they

sentenced?

How are women limited by society in Emma?

In
, women are largely limited by fortune and social status. They have less
mobility and fewer options than men and are limited to what they must do or can do in order to
make a living and remain "decent" women.

For example, Harriet
Smith is a young girl who is limited in her prospects because she does not know her parentage
and does not have an independent fortune. Harriet is young, pretty, and good natured. However,
in order to make any friends in the neighborhood,...

What does the flashback reveal about Hester's past? One way Hester endures her punishment is by dreaming of her past.

's flashback from atop
the scaffold is credited to her superior memory, which was, as the narrator says,
"preternaturally active." She remembers all kinds of scenes from her childhood: being
in school, playing, fighting with other children, and so forth.

Further, the
narrator says that "it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the
exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the
reality." Her mind, by way of defending and preserving itself from the terrible judgments
of the people come to gawk at her, has traveled back in time. 

Soon, Hester's
memories focus on her "paternal home" back in Old England; she was evidently from a
noble family that had fallen on very hard times financially. Hester recalls looking into a
mirror and seeing her own youthful reflection, as well as the reflection of a "man well
stricken in years, a pale, think, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the
lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books." He was quite a bit
older than she, evidently a scholar who had spent his youth engaged with books.

However, in addition to illuminating his age and his deformity ("the left shoulder
a trifle higher than the right"), Hester also recalls that "those same bleared optics
had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human
soul." Thus, this man seems to have a somewhat off-putting intuitive power: he can see the
truth about people, see who and what they truly are. It is this very power that so frightens
Hester later when he promises to find her co-sinner and seek his revenge. This description
alerts us to this man's seemingly preternatural ability to see through someone's
pretenses.

In Camilla Townsend's novel Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, what was Powhatan's dilemma? Who held the balance of power for the first 15 years of...

As
Townsend makes clear right throughout the book, the Powhatan were constantly faced with a
serious dilemma. They knew that the English settlers wanted their land but at the same time
couldn't be too aggressive towards them, as they knew that the English had superior
firepower.

That being the case, they had no choice but to adopt a very subtle
strategy which involved a fair amount of compromise, but not so much that it would weaken the
Powhatan's already weak bargaining position. So for instance, the Powhatan would warn the
colonists not to display the use of their weapons as they, the Powhatan, would steal them and
use them against the English. As this was the last thing the English wanted, they wisely heeded
the warning.

The English undoubtedly held the balance of power during the
early years of the Jamestown settlement. However, through the kind of compromise and expert
negotiation that we've just examined, the Powhatan were able to ensure that the colonists didn't
always get their own way.

How did Calpurnia explain her different dialect in To Kill a Mockingbird?

The
ever-observantnotices that Calpurnia speaks differently when she's in the Finch residence to how
she does when she's with other African-Americans, such as when she goes to church each Sunday.
Scout is naturally curious as to why this is.

The answer's very simple: it's
a case of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." In practical terms, this means that
Calpurnia changes the way she speaks depending on whom she's taking to. So when she's among her
own people at church, she talks the way they do. And when she's at the Finch residence, she
switches to a different register.

In both cases, Calpurnia just wants to fit
in. As she explains to Scout, if she starts talking at church the way she does at the Finchs',
then people might think she's putting on airs and graces, that she regards herself as better
than everyone else. And this is the last thing that Calpurnia would want to happen. She likes
going to church, not just because she's a deeply devout woman but also because she enjoys the
company of the people she meets there. Talking in a different way might very well alienate them,
leaving Calpurnia feeling isolated and alone.

In "The Minister's Black Veil," what parts of Hooper's face are covered by the veil?

The story opens
with the surprising and shocking appearance of Parson Hooper wearing a black veil. The veil is
described as two layers of crape, a crisp and folded material traditionally associated with
mourning. The veil covers Hooper's eyes, but not his mouth or chin, so we might assume that it
terminates somewhere around the level of his nose. The material is apparently thin enough that
Hooper can see out of it, though it must cast everything he sees in dark tones. 

The exact reasons for leaving his mouth and chin exposed are not stated. Aspects of the
story such as this are the source of much discussion and interpretation that largely depends
upon the reader - for example, because the veil is interpreted by many as a symbol of mourning,
and because Hooper reveals at the end of the story that he "sees" veils on everyone's
faces, the fact that he is only half-veiled allows him to speak for the truth that he sees from
the other side - he is, in a sense, a messenger between the worlds of what is, and what appears
to be. By hiding his eyes, and with them the majority of his identity and humanity, he instead
becomes a living vessel for the messages that others need to hear.

In Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish," is the expression "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" abstract or concrete?

Typically, 's
poetry is pictorial, not only in
the sense of giving vivid descriptions of natural phenomen, but
also in the
poem's use of such objects that reflect on the self referential.  Thus, the
rainbow
represents victory for both the fish and its capturer.  In her
delicacy of language, however,
Bishop does not overtly communicate what this
victory encompasses.  Instead, in her poem
","
she employs ambiguity "rainbow, rainbow, rainbow."  Beauty comes from

destruction.

Yet, in the victory of both the fish and its capturer,
the
exclamation becomes both abstract and
concrete . As in a painting,
the rainbow is concretely visible
on the fish, while it is felt by the capturer who has caught
it, relishing
her victory over catching such a venerable fish who has escaped other fishermen
as
well as the fish's ability to have eluded capture so many times. The
emotions are metaphorically
a rainbow as the capturer
experiences...

What are the religious implications in the movie Mulan, and how is it applicable to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, or Jainism?

At the
beginning of the movie, Mulan and her father visit a shrine dedicated to their deceased
ancestors. These ancestors appear as ghosts, with the conditions of their afterlives decided by
the karma that they collected in their previous lives. As such, some are old and ornery, while
others are friendly. Overall, however, these ancestors seem hesitant to bless Mulan on her
pendant quest to join the military in the place of her father. As such, respect for the dead
would qualify as a belief or practice that is applicable to all of these religions, as it would
be impolite to ignore the karmic conditions that her ancestors wrought. Respect for...

Why did Hammurabi have copies of his Code carved into stone and placed at important locations throughout Babylon?

Every society governed by the rule of law
also has the axiom that ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. This is necessarily
the case, even when the axiom is not explicitly part of the law, since if ignorance were a valid
defence, every prosecution case would have to begin by proving that the defendant was aware of
the law he was breaking.

As Babylonian society developed and the empire
increased in size, the rule of law became more essential to its peace and prosperity, an
importance reflected by the detail in the Code of Hammurabi's 282 laws. The preamble to the Code
itself refers to the aim of making "justice visible in the land." We do not know how
many copies were made but at least 50 partial examples have been discovered, though not all
these are contemporary with Hammurabi himself.

Since the laws in the code
were so numerous, public display at strategic locations was the most efficient way to ensure
that it was widely available. While it is clear that copies were made on clay tablets, these
would have been very cumbersome and not nearly so durable. The Louvre, which contains the great
diorite stele which is our major source for the code, also has clay-tablet versions of the law
but these are neither so complete nor so well preserved.

The Code of
Hammurabi, therefore, was displayed on stone steles at important locations around Babylon for
two main reasons: publicity and permanence. It was the most efficient way to ensure that many
people were aware of the laws, and the very hard stone into which the writing was carved has
survived for the better part of four millennia with the writing still
legible.

In Animal Farm, what were the animals told about Snowball's medals?

Later in
the novel afterhas been expelled from , the animals are told that the medals awarded to Snowball
in Chapter Four were a mistake and that they (the pigs) now know that Snowball fought on Jones'
side in the Battle of the Cowshed. So, in his absence, his medals are taken away from
him.

However, this is all lies - part of the propaganda about Snowball
thatspreads throughto discredit Snowball and strengthen his own position as leader. In fact, the
animals are told several different versions of Snowball's behaviour at the battle - all of which
are lies. This represents the way the authorities in the Soviet Union changed the past to make
Stalin (Napoleon) look good and to make Snowball (Trotsky) look bad.

Who were Nell and Nagg? What are some questions I can ask a class for a group discussion on "Endgame"?

"Hamms
parents, Nagg and Nell, having lost their legs many years ago in a bicycle accident, live in
ashbins from which they occasionally emerge only to be cursed by their son." Some questions
you might consider for a class discussion are:

1.       What's the setting of
the play?

2.       Who are the characters?

3.       What
is their physical and emotional condition?

4.       What kinds of
disabilities afflict them?

5.       Who is Hamm?

6.      
Given the play's reference to a game of chess, is Hamm conceived of as a
king?

7.       If he is, what is the role of Clov?

8.      
How does he relate to his parents, Nagg and Nell?

9.       What is the nature
of the relationship between Hamm and Clov?

10.   Is their relationship based
on reciprocal friendship or the exercise of power?

11.   Why does Hamm order
Clov to inspect the outside world through the window?

12.   Why do Nagg and
Nell live in garbage cans?

13.   How is Beckett addressing or employing
biblical stories

14.   What is the meaning of the characters' names?

15.   Is Hamm capable of love?

16.   Does Clov leave the
stage at the end?

17.   What is the greatest fear that all the characters
share in this play?

What is the central conflict in "Battle Royal"?

"" is actually chapter 1 of 's acclaimed novel
, though
it is often excerpted as a short story in
textbooks. In the story, the narrator is a young
African-American man who is
invited to give a speech to a group of powerful, influential white
male
community leaders. This is the same speech he had recently delivered at his high
school
graduation, and it echoes a famous speech by Booker T. Washington in
which he advocates for an
accommodationist approach to race
relations.

When the narrator arrives to
deliver his
speech, he is told he must compete in a boxing...

What are John and Lorraine writing and why?

John and
Lorraine are high school friends who meet a man named Mr. Pignati. After developing a
wonderfully loving friendship with him over a period of months, Mr. Pignati dies of a heart
attack. But it isn't that simple, really, because John and Lorraine threw a teenage party at his
house while he was in the hospital with the first attack. Lorraine feels that the shock of
walking in on the party is what killed him. He did die soon after the party, probably from
complications from the first heart attack, but Lorraine feels guilty anyway. John says that he
mentions to Lorraine that they should write the whole story down to make her feel better.
Specifically, he says the following:

". . . we might
as well get this cursing thing over with too. I was a little annoyed at first since I was the
one who suggested writing this thing because I couldn't stand the miserable look on Lorraine's
face ever since the Pigman died" (5).

Lorraine calls
it a "memorial epic" because she wants to do something nice in memory of the sweet man
who treated her like a daughter. John and Lorraine both have relationship issues with their
parents, so as Mr. Pignati bought them things, took them to the zoo, and gave them wine, they
truly appreciated him. Writing a story about their experience with Mr. Pignati is their tribute
to him.

Does the subtitle of "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" indicate that it is appropriate for children?

The subtitle
is "A Tale For Children," and the story is much more in the vein of older fairy tales
than modern stories that are sanitized and simplified. By presenting a possibly theological and
ethical problem, and not claiming any specific moral or unassailable truth, the author
challenges the reader to stretch their own thinking and mind in considering the meaning of the
"angel" and its place in the story. For children, this ambiguity is a good method of
developing critical thinking, as the child is forced to decide what the story means instead of
being told what to think.

[The priest] came out of the
chicken coop and in a brief sermon warned the curious against the risks of being ingenuous. He
reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to
confuse the unwary. He argued that if wings were not the essential element in determining the
different between a hawk...

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Please give a short psychological profile of Jig in "Hills Like White Elephants."

It is important that we
understand and do not underestimate the pressure that Jig is facing and is placed under by her
lover. Part of the greatness of this short story is the fact that so much of what is going on is
narrated through dialogue. The narrator stays removed and distant, preferring to narrate just
the conversation that he hears with very little other input, leaving the reader to discern what
precisely is going on and what kind of characters we are dealing with.

If we
read carefully, however, we can see that this short story is all about abortion. Jig is pregnant
with her lover's baby. He wants her to get an abortion. If she doesn't, she will lose him. Note
the reference made to the "awfully simple operation" as the American tries to
manipulate and persuade her into having this operation. We are not given a definite answer as to
what Jig has decided at the end of the tale, or if she has actually come to any conclusions.
However, her negative speech towards the end of the tale with the repetition of phrases like
"No we can't," suggest that she is deeply unhappy with both of the possibilities in
front of her. In spite of all the promises of the American, she remains unconvinced that things
will occur as the American promises. Her fear, frustration and complete indecision is perhaps
summarised when she threatens to scream if her lover will not stop talking about it. Given the
psychological pressure and disturbance she is under, we recognise her last words to be a
complete lie, designed to disguise how she is feeling from a lover who is clearly selfishly
imposing his own will:

"I feel fine," she said.
"There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine."

What does the rectification of names mean to Confucians?

Confucianism is concerned with stability in society, as well as proper respect given to
every individual. To that end, they believe one of the ways in which to properly respect someone
is to give and call them the proper name. This applies to both names and titles, as a way of
ensuring everyone is aware of their place in society and is able to give each other necessary
respect and deference.

The rectification of names is the proper term for the
Confucian practice of assigning appropriate names and titles to individuals. This means calling
parents and children by their respective roles and titling teachers and officials with proper
titles so that they receive proper respect. Because this is such a priority in Confucianism,
rectification of names is one of the main ways they ensure respect is given.

How Is The Crucible An Allegory

wrote
in 1953, during
the era of McCarthyism in the United States. The play,
which is a
fictionalized account of the Salem Witch Trials, is an(or extended) about

McCarthyism. During the time period of McCarthyism, which lasted approximately from 1950
to 1956
(with effects lingering afterward), Senator Joseph McCarthy began to
accuse government officials
and other people of being Communists. As a
result, people were blacklisted and stripped of their
livelihoods with very
little substantiating evidence. The U.S. House Un-American Activities

Committee (HUAC) investigated government...

Does the government and do scientists have special responsibilities to coastal dwellers in the context of global warming?

You say that
you are not familiar with global warming, so I will start with a brief explanation of the
phenomenon that can help you to answer the question about the responsibilities of the government
and scientists.

The idea of global warming is that our planets climate is
getting warmer and that it is doing so because of human activity.  It is believed that the
carbon dioxide that we put into the air, mainly through the burning of fossil fuels, is
trapping...

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What are some figures of speech used in the poem by Gervase Phinn titled "Creative Writing"?

In his poem
titled Creative Writing, Gervase Phinn employs a number of figures of speech and other devices
of literary form, including the following:

Figures of speech
that are word schemes:

• Repetition, as in the first lines of all the
  stanzas.
• Contrast, as in the repetitive
  opening lines of the stanzas and the vivid middle lines of the stanzas.


• Metrical emphasis, often through departures from an
  expected metrical pattern, as in these heavily emphasized words from line 10:
  "dark, pine scented
  woods."

• , or the repetition of sounds,
  usually consonant sounds, as in lines 1-2:

My story on
Monday
began:
Mountainous
seas
crashed
on the
cliffs . .
.

Figures of speech that are
tropes:

• , as in the relations between the middle two
  lines of each stanza and the last line of each stanza.


• Metaphors, as in the reference to "Red
  tongues of fire" in line 6.
• Ultimate
  irony, as in the way the final stanza suggests the final defeat of the writers
  creativity and a final victory for the teachers prosaic dullness and concern with mere stale
  conventions.

Other Devices of Literary
Form:

• Vivid
  adjectives, as in line three: And the
  desolate land grew wetter
  ...
• Emphatic
  variations in line lengths, as in the line that follows the
  one just quoted: The teacher wrote a little note: Remember the capital
  letter!  Here the much longer line that ends the stanza helps contrast the
  voice of the speaker with the voice of the teacher.
• 
  Contrasts in language and
  tone,as in lines 2-3 and 1 and 4.  Lines 1 and 4 are plain
  and prosaic;lines 2-3 are striking and memorable. In contrast to lines 2-3, line 4is deflating
  and ironically bland.

• , as in the line just
  quoted.
• Vivid verbs, as in
  "twists" in line 11.

The poem is
a€“ at once comic and sad €“ on the ways that teaching can sometimes kill the interest of
students and on the ways that teachers, rather than inspiring and encouraging students, can
often destroy their self-confidence and interest.

For an especially helpful
discussion of this poem, see the "Heinemann.com" link below.

What is the theme of this book, and what one message would sum it up? I really would like to know because i have this book report and i would love for...

There are
lots of themes:  loss and grief and how we deal with it, life and death, and development of
people/places are just a couple.

One nice neat way to sum it all up? 
Hummm....well, I suppose you could say that the grief people feel after a horrendous crime has
been committed such...

What did Bruno discover on the other side of the fence as he was exploring in "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"?

In
chapter 10, Bruno walks along the massive fence for the better part of an hour before he
discovers a small boy sitting by himself near the fence with a forlorn expression upon his
fence. As Bruno approaches the boy, he notices that the boy is wearing the same striped pajamas
as everyone else on the...

Describe the tone of the conversation between the Friar and the Summoner. How do these exchanges affect the portrayals of the pilgrims?

The
fighting between the Friar and the Summoner
is part of Chaucer's class . The two men are
presented as corrupt
individuals, yet they both hypocritically accuse the other of being as
such.
The tone of their fight is bitter and mean-spirited in the extreme, even childish.
It
takes the Host's intervention to get them to stop insulting one another so
the Wife of Bath
(whoseis interrupted by the Summoner, who complains about
her being too long-winded) can get to
her tale.

The nature
of this fight mocks the dignity of these representatives
of the medieval
church, illustrating how these men are not as holy as they are supposed to
be,
given their professions. Both friars and summoners were known for taking
bribes. So for the two
to fight as they do is comical, given that both are
poor representatives of Christian
morality.

How does Clarke bring out the theme of teaching in the poem "Clocks"? Support your answer with the help of poetic devices.

In this
poem, the narrator is teaching a young boy while taking a walk with him. She picks a dandelion
and uses it to begin teaching him to tell time:

I teach
him to tell the time
by dandelion. "One o'clock. Two."

In treating the dandelion as if it is a clock, she is using
, which is likening one thing to another without using the words
"like" or "as." She sees that the dandelion is round like the face of the
clock, so she can use it to start showing him the location of the numbers on a clock.

He doesn't show much interest in learning to tell time, for he blows "a field of
gold from the palm of his hand," presumably the petals she has plucked from the dandelion
and placed in his palm as she is teaching him about time. Here, the narrator uses the literary
device of to show how the child blows away (blows off) her
interest in teaching him what she wants him to know. What he learns, she says, is the
"power of naming."

In the next stanza, the narrator and the child
are walking along the beach at sunset. Clarke uses the literary device of
to emphasize the child's nervousness at being by the sea.
Alliteration is when words placed close together begin with the same letter. Here we learn he is
"wary of waves and sand's soft treachery." The repeated "w" and
"s" sounds draw attention to words that connote his sense of his worry in this new
place.

The narrator continues to try to teach him, this time by asking a
question that perhaps is meant to make him feel more comfortable about the crashing of the
waves:

What does the sea say?

This is a fanciful inquiry that uses the literary device of
to teach. Personification is treating an animal or object that is
not human as if it is a human by giving it human characteristics. Here, the narrator is acting
as if they sea can talk to us as if it is a person. The boy responds as follows:

"Ffwff! Ffwff!" he answers, then turns
his face
to the sky and points
to the full-blown moon.

"Ffwff" is his word for flower. He says the waves are naming the moon a
flower. He demonstrates he has learned the "power of naming." He has also, although
without realizing it, learned to use metaphor; after all, the moon is not a flower, but it is
round, beautiful, and blooming like a flower.

The poem
also uses the literary device of enjambment to emphasize the theme
of teaching. Enjambment is when a line a poetry doesn't end at the end of a line but flows into
the next line, such as in

I teach him to tell the
time
by dandelion

There's a pause and sense of
surprise in breaking the line at the word "time" and finishing it with the idea of
"by dandelion," which mirrors some of the surprise that comes with teaching and
learning.

Clarke thus uses the literary devices of metaphor, imagery,
alliteration, personification, and enjambment to highlight the theme of teaching. The poem shows
the child learning what he wants to learn and learning through making connections between one
thing and another, such as a dandelion and the moon.

Are there any quotes that show Napoleon as a bad leader?

There are
many quotes to showis a bad leader. He is an egotistical animal. His sole talent is his ability
to ruthlessly amass and hold onto power. He is quite willing to sacrifice the well-being of the
other animals to his own desires. He is so grossly incompetent that only by intimidating and
terrorizing the other animals can he stay in control.

Poor decision-making is
a key component of bad leadership, and Napoleon makes poor decisions. For example, while he
crows about the smart deal he made for the timber with Frederick, the "Hitler" figure
in the book, Napoleon is played for a fool and cheated. He insists on being paid in cash but
foolishly accepts counterfeit money:

The banknotes were
forgeries! Frederick had got the timber for nothing!

He
further underestimates the capacity of the human's ability to destroy the windmill, making
inadequate provisions for its defense. When it looks as if the humans will dynamite it, which
they easily and successfully do, Napoleon says:

Why is Brown's new bride "Faith" aptly named, according to the narrator?

Faith in a
Christian God is central to the worldview of the eponymous . With that faith comes an emphasis
on virtue and piety, which are mentioned in this story and feature heavily in Hawthorne's work.
Brown sees Faith, his wife, as embodying these qualities. She also serves as his inspiration to
resist the devil in favor of God. For these reasons, Faith is aptly named.

Brown addresses his wife as "dearest heart" before he departs, suggests she
would die at the thought of his transgression, and believes he will "cling to her skirts
and follow her to Heaven." How Brown views his wife comes into focus early in the story,
and it is easy to see why he has faith in her.

Faith functions as more of an
idea than person in this story. Each time Brown is explicitly tempted, he cites Faith as his
reason for resistance. At the first such occurrence, he won't even entertain the
notion:

"Well, then, to end the matter at
once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my...

What new gifts do Scout and Jem find in the knothole?

Since Im not
sure where you are in the novel, I
will give you a list of all the thingsandfind in the
knothole.  The first
thing Scout finds is two pieces of chewing gum, a real treat for children

during this time.  She gobbles up both pieces of gum before Jem sees her chewing it and
makes
her spit it out.  Jems afraid it is poisonous because it came from a
Radley tree.  The
children...

In Things Fall Apart, how do the oral traditions, proverbs and Igbo wisdom, and language used add to the effect of the novel's tragic ending and the...

The language, customs, and proverbsuses in
his seminal novel all contribute to 's tragic outcome in many ways.
Indeed, the ending is rendered more devastating because Achebe uses this Igbo wisdom throughout
the story to allow Okonkwos friends and colleagues to warn him against his staunch, prideful
nature that leads to his eventual downfall. Early in the novel, Okonkwos lazy fatherforeshadows
Okonkwos demise when he gives his son this key piece of advice:

Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A
proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is
more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone (24-25).

The novel is filled with moments like this, moments that foreshadow
Okonkwos suicide. What makes this passage even more devastating is the fact that Okonkwo does in
fact fail alone. His region has been completely altered by European influence brought about by
Christian missionaries. In Achebes world, Okonkwo is inextricable from traditional Igbo values,
and the fact that Achebe uses so much of the language and wisdom of the tribal Igbo gives the
story a further sense of depth. Igbo values are under attack by Western colonialism, and the
face of the entire region has been changed. When Okonkwo dies, so, in a way, does the
traditional Igbo way of life. The rich language that Achebe uses ties Okonkwo to his traditions
and values, and provides the tale a melancholic feel.

Readers' Emotional Response to the fictional work The Lovely Bones Hello, I'm writing a dissertation as part of Master's in Engligh Studies. I am...

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chime in with some tidbits in reference to your question starters...

*Favorite moments: I loved the section about the photograph of Suzie's mother... how
she could tell from that facial expression that her mother was really a different person than
she thought she knew. The writing in that passage was just so touching and described a complex
situation in a nuanced way. I also liked the end--it was satisfying in an unexpected
way.

*Emotional/powerful: The initial rape scene is just so terrifying and
disgusting. I read the first chapter nonchalantly in a bookstore and it led me to purchase and
devour the novel. My hatred (which was eventually laced with a weak...