Define the word "oasis" and explain what it has to do with the novel.

The
dictionary defines an oasis as a fertile spot in a desert where water is found, therefore
supporting vegetation. The oasis gives refuge to travelers as it provides food and shelter. In
the book , any stranger entering the oasis must be given food and shelter.
No weapons are allowed in the oasis, as it is a neutral ground that cannot host
troops.

The oasis has been used symbolically in the book to mean abundance
and hope. It is at the oasis where Santiago meets Fatima and instantly knows not only that it is
love but also that his love for her will help him discover any treasure in the world. It is at
the oasis that Santiago has a vision of men attacking the place and sets off to warn
the...

Identify a theme that is present in Never Let Me Go that can be found in other Ishiguro novels.

Ishiguro
explores loss, power structures, and human dignity amid restrictive social setting. In
Remains of the Day and , we see the theme of duty also
receiving a significant focus.

Remains of the Day
explores the decisions Stevens, the butler, makes in serving his employer, Lord Darlington.
Darlington is a typical British elite who is also a Nazi sympathizer. Stevens' duty to
Darlington hall as an ideal bastion of British propriety blinds him to his employer's
shortcomings. This duty also causes him to continue working the night his father dies. Stevens,
Sr. also a man utterly dutiful to ideals of service as a butler, is, like his son, a formal man
seemingly unable to access his feelings for his son. Duty for both men have veiled all other
human impulses. Mr. Stevens' duty also denies him a romantic opportunity with Miss Kenton, a
woman who is equally good in her service but who is willing to at least speak her mind about
Darlington's anti-Semitism and her own feelings about...

In Act IV of Macbeth, discuss the witches' predictions for Macbeth.

In Act
IV,summon apparitions, their "masters,"
to givethe predictions. The first apparition
tellsto "beware " and then
disappears. Macbeth essentially says 'thanks for the
warning.' But when
Macbeth asks to have the first apparition tell him more, the first witch says

that the apparition "will not be commanded." Thus, this is all Macbeth will
get
regarding the warning about Macduff. 

The second
apparition appears and tells
Macbeth that "none of woman born / Shall harm
Macbeth." (IV.i.96-97) Macbeth then asks
why he would need to fear Macduff at
all, thinking that Macduff was born from a woman. However,
Macbeth wants to
make sure, so he decides to have Macduff killed: 

Then live, Macduff--what need I fear of
thee?

But yet I'll make
assurance double sure, 

And take a bond of fate thou shalt not live,

(IV.i.98-100) 

The third apparition tells Macbeth
to be
brave and not to worry because he (Macbeth) will never be killed until
Great Birnam Wood comes
to Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth notes that this is
impossible, noting that no one can move a forest.
This is, therefore, a good
omen, a "sweet bodement." 

Finally,
Macbeth threatens the
witches with a curse unless they tell him if 's descendants will ever
rule.
Eight apparitions appear as a line of kings, the last holding a mirror
("glass")
reflecting Banquo. 

What happens in Canto XV of Dante's Inferno?

XV

Dante and Virgil are walking along the cooler edge of the burning sands
that ring Circle Seven as they descend further into the center of Circle Seven. The travelers
are protected by a fine mist that rises from the Phlegethon. The mist serves as a shield,
extinguishing the flakes of fire that continually rain down in this circle, punishing those
guilty of the crime of blasphemy and other acts of violence against God. The protective shield
reminds Dante of the dams built around Italian cities for protection against seasonal flooding.
This protective mist, strangely, is even more formidable than those heavy walls:

...Even as the Flemings, 'twixt Cadsand and Bruges,

Fearing the flood that tow'rds them hurls itself,

Their bulwarks
build to put the sea to flight;

And as the Paduans along the
Brenta,

To guard their villas and their villages,

Or ever
Chiarentana feel the heat;

In such similitude had those been made,

Albeit not so lofty nor so thick,

Whoever he might be, the master
made them.

While marveling about the mist, Dante notices
a group of shades walking in the same direction in which he and Virgil travel. These sinners are
the sodomites, those who have had sexual relations with other men.

As the
condemned souls get closer to the poets, one of their number recognizes Dante, grabs onto Dantes
cloak and cries out.Dante struggles to recognize the mans badly burned visage. Peering closer,
Dante asks if the man is Brunetto Latini:

By some one I
was recognised, who seized

My garment's hem, and cried out, "What a
marvel!"

And I, when he stretched forth his arm to me,

On his baked aspect fastened so mine eyes,

That the scorched
countenance prevented not

His recognition by my intellect;

And bowing down my face unto his own,

I made reply, "Are you
here, Ser Brunetto?"

The shade confirms the
identification. Dante wants his former mentor to stay and speak, but the sinner explains that
any soul who pauses or stops is punished in the same spot for one hundred years:

"O son," he said, "whoever of this herd

A moment stops, lies then a hundred years,

Nor fans himself when
smiteth him the fire.

Therefore go on; I at thy skirts will come,

And afterward will I rejoin my band,

Which goes lamenting its
eternal doom."

Dante agrees to walk along near
Latini, although soon the path they traverse splits. One side goes along the lower edge of the
river and is protected by the mist; the other is on a higher plane and it offers no relief from
the falling fire. Dante is forced to take the lower and Latini the more elevated way.

Despite their separation, the two are able to exchange words. Latini wants to know how
a living man is able to visit Hell; he also asks Dante with whom he travels:

"What fortune or what fate

Before the last
day leadeth thee down here?

And who is this that showeth thee the
way?"

Dante explains his wandering in the valley of darkness and Virgils
part in assisting him:

"I lost me in a valley,

Or
ever yet my age had been completed.

But yestermorn I turned my back upon
it;

This one appeared to me, returning thither,

And
homeward leadeth me along this road."

Latinitells
Dante how fortunate he is to be so forewarned in such a vivid way about the eternal torments of
Hell. He also laments his own death, in part because he is unable to assist his protege any
longer:

"If thou thy star do follow,

Thou canst not fail thee of a glorious port,

If well I judged in the
life beautiful.

And if I had not died so prematurely,

Seeing Heaven thus benignant unto thee,

I would have given thee
comfort in the work.

Thinking back to the travails of
Earth, Latini tells Dante that his contemporaries, among them the Fiesoles (who had conquered
Rome), failed to appreciate Dantes genius. Furthermore, Latini, the former author and poet, and
promoter of elegance in , blames the Fiesoles for the decline of Florentine morals and
values:

But that ungrateful and malignant
people,

Which of old time from Fesole descended,

And
smacks still of the mountain and the granite,

Will make itself, for thy good
deeds, thy foe;

And it is right; for among crabbed sorbs

It ill befits the sweet fig to bear fruit.

Old rumour in the world
proclaims them blind;

A people avaricious, envious, proud;

Take heed that of their customs thou do cleanse thee.

Thy fortune so
much honour doth reserve thee,

One party and the other shall be
hungry

For thee; but far from goat shall be the grass.

Their litter let the beasts of Fesole

Make of themselves, nor let
them touch the plant,

If any still upon their dunghill rise,

In which may yet revive the consecrated

Seed of those Romans, who
remained there when

The nest of such great malice it became."

Dantes love for his former teacher overflows. He praises Latini for
all he taught him, primarily that the only true immortality for men comes through their work.
Still attendant, Dante lets Latini know he is writing down whatever he says, in order that he
might have Beatrice weigh in on his instruction. Finally, he assures the shade that he is
prepared for Fortunes arrows:

For in my mind is fixed,
and touches now

My heart the dear and good paternal image

Of you, when in the world from hour to hour

You taught me how a man
becomes eternal;

And how much I am grateful, while I live

Behoves that in my language be discerned.

What you narrate of my
career I write,

And keep it to be glossed with other text

By a Lady who can do it, if I reach her.

This much will I have
manifest to you;

Provided that my conscience do not chide me,

For whatsoever Fortune I am ready.

Such handsel is not new unto mine
ears;

Therefore let Fortune turn her wheel around

As it
may please her, and the churl his mattock."

Virgil
approves of Dantes speech, nodding silently in agreement. As the three walk on, Dante asks
Latini who else are among the sinners who suffer in this circle. But on this count, Latini is
not very forthcoming. Although those who eternally shuffle along are legion, Latini names just
three:Priscian, Francesco dAccorso, and Bishop Andrea dei Mozzi.

Priscian
could be one of two people. Scholars believe that the Priscian to whom Dante refers was either
an early influential grammarian or he may be referring to a professor of that name who taught at
law at Bologna. There may be more credence to the latter as Francesco dAccorso was also a
professor at Bologna. The final sodomite Latini identifies, Bishop Andrea dei Mozzi, had been
transferred by Pope Bonfice VIII from Florence to Vicenza, where he died the following
year.

Latini notices something that alarms him: smoke rising in the distance.
He tells Dante he must go for these are peoplewith whom I may not be. The shade fears the
comers and wishes to depart, but first he asks if his own work, the Tesoro
has lived on, thus giving his name, at least, literary immortality.

Before
Dante can reply, however, Latini makes a hasty retreat; his speed reminds Dante of the famous
races at Verona. The winner was awarded a green mantle, a scarf that wrapped over the shoulder
and about the waist. Dante, watching the man depart, fantasizes Latini was won the famous
prize:

Then he turned round, and seemed to be of
those

Who at Verona run for the Green Mantle

Across the
plain; and seemed to be among them

The one who wins, and not the one who
loses.

In Oedipus Rex, what does Teiresias predict will happen to the man that killed Laios?

After
receiving the news fromthat the plague
will continue to ravage Thebes until the murderer of
Laius is driven from the
city,petitions the blind prophetto identify the killer. Initially,
Tiresias
is reluctant to tell Oedipus the information he knows regarding Laius's murderer,
and
Oedipus proceeds to criticize and disrespect him. Tiresias eventually
capitulates and informs
Oedipus that he is Laius's murderer.

Oedipus is incensed by Tiresias's
response and accuses the blind
prophet of colluding with Creon to overthrow him. Tiresias then
taunts
Oedipus by saying that he doesn't even know who his parents are before he begins to
speak
in riddles. Tiresias then tells Oedipus that the murderer of Laius will
turn out to be both
brother and father to his children, both son and husband
to his mother. He also predicts that
the murderer of Laius will become blind
and poor as he leaves Thebes and travels to a foreign

land.

Why did the Japanese choose the date and time for the attack on Pearl Harbor?

While the
significance of the date would only happen later, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor early on a Sunday
morning because they knew that it would add to their element of surprise. They knew that the
army base would still be sleeping at that early time, and most people would have the day off. By
picking a day with good weather, the Japanese bombers could hit as many battleships as possible,
though they missed the major target on the island: the fuel reserves. The Japanese fleet also
missed the aircraft carriers that were out on maneuvers at the time. If these had been hit, it
would have been harder for the United States to recover.

The attack on Pearl
Harbor also fit into a larger strategy. Within days, Japan attacked the Philippines and the
Aleutian Islands. The combined attack on the Pacific fleet with an ambitious campaign of
aggression was meant to demonstrate Japanese strength and intimidate the United States. In
reality, it only galvanized American opinion against the Axis. Japan's...

What was the outcome of the Trail of Tears?

The
outcome was a humanitarian catastrophe on a truly massive scale. Before President Andrew Jackson
came to power, successive administrations had adopted a relativelyand I emphasize the word
"relatively" herebenign policy towards Native Americans. In a very general sense, as
long as they could assimilate into mainstream American society, they would be permitted to
occupy their ancient ancestral lands.

However, Jackson adopted a different,
and much harsher, approach. Tribes in the Southeast of the country were to be forcibly removed
and relocated west of the Mississippi where they would be resettled on designated Indian
Territory. Astonishing as it may seem, Jackson apparently believed that this was a humane policy
that would actually prevent Native Americans from being systematically wiped out by white
American settlers. In actual fact, the new policy was disastrous for the Native American tribes
concerned, especially the Cherokee. Tens of thousands of men, women, and children perished on
the long trek out West, struck down by cold, hunger, and disease.

I need help writing a 5 paragraph essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown."

An essay
with five paragraphs usually consists
of an introduction, three body paragraphs that include
arguments and
evidence, and a conclusion. The thesis is generally presented in the
introduction,
which also includes indications of the kind of evidence that
the author will present and how
they will use the evidence to support the
distinct arguments that are connected to the
thesis.

s
short story can be analyzed in terms of the s intentions in
entering the
forest, in relationship to his experiences there. One can examine Goodman
Browns
character to see if he undergoes any significant changes as a result
of these experiences. A
relevant thesis might propose that the story is a
coming-of-age story, in which Goodman changes
from an innocent youth to an
experienced man.

Another way to approach the
story is by
investigating the way that the author presents the concepts of good and evil
through
the secondary characters. This type of approach would contrast the
good man in the central
role with each of the people he meets of observes. A
thesis based on this approach would look at
the story as a morality tale,
emphasizing that Hawthorne makes Goodman Brown the moral center of
his story
in order to convey his beliefs about positive and negative

behavior.

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What life lessons do Romeo and Juliet teach?

Shakespeare's offers a
number of possible lessons for life. Perhaps the most important is that we should not love
recklessly. Thethat bothandsuffer is, arguably, not primarily because of the feud between their
families, but because they love too recklessly, impatiently, and immoderately.repeatedly
entreats Romeo and Juliet to "love moderately," and he advises them that "violent
delights have violent ends." He compares the way in which Romeo and Juliet love one another
to "fire and powder," connoting a trail of gunpowder, and the inevitable explosion at
the end of the trail. It might even be argued that Romeo and Juliet's love is childish and
immature. Indeed, the only obvious difference between Romeo's love for Juliet and his love for
Rosaline before Juliet is that his feelings for Juliet are reciprocated, whereas his feelings
for Rosaline are not. The implication is that Romeo is full of adolescent lust, as opposed to
love.

Another possible lesson for life, offered by the play, is that one
should not ignore one's responsibilities. As an authority figure and an adult, Friar Laurence
has a responsibility not to marry Romeo and Juliet, who, after all, are children. He should, as
the responsible authority figure, inform the parents. Instead he marries them because he thinks,
naively, that their "alliance" might "turn (the two) households' rancour to pure
love." This is indeed a noble intention, but it is, nonetheless, irresponsible, naive, and,
ultimately, very damaging. Later in the play, Friar Laurence also decides to help Juliet to fake
her own death, and thus knowingly (and unnecessarily) subjects Juliet's parents to the
experience of their own daughter's (seeming) death.

A third life lesson one
can take from the play is that violence begets violence. The play begins with a scene in which
members of the two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, brawl in the streets. This
indirectly leads tolater confronting Romeo, and in the succeeding melee, killing . Romeo then
kills Tybalt, to avenge Mercutio's death. And ultimately of course, the play ends with the
deaths of its two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. The message here seems rather clear. No good
comes from any of the violence in the play. Violence merely begets more
violence.

What were the immediate effects of the French Revolution?

Of all the
complexities and events of the French Revolution, picking the immediate effect is probably the
easiest. The French Revolution brought about the dissolution of a system of monarchy that dated
back to the Fifth Century. The king and his wife were eventually executed as were thousands of
nobles. In its place, a republican form of government that was inspired by the European
Enlightenment was instituted.

As the peasants revolted in rural areas against
the lords and tax collectors, the centuries-old feudal system of government was also abolished.
The aristocracy was virtually eliminated in France often through the use of public executions at
the guillotine. While there were far-reaching long-term implications to the French Revolution,
the most immediate result was a new political and social class system in
France.

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Why is Candide evicted from the estate of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh?

's eviction
from Thunder-ten-tronckh is the opening event which sets into motion his various adventures and
misfortunes. Candide himself is described as a gentle, well-meaning individual, sheltered and
naive. Candide and the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde, fall in love. The problem is a difference of
social hierarchy: Cunegonde is a member of the nobility, and therefore any relationship between
her and Candide is an affront in the Baron's eyes. To break up this relationship, Candide is
driven out from Thunder-ten-tronckh.

Of course,

In what time period does A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, take place?

The novel is
set in and reflects the mores and technology of a small town in New England in the early 1960s,
the time when the book was written. There are no personal computers, no microwaves, and no cell
phones. A radio issues hurricane warnings. We learn that Meg and her mother struggle with Meg's
hair, having trouble "putting it up," which would mean using pin curls or curlers,
something we seldom, if ever, do today.

When the children arrive at Camazotz,
the neighborhood is described as a typical 1950s housing development and acts as a commentary on
the "conformity" people worried about in that period, when modern identical
subdivisions of the Levittown variety had only been built for about fifteen years. We learn
that:

The houses in the outskirts were all exactly alike,
small square boxes painted gray. Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a
straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door.

The children on Camazotz deliver newspapers on bicycles, bounce balls, and skip ropes,
all activities we associate with bygone eras. 

The book thus is both science
, complete with interstellar travel and alien beings, and a period piece reflecting white
middle-class life in an era roughly 55 years past.

Who does Edwards consider God's enemies in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?

In brief,
Edwards considers all who will not turn from their own sin and wickedness and turn to God as
enemies. He gives these people a variety of names throughout his sermon. At times these are
"the foolish children of men", "many miserable human beings", or the
singular "unconverted man". Whatever the descriptor might be, the common
characteristics of the group are always the same:

• people who
  sin
• people who no better than to sin
• people who are
  not choosing to give Christ their entire heart

These people can
be members of his congregation. Many people go to churches but do not actually believe in their
hearts. These same people act like they understand the morals being taught but choose not to
apply them in life. These seem to be the people that Edwards is trying to reach as he quotes
Scripture with direct references to this type of behavior. These are the people he would
consider enemies of God.

They not only justly deserve to
be thrown down there, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and unchangeable rule of
righteousness that God has fixed between Him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands
against them; so that they are already bound over to hell. John 3:18, "Whoever does not
believe stands condemned already."

Those who do not
believe are enemies of God.

What are some historical references in To Kill A Mockingbird, and how do they affect Scout, Jem, Atticus, Boo Radley, and Calpurnia? Please help me,...

very much captures the flavor of the Depression era of the 1930s.
All of American culture was reeling from the shock of economic collapse. Suddenly most people
had far less money than they used to, often through bank failures and job loss. That sense of
money being tight permeates the book. We do know that while financially solvent,is not exactly
swimming in wealth. This lack of resources impacts Dill, , and , as they have to make their own
experience, and so become interested in and Scout and Jem are excited by things like getting a
stick of gum from him:

There was no hurry, for there was
nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries
of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County
had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

The tight economics make life tougher on everyone: under these
circumstances, people are less...

How did Christopher Columbus' voyages affect Europe?

Christopher
Columbus's voyages had a profound impact on Europe. As it became clear that he had discovered a
new continent and as wealth from this continent began pouring into Spain, Spain became more
powerful. Other European countries were thus galvanized to send out their own expeditions to
explore and to start colonies in the New World. This led, of course, to the British and French
establishing colonial outposts in the New World. Europe benefitted from the abundant natural
resources of the new continent, and cultural thought and the European sense of cultural
superiority were impacted by contact with what were considered more primitive cultures.
Exploration of these hitherto unknown cultures and geographies also changed European life by
introducing new products, such as tobacco, corn, potatoes and tomatoes. 

It's
important to note, however, the name "Christopher Columbus" can act as a shorthand for
all sorts of currents that were already in play and that it is difficult to tease out particular
contributions that were Columbus's alone: the age of exploration and the quest for faster routes
to Asia had begun before his voyages, and contacts with other civilizations in the East and in
Africa had already inspired the development of racist ideologies in Europe. Columbus's greatest
influence was perhaps to accelerate processes already in play. 

What is the setting of Frankenstein?

There
are various settings in 's
. At the beginning of the story, the frame

narrativenarrated by takes place on board a ship which is en route to the North Pole.
This icy,
near-polar landscape will return to import later in the story
astreks after his Creature towards
the icy wastelands.

Victor Frankenstein's story, however, begins in Italy. He
is of
Genevan origin, but grows up in Naples. It is not until he goes to university in
Germany,
howeverin the town of Ingolstadtthat Frankenstein begins to
experiment with the science of
dissecting and reanimating corpses. It is in
Ingolstadt that he raids charnel houses for
suitable dead bodies and manages
to actually bring his Creature to life.

Another
significant setting in the novel is the mountainous countryside near Geneva
in
Switzerland. Frankenstein retreats here to recover from the illness he has
succumbed to through
shock at his own creation.follows Victor to Geneva and
describes how he has lived a lonely life
of exile in the
wilderness.

The action then moves to Scotland, where
Victor
tries to create a bride for his creature. He is also briefly in
Ireland, but returns soon to
marry Elizabeth in Geneva. It is after the
murder of Elizabeth on their wedding night that the
Creature flees for the
North Pole and Victor follows him, resulting in the encounter with
Captain
Walton, which began the whole story.

Who narrates Robinson Crusoe?

is the narrator, telling the
story of how he ended up alone on an island.

The book is
written like an autobiography for Robinson Crusoe's travels and experiences.

He was born in York in 1632, and his father was from Bremen, Germany.

I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of
words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so
my companions always called me. (ch 1)

Since his father
does not want him to become a sailor, he decides to go off on his own.  Unfortunately, he gets
shipwrecked and ends up marooned on an island, where he has to fend for himself until he finds
Friday, his trusty servant and companion.

How does his pride affect Oedipus' actions in Sophocles' Oedipus the King?

In '
the King, the title character is initially portrayed as someone who cares
about his people and is willing to do whatever it takes to help rid them of the plague that
affects the people of Thebes.

Unfortunately, Oedipus is stirred to anger
when he finds himself being accused of...

Where do the kids go in chapter 2?

Inof
To Kill A Mockingbird by , there are two places the children go. The
character Dill goes back to Meridian, Mississippi. He has been in Maycomb visiting his
aunt.

and , however, go to school; Jem is in fifth grade, while Scout is in
first. Scout says that she's been jealous of the other kids who have been able to go to school
prior to her being able to go.

Jem, however, warns her that school is much
different from home and that she should not talk to him or bother him during the day. Scout
finds that she is unhappy with being in school because she already knows how to read and write
in cursive, and her teacher, Miss Caroline, says that it will affect her learning ifcontinues to
teach her at home.

What occurrence provides the climax for the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?

's short
story "" exudes drama as it tells the story of Peyton Farquhar, a planter escaping his
execution with seemingly supernatural luck. This drama, however, comes to a head with the final,
climactic moment of the piece. Theof this story comes in the moment of Peyton's death, ripping
him out of his dying fantasy.

As he is about to clasp [his
wife], he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all
about him with a sound like the shock of a cannonthen all is darkness and silence!

The next paragraph in the story contains the last...

Who is his companion in the story?

The man Goodman
Brown meets in the woods outside Salem that night, whom he had clearly had pre-arranged to meet,
is described as:

...about fifty years old, apparently in
the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him...they
might have been taken for father and son.

We are told
that he has a worldly air about him and that his staff

bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be
seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.

The serpent, of course, symbolizes the devil, and even Goodman Brown admits to himself that his
is out there on a present evil purpose. It is often said that the devil has the power to
assume a pleasing shape (just ask Hamlet), and so readers are to put the pieces together and
determine that Satan has disguised himself as young Goodman...

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What technique does John Steinbeck use in order to set up the insider-outsider dynamic on the ranch?

Steinbeck
uses narration but also dialogue to
show the insider/outsider dynamic of the ranch. Insiders include Curley, Curley's wife, and
Slim. Outsiders include , , and Crooks.

An example of the narrator telling us
through narration that someone is an insider are these words about Slim:

He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of
driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders.

Phrases such as "prince of the ranch" locate Slim as a
ranch insider with a good deal of power.

He also has personal power that
derives from the force of his character. Narration also tells us this. We learn that he
has:

gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that
all talk stopped when he spoke.

An example of dialogue
showing a power dynamic comes when Curley speaks harshly to George for answering a question
Curley directed at Lennie:

By Christ, hes gotta talk
when hes spoke to. What the hell are you gettin into it for?

Curley, as the ranch owner's son, knows he can get away with bullying the ranch hands
and shows it in the rude way he speaks to George.

Crooks' outsider status as
a black man is related to us through narration, such as the description of the harness room off
the barn in which Crooks sleeps by himself as the other men won't tolerate him in the bunkhouse.
It is also conveyed through dialogue, such as when Crooks explains he can't play cards with the
ranch hands because they think he physically "stinks."

A piece of
dialogue (with a bit of narration interspersed) that shows both Crooks' outsider status and
Curley's wife's insider statuscomes when Crooks tries to order him out of her room. She responds
by threatening him with a lynching, a threat creditable enough to cow him:

You know what I could do?

Crooks seemed to grow
smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. Yes, maam.

Well, you
keep your place then, Nigger. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it aint even
funny.

How does Charles Dickens show the importance of family in a Christmas carol?

The theme
of family is a significant one in "," and the author's overall message is that in
order to live a happy life you must take care of and embrace your family. You must have a happy
home-life. 

Toward the beginning of the story Scrooge's adult nephew, Fred,
invites him over for Christmas dinner and Scrooge does everything but shove him out the
door.

I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why
cannot we be friends?

Good afternoon, said Scrooge.

I
am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I
have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and Ill keep my Christmas
humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!

Good afternoon! said
Scrooge. (Stave One)

 

It is obvious
they are not close, but it is also obvious that this is Scrooge's fault and not Fred's. Scrooge
could be a part of Fred's family and have a closer...

What are some differences between a democracy and a dictatorship?

One of
the biggest differences between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in a dictatorship it's
only really possible to change the government by force. Because the people have no say in how
they're governed in a dictatorship, there's no outlet for their dissatisfaction in the
government and its policies. People can't openly speak out or protest against what the
government's doing so the only way it can exercise any influence on the government is by getting
rid of it completely. And the only way that this can be achieved is through some kind of violent
uprising.

In a dictatorship, no less than in a democracy, large numbers of
people can feel that their country is headed in the wrong direction. The differenceand it's a
very big differenceis how the people are able to express their dissatisfaction. In a democracy,
they do it through voting, campaigning, and protesting; in a dictatorship, by taking to the
barricades.

Rats are often used as symbols of death and decay. In "The Pit and the Pendulum," how does the prisoners response to these rats€”especially when...

The
narrator in "" is painfully aware of the connection between rats and death. He knows
that they desire to make him their "prey," in other words, to eat him alive. He
wonders what food they have been used to eating within the well. Previously, he has guessed that
the pit held worse torment than simply plunging to one's death, and here the reader understands
what he meant. Worse than dying in the fall would be to have fallen into the pit and remained
alive, only to be devoured by the rats. Ironically, the man's plan of escape requires him to
submit himself to possible consumption by the rats. After he spreads the meat on his bonds, he
must lie "breathlessly" still, as if dead already, to persuade the rats that they can
eat him. He is nearly smothered by them as they swarm over him, even over his lips and throat.
He is moved to intense disgust, and a "deadly clamminess" grips his heart. Yet
everything depends on his convincing the rats he is dead, so he continues to lie perfectly
still. Thus, ironically, the agents of death become his deliverers, and he is able to escape the
descending pendulum. Had he not been willing and able to face the horrors of being consumed by
rats, he would have died under the oncoming blade.

What does the spider's web image mean in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Edwards'
use of the spider's webis designed to
highlight the fragility of the individual in relation to
God. Ultimately it
is God's decision as to who goes to heaven and who is damned to the fiery pit

of hell for all eternity. It doesn't matter how prudent, or careful, or self-righteous
we may be
in our daily lives. If God has decided that we're going to hell,
then that's where we're going,
and there's absolutely nothing we can do about
it.

In carrying out good
works, and behaving in a
righteous manner, the individual believer creates his own little moral

universe, in much the same way that the spider generates a web from inside itself. Yet
such a
world, like the spider's web in relation to the forces of nature, is
vulnerable to the will of
God. His decision to consign sinners to hell
smashes the complacent believer's smug little world
to pieces, like a rock
tearing through a spider's web. Instead of relying on ourselves and our

inadequate attempts to achieve salvation on our...

I need help writing an essay. What is the symbolism of the denouement of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe?

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"" concludes with the police discovering the narrator's crime: the murder of
his wife.  Whileis one of the most prolific literary devices used in the story, including  the ,
there are a few examples of symbolism as well. 

Earlier in the story we can
find obvious symbolism in the form of the second cat: its white marking takes the shape of the
gallows,...

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How does Lady Macbeth persuade her husband to go through with the plan to murder Duncan?

Ladyis
portrayed as an equally ambitious partner, who goes to great lengths in order to convince her
husband to follow through with the assassination plot. She begins to persuade her husband to
commit regicide by assuring him that her plan is foolproof. She initially instructs her husband
to look "like an innocent flower" and leave the plans entirely up to her. Despite
assuring her husband that everything will be fine,expresses his concern and reluctance to follow
through with the murderous plot in act one, scene seven.

After Macbeth
refuses to commit regicide,responds by calling her husband a coward and comparing him to a cat
that wants a fish but is too afraid to get its feet wet. She questions his will and manhood by
saying,

Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act
and valor As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteemst the ornament of
life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting I dare not wait upon I
would,...

What do we learn about Nick Carraway in the beginning of chapter 1?

At the
beginning of the story,describes himself as a fair, tolerant man who is inclined to reserve all
judgments. According to Nick, his peers seem to always gravitate toward him because of his
tolerant, sympathetic personality and divulge their most personal secrets to him in confidence.
Nick admits that more often than not he has no desire to listen to these "intimate
revelations" but nonetheless allows his peers to freely express themselves. Nick proceeds
to mention that, despite his impressive capacity for tolerance, he does have a limit. He says
that when he returned from the East, he wanted "the world to be in uniform and at a sort of
moral attention forever." He then briefly comments on his affinity forbefore elaborating on
his background.

Nick informs the audience that he hails from a rather
wealthy, revered family and grew up in the Midwest. He says that the Carraways are descendants
of the Dukes of Buccleuch and that his grandfather's brother immigrated to the United States in
1851. Instead of participating in the Civil War, Nick's great-uncle founded a wholesale hardware
business that his father continues to run to this day. Nick then mentions that he graduated from
New Haven in 1915 and participated in the Great War (World War I). Once he returned home from
overseas, he became restless and moved to the East, where he entered the bond business. Nick's
background and personality portray him as a level-headed, tolerant man who is practical, caring,
and astute.

What are some examples of foreshadowing in "Charles?"

is a
literary device used by authors to hint at events that will come later in a story.uses
foreshadowing masterfully in the short story "." 

The very first
paragraph foreshadows the ending as the narrator describes the change in her son. He used to
wear overalls, which are often attributed to young children. Now he is wearing the more grown-up
attire of jeans and a belt. The word choice that Jackson uses, "renounced," suggests
the plot twist that is to come. He didn't just casually change his mind, he refused to abide by
the rules of his mother's choice of clothing any longer. 

The day my son Laurie started kindergarten he renounced corduroy overalls with bibs and began
wearing blue jeans with a belt; I watched him go off the first morning with the older girl next
door, seeing clearly that an era of my life was ended, my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot
replaced by a longtrousered,...

What special responsibility did the Levites have?

We read
about the Levites in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible; it depends on your perspective. They
were one of the twelves tribes of Israel and they had many responsibilites that set them apart
from the other tribes. Unlike the other tribes, their chief...

Where is Holden going to go for drinks at ten oclock?

is
planning to meetfor drinks at the Wicker Bar at ten o'clock that evening. In the meantime,
though, he has a lot of time to kill. So he goes to Radio City Music Hall and treats himselfif
that's the right wordto some entertainment.

He watches a high-kicking
performance by the legendary Rockettes, sees a guy in a tuxedo roller-skate under a bunch of
little tables while telling jokes, and catches a movie about an English war veteran who loses
his memory in hospital. For good measure, Holden watches a Christmas show complete with angels,
crucifixesa strange feature for a Christmas show, of all things!and a rousing rendition of
"Come All Ye Faithful".

Holden's pretty depressed by the whole
spectacle. As one might expect, he regards it all as just plain phony. Not surprisingly, Holden
says that going to Radio City to kill time before his meeting with Carl Luce was probably the
worst thing he could've done.

Failures Of Reconstruction

failed to change
the basic race relations equation in the US (because there was no way it could), which would
have been necessary for real progress in that area.  It failed to elevate freed slaves into
anything like educational or economic equality.  And it failed to enforce those progressive
Reconstruction policies that did pass.  So we had a lot of success on paper, and generations
would pass before it came to fruition.

Explain the main differences and similarities of the three spirits in A Christmas Carol.

You have asked quite a
big question here, and the best way to answer it is to compare and contrast the way that the
text introduces and describes the three ghosts. You are right in being aware of the general
symbolism of each ghost and the time that they represent, but it is important to realize how
each ghost operates to taunt Scrooge with the kind of man that he is now and with regret and
remorse over his past, present and future actions.

The Ghost of Christmas
Past is described as being:

...like a child: yet not so
like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him
the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's
proportions.

It is perhaps fitting then that the ghost
that examines the past and the actions and choices that have led Scrooge to become the man that
he is today appears in such a way that its very appearance depicts looking back on our past
lives and decisions.

The Ghost of Christmas Present is described in such a
fashion as to emphasize the season of plenty and the festival that he represents:

...there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing
torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge,
as he came peeping round the door.

Perhaps this
description is fitting for the Ghost that shows so many people enjoying the season and all of
the luxuries and warmth and festivities that come along with it.

Lastly, the
Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is described in such a way as to emphasize its darkness and
associations with death:

It was shrouded in a deep black
garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one
outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the
night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.

Again, the point of this Ghost is to show how Scrooge is remembered
after his death, and to shock him with how little respect and regard he had even from those he
considered his "friends" and "business associates." Thus the darkness and
the "solemn dread" that this Ghost inspires in Scrooge is perhaps fitting.

Key to understanding these Ghosts is considering the way they are described and the
scenes that they show Scrooge. I hope I have given brief indications of how each of the Ghosts
operate. Good luck!

What is the sensory language in "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe?

In literature,
is
the description of sensory experiences: it can, therefore, be
visual (to
describe a sight), auditory (to describe a sound), olfactory (to describe a
smell),
tactile (to describe how something would feel if touched), or
gustatory (to describe a taste) in
nature. When the speaker describes how "A
wind blew out of a cloud, chilling / [his]
beautiful ," he employs both
visual and tactile imagery, as we can both see the cloud in
our mind's eye
and feel its chill. Then, when her

highborn
kinsmen came
And bore her away from me, />To shut her up in a
sepulchre
In this kingdom by the
sea,

the
narrator uses a great deal of
visual imagery: we can imagine the sight of Annabel Lee's fancy
kinsmen, her
sepulcher, and the kingdom just near the water. Again, we can see and hear
the
"wind [come] out of the cloud by night" as a result of the visual and
auditory
imagery, and we can see the "moon [. . .] beams" and the "stars [. .
.]
rise." In the final line, we can even hear the "sounding sea" as a result
of the
auditory imagery.

What are Willy's suicide attempts? Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

At the
beginning of the play when Biff returns home, he and Linda have a conversation about Willy's
deteriorating mental/emotional condition. Linda tells Biff, "He's dying." But what she
really means is that he has been attempting to kill himself. Linda asks Biff to remember that
she wrote to tell him about a car accident Willy had in February. That was one of a series of
accidents that Willy had been in over the previous year. An insurance inspector investigated the
accidents and interviewed a woman who had witnessed one of them. The woman reported that Willy
seemed to deliberately smash into the railing of "that little bridge." The only reason
Willy didn't die in the accident was that the water under the bridge was shallow. The insurance
inspector believes the crashes were not accidents.

Linda next reports that
she discovered "a length of rubber pipe" in the cellar behind the fuse box. The pipe
had "a little attachment on the end of it," presumably where Willy could insert it
into or...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, to what did Mr. B.B. Underwood compare Tom's conviction and death?

The passage
that you are looking for is a couple pages into , and are key passages that relate to the theme
and title of the novel.  B.B. Underwood writes about Tom's death and conviction in the
newspaper, and he "was at his most bitter" about the events that occurred.  He writes
an editorial, which is usually a piece of writing that expresses your opinion on important
topics of the day.  Newspapers like to feature editorials on current events, that express
differing viewpoints on issues.  Underwood, in his editorial,

"likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and
children."

He basically compares Tom to an innocent
songbird that is going about living his life, bringing happiness to his family and working hard,
that is shot down for sport, cruelty or pleasure by other people.  It is in this passage,
connected with a couple other passages wheresays it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, that the
title of the story comes from.  Tom is compared to a mockingbird that is senselessly killed by
the town.  Mr. B.B. Underwood is the one to clarify and bring out this point, and it is a major
theme throughout the novel, a theme of the innocent suffering because of other people's cruelty
and prejudices.  I hope that helps a bit; good luck!

How does Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" relate directly to Ernest Hemingway's life?

The
older waiter in the story who speaks of nothingness (it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues
nada) reflects Hemingway's own worldview that was tempered into a belief in the nothingness of
existence through the trauma andof World War I. Indeed, WWI and the Spanish Civil War instilled
in Hemingway a preoccupation with suffering and dying. This preoccupation is reflected in the
Old Man who sits and drinks brandy on the terrace in the lonely hours of morning following
midnight. Some critics who have disliked this story associate the contrasts between the old and
young waiters with what they call...

What are literary conventions? Do you know of any examples?

A
literary convention is:

A customary feature of a literary
work, such as the use of ain Greek , the inclusion of an explicit moral in a , or the use of a
particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. Literary conventions are defining features of
particular literary genres, such as the novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play.

In other words, it is a cliche, device, or trope that acts as a
defining feature of a genre. All Star Wars movies begin with the phrase
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." This helps place the viewer in the
context of the Star Wars galaxy. Literary conventions can be aspects of
prosody (rhyme and sound), structure (acts in a play), or content (humor in a
comedy). 

To elaborate on a few of the examples provided above:

• Chorus - In Greek tragedy, the chorus is a group of masked performers who
  provide context for the events that unfold. They do not directly interact with the action
  performed by the actors but can provide prologues, epilogues, and commentary for the benefit of
  the audience. 
• Moral - Fables are designed to communicate a moral lesson
  about how the audience should or should not act. This moral is often communicated in the form of
  a single line or utterance that summarizes the lesson of the fable. An additional convention
  found within fables is that the actors in the story are not human.
• Rhyme
  Scheme - Poems often use rhyme as a convention to distinguish themselves from prose. Such poems
  follow a pattern of rhyming soundsthe first and third lines, for example, must rhyme, while the
  second and fourth do not. Poetry does not require rhyme, however, and utilizes many different
  conventions based on style, language, and purpose. 

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In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, why did Santiago have to go through the dangers of the tribal wars on the outskirts of the oasis alone in order to...

In 's
, the purpose of
Santiago's involvement in the tribal wars (and the reason
that the alchemist
seems to abandon him) is that Santiago must prove to

himselfnot to the soldiers or the alchemistthat he is capable of
mastering
all that he has learned. Until now, Santiago has learned to look
for omens along the way and to
listen to his heart and the language of the
world. He has discovered important things from those
he meets, e.g., the
crystal merchant. He has found out that some men's  "knowledge"
(the
Englishman) is not worth knowing.

When the alchemist brags to
the
chieftain about Santiago's powerful gifts, Santiago's first reaction is
horror and disbeliefnot
only for what the alchemist claims, but for what
Santiago sees as impossible to achieve on his
own part. He has no confidence
because he has no sense of his own power. Santiago believes in
the power of
the alchemist. The alchemist tells the young man that
rarely
do others believe in your powers:

When...

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Define metacognition with examples.

Metacognition can be defined as
"thinking about thinking."  Essentially, metacognition focuses on knowledge
acquisition and how a learner "knows" something.  This study goes to the heart of how
an individual learns.  

Metacognition is essential in a field such as
education.  For example, metacognition can be seen when teachers differentiate lessons to
specific learning styles of students or specific intelligences of their students.  This is
metacognitive because it focuses on how learning is acquired, and how students learn.
 Metacognition can be seen in analyzing how studying for assessments looks different in
different subjects.  The way in which a successful student reviews for a Math assessment
involves a different skill set than when writing a paper for an English class.  Being able to
break both realities down to students is reflective of metacognition.  Students become more
successful when they understand the metacognitive basis for learning and do not simply dismiss
it as "luck" or something arbitrary.  There is a reason and rationale behind academic
or intellectual understanding.  The exploration of this is metacognition.

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Who is Mr. Whymper in Animal Farm?

Mr.
Whymper is a crafty lawyer who acts as an intermediary between the farm and the outside
world.

The Animalist revolution was supposed to usher in a bright new shining
future for the animals. Once they'd thrown off the yoke of human tyranny, the animals would be
able to build a paradise on Earth without needing any assistance from the hated human
oppressor.

Anaylse "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov in terms of the the point of view.

This excellent but also
somewhat intriguing tale is told using the third person limited point of view. This means that
we have a narrator that is external to the action of the story, but who follows it from the
perspective of one of the character's alone. In this case, the narrator zooms in on the banker
and his thoughts and ideas of what has happened and how he reacts to it. The reason why Chekhov
made this choice in terms of point of view is that we as readers are privy to his reactions to
the letter of the young lawyer he defaults on the terms of the bet so dramatically:

When the banker had read this, he laid the page on the table, kissed
the strange man on the head, and went out of the lodge, weeping. At no other time, even when he
had lost heavily on the Stock Exchange, had he felt so great a contempt for himself. When he got
home, he lay on his bed, but his tears and emotion kept him for hours from sleeping.

Clearly the banker is shown through the point of view to be greatly
affected by the letter, and feels himself to be contemptible. Thus it is that we are surprised
that in the next paragraph, he keeps the letter of the lawyer, presumably so that he can have
proof that the lawyer relinquished the money in case he changes his mind later on. Thus the
point of view clearly establishes that, although he was impacted by the letter, he has clearly
not evolved beyond his own greed and self-interest. The choice of point of view thus highlights
the banker's failings as a character and can be linked in to the way that the author establishes
the theme of the story, which could be argued to relate to the lack of integrity that people
have.

What is one of the themes of William Blake's poem "The Tyger?"

One theme of
Blake's poem is the mystery of how a God that could create a creature as gentle as a lamband
identify the lamb with his son, Jesuscould also make a creature as fearful and bloodthirsty as a
tiger.

The poem thus explores two sides of God. One side is gentle,
comforting, and invitinglike a lamb. The other is sublime: it strikes us with fear and
awe.

The tiger, because of the fear it raises in us, is an example of the
sublime. The sublime, usually associated with nature, includes those elements of the natural
world that are both beautiful and yet fill us with a sense of God's grandeur and vast might.
Mighty waterfalls crashing down or the view from icy mountain tops could fill us with a sense of
awe and terror. So does Blake's tiger.

In the poem, the speaker wonders why
God is both so gentle as to create the lamb and so terrifying as to create a dangerous predator.
The poem dwells in the space of mystery, not offering answers but asking
questions.

What is an annotation of book 9 of the Odyssey?

In the Odyssey, book 9

follows Odysseus's adventures to the island of the Ciconoans/Cicones, the Lotus Eaters,
and the
land of the Cyclops. Book 9 starts with Odysseus introducing himself
to the King of Phaiacia and
provides a brief summary of all his travels. Here
are the stops he mentions in his
retelling:

Ismaros, the Island of the

Ciconoans/Cicones

After Odysseus and his men leave
Troy, they
attempt to find their way back home to Ithaca. On Ismaros,
Odysseus and his men destroy the city
and divide the goods. The Ciconians,
natives of the island, ambush Odysseus and his crew causing
Odysseus to lose
six rows of men on each ship. Odysseus gets the remainder of his men back to

the ships, and they sail away.

Storms from

Zeus

For almost two weeks, Odysseus and his men battle
raging
storms and wind which blows them off their course. They survive and
eventually end up on the
island of the Lotus-Eaters.

Island of the
Lotus-Eaters

When Odysseus and his men reach the island, he
sends a few of his
men inland to see who inhabits the land. The natives were kind and hospitable

and gave the men their lotus to eat. The lotus was sweet like honey and had an addicting
quality
that made the men want to stay. Odysseus had to drag them back to the
ship and tie them down to
the benches.

Island of the Cyclopes:

Odysseus and his men reach the island of the cyclopes. Odysseus decides he will
take
some men and do the investigating himself.

Here are
the main events of this
story:

• Odysseus finds
  a cyclops's cave and decides to steal from
  him.
• The
  cyclops, named Polyphemus, returns and puts a giant boulder in
  front of the
  cave entrance.
• Odysseus reveals himself and explains they
  are
  war heroes. He asks for hospitality (xenia) in
  reference to the
  gods.
• The cyclops refuses and eats some
  of his men.


• When the cyclops sleeps, Odysseus plans to
  kill him but realizes they'd be trapped in
  the cave because he can't move the
  boulder.
• The cyclops leaves for the day,
  and Odysseus
  and his men devise a plan by making a long spear.
• When
  the
  cyclops returns, Odysseus gets him drunk.
• The
  cyclops asks who Odysseus is.
  Odysseus claims his name is "Noman" or "Nobody"
  which makes the other
  cyclopes laugh when he later calls for help.


• Then men stab Polyphemus in
  the eye blinding him.


• To escape, the men hide under the bellies of the
  sheep and are
  freed when the sheep are let out to pasture the next morning.



• Odysseus'sgets the best of him and yells back to the cyclops revealing his
  true
  identity.
• The cyclops reveals he is the son of
  Poseidon and curses him and
  his men.

Identify an example of a change a particular company made due to the influence of the external environment.

There are
many examples of companies making changes in response to changes in the external environment.
 One aspect of the external environment is political conditions.  This is
particularly...

Where did Dr. Frankenstein get the body parts for his monster?

In Chapter Three,says
that he "began the creation of a human being."  In order to achieve his goal, he
requires "lifeless matter" so that he can "renew life where death had apparently
devoted the body to corruption." In other words, he needs body parts, and so he must look
in all of the places one might find those parts: the morgue (the "charnel houses"
later referenced in chapter four), slaughter-houses, etc. He also says, in Chapter Three, that
he "dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave [and] tortured the living animal to
animate the lifeless clay." Thus, it sounds as though Victor actually did resort to digging
up fresh graves in order to plunder the bodies buried there.  

Importantly,
it is in his "pursu[it] of nature to her hiding places" (the morgue, the grave, and
other similar places that the average human eye avoids) that forces his "human nature to
turn with loathing from [his] occupation" (chapter three).

Identify the three symbols in the film Finding Forrester.

Firstly,
there are, arguably, more than three symbols in this film. Also, it is possible to regard
multiple objects in a scene as a symbol. I offer the following three: basketball, Forrester's
apartment, and the letter opener.

Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is a black
teenager who spends much of his free time playing basketball with his friends. He spends the
rest of his free time writing in his journals. He hears rumors about William Forrester, a former
writer who lives as a recluse in a building across from the basketball court. Jamal and his
friends notice Forrester watching them from his window, but he is obscured from their view
behind a curtain. Jamal and his friends one day plot to get into the apartment and steal an
item. Jamal performs the deed and takes a letter opener, but he leaves his backpack behind. When
he goes back to retrieve it, he finds that Forrester has corrected his journals. The letter
opener...

Explain one part you could relate to in A Christmas Carol. Why do you relate to it?

An element
that I can relate to in the book is the concept of family. Family isn't important to Ebenezer
yet his nephew tries so hard to love him and get him to join the family to celebrate Christmas.
He in a sense shows unconditional love for his uncle.

It seems that in most
families there is that one person who doesn't want to participate in family gatherings, yet you
still love that person and always give them an open invitation even though you know they will
not come. You just have that desire that someday they will change their mind.

There are many characters in the book. Just look at each one individually and you will
more than...

In Night, how does Elie change throughout the memoir?

Before
Elie enters the Auschwitz concentration
camp and experiences the horrors of the Holocaust, he is
a devout Jew and
dedicates his life to studying the Talmud and the Zohar. Elie spends the

majority of his days praying in the local synagogue and learning the secrets of the
Kabbalah
from Moishe the Beadle. Elie also does not have a particularly close
relationship with his
father, who is a revered community leader and attends
to his business rather than spending time
with his family. After Elie and his
family are transported to Birkenau, he is immediately
separated from his
mother and sisters and remains by his father's side. Once Elie and his father

pass the first selection, they become inseparable and rely on each other to survive
the
harrowing experience.

Throughout his Holocaust
experience, Elie witnesses
indescribable horrors and lives in perpetual fear
of being beaten or murdered by SS officers.
His perspective on life
dramatically transforms and he ends up losing his faith....

I need to know the meaning of "the visible becomes inevitable."

In Chapter
37, Enzo is diagnosed with 'degenerative arthritis caused by hip dysplasia.' He finds that his
movements are no longer smooth and easy, and he surmises that the diagnosis foreshadows the
beginning of a journey that will ultimately lead to his demise.

With my diagnosis, I knew, would come my end. Slowly, perhaps. Painfully, without a
doubt; marked by the signposts laid out by the veterinarian. The visible becomes
inevitable. The car goes where the eyes go.

Enzo is resigned to his fate, but more than anything, his fundamental goal is to be
reborn as a man in his next life. In the story, Enzo believes that everyone is the master of his
own destiny, and it is his destiny to be reborn as a human being.

...we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention
or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than
ourselves.

Enzo's chronic condition worsens as the story
concludes, but he is unperturbed because he is more than ready to relinquish his canine
existence on earth. Both his mortal and immortal eyes are turned towards his goal. The visible
(the long-looked for destiny) becomes inevitable and manifests itself when one's energies are
focused on it. Hence, the 'car goes where the eyes go:' where the mind leads, the body will
follow. Hope this helps!

 

In The Lovely Bones, what stages of grief do each character (Susie, Jack, Abigail, Lindsey and Buckley) go through? When do these stages appear?

In
, each of the members of the Salmon family (Susie, Jack, Abigail, Lindsey
and Buckley) go through the five stages of grief. While they all travel through all of the
stages, each character embodies one of the stages the most particularly throughout the
book.

Jack Salmon, Susie's father, feels the
pressure to protect his wife and children while also coming to terms with the fact that he was
unable to protect Susie. He expresses Denial as the story begins
and the police begin to find evidence that Susie may have been harmed. He finds excuses for the
evidence and believes the detectives are simply wrong. He has a hard time believing that
anything so horrible could happen to his family.

Abigail
Salmon, Susie's mother, became disinterested in motherhood long before Susie's
death, and feels both guilt and depression after Susie dies. By the time of Susies memorial,
Abigail has entered Anger . When she comes upon Susies best friend,
Clarissa, Abigail is full of frustration at...

From Zindel's The Pigman, why is Norton so curious about Mr. Pignati? How does John react to Norton's questions? Why?

Norton Kelly is
a classmate of John and Lorraine's. They sometimes drink with him in the cemetery, or hang out
and make prank calls together, but they don't really like him. In chapter 9, Lorraine points out
that Norton grew up playing with dolls and kids made fun of him for it. By age ten, he went
"berserk." She explains further as follows:

"From then on he turned tough guy all the way. He was always picking fights and
throwing stones and beating up everybody. In fact, he got so tough he used to go around calling
the other guys sissies" (99).

Norton is also a
thief. Based on Norton's previous criminal experiences, John and Lorraine don't want to involve
Norton in their small con to get $10.00 out of Mr. Pignati. Before John and Lorraine go to visit
Mr. Pignati as "charity collectors," John thinks about Norton and knows he must keep
him out of the loop. John explains in chapter 5 the following:

"If [Norton] knew about it, he'd try to hustle in on the deal, and he'd never stop
at ten dollars. I don't want anyone really to take advantage of the old man. . . not the way
Norton would have" (31).

As John and Lorraine become
closer friends and start hanging out at Mr. Pignati's place, Norton must feel rejected. He
eventually follows the couple and confronts John about what they do at that house with an old
man. He also asks if the old man has things he could lift off of him. John either ignores
Norton's questions or down-plays what Mr. Pignati has in the house. For example, Mr. Pignati has
three television sets, but John doesn't disclose that information to Norton. He doesn't want
to entice Norton to burglarize the poor man. By this time, John cares for and wants to protect
Mr. Pignati from any harm.