How does the diary function as a literary device in 1984?

The diary functions as a symbol of s thoughtcrime, his private revolt against the
Party, and of the old times, before the Party came to power, which he is continually trying to
recall and discover. He records in writing his hatred for Big Brother and the Party, but even
before he writes in it, the book as a physical object (together with the old-fashioned fountain
pen he uses to record his thoughts) is already a symbol of everything the Party stands
against:

It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth
creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at
least forty years past. He could guess, however, that the book was much older than
that.

The diary, however, does not only function as a
symbol. It plays an important role in the . is above all a novel of ideas.
When the...

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, what do the conflicts between Douglass and Covey reveal about slavery's effects on slaves and masters?

The
section of the book that the question is referring to is chapters 9 and 10.  In chapter 9,
Douglass is with Master Thomas for 9 months.  At the end of those 9 months, Thomas has decided
that Douglass is too unruly to continue keeping around.  Thomas decides to "lend"
Douglass to Edward Covey for one year.  That's when chapter 10 begins. 

Covey
has made a name for himself as one of the area's best slave breakers.  Thomas believes that
Covey can "train" Douglass to be a better slave.  

Some slaveholders thought it not much loss to allow Mr. Covey to have their slaves one
year, for the sake of the training to which they were subjected, without any other
compensation.

Covey's methods of "training"
aren't exactly kind.  He basically resorts to merciless beatings of slaves until the slaves
learn to do as they're told no matter what. Being more of a city slave, Douglass is unfamiliar
with the work that Covey requires of him.  Instead of teaching Douglass, Covey just beats
him. 

I...

In Act 2 of Pygmalion, what qualities does Liza reveal by coming to Higgins for a lesson?

In this
world of distinct social classes, language is one of the determining factors as to which class
one belongs.  Because Eliza is a flower girl and speaks like one, she is seen as being of low
class.  The only hope she has of moving up the world in any way is to change the way she
speaks.

When the opportunity is haphazardly offered to her, she dismisses it
without much thought.  She's more concerned with selling the rest of her flowers.  Overnight,
though, Eliza changes her mind and goes to see the Professor about the lessons he offered.  We
learn a lot about her just by looking at this decision she makes.

First, she
is motivated to improve herself.  She also has a good memory.  Higgins's address was simply
given in passing, yet she remembered.  She managed to make her way to the house--which was far
enough that others were taking cabs.  Eliza has done her best to clean up, though she's still
pretty bedraggled.  She's good at math; she's figured not just the simple calculations but a
more complex reasoning process whereby she knows what lessons must cost compared to French
lessons.  Finally, she is not daunted by approaching a Professor--probably because she
recognizes she has more class than he does!

What are some issues that Postcolonialism addresses?

deals
on some level with all the issues that people have faced since the breakup of the large colonial
empires. For England-oriented writers, this era is often marked as beginning with the
independence of the South Asian nations after World War II, especially the 1947 partition of
India and Pakistan. For the Americas, however, postcolonial theory has been applied much
earlier, as independence from Spain began to be achieved in the early nineteenth
century.

Three key areas that this body of theory addresses, often through
analysis of literary works, are race, hybridity, and self-determination.

Because European colonial expansion and control went hand in hand with the development of
theories of race and racial hierarchy, the imposition of white superiority as a concept was
accompanied by white supremacy in action. When nonwhite persons were judged mentally inferior,
they were considered incompetent to administer themselves and constituted the majority of the
subaltern. The...

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How does the author sympathize Shmuel and Bruno in Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

This
answer is subjective and left up to individual readers. The book is a young adult novel, so the
author focused on finding ways to make his main characters sympathetic to a particular reading
audience. In this case, that audience is young teenagers.

One immediate way
to make characters sympathetic to young readers is to have young protagonists. That is the case
in this book. Bruno is nine years old, and that happens to coincide with Shmuel's exact age as
well. Even adult readers are likely to sympathize with those two characters because adults are
likely to remember what it was like being that age.

The story's setting isn't
likely to have been experienced by any current readers, so the author puts his characters in
situations that resonate with modern-day audiences. For example, Bruno being angry at the move
and being basically friendless is likely to elicit sympathy from readers. Readers are also
likely to sympathize with Shmuel's loss of family members.

A result of the
author...

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Please show some examples of where power lies in the novel 1984.

Simply put,
power lies in the Party.  The control the physical power (the can start/arrange for convenient
wars that increase dependency on the government, and perhaps more importantly, they control
"informational" power.  You can never know anything for sure in their state.  They
control the present and past, so they can control the future by inventing an appropriate
past.

This is all clear in the...

What events in The Alchemist were foreshadowed, and how were they foreshadowed?

The book
is metaphysical in nature and therefore deals with a great many instances
ofthroughout. Santiago has dreams and visions at the beginning, which he believes portend his
eventual fate in finding great wealth, but they end up leading him on a detailed journey (he
does eventually find the money, but his journey is the true fulfillment he sought).

Santiago's conversation with Melchizedek, the ancient king of Salem, is the most
overarching and thematic passage in the novel and is also a deep instance of foreshadowing.
Melchizedek speaks to the importance of finding one's personal legend and what wonders and
powers spring from finding it. This is primarily brushed off until Santiago, having gone through
a long, arduous journey and learned a great deal, realizes his potential and is able to
transform himself into the windand eventually find the treasure he sought. This is the
culmination of his personal journey, and the weight and importance placed on it by...