In A Wrinkle in Time, what does the dark thing represent?

The Dark
Thing or Black Thing in
represents evil of all types, and it takes over

planets. Planets which have been fully enveloped by the Dark Thing are called dark
planets, and
the children see the planet Uriel, which is dark, and then
Earth, which is partly dark. The
darkness over Earth is being fought by good
people, including Jesus, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci,
and Shakespeare. When the
children and the Mrs. Ws are looking at Earth with the Medium, Calvin
asks
what the Dark Thing is: We know that its evil, but what is it?

Mrs....

In Romeo and Juliet, how is Romeo impulsive? Give examples.

is
endlessly the impulsive teenager, caught up in the intense whirlwind of whatever his emotions at
the moment happen to be. He transfers his love from Rosaline toin a flash and scales a high
orchard wall to seek out Juliet the same night he meets herdespite the risk of being killed if
her male relatives find him there. Romeo agrees to marry her almost immediately, imprudently
murdersout of passion, and quickly commits suicide when he thinks Juliet is dead rather than
waiting a moment or seeking out more information. Being young, Romeo habitually acts first and
thinks later. 

tries to counsel Romeo to slow down and not allow his passion
to burn at such a high intensity, telling him such a love will never last, but his words fall on
deaf ears. Though the play locates thein the way innocent young people become the victims of a
senseless feud, Romeo's headlong impetuosity arguably helps to propel the couple towards a bad
end. 

Why does Charles Wallace get left behind?

Charles
Wallace is a main character in 's . He, his sister Meg, and their friend
Calvin travel to Camazotz with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. The children are left to
travel to Central Intelligence without their guides. They do not make it very far before a
teacher finds their constant questions inappropriate and sends them to be reprocessed.

During reprocessing, the children encounter a strange man who speaks oddly and makes
them uncomfortable. He appears to be a mouthpiece, and the children speculate he may be
hypnotized, like the other adults they have come across in Camazotz. The man hypnotizes Charles
Wallace, and he leads the children to Mr. Murry. Meg and Calvin rescue Mr. Murry, but Mr. Murry
is not able to help Charles Wallace escape the hypnosis.

Charles Wallace
leads the group to IT, a giant, pulsating human brain that is controlling all of the hypnotized
people in Camazotz. IT almost begins to control Meg and Calvin, but Calvin encourages Mr. Murry
to "tesser." They escape Camazotz. They are forced to leave Charles Wallace behind,
though, because he is so taken by IT that they cannot connect with him enough to take him along
on the "tesser."

Where did Alice Sebold get the inspiration to write the book The Lovely Bones?

became
inspired to writefrom two different
instances. The first instance, is her own horrible
experience having been a
victim of a brutal rape during her college years. She already had
written a
novel about it in a memoir titled Lucky. However, she
used
elements of that situation to further develop the extremely sensible
topics of the rape, and the
murder of a young, innocent girl in The Lovely
Bones.

The second instance, as
Sebold narrates in the
introduction to The Lovely Bones, is the incidence of teenage girls
during
the 1970's which disappeared and were never found. This same observation is voiced by
the
character of Susie Salmon in the first chapter of the novel. It is
further evidence that
demonstrates Sebold's need to speak on behalf of these
young women, who are victims of a society
that had not yet become prepared to
deal with the reality of sociopathic behavior in "bread
and butter"
America.

In newspaper photos of missing

girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This
was
before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or
in the daily mail. It
was still back when people believed things like that
didn't happen.

Therefore, the crime
committed against her, as well as the crimes
committed against other young
and innocent women, prompted Alice Sebold to use her exquisite
talent as a
writer to voice their pains, their anger, and the sense of injustice that exists
in
those situations. Nobody, but the victim herself, could be able to
explain, in detail the
effects of crime on innocent
people.

Why did the Progressive Movement develop?

The
Progressive Movement developed to deal with problems existing in our country. Writers began to
publicize some of the abuses or injustices in our society. When people learned that average
citizens were being harmed, they wanted actions to be taken to correct these problems.

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle , people demanded that
conditions in the meat industry be improved. When people learned that foods were falsely being
labeled and sold for higher...

In The Lovely Bones, what is George Harvey thinking and why might he pursue those actions?

In s
novel , the character
George Harvey is thein the story. He is a 36-year-old
sexual predator, a
serial killer, and a rapist. He has raped and murdered Susie Salmon not far

from her home. It is difficult to say for certain what George would be thinking because
the
psychology...

What is the significance of Cunegonde's loss of beauty in Candide?

Cunegonde's
loss of beauty is yet another proof
that Pangloss's theory (from Leibniz)that "all is for
the best in the best of
all possible worlds"is absurd.

Cunegonde loses
her
youthful beauty as a result of the trials and tortures she undergoes in what is
supposedly a
wonderful world and the best place ever. She is gang-raped,
disembowelled, orphaned, left for
dead, made a prostitute, enslaved, and
displaced. These events leave her disfigured and
exhausted; what is done to
her is horribleand so exaggeratedly over-the-top that we laugh as
well as cry
at her fate, asintended.

It is also hardly what a young
man
dreams of whenfinds his beloved in an ugly and embittered state. Candide
sticks with Cunegonde
despite her looks and comes to realize that it is
better to withdraw from the world
and...