How does Holden experience coming of age; that is, how does he mature from the beginning of the book to the end?

In the
famous final scene of the book, it's clear thathas indeed matured over the course of the novel.
As he watchesriding on the carousel, each time reaching for the golden ring, each time missing
it and still being able to laugh hysterically, Holden finally realizes what really matters in
life. It's not the golden ringthat is to say, worldly achievementsthat is most important, but
rather it's how we live our lives. In other words, it's the process of life that provides
lasting fulfillment, not the end results.

This may not seem like a
particularly stunning transformation on Holden's part, but it's significant all the same,
because now, for the very first time, Holden has found some meaning in a life previously
characterized by nihilism, or a belief that life is meaningless. Critics have long debated how
much of a transformation this change in attitude really is, but what cannot seriously be debated
is the fact that Holden, in his own little way, is more mature at the...

In the first scene, a cross section of English society is represented.What classes are represented by Liza, Pickering,Higgins and the Eynsford Hills?

Eliza
Doolittle represents the working class. Most people in the working class at that time were poor,
and Eliza is no exception. Although she works hard everyday selling flowers, she lives in a cold
room she rents, has never used a modern bathroom, and ekes out a very small living.

Pickering and Higgins are of the middle class. What that means, translated into modern
terms, is that they are wealthy people. They are well-educated, have plenty of moneysome of it
no doubt inherited and are able to do...

Interpret the closing passage in "Araby."

""
ends with this passage:

Gazing up into the darkness I saw
myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger.

The narrator speaks these words as he leaves the
bazaar after failing to find a gift for Mangan's sister that will impress her and win her love
and approval. The passage expresses his disillusionment and the end of his dreams. The bazaar,
Araby, had lived in the narrator's mind as a place of beauty and enchantment in contrast to the
drabness of his life on North Richmond Street. To him it held the allure of romance. He says,
"The syllables of the word Araby [sic] . . . cast an Eastern
enchantment over me."

The narrator's illusions about Araby coincide with
his feelings of first love for Mangan's sister. When he learns she wants to go to the bazaar but
cannot, he promises to bring her a gift from Araby. He thus goes on a quest to win the heart of
the woman he loves, a romantic adventure.

Araby turns out to be a cavernous
warehouse filled with cheap goods. There is no enchantment. Araby is ordinary. Arriving at
closing time, the narrator finds the lights going out and the help going home. He leaves, angry
and disillusioned. He blames himself for being so foolish in believing that somehow his life
could become more beautiful and exciting than the circumstances in which he
lived.

How does George Orwell's 1984 relate to modernism?

Modernism is a term that has usually been applied to artistic movements (modernism in
literature, in painting, music, and so on) or, less frequently, to general cultural attitudes
associated with the early to mid twentieth century (or even up to our own time). If we are
talking about the style in which 's is writtenin other words, about
1984 as a novelI would not regard it as
"modernist," in comparison with certain other novels, or literature in general, of
Orwell's time and earlier. Orwell gives us a straightforward third-person narrative as opposed
to, say, the stream-of-consciousness manner of James Joyce. Even in comparison with a much more
accessible writer like Hemingway there is, in my view, something much more traditional about
Orwell's prose style, almost harking back to the novels of Somerset Maugham, whom Orwell greatly
admired and whose influence he acknowledged.

If we are talking about the
content of 1984its story,, and charactersit describes a world...

What cinematography creates ideologies within the film The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson? I am studying the film so I would appreciate...

In terms
of cinematography, the perspective created by depth of field is quite revealing.  In many scenes
that depict Susie in the afterlife, she is proportionally much, much smaller than other objects
in the scene.  For example, during...

Why do you think Gregor changed in to an insect in The Metamorphosis?

Concerning
Gregor's waking up an insect in
Kafka's , I'm afraid there's no answer to
your
question.  The story is ambiguous concerning this point.  There is no
explanation
whatsoever about why the transformation occurs.  Any explanation
for his transformation is
speculation only.

Of course,
the omission is purposeful.  If the narrator
reveals why the transformation
occurs, the focus is shifted to the cause, and, apparently, that
isn't
Kafka's purpose.  The story isn't about what Gregor did to deserve this, or

what...

What narrative conventions has Harper Lee used to represent racism and how? (e.g., the structure of the neighbourhood)

Narrative
conventions are literary devices used by a writer to tell a story. One narrative convention used
byto represent racism is the conflict between a black man and a white man. The author also
employs the narrative convention of plot, telling a story that involves the interactions between
a black man and a white man. The fact that the novel takes place in the American South is also
meaningful. Harper Lee selected a setting, another narrative convention, that heightens the
racial tension between the two men.

On a more subtle level, Lee employs the
narrative convention of symbolism to represent racism. Tom Robinson's withered left arm
represents the extent to which blackness can be a vulnerability in the American South during
this time in history. When he was a child, Tom's arm got caught in a cotton gin, and this
accident resulted in his lifelong disability. That Tom's arm was injured by a cotton gin is
important; a cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibers from...