In the short story, "The Cask of Amontillado", how does Edgar Allan Poe use the 5 senses of literature?

As with most stories, sight is the sense most frequently
invoked. Poe gives the reader
a visual description of Fortunatoin his fools
motley with absurd cap and bellsand makes
Montresor a more elegant, sinister
figure in his black silk mask and
roquelaure. The vast
catacombs of Montresors house, with walls of piled
bones, casks, and
puncheons are described as crusted with niter which hangs like moss on the

walls, lending a suitably gothicof decay to the narrative.

The
description of
niter also employs the sense of touch when Montresor says in a
chilling physical image that the
drops of moisture trickle along the bones.
Sound is used to similar effect in Fortunatos
incessant cough and then in the
succession of loud and shrill screams, mockingly echoed and
redoubled by
Montresor. At last, there is the feeble attempt at laughter by a man whose
spirit
has been broken.

Ironically, the two senses
missing from the story are those
of taste and smell, the
very...

Which symbols in "Young Goodman Brown" represent evil and create gothic or gloomy tone?

Themes in
thethat contribute to the gloomy or evil tone is the woods. The woods, in christianity,
reresents the unknown,...

In "Hills Like White Elephants," how does setting reveal aspects of the plot?

In
Hemingway's "," the setting consists of a caf© at a train station where the woman and
man are drinking and a compelling, attractive background landscape that is dominated by hills,
which the girl describes as looking like "white elephants."

Nothing
really happens of significance, in terms of overt plot developments, but something significant
is about to happen. Whatever is about to happen constitutes the
"elephant" in the setting. Yes, there are the hills, but the figurative elephant in
the story is the surgical procedure that the woman is about to have. The characters are on their
way to somewhere, as indicated by the...

Describe the experiences of African-Americans during the Great Depression and as they took part in World War II.

The economic
advances that almost all Americans made during the 1920s, including some African-Americans,
might have been enough to kickstart a civil rights movement, if the Depression hadn't
immediately destroyed the tiny black middle class and distracted the nation for more than a
decade.  Blacks were hit especially hard during the Great Depression, struggling through with
sharecropping in the South, and relegated largely to the service industry elsewhere and hard
labor in northern factories.  While the economics of the rest of the country prevented social
advancement, it also for the most part kept racism, unlike how it had been in the 1920s, at a
less violent level.  That is not to say the Ku Klux Klan was not still active.

As the Depression gave way to World War II, large numbers of African-Americans joined
the military or were drafted, just as it was for the rest of the country's population.  While
fighting in segregated units, and rarely sent into combat, black soldiers served honorably and
fought well in units such as the Red Ball Express (blacks made up 75% of transport units), the
Tuskegee Airmen, and armored units.  They served primarily in Europe and North Africa.  They
also experienced difficulties adjusting back to a civilian life after the war in a society that
still, legally and socially told them they were second class citizens.

Jack vs. Abigail: Methods of Grief My heart went out to Jack during the course of the novel. Jack: loving father endlessly devoted to finding and...

Wow! 
Such great posts!  Thank you so much for responding, especially for allowing me to see the other
side of the issue (which was the reason for my post in the first place).  Now it's time to
re-read and re-explore!!!  : )

How is Crooks's character marginalized in Of Mice and Men? John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

Crooks
is the African American stable hand, who takes care of the horses and lives by himself in a
small room attached to the barn. Being that Crooks is the only black employee on the ranch, he
is discriminated against and marginalized throughout the novella. Unlike the other white
workers, Crooks is forced to live by himself and not allowed to room with the other men in the
bunkhouse. In ,enters Crooks's room uninvited, and Crooks reveals the extent of his loneliness.
Crooks tells Lennie that there is only one black family in Soledad, and says that nobody listens
to anything he has to say because he is a Negro. Crooks tells Lennie,

"If I say something, why it's just a nigger sayin' it."
(35)

Crooks then tells Lennie that he needs someone to
keep him company and feels left out because he's not allowed to stay in the bunkhouse or play
rummy with the white workers. Later on, Curley's wife enters Crooks's room, where she makes
everyone feel uncomfortable and is asked to leave. After Crooks tells her to get out of his
room, she replies,

"Listen, Nigger . . . You know
what I can do to you if you open your trap?" (39)

Curley's wife marginalizes Crooks by threatening him and treating him unfairly. Crooks
knows that he is defenseless against Curley's wife's accusations and is forced to keep quiet.
Overall, Crooks lives an isolated, lonely life, where he is excluded from certain activities and
privileges.

Who is the doctor in "The Scarlet Letter"?

The older, slightly
deformed man who presents himself asis actually 's husband, the man who has been missing for two
years.He is not actually a physician, but he feels that his past education and the knowledge he
has gained from the Native Americans has prepared him to act as a doctor.To this end, he tells
Hester,

"My old studies in alchemy [...] and my
sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples,
have made a better physician of me than many that claim the medical degree."

No one has seen Chillingworth for two years because he has
evidently endured a shipwreck (he says "mishaps by sea and land") and was then
captured and kept a prisoner ("held in bonds") by the Native Americans who live south
of Boston.One of his captors has brought him to Boston in order to "redeem" him out of
his captivity.(This was actually a not uncommon practice among Indian tribes; they might kidnap
a colonist and then ransom that person back to their community for goods or
food.)