Books Reading and Learning in Wuthering Heights In Emily Brontes book Wuthering Heights books reading and learning seem to play a pivotal role in each characters persona Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading Catherine does say after all that she took her dingy volume by the scoop and hurled it into the dog kennel vowing I hated a good book Chapter III page 26 The real objects of their resentment however are the moral and religious lessons that are forced upon them via books
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows many symbols that depict society Based in the 1930s racial prejudice was a huge part of everyday life The symbol of the snowman can be seen as mixing both races together while the symbol of the mockingbird can be seen as segregation from those who are different Both of these major symbols give depth to the novel and help people see problems of the time The theme of prejudice in the novel can best be perceived through the symbol of the mockingb
Dictionary com defines satire as the use of irony sarcasm ridicule or the like in exposing denouncing or deriding vice folly etc Satire was the idea behind Mark Twains book Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain wrote this novel to mock mob mentality greed and hierocracy One target of Twains satire is mob mentality In one scene the men in Bricksville try to lynch Colonel Sheburn Colonel Sheburn saw that the town was getting ready to attack him so he begins to give a speech saying The idea of you lynching
In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck idealizes male friendships of both George Milton and Lennie Small explain the nature of being human and ones struggles in life The novel shows the struggles of two men in California in the great depression era come to a ranch in Salinas vally to work up a stake They hope to one day attain their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land Lennies part of the dream which he never tires of hearing George describe is merely to tend to and touch soft rabbits
A and P Timed Writing In the short story A P John Updike uses metaphors visual imagery and colloquial euphonious and cacophonous diction to convey Sammys bored and dissatisfied attitude towards the majority of A P customers Using these same devices Updike illustrates Sammys enthralled and excited attitude towards the three girls in nothing but bathing suits Sammys contrasting attitudes towards the different customers help to develop the theme of the importance of nonconformity in the story Thro