The conversations between Lily and Selden provide the tone and relationship between them When you first read their conversations among one another you think they have a strong bond and are fairly close They appear to have some of the same views of certain things but not everything The two of them can talk about anything with one another and you can sense how comfortable they both seem to be However at the beginning of the novel when Lily is leaving Seldens place Simon Rosedale catches her but s
Never underestimate the power of one decision In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the town of Salem Massachusetts is brought into uproar by Abigail Williams a teenage girl who begins making cries of witchcraft When the whole town is convinced the devil is amongst them John Proctor who recently broke off a relationship with Abigail Williams attempts to come out and bring the truth to light However Abigail and her friends go on a rampage accusing many more people including some of the most charitabl
Claudia and Frieda MacTeer live in Lorain Ohio with their parents Their lives are hard but their parents provide a loving household To make money their parents take in a boarder Henry Washington Soon after another young girl named Pecola comes to live with the MacTeers after her father Cholly burned down her house The three girls become friends Pecola loves milk and Shirley Temple it quickly becomes clear that she believes that all things white are beautiful It also becomes clear that Pecola co
Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about change It is a story about a boys journey a journey during which he has many adventures but also learns lessons and matures One of the biggest changes that occur in Huck Finn is in his views towards African Americans specifically his traveling companion Jim The affects of society on Hucks views grow less obvious as he begins to listen to his conscience rather than what he has been taught As their friendship progresses Hucks views chang
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a story of two young lovers who upon first seeing one another become totally star crossed and infatuated I think that the most interesting character in this play is Romeo A sixteen year old Montague who falls in love with the only daughter of his familys greatest enemy Lord Capulet After reading or watching the entire play a reader observer can easily see how very love struck hysterical and drastic Romeo is Romeo knew from the very momen
This mans actions lead to several life changing events for many people The decisions made by Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet had an enormous impact on Romeo and Juliet and their families Sure he helped two people find love but in the end he was responsible for their untimely death Friar Lawrence struggled against the other throughout the play The other was the always feuding Montague and Capulet family Those two families have been in conflict for years and Friar Lawrence
Two old gentlemen meet in the rain one night at Covent Garden Professor Higgins is a scientist of phonetics and Colonel Pickering is a linguist of Indian dialects The first bets the other that he can with his knowledge of phonetics convince high London society that in a matter of months he will be able to transform the cockney speaking Covent Garden flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a woman as poised and well spoken as a duchess The next morning the girl appears at his laboratory on Wimpole Stre
The novel Of Mice and Men is written by John Steinbeck It is situated in Soledad which means loneliness in Spanish The novel is located a few miles south of Soledad The novel was set in the early 1930s It was a time when racism was a big issue Loneliness means being isolated or on your own In this novel many of the characters are lonely Steinbeck was born in Soledad so he decided to make this the area in which to place his novel In this story the characters are lonely because although they are
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novel involving two extremely different main characters George is a reasonably intelligent hardworking ranchman Lennie on the other hand always manages to find trouble He is equally as hardworking and honest as George but his simple childlike mind always finds him trouble wherever he goes However they have one thing that unites the two of them as close as any bond can This is that they both share the same dream of owning their own ranch and after many hard
In a novel there is often a character that often violates the laws and various other rules When reading novels one often finds protagonists and antagonists also known as the good guys or bad guys The point for having antagonists and protagonists is to arouse the readers sympathy for the character who is struggling with and then breaking the rules and to then divide our interest between sympathy for the character and anger at the character for not upholding the principles of society Macbeth fits