Every novel needs an overly eccentric character to add a splash of color and spontaneity to the plot In the case of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is that character But instead of a splash of color Heathcliff adds a shroud of darkness He may be spontaneous and eccentric but unlike the common person his mind is twisted and his actions are evil Throughout the novel he is portrayed as a madman Brought up as an adopted child from the streets Heathcliff always had a strange and unnatural disposition A
Vietnam was a very tragic war for the American soldiers For many of them seeing so many innocent people die made them crazy and go into shock After returning back home many suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder John Wade also suffered from this condition making him restless and very disturbed Because of Johns mental condition it can be said that he murdered his own wife without even knowing it therefore Kathy Wade is In the lake of the Woods Primarily there is evidence that on the night
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Depression and is narrated by the main character a little girl named Jean Louise Scout Finch Her father Atticus Finch is a lawyer with high moral standards Scout her brother Jem and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors and he is made out to be a kind of monst
The characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird TKAM are understood and familiarised as the story advances and experiences of the characters expand The characters in the story are portrayed in Scouts point of view and past point of narration Scout Jem and dill draw to us many different types of people within the community as they carry out their daring neighbourhood activities In TKAM Scouts character is known as she matures and progresses in experience and taking in lessons learnt The protag
The Scarlet Letter Committing adultery in the novel The Scarlet Letter was frowned upon by all puritan community In the novel a young women named Hester Prynne is being publicly humiliated and punished by the Puritan community for committing adultery in mid 17th century Boston In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne provides his readers with three scaffold scenes which hold a great importance to the novel The scaffold serves as a place of public punishment and shame there lies the center of a
English Final Essay Many people see the theme of the novel the Pearl by John Steinbeck as one concerning the dehumanizing nature of greed Greed is referred to as evil in the book many times and many of the characters seem to be affected by this greed at one time or another throughout the story The storys main character Kino is the one most heavily affected by greed At the beginning of the novella Kino is a simple man he cares for providing for his family and his peoples culture There are two ma
Lyra Belacqua SILVERTONGUE 11 year old a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford England It quickly becomes clear that Lyras Oxford is not precisely liked our own nor is her world In Lyras world everyone has a personal dmon a lifelong animal familiar This is a world in which science theology and magic are closely intertwined These ideas are of little concern to Lyra who at the outset of the story One day she and Pantalaimon pan an animal formed shape shifti
The story The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier illustrates how the world is divided into two classes the victims and the victimizers The following quote depicts this The world is made up of two kinds of people those who were the victims and those who victimized submitted under anonymous One would have to agree with this statement because it is often true the world is divided and unfortunately those who victimize appear to be treated better due to the fact that others want to avoid becoming the v
Assignment 1 From studying the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger I discovered that Holden Caulfield the main character in the novel is merely a confused adolescent filled with bitterness and resentment His attitude towards others around him holds him back in life He is a self confessed compulsive liar and makes quick decisions without realising the consequences of his actions The novel is narrated by him in the most colloquial of styles and it is obvious that his view on things could