.... It is not uncertain, however, that Ophelia is very much controlled by her father. She is the daughter of Polonius, the chief advisor to the new King Claudius, and a highly respected man. Her father demands that she tell Hamlet at once that she can no longer be with him and tells her "I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth have you so slander any moment leisure as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to’t, I charge you. Come your ways." (I.iii.132-35). It is clear that here Polonius is making decisions for his daughter, regardless if she really loves Hamlet or not. She feels very unimportant and helple .....

.... (181). Merlin is able to learn a myriad of information while in Tremorinus' presence. This space that Tremorinus gives Merlin is the right tool to entitle Merlin to advance intellectually. Some mentors provide the space for knowledge to grow, but others are more effective because they set the foundation for the knowledge to develop. The personage who is the most efficacious and who bestows the true idea of knowledge on Merlin is Galapas. One day Merlin travels through the forest and stumbles on what looks like an inhabited cave. In the cave Merlin meets Galapas for the first time. Galapas teaches Merlin an innumerable amount of .....

.... by the experience in the forest even to be lucid, let alone come to the deep philosophical epiphany that she reached about Boo. Instead of a character revelation from Scout, it comes across more as a direct message from the author, as if she had temporarily possessed Scout’s mind. As good as the novel is, this uneven characterization happens throughout. Scout repeatedly discovers ideas that are more suited to someone much older. She would act like a normal child, break off into a philosophical reverie, then revert to her childhood persona once again. Harper Lee is so determined to get her point across that she interjects her points at t .....

.... feed their families. In the story Steven Kumalo, a black reverend, sends his son, Absalom, to Johannesburg to find his sister who's husband had gone looking for work in the mines. After a couple months, Steven became concerned since he had heard no word from his son. When he travels to Johannesburg to search for his sister and son, he is abject to find that his sister, who had become very frail, was forced to become a prostitute to support her child. Then discovers his son had murdered a white man who ironically was abetting the black people. The first portions shows how work forced the ruled Africans to migrate from rural areas into cit .....

.... very much. Star Elk is a lazy, jealous man who is sub-standard in Dakota male value. He demonstrates this effectively when he “throws away his wife� (p. 16) at a victory dance. Men weren't suppose to publicly display emotion in Dakota tradition. After being publicly humiliated, Blue Bird, her grandmother and Waterlily luckily and happily ran into their family's tiyospaye. The reason why it was so fortunate is because Blue Birds parents and brothers were killed one day when Blue Bird was about fourteen. They were taken in and made to feel at home. Along with finding their family, Blue Bird also met her new husband, Rain .....

.... was eventually punished for wanting more than what a woman should have. On the other hand, Homais, as a man, was able to succeed in pursuing his desires without being punished. Hardy, on the other hand, was totally sympathetic with his heroine. Tess, under his pen, was a totally tragic existence condemned by God. She did not have the desire to break out of the repression of morality; instead, she upheld the moral code that caused her miserable life. Only in the end did Tess fight back and kill Alec, but she did not do it for her own liberation but for the love of another man. Hardy implied the idea that women were always subordinate to me .....

.... grow up and be somebody. Charlie's sister also ignored him. To her, Charlie was dumb and could not do anything. Charlie had dreams of his sister yelling at him and making fun of him. He also had memories of the night his parents took him to the Warren Home. He was terrified and his dad would never answer his questions. Charlie remembered his childhood and through his memories, he felt guilty for hurting his family. After the operation, In the bakery, he used to have friends. Friends that would talk to him and care about him. Charlie then realized that he had no friends but merely knew people that made fun of him. The bakery .....

.... a fire or face the harsh realities of the Yukon at one-hundred nine degrees below freezing. Falling snow from a tree blots out the fire and the character realizes "he had just heard his own sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene. The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certa .....

.... that his father told him of-that the great god Poseidon would punish them, crash one of their ships, and raise a mountain blocking their harbor. Back on the island of Ithaca Odysseus awoke. He awoke to meet Athena disguised as a shepherd boy. Odysseus asked the boy where he was because he currently has no idea, he thought the Phaecians did not bring him to his desired destination. The boy tells him Ithaca. In response to this, Odysseus created an extensive lie about who he is in front of Athena. Athena then scolded him for this. The Goddess then told Odysseus that Telemachus is with Menelaus searching for answers and tales of .....

.... island to ensure their safety. The problem that William Golding presents to the readers of LORD OF THE FLIE S is one that suggests what might happen when a group of young boys is faced with the challenge of creating a new civilization for themselves without the help of adults. The boys must take what they have been taught and incorporate that into a new society governed by themselves. Before long these boys will deal with the many fears associated with this new life and the power struggles for survival that will exist along the way. The boys' creation of a new society helps the reader to see what might really happen if a gr .....