.... in. Late one evening, the doorbell rings and Oblonsky goes and greets the visitor. As Anna is walking to her bedroom, she glances over to see who had called at such a late hour. She immediately recognizes it to be Vronsky and she feels ‘a strange feeling of pleasure mixed with a feeling of vague apprehension suddenly stirred in her heart.'( page 90)This tells of what may be the conflict in the plot. The day after the great ball Anna announces that she must leave. Dolly expresses her gratitude toward everything Anna has done to help her in her time of crisis. She tells Anna that she does not know of a person with a greater heart. .....

.... he slips off his walking gloves before selecting a cigarette butt from his smoking case, an old sardine can. Pausing to note the worn condition of those shabby fingerless gloves, he tosses them away with the cavalier panache of a gentleman of leisure with a dozen other pairs of handwear at his immediate disposal. Just as he is about to surrender himself to the joys of his first smoke of the day, his tranquillity is shattered by earsplitting distress signals from the squalling infant who has been abandoned on the garbage heap, plaintively demanding to be heard by someone, anyone. Taking one glance at that miserable child, streetwise Charlie i .....

.... Faustus is repeatedly warned by Mephostophelis, he continues greedily and foolishly in his actions. Despite his high aspirations, Faustus still has desires of the flesh, as he requests a wife from Mephostophelis: “…I am wanton and lascivious and cannot live without a wife.� (p. 43) Here Faustus is shown to have internal conflict between godly aspirations and human aspirations. Nevertheless, it is shown that is intent on becoming more powerful than any human, and he has gone to great lengths to do so. After selling his soul for twenty-four years of power and knowledge, soon realizes what he has done. He tries to repent his bond with .....

.... is not justified, Hester did not commit the greatest sin of the novel. She did not deliberately commit her sin or mean to hurt others. Hester’s sin is that her passions and love were of more importance to her than the Puritan moral code. This is shown when she says to Dimmesdale, “What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other!� Hester fully acknowledged her guilt and displayed it with pride to the world. This was obvious by the way she displayed the scarlet letter. It was elaborately designed as if to show Hester was proud of what she had done. Hester is indeed a sinner; adultery is not a minor affa .....

.... couldn’t talk about anything else. . .and it was obvious that we weren’t doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the place and the mission assigned to us by fate"(113). " ‘All right, girl,’ he said to her, trembling with rage, ‘tell us who it was’. . .’Santiago Nasar,’ she said"(53). Whether or not Santiago Nasar was the reason behind Angela Vicario’s lost honor, his death shapes and defines her life afterwards. Many in the town describe her as being a woman half in mourning and the narrator is amazed at how she ends up understanding her own life .....

.... he was goin to use for a nice piece of bait later in the day. The day progressed and he saw a real big jerk on the pole. He jumped up and held it, but the fish was not hooked yet. A couple more jerks he felt, but the fish was not taking it. Finally the fish did and he could feel that it had to be a fish of enormous size. He could not pull it up because it was so strong. He had to hold onto it until the fish was tired and decided to come up. Then when it would come up, he would take his harpoon and stab it in the heart so it would die. This fish was taking all the strength out of him and it was pulling his skiff farther and farther o .....

.... Ralph to lead all the children except for the choir, who fall under the leadership of Jack. After the group elected its leaders, they set upon the task of providing food and shelter and building a signal fire. Also after the elections, Ralph, Jack, and Simon go out to explore the island and as they are returning, their minds turn to the problem of how they are going to provide food to the group. Jack had found some pig trails earlier and he brought up the idea of hunting the pigs for food. As he is saying this, the boys happen upon a piglet that is entangled in some creepers. “The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again wi .....

.... he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for it� (182). Gatsby's determination to gain a large bankroll is a huge part of the American dream. He believes that once he achieved his financial goal it would lead to a better life. In America the car is one of the greatest status symbols. Gatsby's gorgeous machine is one of the most majestic cars created. Nick's comments on the vehicle describe its luster, “...and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes...Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of leather co .....

.... often had to adapt to new environments. In Steinbeck’s book, the Joads along with the majority of Oklahoma farmers, were all having to move to California. People were being evicted from their farms and told to move some fifteen hundred miles away. The Joads’ lives had all of a sudden drastically changed, "The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle."(128) Their change in values, was the first step in adapting. The change of environment came progressively: first at home, then their life on the road, and finally whe .....

.... than us. They made me realize that I could learn something from how to treat people who are different than me. What I also liked about it was the way they never stopped trying to reach their dream. This made me think that if they could work hard for there dream why can't I. It showed me that it does not matter were you come from or what you do, it is okay to dream and work as hard as you can to reach it . For all it shows for friendship and loyalty it also shows how sometimes you have to do things you never thought you would do. For example in the end when George is forced to shoot Lennie in the head you would never have thought he would .....