.... interesting. Sometimes the story sounds so over exaggerated and so far fetched that people don't believe it. The author Tim O'Brien says that, "Often the crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff isn't because the normal stuff is necessary to make you believe the truly incredible craziness" (461). After I did this a couple times, I was disgusted with myself and quit. I wanted to keep my memories of war to myself. During the war I picked up the nickname Krebs and that is what I was known as. When I returned home everyone called me Harold and it felt strange. I feel like at war I was a different person and when I returned home no one knew me .....

.... in Chicago during the early 1900's. Packingtown is made up of a a few stores and two big meat processing plants. The whole area is based on the plants where most of the people are employed. Packingtown is not a pretty place. The air is filled with a black smoke that pours all day long from the big factories. The streets are not paved and the working conditions are terrible. The setting is a perfect place for a man to struggle from one problem to the next without ever finding the solace of comfort and relaxation. The time is important to the novel because it is before any laws on working conditions and food quality have been establis .....

.... enough. He still wasn't satisfied. One day he and his friend, Govinda, meditated by a banyan tree. Siddhartha recited the verse: "Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow's goal At which one aims unflinchingly."(8) It was after meditating with Govinda that he realized what he had to do. In an attempt to reach the arrow's goal, he would leave his father to join the Samanas who he thought had the secrets to finding the "self". While with the Samanas Siddhartha learned many ways to escape the "self". He would do this through meditation, abandonment of the body, fasting, .....

.... also alludes to his own time: "the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only" (1; bk. 1, ch. 1). The rest of the chapter shows that Dickens regarded the condition to be an 'evil' one, since he depicts both countries as rife with poverty, injustice, and violence due to the irresponsibility of the ruling elite (1-3; bk. 1, ch. 1). As the novel unfolds, however, England becomes a safe haven for those escaping the violence perpetrated by the French Revolution. In this paper, I shall argue that A Tale of .....

.... in Mary's works, particularly in Frankenstein and the creature's search for his creator. Mary was just fifteen years old when she first met Percy Shelley. He was an ardent admirer of Godwin's works and politics and a frequent visitor to the Godwin's home along with his wife Harriet. Percy’s wife, Harriet, became suspicious of Mary and Percy, thinking they were having an affair she left Percy. Her suspicious were later confirmed when she got word of the couple eloping to France. Not receiving William Godwin’s blessing, Mary and Percy eloped to France on July 28, 1814. They settled in Paris briefly whilst Mary recovered from e .....

.... his friendship with Jim. This is a very mature and noble decision for a boy of Huck's age to make. It is also noticeable that Huck is unlike other boys of his age with the introduction of Tom Sawyer. Tom is always thinking of amazing plans and activities. In contrast, Huck's ideas are sensible and well thought out. This fact shows that Twain made his own character superior in a way to the others, giving him a practical edge on situations. Huck is definitely superior to other boys of his age, but it may not be just his intelligence. Also, Huck has a tendency to confide in the way things are rather than looking for a deeper meaning. Th .....

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.... he slept. Dreams, therefore, play an important developmental role in the explanation of Hawthorne's characters. In The Birthmark, Aylmer has a dream in which he commits an act of horrendous cruelty to his wife, Georgiana. This dream delves into Aylmer's personality, as the realization that he will stop at nothing in order to destroy the slight imperfection on the cheek of Georgiana. Dreams are often viewed as a perception of a person's unconscious mind. Aylmer is not a selfish man in his wishes for his wife to have her birthmark removed. He is just unable to control himself, much like children do. As a result of this new view of Hawth .....

.... statement shows how Eliot refers to religion in her, Eliot’s, novel. Godfrey Cass can not be considered free and at peace with God because Godfrey himself marries Molly, a poor woman, who is not of his social class and does not let anyone know about the marriage. Godfrey likes Nancy, who is of his social class, thus being one of the reasons for him not telling anybody of their (Godfrey and Molly’s) marriage. The other reason Godfrey can not be considered free and at peace with God is because when Molly is found dead, he (Godfrey) would not even admit that he knew her, let alone say that he married her (Molly). After Godfrey found o .....

.... politics of Swift's time. The small but extremely immoral Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose viscious foreign policy and accusations of treason agaainst members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of the Lilliputians is in inverse proportion to the amount of their corruption. Similarly, the Brobdingnagians find Gulliver's culture to be too violent for the size of its people, and Gulliver's pride in describing the English is offset by his puniness. Swift characterizes the giants of Book II to be imperfect but extremely moral, possibly the ideal for how a society could be in Swift's (or our) time. In Book I .....