.... so there is no way of knowing if the couple is ever in love. Ellen “walks on eggshells� in order to avoid confrontation with her father. Avoiding confrontation is a major trait she learns from her parents. She also gains the role of caregiver while taking care of herself and of her mother. She protects her mother from her father. She becomes an adult over night after her mother’s death, shopping for herself and practically being her own parent. Fear and loneliness are emotions felt by Ellen after her mother dies. No child should be afraid in its own home, yet Ellen always takes this in stride. Her matter-of-fact way of recou .....

.... effective that you tried and you set an example for others to follow. Kesey also seems to believe that persistence is key when fighting the system. Kesey believes that even if you change a small aspect of the system it was well worth the fight. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the main character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, fights to change the system in a mental hospital. McMurphy is outgoing, a leader and a rebel. There was a constant power struggle in the novel between the patient's new found savior McMurphy, and the evil Nurse Ratched who rules their wing of the hospital with an iron fist. McMurphy fights to change the system to try to win .....

.... Boo Radley is generally gossiped about by Miss Stephanie Crawford. Miss Stephanie recounts to Jem about rumors spread about Boo Radley. “So Jem received much of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford...�( Lee, TKAM 11 ). Miss Stephanie explains a erroneous rumor about Boo. “As Mr. Radley passes by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg...� ( 11 ). Tom Robinson is prejudged by many people, some include: Scout, Mr. Gilmer, and Bob Ewell. For example, when Scout says, “Well, Dill, after all he's just a Negro� (199). Maycomb people are the sin of all prejudice in Maycomb. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson .....

.... are just expected to do. He says, “When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick to get it out…” (p74). The German soldiers attack the enemy with extreme instinctive brutality. “With the butt of his rifle, Kat smashes to pulp one of the machine-gunners…We bayonet the others before they can get their grenades out” (p84). The use of poison gas is also a very brutal practice throughout the novel. Baumer describes this while he is in a gassed area, hoping that his gas mask is working properly. He says, “I know the terrible sights from the field hospita .....

.... Lord’s name… that’s a sure sign of witchcraft,� he jumps to conclusions about the girls being witches. Simply because he made this accusation, talk was stirred up in town. The townsfolk become highly agitated over this situation, and the scenario is blown completely out of proportion. Soon after this happens, trials dates are set. The church has a great deal of influence over the government in The . Sins and crimes are very closely connected; whereas, if one is committed, the other is likewise. Since the authority of the church, such as reverends are looked at as “high and mighty� these “sinless� people are also often .....

.... patiently waiting for Odysseus' return to his palace in Ithaca in which Odysseus is king. Telemachus, Odysseus' son, has grown into a young man and he's constantly battling Suitors from destroying and wasting his father's wealth while looking to marry Penelope, Odysseus' wife. In Oedipus the King, a wild plague has been killing a big population of the city-state of Thebes . This was a big conflict that the people in Thebes turned to King Oedipus to solve. He helped the city before by solving the riddle of the Sphinx and they needed help from him once more. During this plague, blight on the crops was present, children stillborn, women dyi .....

.... also lost his innocence when he was young by running away from home because of his feelings of anger towards his father for marrying Martha Choate, and taking his sister, Sheila Aikenhead, with him. Michael had not only lost his innocence by running away from home but he also lost his innocence by convincing Sheila into thinking negative thoughts about her father, Andrew Aikenhead, and saying such things as "they don't want us, do they?" about her father and step mother. Although Michael had made many mistakes as a kid, it is almost expected that kids make mistakes because they do not know better and so therefore the loss of inno .....

.... poor hospital care, where one-quarter of new mothers tested in obstetric wards are HIV positive; and the police say is the deadliest precinct in the city. Kozol writes about the trials and tribulations of everyday “normal� life for the children and people who live here. Normal for them however is quite different than it is for most of us. Living with drug dealers, pollution, poor hospital care and an abominable education system not to mention the social system of the city, is the “norm� for these children. In his interviews with the children of this squalid neighborhood, we find that the children speak honestly and fre .....

.... had killed a woman and suddenly traded his innocence for guilt. Charlie grew up having a paradise-like world where he supposedly had many friends. His lifelong ambition, to become smart. When the chance came he took the offer readily, unprepared for the changes in his life it would bring. "And what was that Joe and the rest of them were doing. Laughing at me. And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were playing tricks on me and they were laughing at me too... I felt naked" (page 30). All of a sudden Charlie realized everyone had always laughed at him, not with him, and he suddenly ashamed/naked. In his innocence he had requested "smartne .....

.... around her, Mrs. Sommers is this innocent family lady. However, the minute she buys the silk stockings is the minute she becomes a different Mrs. Sommers. All of a sudden everything she has in not good enough, she looks at her shopping bag as "shabby" and "old". Her parcel is "very small". At this point, she wants more. She begins to think without reason, and loses her sense of responsibility when she puts the stockings on in the ladies room. Mrs. Sommers is "not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself", she is "not thinking at all" at this point. Mrs. Sommers's mind is not working like it used to at the begin .....