.... which is hardly an exciting life. This is a glaringly obvious variance from Mattie’s personality. Also, Mattie is much more compassionate than Zeena. An example of Zeena’s cold-heartedness is seen when she fires Mattie, her own relative, giving Mattie nowhere to go and no job skills on which to survive. Most people would not do this to their own kin. Mattie, on the other hand, is a very compassionate towards others, including Zeena. She is genuinely concerned for Zeena’s health when Zeena had to see the doctor and whenever Zeena wasn’t feeling well. She wants nothing but to do a good enough job around the h .....

.... Granny is pessimistic toward life but manages to go on, “I want him [George] to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better than I hoped for even.� (p.611) Working hard to maintain the household further strengthens Granny’s character. Her ability to fence in a hundred acres, dig post holes and care for sick children and horses reflects her strengthened character. On her death bed Granny wishes things to be orderly the way she handled them in the house. Many of the positive characteristics and work .....

.... did. Because God never helped him, he soon loses all faith and becomes a miser that is obsessed with weaving and his gold and thinks that there is no meaning to life. Due to this small accusation, the life of Silas has changed in a way that can never be restored. No longer believing in God, he isolates himself from the outside world. Silas finally realizes, as time passes, that he must move forward in life. He has a new hope, an inspiration that has motivated him to extend beyond himself and communicate with others living in his town. He still denies religion and its teachings, but he knows that it is not his fault. At the end of this .....

.... Roland Barthes is a brilliant writer, he is able to weave phrases and create new uses for verbs, nouns and adjectives. Though he is a brilliant writer I have to assume that he was not a very bright man or that he at least has very little common sense outside of the literary world. If he wrote in a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story could be summarized into 3 lines and thus reduce the amount of paper it is replicated on the amount of bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it takes, and the time it takes to read it. I cam .....

.... in school her brace that she wore made noises when she walked. the sound was horrid to her, but to others it did not seem to attract very much attention. Because of this she dropped out of school. Laura was constantly pushed by her mother to take a night coarse in typing so that she could get a job and make money for the family. Laura is much like the unicorn that sits on her shelf. The unicorn is different from all the other horses in that it has a single horn on its head. The unicorn is Laura's favorite, and is also the first glass piece she made. i think this represents how she looks at herself as an individual. She is set apa .....

.... suddenly dies from fatal car accident, and Montag is devastated that she dies so soon after meeting her. Meanwhile at the fire station, Montag is discovered hiding his books by the fire chief, Captain Beatty. "A natural error. Curiosity alone … We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours. If he hasn’t burned it by then we come and burn it for him." (pg. 68) Beatty lets Montag keep the book until that night when Montag will return to work. Meanwhile, Montag meets with Professor Faber, a retired English teacher after a phone call cut short. While at the meeting, Faber is extremely careful due to the fact that Monta .....

.... left the Anglo-Saxon people without respect for other lives, evident in the amount of fighting in Beowulf, and also an inner gloom, “evident in the somber tone of Beowulf,� (from the text). Recently, philosophy has broken away from the more religious idea of destiny and moved toward a more logical aproach to life. Obviously, death is still inevitable, but logically, the future should be altered with each decision. Man has become too egocentric to believe someone, besides himself, can control his life. Loyalty, unlike fate, is still respected as it was in Beowulf’s time, but can get overlooked in modern society. The idea to honor those .....

.... hopes of knowing more in the soul purpose of impressing people to gain friends. Unfortunately some of his anticipations were not met. The main characters in the novel include Charlie, Alice, Algernon, and Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans. Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to thi .....

.... even startled to perceive how her beauty shone out and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. Hester receives many punishments for her adulteress affair. She has to spend time in jail as well as wearing the letter “A� and also raises her daughter without a father. This makes the punishments both private and public. Hester wishes she were dead but then changes her mind because she says to Chillingworth, “I have thought of death, have wished for it, would even had prayed for it, Yet if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it. See! It is even now at my lips.†.....

.... Holden does not like people who act fake and try to show off. For example, when Holden and Sally went to the show he said, "At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear how sharp they were." (126) This shows how Holden didn't like people trying to show off. This style of writing, which lets the reader know exactly what the main character thinks, helps make the book into a classic. It gives the reader a better understanding of Holden and how h .....