.... Mustapha, other important character, is an Arab boy who Lesley watches abuse his donkey across the Jordan River. All the Jews are not supposed to hate Arabs, but Lesley however comes in contact with Mustapha by the river and talks to him as a person not as an enemy. Mustapha made Lesley a more understanding person towards different kinds of people. The character I would most admire is Lesley for her ability to adapt to a new home, country and way of life. Throughout the book there were many turning points. The war made Lesley really feel a part of Israel and the people. Another turning point was when Lesley was allowed to join the p .....

.... off to find Philoctetes. He meets up with him, and they start to talk. Philoctetes is overjoyed to find out that eh is talking to the son of Achilles. He tells him the story of how he was left on the island, crippled and dying. He then asks Neoptolemus to take him back with him, and to just not leave him on the island all alone. Neoptolemus agrees to take Philoctetes back with him, and he is overjoyed once again. A sailor disguised as a trader then enters the scene and tells a tale to Neoptolemus of how he is in great danger and must be very careful. Philoctetes believes that Neoptolemus is actually in great danger so he suggests .....

.... is that it is a story about good vs. evil. They also have a main character that has sort of magical powers. In Beowulf, Beowulf is the main character. He is able to defeat powerful monsters, either with his bare hands or a weapon. In Paradise Lost, God is able to defeat Satan by kicking him out of heaven. Both stories are written in a poetic style. These stories both involve main characters being leaders of a group of people. Beowulf is the leader of the Geats. God is the leader of angels of heaven. Another similarity is that they are both based on things that supposedly happened. Beowulf is based on events that happened .....

.... his tragic flaw by returning Hector's body [Example]. He shares grief with King Priam, which shows he has been broken and is vulnerable[Example]. He breaks the Greek heroic code by giving into compassion for others. This moral change went against everything he stood for. [Discussion of the change he undergoes]: The story shows that anyone can change under any circumstances and that what is true today may change tomorrow. Archilles is more of a hero by showing compassion in that King Priam is more respectful of him because he returns Hector's body and actually grieves with him [Example]. This shows that hateful Archilles has a softer side a .....

.... he longs for. The main conflict that Hamlet has to deal with, portrayed by his fated "To be or not to be…" speech, is how to deal with the suspicious death of his father - by suffering the ills of this world or taking resolute action against them. Both stories carry with a great amount of deceit. With Macbeth, the witches explain that no one born of a woman will ever kill him. Macduff, his slayer, was born by a Cesarean section. Of all the things that the witches tell him, all are true, but are spoken in confusing riddles that are misleading. The witches trick him into believing that he and his descendants will rule the land for .....

.... say the least) for black folks. Grandmother Henderson and Maya are experiencing racism from three lower class white girls. "If they come in the store, you go in the bedroom and let me wait on them. They only frighten me if you're around." Atticus and the children are experiencing harassment from other white folks, for defending a "nigger" named Tom Robinson. "But Mrs. Dubose held us: "Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers!" These quotes show the attitude of most whites towards blacks in this time period. There is a very interesting difference in these two stories. In Grandmother's Vi .....

.... the friend he has in Pip. Without Joe as a major role in Pip's life, Pip also seems very incomplete. Second, Mrs. Joe also serves as the comical interlude of an otherwise sombre story. "When she had exhausted a torrent of such inquiries, she threw a candlestick at Joe, burst into a loud sobbing, got out the dustpan -- which was always a very bad sign -- put on her coarse apron, and began cleaning up to a terrible extent. Not satisfied with a dry cleaning, she took to a pail and scrubbing-brush, and cleaned us out of house and home,..." Truly, a frightening creature is that that may destroy a household by cleaning when anger besets her. Third .....

.... on an ex-slave that is living with the haunting memories of her past. The book tells of Sethe's desire to kill her children rather than to have her and them returned to slavery. She did not want to see them have to experience the same evils that she and her husband had experienced at the hands of her former owner Schoolteacher. Sethe knew that the beatings, raping, and abuse of her and her people was wrong and she would have rather killed her children than to let them return to that inhumane form of life. This book also shows how one man's desire to do right by another man only hinders the already strained relationship he is involved in .....

.... to page 14) the only company in her life at that stage were the poets. In reality, there was noone to talk to (refer to page 17). And yet, she could not imagine herself belonging to the relatives and friends (page 14). Moreover, there was another contradiction: Feeling isolated and at the same time learning the language, the attitudes and customs of behavior she also started to feel euphoria of belonging (page 18). So, she had to cope with those contradictions all by herself, which easily may put anyone in all kinds of trouble. Besides she did not dare to admit it (page 23). The conditions of that time were such that she could not afford to .....

.... a self-consciousness that is so melancholy as to be called morbid. He has, like most young men, horrible doubts about himself. Women further complicate his disposition. For example, when he says goodbye to Eileen at the tram; he knows he should kiss her, but he is mortally afraid to do so. Again, like most boys his age, he thought understanding of women would happen in an instant: Weakness and timidity and inexperience would fall from him in that magic moment (65). This stems from the Irish Catholic culture that has surrounded him his whole life. Also, sex before marriage was a sin- and anything that could lead .....