.... he describes Colonel Grangerford as, " …a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family"(Twain 86). On Sunday when Huck goes to church he sees the hypocriticalism of the families, "The men took their guns along, …The Shepardsons done the same. I t was pretty ornery preaching-all about brotherly love, and such-like…" (Twain 90). Huck with his anti-society attitude, you would presume that he would have no problem in helping Jim. Yet he fights within himself about turning over Jim to the authorities, by this action within Huck shows that he must have feelings that slavery is correct so that t .....

.... more important types of there are and definitely one that we could not do without, but it is not quite as important as some of the others. Education is vital in life, but mere facts cannot aid in the solution to all problems. Another source of is entertainment, such as in television, movies, books, or even music. Certain types of entertainment can even be education. For example, television shows such as “20/20� or “DateLine� are both very informative shows, but interesting enough to entertain the public. Entertainment can be tricky, though. The media can convince us, even brainwash us, to believe certain truths that may not be .....

.... such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. The Crucible starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not be placed on them. In The Crucible, Abigail starts the accusations by saying, "I g .....

.... she can't succeed, which ultimately causes her mother to give up on her. Jing-Mei realizes that what hurt her the most was her mother giving up on her. In trying to please her mother, Jing-Mei's self image is lowered. Everyday her mother would read about a new child prodigy then could try to test Jing-Mei to see if she could do what the child prodigy could do. At first Jing-Mei wants to find her prodigy, but after many failed attempts, she reveals how she hated the tests, "The raised hopes and failed expectations". Another example of her self image being lowered is when Jing-Mei learned to play the piano, she says, "So maybe I never rea .....

.... occasionally. The lies he tells entrap him. Howard ask's Willy, "where are your sons? why don't your sons give you a hand?". Willy replies, "they're working on a very big deal" Howard remarks, "this is no time for false pride, Willy you go to your sons and you tell them that you're tired. You've got two great boys, haven't you?". After willy is fired, he discovers that the only person he can borrow money from is Charley his next door neighbour. Willy comes to realize that Charley is his only friend and he says "Isn't that remarkable." It is Charley's success that annoys Willy and which prevents him later .....

.... is held the longer the bottom stretches, and the more dependent each person becomes on the other. If one side tries to stand on its own then the second will fall on the first as it tries to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the catastrophe that occurs in Macbeth as both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth try to separate. Macbeth is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth's will to be independent. According to We .....

.... in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat." The first aspect in Stephen Crane's, "The Open Boat," is realism. In the story, Crane as the correspondent has great significance in that the correspondent in the story is based on Crane himself. The story is told through the correspondent's point of view. The story is somewhat based on one of Crane's actual life experiences. In Crane's Life and Times, Crews states, " The Open Boat is almost a factual account of Crane's experience, but is also a work of art whose place among the best American short stories is secure" (125). With the story being told through the correspondent's point .....

.... honesty from the depths of their souls. New to love, Juliet found it difficult to express her feelings to Romeo. Had he no overheard her private thoughts in Capulet's orchard, Juliet most likely would not have been able to say those things to his face. Later in the play, Romeo says, "Now I have stained the childhood of our joy." He recognized the purity of their love. Perhaps this is why Juliet devotes herself so entirely to him without any doubts. She has childlike faith in him. In that way, her love for him was blind. Ever the optimist, she still believes Friar Lawrence's plan will work despite all the possible catastrophes that could .....

.... himself and the audience that is infallible and untouchable. This makes him vulnerable and his situation more tragic when he falls. As a small child Oedipus was given away because of the prophecy that one day he would kill his father and marry his mother. He found a home in Corinth where grew up thinking the king and queen of Corinth were his parents. When he caught wind of the prophecy as young man he fled Corinth and wound up in Thebes where he would become king and marry the queen. He conquered the Sphinx and earned the respect of the citizens. He took a lot of pride in his ability to rule and be a great man. Oedipus did not know that t .....

.... of the poem, the battles and significant events, probably maintained most of their identity while the cultural context took on another form more suited to the current culture of the people. By the time it was written, in 1000, the poem was probably most representative of the tenth century culture yet it still managed to tell a story similar to the original version. Beowulf, then, gives us a significant insight into the cultural views of the tenth century Anglo-Saxons including their political, social and moral views. The individualistic society was just beginning to replace the tribal system in which no individual had been seen as more imp .....