Discuss the significance of "night" in the novel. Cite examples from the story to support your answer.

is often symbolic of evil and death. It comes to represent those
ideas in the concentration camps wherefocuses most of his narrative, and it also comes to
represent a world where he feels that God has abandoned him, leaving him in a spiritual
darkness, or night. Often, the worst of his suffering, both physically and mentally, occurs at
night.

Much of this symbolism is captured in the following quote found in
Chapter 3:

Never shall I forget that
night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long
night seven times sealed.

Never shall I forget that smoke.

Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed
into smoke under a silent sky.

Never shall I forget those flames that
consumed my faith forever.

Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that
deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.

Never shall I forget
those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

In this quote, Elie equates night with...

In A Raisin in the Sun, why does Beneatha attack Assagai's dream about Africa?

Whenand
Joseph Asagai converse, as her family is packing up to move to their new house, she tells him
that she will have to give up medical school becausehas given away their money. For the first
time, she tries to explain to him why she wants to be a doctor. Beneatha admits that she is an
idealist and is worried because just wanting to do something cannot make it happen; desire is
not enough. She accuses Asagai of thinking childishly, as she used to think.

BENEATHA. . . . You with all your talk and dreams about Africa! You
still think you can patch up the world. Cure the Great Sore of Colonialism(Loftily, mocking it)
with the Penicillin of Independence!

ASAGAI. Yes!

BENEATHA. Independence and then what? What about all the crooks and thieves and just
plain idiots who will come into power and steal and plunder the same as beforeonly now they will
be black and do it in the name of the new IndependenceWHAT ABOUT THEM?!

Beneatha is taking her fury at Walter and the loss of her future
that went with the money and directing it toward Asagai because he is so much like her. She
would prefer to reject all idealists rather than have an example in front of her. Her anger dies
back when Asagai suggests that she go to Africa with him.

What was the argument made against Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence?

The
Declaration of Independence, signed July 4, 1776 has a long and complex
history, as it was the result of many years of fighting and struggle between the American
colonies and Great Britain. By examining the text, which has been transcribed countless times
and is currently available in many forms, we can see some arguments made by Americans against
the country that at that time controlled the government in the thirteen colonies.

The Declaration begins with a powerful statement indicating that
the colonies believe themselves to be entitled to equal ruling power, and because of this, must
declare the causes which impel them into separation. This indicates that they will argue for
this and against their current ruling government.

One key component you must
remember is that at this time, Great Britain was a monarchy, meaning it was ruled by one
individual, whose authority...

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In regards to Frankenstein, in what way is Victor's story affected by having Robert Walton tell it? In what way are Victor Frankenstein & Robert Walton...

s letters serve to filter 's
story through another perspective, adding a level of objectivity to the
reporting. Walter also helps set a realistic tone for what is otherwise a
completely outrageous story. After all, who would believe that someone could create life out of
dead matter? Walton helps diffuse this sense of disbelief, as he is introduced as a pragmatic
man, concerned with facts and the practical matters of his expedition. But he is also a Romantic
adventurer, eager for the rewards of new experiences and sensitive to human emotions. This
creates a practical lens Walton is established as a reliable reporter, so his description of his
passenger as an honest, sincere man makes his bizarre story more believable.

Walton and his passenger share a common bond in their Romantic natures.
Both men desire to explore the unknown and are inspired by grand ideas. There is
also a strong emotional tie between the two, and they are both quite sensitive and sympathetic
towards each other. Both Victor and Walton are typical Romantic . Victor immediately understands
Waltons need for a close, spiritual friend. Walton is very aware of the terrible sadness that
envelops his guest; he feels a kinship towards him, believing him to be a person of great
intuition and judgment.

Walton and his new passenger are alike
in other ways. They are both sensitive, compassionate men who began their
respective adventures with lofty visions, excited at the thought of the great discoveries they
intend to make. They were both willing to endure great hardship in order to achieve their goals,
and they were single-minded in the pursuit of their objectives. As an Arctic explorer, Walton,
much like Victor, wishes to conquer the unknown. However, when he discovers Victor near death on
the icy water, he listens to Victor's bitter and tormented tale of . This makes him reconsider
continuing his own mission, if it will put his own crew in danger. When the creature appears as
Victor's is dying, Walton fails to destroy the creature, as Victor requested. Instead, he does
what Victor continually failed to do: he listens to the creature's anguished tale with
compassion and empathy. So, he succeeds where Victor fails.

What is an example of a literary device used in the poem "This Day in History" by Bert Almon?

Bert Almon
uses the literary device ofwhen he writes in this poem that:

the sun rose blue over Great Britain.

Imagery is
description that uses the five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. In this case,
Almon illustrates the interconnectedness of events across the globe. It is forest fires in the
west of Canada that cause the sun to look blue in Great Britain, a nation on the other side of
the world. "Blue" is a visual image and a startling color to use to describe the
sunwhich we usually associate with colors such as yellow, orange, and red. Poetic images often
challenge our perception in this way.

"Blue" also can act as ain
this context. A pun is a word with a double meaning. Not only might the sun appear blue because
of the haze produced half a world away by fires, the word "blue" can also mean to be
sad or depressed; thus, the sun can also be personified (assigned human attributes) as sad
because of the fires.

When Almon writes:

whose labour I lift on my fork

he uses the
literary device of . Alliteration occurs when two words in close proximity begin with the same
consonant. In this case, "labour" and "lift" begin with "l,"
creating a sense of rhythm as we read the line.

What is the role of the audience in a performance?

So many times
in old movies, the actors who were playing actors would complain of "a dead audience"
or they would remark, "What was with that crazy audience?"  So, realistically, there
must be a dynamic between actors and audiences. This is probably most salient with comedy.  If
the actors in a comedy, or the comic on stage do not make their audiences laugh, then the
performance is a failure, as nothing returns to the comedians, and they realize that their comic
performances are not generating the response that they should.

Essentially,
then, the audience is a receptor of the stimulating agents on stage.  Then, as part of the
dynamic between audience and those on stage, the audience also transmits energy and responses to
the actors.  Thus, a receptive audience can improve the performance of those on stage; the
responsive audience is absolutely essential to the success of those on
stage.

In Shirley Jackson's short story "Charles," describe the change in Laurie's clothing on the day he starts school.

The short story
"" is a tale about a young boy, Laurie, who transforms himself into the mischievous
youngster Charles. At the beginning of the story, before he begins kindergarten, Laurie is
dressed in his "corduroy overalls with bibs." However, when he starts kindergarten,
his mother ruefully watches him go off with an older girl dressed in "blue jeans with a
belt." His change of attire signals his desire to become grown-up. By giving up the
childish outfit with a bib and changing into big boy jeans and a belt, Laurie believes that he
is on his way to becoming a man.

As the story
continues, Laurie repeatedly relates details to his parents about Charles's bad behavior in
school. This...

Why do you think poetry appeals to such a wide variety of people? Why do you think poetry appeals to such a wide variety of people?

It's
shorter than prose, it's generally more vivid and expressive than prose, and it's often more
accessible to readers, even if it's just one image or the sound of a phrase.  More importantly,
poetry is designed to appeal to the senses and emotions, two things which are meaningful to any
audience. 

How does Calvin fit in with the Murry family?

Calvin, the
gangling, orange-haired, blue-eyed teenager who accompanies Meg and Charles Wallace on their
journey to rescue Mr. Murray, fits in well with the Murry family, almost as if he is one of
them. At their first meeting, he tells Charles Wallace and Meg that he once in awhile feels a
"compulsion" to do things and that he obeys the compulsion. He had a feeling on that
day that he should go over to the haunted house near the Murrys' home, and in doing so, he
encountered Meg and Charles Wallace. After some initial sparring, Charles Wallace invites him to
dinner, saying he wants to trust him. For Calvin, the Murrys provide a warm and nurturing
environment that is different from his own large and overburdened family.

In the play Macbeth, compare and contrast Lady Macbeth's previous attitudes and actions and her current condition.

As Ladyis not
a real person, she does not have a "current condition." But, if what you want to know
is how Ladyis different when we first meet her in the play and what becomes of her in the end,
well that can be answered.

We first seein Act 1, Scene 5. She is reading a
letter written to her by Macbeth. The letter tells of the prophecies of . After reading the
letter, she says:

...Hie thee hither

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,

And chastise with the valor
of my tongue

All that impedes thee from the golden round

She can't wait for Macbeth to come home so that she can get him to
kill the king. She figures all she has to do is be cunning, strong, and merciless, and they will
live happily ever after as King and Queen of Scotland.

She eventually
convinces him to do the deed, but everything doesn't go as swimmingly as she had planned. First,
her husband gets all upset and guilty about murdering the King, then there's a knock on the
castle door, and they have to change and go to bed, then Macbeth has to kill more people to
cover his tracks, and all the while Macbeth is feeling more and more guilty... he can't sleep
and does more and more awful things. Lady Macbeth tries to keep it together and to calm her
husband, but it's a very tough job.

By Act 3, both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth,
now Queen and King, are quite unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives. She says
ruefully:

Nought's had, all's spent,

Where our desire is got without content.

Tis safer to be that which
we destroy

Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

Macbeth tells her everything will be alright; all he has to do is
kill . He has Banquo killed, but Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth and ruins a dinner party.
Lady Macbeth is mortified and horrified by her husband's reactions to the ghost and has to make
all kinds of excuses for him, and then she sends all the guests home.

In
short Lady Macbeth has had to hold her composure all through the play, and she has had to deal
with her husband's state of mind at the same time.

It obviously all becomes
too much of a burden for her, for, by Act 5, a doctor has been sent for because Lady Macbeth is
losing her mind. She is sleepwalking and sleep talking, and what she sleep talks about is blood
and murder and murder and blood. Eventually everything falls apart for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth
and she kills herself.

So, to summarize: in the beginning of the play, Lady
Macbeth started off saying, Leave everything to me, and things will be great. But by the end of
the play, she has seen the world crumble smash down on both of them; Macbeth is killed byand
Lady Macbeth ends her own life.

What is Kevin's actual medical diagnosis in Freak the Mighty?

Kevins actual
medical diagnosis inis morquio syndrome. This is a recessive genetic disease whereby the body
lacks or has an insufficient quantity of the substance that is required for the breakdown of
glycosaminoglycans. A progressive accumulation of glycosaminoglycans to a certain level causes
organ damage. Kevin displayed a number of the syndromes symptoms including dwarfism. He is
described as being about only three feet tall, a height way below par for an eighth grader. This
is in addition to an abnormal skeleton development and hyper mobile joints that render him
immobile by way of legs causing him to use crutches as a walking aide and also have leg braces.
In addition to that, Kevin experienced scoliosis, a bending of the spinal cord that caused him
to have a twisted body. This syndrome basically results in internal body organs to develop much
faster than the body itself leading to life threatening consequences. In Kevins case, the heart
grew faster than the body and this led to his demise.

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What are the key questions raised in the novel Soledad by Angie Cruz?

There are
many questions raised in the novel, but some of the important ones deal with family and
heritage, as well as growth and respect for oneself.Soledad, who has left her family behind and
moved to a higher end area of New York, is tasked with returning home and bringing the family
back together while helping pull her mother out of a coma.

This raises the
question of what are one's duties to their family?Is it important to help fix someone else's
problems if it is a detriment to yourself?How much of an impact does your past have on your
future?All of these questions are addressed in the novel, and Soledad has to wrestle with the
consequences of her choices and the answers they portray.

Should preventing atrocities as President Obama said on his Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities (August 2011) "be a core national security...

President
Obama's Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities was meant as an attempt to stop crimes
against humanity.  In the study directive, the president cites the Holocaust and the Rwandan
genocide as two crimes where Americans did not act decisively.  The president also cites the
refugee crisis created by these mass killings and he states that Americans often have only two
options in dealing with these disasters: military intervention or doing nothing at all.  In this
directive, Obama seeks to enlist the help of allies within the region of the atrocity and
governmental agencies such as the Peace Corps and the Department of Homeland Security so that
the government will have more flexibility in dealing with these disasters.  

I admire the idea of the US wanting to stand for human rights worldwide.  I also admire
the idea of the president wanting to use non-military force to handle the atrocity. The US has
had long-term military engagements to protect human rights around the world; in some cases,
these engagements can cost billions of dollars.  I would like to add that it is dangerous for
the world to rely on the United States to prevent genocide all over the world.  The US's history
shows that it is willing to intervene in a region when it is not fully aware of the facts.
 While it means well, sometimes this engagement is only effective while the US is present, and
US defense forces cannot be present for every threatened group in the world.  While it is
admirable for the US to enlist the help of allies, I feel as though the job of preventing
atrocities is better suited to the United Nations.  The US, if it wishes, can lead the fight to
prevent refugee crises there, but it would be better if the country did not appear to act alone
as the sole world policeman.  

For the second part of the question, it is in
the US's interest to prevent atrocities.  Refugee crises put pressure on other countries in the
region and abroad--the recent Syrian refugee crisis comes to mind, as it strains the resources
of Turkey and Jordan among other nations.  Also, Europeans are struggling to come up with a
humane solution to the millions of desperate people seeking asylum.  In some cases, the chaos
from these humanitarian disasters can lead to security threats entering the country. The US
should not turn a blind eye to these people who seek help, but it should not consider itself the
only one qualified to give this help.  

What were the pros and cons of the Enlightenment?

foregrounded rationalism and empiricism as the basis of knowledge, which most modern people have
seen as an advance over superstition and unquestioned obedience to received authority. There is
a comfort in hypotheses that can be tested and verified (or not), in experiments that can be
duplicated. Most of us also could not live without the technological advances that the primacy
of science brought, such as electrical lighting, mass transit, vaccines, phones, and
computers.

The Enlightenment led to ideas such as the natural rights of man
which posited that certain rights, such as individual liberty, were part of the nature of the
universe and not dependent on the whims of a monarch or government. This resulted in many
developments we find positive, such as the implementation of democratic governments. 

However, as many noted after World War I and World War II, the same rationalism and
faith in science that improved life immensely during the 19th century also led to
the...

Does Montresor's revenge meet the criteria of impunity in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

At the
beginning of Poe's classic short story "," Montresor mentions that he vowed to get
revenge on Fortunato for causing him a "thousand injuries." Montresor then proceeds to
elaborate on his specific criteria for revenge by saying that he must not only punish but
"punish with impunity." Montresor is essentially saying that, in order to get revenge,
one must punish their enemy without being caught or suffering the consequences of their actions.
Montresor also mentions that Fortunato must be aware that he is committing the act of
retaliation.

As the story continues, Montresor describes how he cleverly
manipulates Fortunato into following him down into his family's catacombs, where he manages to
shackle Fortunato to the back wall and proceeds to bury him alive by building a wall around his
body. At the end of the story, Montresor tells the audience that, for half a century, nobody has
disturbed Fortunato's remains. Montresor is saying that he has successfully gotten away with
murder for the last fifty years and has never suffered the consequences of his
actions.

According to Montresor's own criteria for the perfect revenge, he
has met the stipulations. Montresor has successfully punished Fortunato with impunity because he
has not been charged with murder or been punished for his evil deed. Fortunato was also aware
that Montresor was responsible for the retaliation.

What are some examples of Feminist Criticism in "A Rose for Emily" with evidence from the text to support them?

Feminist criticism is
evident in 's character in this short story by Faulkner. First of all, Emily is raised in the
South in a patriarchal society. However, she overcame the constraints of this male-driven world
in various ways.

First of all, she goes up against the Board of Aldermen
concerning her taxes when a deputation arrives at her house: "'I have no taxes in
Jefferson.! . . . Show these gentlemen out'" (3). She sends the men packing, just as she
has for years. This occurs in a town where women are considered homemakers and ladies unfit to
deal with business matters, much less...

What does the phrase "Let this cup pass from you" mean in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird?

Uncle
Jack is alluding to the Biblical account of Jesuss prayers before his crucifixion when he asksif
he is going to allow this cup pass from him in chapter nine. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus
prays for God to allow this cup to pass from him before he is crucified. Jesus is essentially
asking God to prevent him from being crucified and save him from suffering a brutal death. The
figurative cup Jesus is speaking about symbolically represents an arduous, painful task that is
necessary to complete for the well-being of others. By figuratively accepting the cup, Jesus is
willing to sacrifice his life for the salvation of humanity.

Uncle Jack
recognizes that Atticus will suffer at the hands of his racist neighbors for defending a black
man and Atticus's decision to represent Tom Robinson will cause him a significant amount of
stress. Similar to the way Jesus petitioned God to intervene and save him from his harrowing
experience, Atticus also has the opportunity to step away from...

What are some examples of courage from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

One of
the most significantin is courage, anduses many of theand circumstances in
her novel to demonstrate all facets of courage.

There is a physical courage
which is demonstrated bystanding in the middle of the street, facing off with a rabid dog armed
only with a shotgun. This is an especially impressive feat to his children, of course, but
Atticus now has to work extra hard to show them that there are other, more important kinds of
courage.

The incidenthas with Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose demonstrates
another kind of courage. Here is an...

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What techniques do Snowball and Napoleon use in Animal Farm in their struggle for power?

is more
preoccupied with implementing plans to make the farm successful than he is with any design to
become the sole leader. He organizes the animals into "Animal Committees," such as
"the Egg Production Committee for the hens . . . [and] the Winter Wool Movement for the
sheep." Snowball also teaches the other animals how to read and write; in only a few
months, "every animal on the farm was literate to some degree." He reduces the Seven
Commandments to just one ("Four legs good, two legs bad'), to make it easier for the other
animals to understand Animalism.

He also leads the Battle of the Cowshed,
and employs his understanding of tactics to carry the animals to victory. After the battle, he
then draws up plans for the windmill and explains to the other animals that a windmill would be
able to power a dynamo. He explains that this dynamo could then provide electric machinery to do
the animals' work for them and produce electricity for light and heat in the winter.
Snowball...

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger...

Faulkner
here is talking about the kind of descriptive detail that makes a former time and place seem
real to a reader. In , Defoe is famous for providing minute description
that makes Crusoe's adventure come alive. Although the book is a work of , Defoe writes it as if
it's the actual journal account of a shipwrecked sailor.

Unlike a romance or,
for instance, Shakespeare's play The Tempest, also about a shipwrecked
European managing to survive on a deserted island, no magical entities emerge to help Crusoe out
of his predicament. Part of the story's ongoing appeal is that Crusoe has to survive entirely by
his own wits, without any supernatural help (though he does gain a greater faith in God during
his time on the island). If he wants to eat, he has to hunt and grow crops.
If he wants to hunt, no magical bird is going to give him enchanted arrows:
he has to get back on his submerged ship and find gunpowder and bullets.

Getting back to Faulkner's quote, it is Defoe's , in showing every detail of
how Crusoe manages to survive, that holds a moment of time "fixed," so that you can
step through the pages and into that world.

Examples of the details of
Crusoe's methods of surviving and thriving abound in the novel. Here are several. In the first
two, Crusoe tells us in detail what he brings off the submerged ship. We can visualize this,
such as when he heads to the boat in low tide, and we understand how these items will help him
to survive. No detail is too small: he brings all the "small ropes" he can get; he
cuts the sails into pieces to use as canvas:

every day at
low water I went on board, and brought away something or other; but particularly the third time
I went I brought away as much of the rigging as I could, as also all the small ropes and
rope-twine I could get, with a piece of spare canvas, which was to mend the sails upon occasion,
and the barrel of wet gunpowder.In a word, I brought away all the sails, first and last; only
that I was fain to cut them in pieces, and bring as much at a time as I could, for they were no
more useful to be sails, but as mere canvas only.

In the
quote below, he brings us on the scene as if freezing time as he describes finding food on the
vessel. He even tells us how he wrapped up the bread:

every day at low water I went on board, and brought away something or other; but
particularly the third time I went I brought away as much of the rigging as I could, as also all
the small ropes and rope-twine I could get, with a piece of spare canvas, which was to mend the
sails upon occasion, and the barrel of wet gunpowder.In a word, I brought away all the sails,
first and last; only that I was fain to cut them in pieces, and bring as much at a time as I
could, for they were no more useful to be sails, but as mere canvas only.

Crusoe then tells us about the fruit he found on the island,
including on what day, and his practical concerns about the grapes, and how he dries them for
food:

The next day, the sixteenth, I went up the same way
again; and after going something further than I had gone the day before, I found the brook and
the savannahs cease, and the country become more woody than before.In this part I found
different fruits, and particularly I found melons upon the ground, in great abundance, and
grapes upon the trees.The vines had spread, indeed, over the trees, and the clusters of grapes
were just now in their prime, very ripe and rich.This was a surprising discovery, and I was
exceeding glad of them; but I was warned by my experience to eat sparingly of them; remembering
that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of grapes killed several of our Englishmen, who
were slaves there, by throwing them into fluxes and fevers.But I found an excellent use for
these grapes; and that was, to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or
raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, wholesome and agreeable to eat
when no grapes could be had.

These are simply a few
examples of how Defoe puts us right there with Crusoe, and is why this book is often called the
first novel. If you flip through the book, you will find so much more description of Crusoe's
new life.

Why did Civil War become almost inevitable after 1854 in the United States?

The civil
war was inevitable because we basically had two countries anyway.  The North and the South had
solidified into two different cultures with different needs.  They were depending on one
another, and they did not like it.  There was also the issue of slavery, which allowed the North
to feel culturally superior and the South did not appreciate that.

In regards to Hinduism, why are souls incarnated, and how many people climb up the ladder of the caste system?

The caste
system is a social order based on Hindu religious philosophy. Within this religious system, the
body is to the soul as clothing is to our bodies. The soul is born into and sheds bodies
hundreds or thousands of times in a cycle of reincarnation, gradually improving from lower to
higher life forms. At the pinnacle of the cycle of being are humans who have responsibility for
what happens during their incarnations. This is the notion of karma, in which our past actions
determine our fate. Fortune is not random; bad or good fortune in a current incarnation depends
on how people behaved in previous incarnations.

One's caste is determined at
birth or the moment one is incarnated. One cannot change caste at all in a given lifetime.
However, if one obeys all the rules of one's caste and the other dictates of Hinduism, living a
good and pious life, one can be reincarnated as a member of a higher caste in one's next life.
If one fails badly in a given life, one can be reincarnated as a lower caste or even an animal.
The ultimate reward one strives for is to escape the cycle of reincarnation
entirely.

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What references in the sermon reveal Edward's implicit philosophical beliefs about divine mercy? "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

A fire and
brimstone preacher,embodies the sanctimonious Puritan preacher who counts himself among the
"elect."  In his sermon, he essays to awaken and persuade those people in the
congregation who have not been "born again"; that is, they have not accepted Jesus
Christ as their savior.  Influenced by the English philosopher John Locke, who held that
everything that people know comes from experience with understanding and feeling as two distinct
kinds of knowledge, Edwards's sermon incorporates both elements into his sermon as he uses fear
as the motivator to bring his congregation to understand the precariousness of their situation
by actually feeling the horror of their sinful states.

As a Puritan, Edwards
did not believe that good deeds were necessarily rewarded.  Instead, Puritans such as Edwards
believed that it was difficult to know if one were among the elect or the damned, so it was
necessary to behave in as exemplary a manner as possible.  Edwards's sermon directs people to
behave for fear of the fires of hell.  It is only divine mercy that does not
release its hold; "it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you
up."

If God should withdraw His hold, Edwards tells his
listeners, there would be nothing to keep a person from falling into the fiery pit of hell. 
People's

righteousness, would have no more influence to
uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a sider's web would have to stop a fallen
rock...."

There is nothing to prevent the
"floods of God's vengeance" against sinners but the "mere pleasure
of God that holds the waters back" that would drown sinners.

With other metaphors, such as "the bow of God's wrath is bent," and the
sinners as spiders held over fire, Edwards further contends that it is only the mercy of God
that prevents people's damnation to the fires of hell.  They "hang by a slender
thread," and they must live an exemplary life so that they will not be condemned, but will
be spared by "the mere pleasure" of God's divine mercy.

 

 

Why is Tokchae a prisoner? What reasons does he give for not leaving his father?

The
first sentence of the story gives readers important setting details:

The northern village at the border of the Thirty-eighth Parallel was
snugly settled under the high, bright autumn sky.

The
38th Parallel is an important location because it means that the story is taking place at the
dividing line between North Korea and South Korea. During the war, villages located on or near
this line changed hands several times as each side pushed their front line deeper into enemy
territory. Tok-chae and Song-sam grew up as boyhood friends in this particular village, but the
war caused them to end up on opposite sides of the conflict. Tok-chae has been captured because
he's the "enemy," and Song-sam is the officer in charge of taking his childhood friend
to the prisoner camp.

As Song-sam is escorting his friend, Song-sam has a
flash of anger because Tok-chae wound up fighting for the other side:

Song-sam felt a sudden surge of anger in spite of himself and
shouted, So how many have you killed?

Song-sam then
asks why Tok-chae stayed behind to fight instead of fleeing like he did. Tok-chae says that he
wanted to, but his father wouldn't leave. His father saw no point in running away and didn't
know what he would do in another place. Tok-chae simply couldn't bring himself to leave his
father. Tok-chae says,

I wanted to be with him in his last
moments so that I could close his eyes with my own hand.

I need some help comparing the two short stories, "The Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka, and "Hills like White Elephants," by Earnest Hemingway. I...

Both
stories concern human relationships after a change has occurred.  In Kafka's short story
"The Metamorphosis" the family must think about dealing with Samsa who has turned into
a "gigantic insect."  Greta is perhaps the only selfless one.  But the rest of the
family seems quite selfish in the fact that they worry over the loss of...

In Romeo and Juliet how is Juliet impulsive?

I
think it is fairly safe to say that many of the actions done by several characters in this play
are impulsive.is equally guilty of doing and saying things that are quite impulsive. The first
thing that comes to my mind is how quickly she goes from meetingto kissing Romeo.say a combined
14 lines of dialogue to each other before their first kiss. I count that as impulsive behavior.
She doesn't even know his name at this point. I also believe her marriage to Romeo is a good
example of impulsive behavior. She kisses him after 14 lines of dialogue, and she marries him
less than 24 hours after having met him. Capulet's party was Sunday night, and they are married
on Monday afternoon.

If you are needing a specific line of dialogue that
shows Juliet as acting or thinking impulsively, then I like one of Juliet's statements from Act
1, Scene 5. The line comes after Romeo and Juliet kiss, and Juliet asks the nurse to find out
who he is. While the nurse is gone, Juliet...

What are some examples of metaphors in The Lovely Bones?

Lauren Miller

Figurative language is used in literature to make writing more imaginative. Ais a type
of figurative language that compares two unlike things without using the words
like or as. Ais similar to a metaphor in that it
compares two unlike things, but a simile must use the words like or
as. An example of a metaphor is "New York is a concrete jungle."
This metaphor compares New York to a jungletwo very unlike things.

In the
story , written by , are many metaphors, some easier to find than others.
In this story, a young girl named Susie is kidnapped and murdered. She then watches her friends
and family from the afterlife.

One metaphor in the story is Susie's room.
After a person dies, their bedroom and items are sometimes seen as a metaphor for their life.
Susie's room does just this for her family and friends; it becomes a place where she is still,
in a sense, alive.

Another metaphor in the story is when Susie says, "I
did not realize then that I was an...

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How can we account Gregor's father's violent action of throwing the apples at him as an act of affirming Gregor's inclusion within the family The...

One
could argue that this violent action has the exact opposite intention. Far from wanting to
include Gregor in the family group, his father wants to exclude him from it altogether. He no
longer sees Gregor as his son but as some kind of monster, something that belongs in a zoo or a
circus, not in the family home. When Gregor's father throws fruit at...

How did the family know that Judith was in love in The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

The family could tell that
Judith was in love because her mannerisms changed and she seemed
happier.

When Judith is in love with John Holbrook, the family
is a little surprised at first.  His attentions (and intentions) were never obvious.  One thing
that the family is sure of is that Judith is in love.  Her entire manner shows it.

Not even her father could have failed to guess that Judith was in
love. She had never spoken another word, even to Mercy or Kit, after that first surprising
disclosure. But there was a brilliance in her eyes, a warm color in her cheeks, and a new
sweetness in her manner. (Ch. 10)

There is no shortage of
suitable men, it would seem, and John Holbrook is poor and wants to be a student.  He may not
have thought that anyone was actively considering him.  He does spend a lot of time with the
Woods, but never says anything specific to Judith.  John never formally asked permission to
call but came when Rachel invited him, and kept coming.  The family assumed he wanted
Judith.

There had never been the slightest hint that he
was courting Judith. He never seemed to single her out, but sometimes he consented when she
suggested that they walk along the green in the twilight. That was all the encouragement Judith
needed. Indeed, it was more than enough to satisfy the whole family of John's intentions. (Ch.
10)

John becomes part of the family, and they all enjoy
his company.  He reads aloud and the family gathers around, and it sometimes also makes the
uncomfortable silences between Kit and William more comfortable.  Kit considers him a
friend.

Kit realizes one day, while they are sitting around listening to one
of these readings, that Mercy is in love with John Holbrook too!  She looks
up from her knitting and notices something odd about the expression on Mercy's face.

Mercy sat, as usual, slightly in the shadow beside the hearth, her
needles moving so automatically that she rarely glanced at her work. €¦ Those great listening
eyes were fastened on the face of the young man bent over his book, and for one instant Mercy's
whole heart was revealed. Mercy was in love with John Holbrook. (Ch. 11)

So just to recap, both Judith and Mercy are in love with the same
man, and Kit is not really interested in the man who is courting her.  No one really knows who
John is in love with.

Despite this conundrum, it all works out in the end. 
Kit does not really want to marry William Ashby.  He is not the right fit for her.  Judith,
however, was enamored of him before switching her attentions to John Holbrook when William began
courting Kit.  Kit is more interested in Nat, and John is more interested in Mercy, so in the
end it all works out for the best.  Everyone is paired off, and everyone is happy.

It may seem as if there is a lot of switching and settling of love here, but you have
to remember the time period and the situation.  Kit, when she first tried to compromise with
William, thought she was doing what was best for her future.  However, William Ashby was
Wethersfield all of the way, and Kit was like a tropical bird, as Nat always knew, and did not
quite fit in.  In the end, Kits coming to her senses is a natural thing.  William and Judith
also both want the same things, and Mercy and John Holbrook are both well-matched in
temperament.

Love in Colonial times must not have been an easy thing.
 Conditions were harsh, and the future uncertain.  Yet even within this, life goes on.  Young
people fall in and out of love.  Sometimes it takes some time to figure out who you really love,
and who loves you.  In this situation, you want someone who also wants the same things.
 Everyone in this book does seem to eventually find that.

Is The Communist Manifesto legal to read in some countries? I'm curious because I'm in an AP class, and I have to read it over this summer.

was written in 1848 byandand stands as the classic statement of
the political beliefs from which the theories and assertions of communism developed. It is a
document that examines the social, political, and economic philosophies which have impacted
governments throughout the world in the years since its publication. The education of any
student of government, history,...

Analyze the following words from the point of view of their connotation and meaning. a. Blind b. Monkey c. Snow

That is an
interesting request. I would say that blind has many connotations. Literally it refers to the
person who cannot see. On a more figurative level, it connotes foolishness in various areas. For
example, we sometimes say, "the blind lead the blind." Monkey is a bit more concrete.
In other words, theis specific. It is an animal. On a more connotative level, you can say that
it refers to people who fool around, usually children. We can say that children love to
"monkey around." When it comes to snow, thehas usually to do with purity, cleanness,
winter, Christmas. Finally, I should say that I am giving the connotations of someone who lives
in New York. For a more sophisticated answer see the link below and read my examples on
connotation, denotation, and the importance of historical context.

How does Jack change in Lord of the Flies?

always has
a lust for power: he states at the beginning of the novel:

I ought to be chief, said Jack with simple arrogance, because Im chapter chorister
and head boy. I can sing C sharp.

He dislikes the idea of
an election and is angry and upset when the boys chooseas their leader:

Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jacks face disappeared
under a blush of mortification ...

Yet, significantly, at
this point Jack accepts the verdict of the group and acquiesces to Ralph's offer that he be head
of the former choir boys, which can now become a band of hunters. Jack is still living within
the confines of civilized life and conforming to a social order that runs by rules and
norms.

It is only later that Jack realizes he doesn't have to be obedient
and rule-bound on the island. He changes by allowing his id, or innermost desires, to take hold.
He does what he wants to do, which is to indulge in savagery. As he realizes this appeals to the
other boys' most...

What are some key points about the rebellion in Animal Farm, by George Orwell?

One key
point about the rebellion is that it is motivated in large part by 's speech, given shortly
before he dies, in Chapter One. Old Major demonstrates to the animals that they are being
brutally exploited, and that Man is their enemy. If Man were out of the way, then animals could
live happy and productive lives. This speech, intended to echo the writings of real-life
philosopher Karl Marx, is in many ways the catalyst for the rebellion and all that
follows. 

A second key point is that even though almost all the animals
participate in the uprising that drives Jones from the farm, the pigs (seen as the most
intelligent) are the leaders. Among them are , a fearsome looking boar who is a natural leader,
, an energetic, brave, and idealistic pig, and , who will emerge as a sort of propaganda
officer. These three lead the successful rebellion, and it emerges that the pigs will get some
benefits from their leadership (like, for example, apples in their mash) that the other animals
do not receive. We also learn of a power struggle between Napoleon and Snowball that sees the
latter driven from the farm. 

Finally, another important point is that the
rebellion, while conducted with an almost utopian idealism, eventually flounders as Napoleon
emerges as a leader as brutal as Jones was. This, in fact, is the key point of the entire book:
that power must be checked in order to preserve basic liberties. 

What do you think are the popular trends in the music industry today? What do you think are the popular trends in the music industry today?

Aside
from the changes in how music is delivered, as mentioned above, it seems to me there is a
consistent move back in time.  Songs being remade or reworked--often even by the original
artist--has become a popular form of current music.  I guess I should be thankful, 'cause I seem
pretty "hip" and "cool" when I know some of the latest songs.  They don't
have to know I simply remember the songs from high school.

How is Roger Chillingworth the antagonist in The Scarlet Letter?

is
thein that he's the main impediment toand 's happiness. This is because he represents the stern
moral values of Puritanism, with its strict moral code and firm, unwavering belief in the
fundamental depravity of each human being.

Instead of using his medical
trainingnot to mention his religious valuesto help a clearly troubled soul, Chillingworth abuses
his authority to torture Dimmesdale psychologically, actually becoming more physically repulsive
the more he torments his patient. It's no exaggeration to say that Chillingworth lives for
destroying Dimmesdale and Dimmesdale's plans for happiness. So determined is he to carry out
this diabolical scheme that he buys a ticket for the same ship as Dimmesdale and Hester, hoping
to follow them to Europe.

It's instructive that once Dimmesdale has publicly
confessed of his sins, Chillingworth effectively gives up the ghost. Not long after Dimmesdale's
death, Chillingworth follows him to the...

How does Miller develop Proctor's character by juxtaposing him with Reverend Hale or Giles Corey in The Crucible?

John
Proctor is theof 's play .

Reverend Hale arrives to
investigate the potential threat of witchcraft in Salem. He is summoned because of his apparent
expertise on witches. When he enters, he carries a stack of books on the subject, showing him to
be a learned man. Eventually he comes to doubt the validity of the claims and loses his
Christian morals as he trusts Proctor more than the girls; however in act 2, he stops in to the
Proctor household to question John and Elizabeth on their beliefs, telling Proctor he must go to
church every Sunday and uphold the Ten Commandments.

John Proctor is a
farmer, and although we can see him as a smart man, he is not educated the way Hale is. Proctor
scoffs at the idea of witchery from the beginning while Hale believes in it. Until the trial
makes him question himself, Hale starts out as a strict, religious man. Proctor, while he
believes in God, thinks it is okay to "break the rules" so to speak every once in a
while, such as plowing on Sunday when his wife is sick and food is needed.

Giles Corey is an old man who says what he thinks. He is more brash than Proctoras seen
in the court when he loses his temper but Proctor tries to remain calm.

I have to write a letter to a friend. Can you please help? i have to put my self in the poets place and talk about Annabel Lee

I would write
the letter as an answer to my friend's having asked me what it was aboutthat was so enchanting.
I would then give the letter a fairy-tale like quality of how she was only created for me to
love and be love by her, how we were at one and whole in our own little world. Even in death,
nothing can separate us from each other...

What is wrong with the Loman family ambitions in "Death of a Salesman"?

Technically, nothing is "wrong"
with the family ambitions.  Willy, Happy, and Biff all want to be successful in their own way. 
The problem arises in their perceptions - for Willy, to be "successful" is to be
admired and wealthy, first for his own accomplishments and then for his son's.  He plants the
idea in Biff's mind that good looks, charm and athletic ability are all that are needed for this
admiration.  Willy gets wrapped up in the idea of the American Dream - that anyone can achieve
great richness.  However, Willy fails to understand or explain to his sons that these
"riches" come with hard work.

This is why Miller uses the foils of
Charley and Bernard, both reserved and hard-working men.  Both of these men show a determination
to do well in their work - as a result, they are both successful and happy.  They aren't about
flash - as shown when Willy is surprised that Bernard didn't mention his opportunity to argue a
case in front of the Supreme Court.  Charley's response is simply:

"He don't have to [mention it]he's gonna do
it."

This is in contrast with Willy, Biff, and Happy, who all
talk a good game but never move forward with their plans.

What is a good topic to analyze in an essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"?

There
are several interesting possibilities for an essay on "," a short story that has
intrigued literary critics since its publication.

A standard, but
interesting, subject for analysis is Hawthorne's use of symbols in the story.  For example,
Goodman Brown's wife, Faith, and her pink ribbons are very interesting subjects to analyze in
the context of Brown's own faith.  Other symbols that yield interesting essays are
such...

What event does Goodman Brown come to witness deep in the forest and who is in attendance?

In 's short
story "," the title character comes to witness a satanic mass deep in the forest
outside his hometown of Salem. In attendance are all sorts of supposedly virtuous people as well
as people who not seen as virtuous. Here are a few quotations taken from the story (I'm just
listing without introducing or discussing them; don't do what I'm doing in a formal
essay!):

the shape of his own dead father

a woman, with dim features of despair, threw out her hand to warn him back. Was it his
mother?

the minister and good old Deacon Gookin

Goody
Cloyse, that pious teacher of the catechism, and Martha Carrier, who had received the devil's
promise to be queen of hell

It was strange to see that the good shrank not
from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered also among their
pale-faced enemies were the Indian priests, or powwows, who had often scared their native forest
with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft.

Most importantly to the story, of course, is that Young Goodman
Brown's wife, Faith, is also present.

This is a very popular story. View the
various links from the main link given below for more discussion of the
story.

How does Triphena show Lyddie she's a true friend?

Initially, Triphena is a little bit
stand-offish towards . All that she cares about is that Lyddie knuckles down in her new job at
Cutler's Tavern and does as she's told. The last thing on her mind is making friends with the
new girl; Triphena has her job to do, and Lyddie has hers.

However, as time
goes on, Triphena starts to warm towards Lyddie. She can see that Lyddie is hard-working,
dedicated, and quick to learn, and this makes Triphena's job so much easier. Later on, Triphena
shows great kindness towards Lyddie by allowing her to leave Cutler's Tavern during Mrs.
Cutler's absence so she can go visit her family. That Triphena makes such a noble gesture
towards Lyddie is indicative of the growing friendship that's developed between the
two.

Discuss the title of the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

To do
something "in cold blood" means the opposite of having done that thing in the heat of
the moment. A murder committed in cold blood is one that has been thought about, planned, and
then executed without the influence of any kind of emotion. While a murder committed in the heat
of the moment might be, to a certain extent, understandable because of the circumstances (if
passions were running high), a cold-blooded murder is generally understood to be far more
severe, not least because of what it says about the perpetrator.

The murder
in this book was definitely committed in cold blood, and accordingly, the murderers were charged
with and convicted of murder within a very short space of time. The murderers were all former
criminals who knew each other from prison, connected with each other, and planned the murder as
a means of stealing a large amount of money, with which they planned to start new lives.
Although they observed that the victims' family were "sweet," this did not prevent
them from committing the murderone murderer, Smith, even thought the victim, Herb Clutter, was
"nice" right up until he killed him.

The jury, too, were quick to
convict and were unmoved by sentiment. Convicting in forty minutes, they were described as the
opposite of "chicken-hearted"so we can argue that their blood, too, was cold as they
sentenced the murderers, knowing that they would be sending them to their
deaths.

What do you think people living a hundred years from now will call the age we live in today? What do you think people living a hundred years from now...

We refer to it as the
Information Age, and I think that is a reasonable name.During the last few decades, we have been
dependent on and focused on information in all its forms.I think the Technology Age or the
Wireless Age would also be reasonable names for the focus of our current society.]]>

What did the British mean by virtual representation?

Virtual
representation was a concept that was debated most heatedly around the time of the American
Revolution. Part of the reason why the American colonies rebelled and why the Revolutionary War
started was over the issue of representation in British Parliament. American colonists believed
that they did not have representation in this parliament and therefore objected to being
unfairly taxed (hence, no taxation without representation). The concept they were invoking is
known as direct representation, meaning an actual representative of the colonies would speak and
advocate for them in Parliament.

However, some British legalists at the time
argued that despite the fact that the colonies had no actual and physical representative in
Parliament or have the opportunity to elect any of its members, they still enjoyed certain
guaranteed rights. Because the representatives in Parliament protected these rights whether they
were elected by the American colonists or not, and because they...

What is the climax of The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Theto
begins with the witch hunt for Hannah Tupper. Nat is able to get her out
of the area; however, Kit serves as an available scapegoat for the townspeople's anger and
superstitions. This is quite a lead into the climax of the story, because readers are now
witnessing fear turn into hysteria and mob mentality. The Puritans are not satiated with
excluding outsiders and oddities like Tupper anymore....

What are the important elements of 20th century drama?

Twentieth
century drama is comprised of many different literary movements. At the turn of the century,
Expressionism and Symbolism were important, especially in Northern Europe. Both involved
non-realistic styles of acting, staging, and language, with expressionism concentrating on using
unusual technical devices to project the interior states of characters. SUrrealist drama,
including the work of Eugene Ionesco, is an outgrowth of Expressionism, but no longer presumes
internal coherence and follows the illogic of dream states or random occurrences. Another group
of plays focused on social and political critique, in the case of Berthold Brecht combined with
techniques of alienation (which emphasize the unreal nature of the play) to force the audience
to think critically rather than empathetically. The Angry Young Men of England also engage in
socially aware portraits of the working class but in a more aesthetically conservative style.
Other important movements included comedies of manner (Coward, Pinero), musical drama, absurdist
drama, and many varieties of late 20th century experimental drama.

Dana's homes are her house in California and the Weylin plantation in Maryland in Kindred. However, the idea of home also applies to the two time...

The
complexity of her relationship with each of the time periods is hard to overstate. Her life in
the 1970s obviously is much better because she is a free woman with a relatively good and happy
life, as well as a caring husband. However, when she is thrust through time and space into the
1800s, she becomes a slave. This would make it easy to assume that she feels much more at home
in the present, but it neglects the connections she makes in the past.

In the
1800s, in spite of being a slave, she grows close to Alice, her ancestor, and learns to love
several people in that time period. Because of the kinship she feels, she is not quite as alone
in the past as one might imagine. Therefore, she feels "at home" in different ways in
each time and place. However, in the end, she is more pleased to return to her own time,
signifying that she is most at home in her own time period.

Please compare the use of elements in The Oath of Horatii (c. 1784, oil on canvas) by David (Jacques Louis) to the use of elements in...

• Jacques-Louis David

The Neoclassism movement reached
itsin the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and in the sculptures of Canova. David abandoned the
influence of Rococo with its elaborateness for the purity of classical art. In what has been
called "the archetypal picture of purist Neoclassicism," in Rome in 1784, David
painted The Oath of the Horatii, an arduous effort of classic reduction as
the painter reworked the foot of one Horatius twenty times.

In this
painting, David rejects the spectacular possibilities of the story in which the three brothers
Horatii engaged in a fight with the curatii of Alba in order to end a war between the two
states; instead, he creates his own spectacular movement: the swearing of a noble oath by the
brothers that they will dedicate their lives to their country. Certainly, in this painting, the
masculine force of the brothers is prominent and in contrast to the ladies' quiet and desperate
compliance with fate, some of whom are in the shadows and...

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  • href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_the_Horatii]]>

After Snowball's expulsion, what happens to democracy and equality on the farm?

In
,expelsfrom the farm and usurps power with the help of his nine ferocious dogs. Immediately
after the dogs chase Snowball off the farm, Napoleon abolishes Sunday meetings and declares that
from now on, the animals will take their weekly assignments directly from him. By abolishing
Sunday meetings, Napoleon successfully eradicates democracy on the farm and silences the
animals' voices. Instead of allowing the animals to participate in the farm's policy decisions
by debating and voting in a democratic forum, Napoleon assumes complete authority by preventing
the animals from expressing their opinions. When four pigs attempt to protest Napoleon's
decision, his nine ferocious dogs immediately silence them with menacing growls. The sheep then
begin bleating "Four legs good, two legs bad!" andquiets the animals' concerns
regarding Napoleon's decision to abolish Sunday meetings. Without input into the farm's
policies, the animals become subjected to Napoleon's wishes as he proceeds to oppress them and
create an aristocracy of pigs, who become designated brainworkers and enjoy luxurious lives in
the farmhouse. As the novel progresses, the pigs assume special status on the farm and preside
over the other animals, who are forced to engage in arduous manual labor each
day.

What does Atticus mean when he tells Alexandra in chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird that he is "in favor of preserving Southern womanhood as...

Laurine Herzog

Alexandra tries to persuadenot to defend Tom Robinson because she's afraid that
defending a black man accused of raping a white woman will harm the family name. This quotation
is taken from the middle of a conversation where Atticus appears to be defending his decision to
defend Tom Robinson.

The "polite" to which Atticus refers is the
fiction that Tom Robinson is guilty. It is "polite" to...

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Comprehending God, Poe, the Bible and Candid style. Comprehending God Poe, the Bible and Candid style. Poe said... If we cannot comprehend...

I am a
strong supporter of the philosophy that each person comprehends God in his or her unique way.  I
think this is one of the things Poe...

Winston says that the Party will ultimately fail. What does he say will destroy the Party ?

holds the
conviction that the oppressive state of is unsustainable, and at some
point, the proles will have their political consciousness awakened, at which point they will
rise up and overthrow the State.

In the world of 1984,
social stratification revolves around party politics. The highest level of the social hierarchy
resides in the Inner Party, with the Outer Party located the next level lower. The working-class
proles, who make up the vast majority of the population, exist entirely outside this party
structure.

There are two main reasons that Winston places his faith in the
proles. The first lies in sheer preponderance of numbers, given that they represent such a huge
majority of the population. Secondly, however, the proles also have a degree of freedom far
exceeding that of the Outer Party. Keep in mind, in the world of 1984 , the
vast bulk of the Party's suppression and coercion is focused primarily inwards on the Party
itself. This makes any meaningful rebellion within...

Why do the women in the countryside think Ichabod is an important person? How do the young girls respond to him?

We learn
from the narrator that the women in any rural village generally think of the schoolmaster as an
important person. A school teacher is considered to be a gentleman because of his
education.

The women of Sleepy Hollow admire schoolmaster Ichabod Crane
because he has read "several" books all the way through and is learned in the works of
Cotton Mather on New England witchcraft, in which, we learn he "firmly" and
"potently" believed. In other words, the narrator is poking fun at the women for
looking up to a superstitious man who is not all that well read.

The women
like to invite him over for tea and cakes, and he enjoys gathering grapes for the young
"damsels" or girls who cluster around him. As the narrator describes it,
Crane

would figure among them [the damsels] in the
churchyard . . . gathering grapes for them from the wild vines that overrun the surrounding
trees; reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or sauntering, with a
whole bevy of them . . .

The key point is that Crane is
described as womanly and effeminate, pictured among teapots and cakes or "sauntering"
with the young ladies. He is a contrast, therefore, to the virile, strong, and manly Brom Bones,
who is usually surrounded by his male "gang."

What happens to Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Your
question might concern what may have happened to Fortunato after Montresor walled him up in the
niche and left him there. Naturally Fortunato would have died, but some writers have assumed
that he died immediately of suffocation while others have assumed that he died of starvation. I
believe it was Poe's intention to have the reader believe that Montresor's revenge included a
long, lingering death for his victim. There was undoubtedly plenty of water, since the text
specifies that there is water dripping everywhere and that they are in fact under a river. So
poor Fortunato could have quenched his thirst by licking water off the rock wall to which he was
chained. Poe also specifies that there is some air down there.

We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again,
arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow
than flame.

Montresor also makes repeated references to
the abundance of nitre. This substance contains a large quantity of oxygen. So it would seem
that Fortunato could get water and some air in his confinement. The rough stone wall constructed
by Montresor may contain enough chinks to allow the passage of some of the foul air from the
other side. Montresor does not say so, but he might have left a few air holes in his
wall.

So it would seem that Fortunato died of starvation while standing up.
Perhaps in time his skeleton would have slipped through the chain and crumpled to the ground in
the rags of his jester's costume. Montresor would have wanted his victim to suffer a long,
lingering death. At the end, Montresor receives no answers from Fortunato, but that doesn't
necessarily mean the man is already dead. That is unlikely. He has probably fainted or even
refusing to answer.

In The Crucible, why were John Proctor, Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse targeted as the main suspects in the witch trials?

John,
Martha and Rebecca were leaders in the community. They were respected and even feared for their
outspoken and direct criticism of other leading members of Salem society. As such, they had many
enemies and it can thus be expected that when the accusations of witchcraft were lodged, they
would be targeted. It was a method by which their enemies could take revenge.

To clarify why they were specifically targeted as the main suspects, one needs to
scrutinise each of the three individually and look at their positions, relationships
and influences within the broader Salem community.

John Proctor

In his notes,provides the following description of John:

Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties. He need not have been a partisan of any
faction in the town, but there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with
hypocrites. He was the kind of man - powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led - who
cannot refuse support to partisans with-out drawing...

In what ways did the progressive reforms succeed, and in what ways did these reforms fail?

Progressives
fought against the doctrine of Social Darwinism and its baleful effects on America. In the late
nineteenth century, a few men became oligarchs, and the country was largely dominated by these
powerful individuals and their massive corporations. Politicians were bought off, and the
interests of the public were typically ignored.

Progressives tried to
diminish the dominance of the wealthy classes through constitutional amendments. The Sixteenth
Amendment (1913) provided for an income tax, and the Seventeenth Amendment (1913) gave people
the right to vote directly for their US Senators.

Progressive reformers also
sought to improve safety standards in factories. As the nation industrialized after the Civil
War, factories appeared in urban areas. These factories were virtually unregulated and working
conditions were hazardous. In 1911, there was a fire in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Company
factory, resulting in the deaths of 145 workers. Theinspired reforms that resulted in safer
factories.

The fight for women's suffrage had begun in the early nineteenth
century, and victory was finally achieved in the Progressive Era. In 1869, women in the Wyoming
Territory gained voting rights, but further progress was elusive. In 1920, the decisive
breakthrough came with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Other
Progressive reforms included child labor laws, antitrust laws, and better food-safety
standards.

The Progressive Era was not a panacea for America, though.
African-Americans did not benefit at all from the Progressive Era; they faced entrenched
discrimination and segregation. Native American were also excluded from the gains of the era.
Finally, the Eighteenth Amendment (1919), which banned the making or selling of alcohol, proved
to be a failure.

In The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, how does Gregor's changed voice affect his family and himself?

belarafon

is an argueably nihilist work byabout an ordinary man who turns
into a giant insect, and how his transformation affects his family life.

One
of the major changes Gregor suffers is to his voice; no longer able to communicate as a human,
he strives to make his new insect voice audible to his family. It seems at first that
his voice is the last thing to change ; after waking, Gregor
communicates (sight unseen) with his family and is upset to discover that his voice has started
to deteriorate, with an unintelligible squeaking overpowering his articulation....

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Compare and contrast John Updike's story "A&P" and James Joyce's story "Araby."

While the
protagonists in "A&P" and "" are described as typical teenage males,
they harbor widely disparate views about the female body. 

In
"A&P," the teenage male narrator (Sammy) is focused on the superficial or the
corporeal aspects of femininity. His interest in the girls is thoroughly carnal in nature, and
he salivates over the female form. The first girl who catches his attention is dressed in a
green, two-piece bikini:

She was a chunky kid, with a good
tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where
the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs.

Our teenage narrator focuses on the girl's sexy and partially exposed behind. Of the
three girls, Sammy is most enchanted by the one he dubs "the queen" or
"Queenie." This particular girl is dressed in a "dirty pink" or beige
bathing suit with the straps down. It does not take long for the narrator to notice her
"white prima donna legs," "white shoulders," and...