.... as frauds, and not confessing to practicing witchcraft once he was accused. Proctor is a tragic hero in his efforts to save his wife. Proctor’s first display of trying to save his wife is shown when the Court officials come to take Elizabeth away. Proctor is so infuriated by this assault on his house that he rips the warrant and tells them to leave rather forcefully saying, “Damn the Deputy Governor! Out of my house!”(77), demonstrating his intense love for his wife. Proctor shows signs of being a tragic hero when he attempts to go into court to save his wife and prove the girls liars. However, he ends up being accused himself. Mary Warren is in .....

.... them but him as well. In the beginning Trout comes off as a pessimistic unknown writer. One of his most popular works, Plague on Wheels was sold for twelve dollars for the pictures alone. Later people would pay only a dollar for it, but this time “for the words”. Trout is in awe about the way that people work. In Plague on Wheel he expresses the ideas and ways of humans and then refers to them as “ cuckoo”. He cannot understand why people do such ridiculous things such as, “[agree] with friends to express friendliness” and everyone else follows. He sees that people feel the need to conform for acceptance and this annoys hi .....

.... why his father would buy him a new one. Chris took the money that his family had left him for college and donated it to Oxfam which gives food to the hungry. This is ironic because Chris eventually died from starvation. Many people criticize McCandless for not keeping in touch with his parents and family. Chris was 22 years old. He did not have to tell his parents anything. He was doing what he wanted, not what other people wanted him to do and he was happy. They call him selfish for disregarding his parents’ feelings. McCandless was living his life for himself. He wanted to be happy and it happened to upset his parents. Wanting your own .....

.... Walter picks up his overshoes and then "Walter Mitty began to wonder what the other thing was his wife had told him to get. She had told him, twice before they left."(90) Also, a little later on, Walter Mitty "was always getting something wrong"(90) This last quote shows that Walter Mitty must forget things quite often. The story also shows that Walter Mitty is a really stubborn person. When he was dropping off Mrs. Mitty, Mrs. Mitty told Walter Mitty not to forget the overshoes he was sopposed to buy while in he was town. Walter Mitty's reaction was "I don't need overshoes,"(88) but he did give in to his wife in the end, and bought the ov .....

.... a book over a very short summer vacation is a bad, misguided idea, the book you're making us read isn't as bad. CHAPTER 2- The Market Place- This chapter tells of Hester Prynne being led through the city and in to the market place with the finely stitched Scarlet Letter. She walks protecting her young child against her bosom as she is scorned by the crowd. Her punishment is quote “as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France,” (Page 52, pink highlight). Instead of using the pillory, which would lock a person's head and hands together where they could not move and be forced to not .....

.... His desire to win Estella shifts his direction down a path toward propriety and business, a road to London. Her rejection of him damages his pride and esteem so much as to make him want to change his entire life and character to meet her approval. At this point, he rejects the love that those like Joe and Biddy offer, and feels he will not see himself as worthy, unless he meets the approval of the cold and haughty miss Estella. This powers him to accept an offer to become a gentleman, and to be taught in London, where he starts to stray ever-farther from those who truly love him. As Pip begins his progression toward being a gentleman, he is faced with .....

.... Laying down on the heath Jane notices the night sky, and the contentment found in the stillness of the summer night, it seems that the season serves as a catalyst for Jane’s pleasant state of mind. Soon after though Jane is confronted with hunger and the realization that she has no contact point or evident community, and aptly she is confronted with the summer’s rain. The rain is a direct expression of Jane’s situation in reality and it contrasts Jane’s previous summer stillness adequately. Jane is soon rescued by the Rivers of Moor house, in the town of Morton. After recovering from exhaustion in the care of Mary, Diana, and St. John the summer seems to brigh .....

.... A while later, David goes back home but quickly gets into trouble and is sent off to school. Dickens uses excellent description in his telling of this story and the reader can easily relate to the characters. The setting of a small town in England is standard in all of his novels, including Great Expectations. The reason for this Dickens' setting is because he was born in the town of Portsmouth, England in 1812. Although as a young child he moved to Chatham where he experienced a pleasant childhood in which many scenes from his childhood are intertwined throughout his novels. Dickens father was constantly in debt and was eventually sent to jail. Thi .....