.... camp by a couple named the Wilsons. Granpa dies of a heart attack in the Wilson’s tent, and the two families decide to help each other during the trip. The Wilson’s car breaks down, and there is a moral dilemma. Al (Tom’s brother) and Tom want everyone else to keep going while they stay back and fix the car, but Ma refuses because she doesn’t want the family to split up. The family stops at a rest area to sleep, and after the car is fixed, Al, Tom, and Casy join them. During this time, a man who’s already been to California and is on his way back explains that there are thousands of starving people but no work. Pa and Tom dismiss what he says and decide to co .....

.... the witches's prophecy of Macbeth becoming king of Scotland, she begins to accumulate villainous ideas in her mind. Only the death of the king would allow the witches's predictions to come true. King Duncan's visit to Inverness would be his "fatal entrance" (1.5.35). "Unsex me here" (1.5.37) and "make thick my blood" (1.5.39) Lady Macbeth would say, wanting to have the courage and strength of a man. To have power, she must win the "golden round" (1.5.24) and become queen of Scotland. Lady Macbeth craves for her husband's success so much that she would "dash the brains out" (1.7.58) of her own child in order to achieve her goal. The strong ambition within .....

.... the way we act. Authority is based on instinct. When we receive an order, we intuitively react and follow the command. At first, we do not think, nor contemplate the effects that come as a result of our actions. In 1984, we get a sense of a greater authority in Big Brother. Although we never come to know if Big Brother actually exists, the power and authority that this idol holds over the people is unimaginable. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place i .....

.... extremists. Women are only used to produce children, and have no rights at all in the new world of Gilead. In the book The Fire Dwellers by Margaret Laurence our main character Stacey MacAindra has been thrown into a life of responsibility. She has an uncommunicative husband who means well, but shows her no love. And four children who she feels are being ruined by her every action. She feels that life has much more to offer than the tediousness of every day routine. The nature of Offred’s lost identity is very drastic. Before the new religious group of Gilead took over the world she was a very normal every day woman. She did what was expecte .....

.... behind his two satires is an intense revulsion against totalitarianism, combined with an even stronger revulsion against its defenders among left-wing intellectuals."1 In most of George Orwell's books and essays, there is a strong autobiographical element due to the fact that he spent many years living with Communists in northern Great Britain (a small number of people started to follow Communism in northern Great Britain when it started in Russia). George Orwell's writing was affected greatly by his personal beliefs about Socialism, Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism, and by the revolts, wars, and revolutions going on in Europe and Russia at the time o .....

.... on the way downtown. She also makes a rather insightful remark when she challenges the meaning of democracy as it applies to the lives of the group of kids that Miss Moore takes on a field trip to F.A.O Schwarz, a toy store for the well to do. Miss Moore is a wise, college educated, African-American woman who felt a responsibility for the education of the group of kids in her neighborhood. She sets the stage with little lessons built into her outings. Miss Moore obtains the parents approval to take the children on an excursion. The group includes Sylvia, Sugar, Mercedes, Fat Butt, Flyboy, Junebug, Q.T., and Rosie Giraffe. A mixed bag, but all share the same p .....

.... objects, however, it continues to represent new meanings in new ways. Death is the theme which encompasses and underlies Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and James Joyce’s “The Dead” using opposite elements; moreover, from the surrounding death, both main characters, Marlow and Gabriel, go through a symbolic rebirth. Before it is proven how Marlow and Gabriel have symbolic rebirths, it first must be shown how death exemplifies itself within the works, as it does through three main elements: the motif, the setting and the characters. While it is obvious that James Joyce’s title for the his work, “The Dead” refers to the death the story portrays, Joseph Conra .....

.... I have read such short stories with similar titles by authors like Raymond Carver and others. I was surprised when I began to read "The Death of an Author" that a story with such a powerful title would be a wordy, whimper of a passage. The author 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 gi .....