.... not action packed, just a small book on how people lived during this time, and how important it is to have a friend that really loves you. This of course relates to George and Lennie. The scene I am going to describe is at the end of chapter 3 of the book. It mostly involves Lennie, Curly and George, but Slim, Candy and Carlson were there too. The setting of this scene was in the bunkhouse in the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up .....

.... consideration for anyone other than himself. A joke Jim played on his barber, Whitey, once seems innocent enough. He made a phony phone call impersonating someone's wife indicating that her husband had passed on and she needed him shaved. He traveled 7 miles and had to pay for transportation to their home and was shocked to see the "dead man" answer the front door. The barber found it mildly amusing whereas I'm almost sure the couple did not. Jim also couldn't stand the fact that the object of his desire, Ms. Julie Gregg, had the hots for the new town doctor, Doc Stair. So in his eyes he had to make one of them look bad in order to boost himself up. He calle .....

.... the reader to assume that this child could have possibly been any unfortunate youngster during the war. Kosinski’s writings organize the chaos of the boy’s life experiences through form. The use of both organic and conventional form throughout the book draws the reader closer to the horrific encounters the young boy faced on a daily basis. Using writing as a method of art organizes the chaos of experience through form. Kosinski’s novel applies organic form to portray the appalling predicaments the boy encountered during the separation from his family. The use of organic form in the formal pattern offers the reader the “what-will-be- .....

.... becomes a slave to the public opinion. His sin against Hester and Pearl is that he will not acknowledge them as his wife and daughter in the daylight. He keeps his dreadful secret from all those under his care in the church for seven years for fear that he will lose their love and they will not forgive him. He is too weak to admit his sins openly and in their entirety. Instead, he allows his parishioners to lift him in their esteem by confessing, in all humility, that he is a sinner: "The minister well knew--subtle but remorseful hypocrite that he was!--the light in which his vague confession would be viewed." (127) They love him all the more for his .....

.... few. Below them are the members of the Outer Party, who are educated and work in governmental departments. It is this group which Winston Smith belongs to. Underneath them are the proletariat, the uneducated masses that made up 85% of the population. The life of a party member involves being constantly subjected to government propaganda by the medium of the telescreen. This is a device similar to a television placed in the home and workplace of Party members, unlike a television it cannot be turned off and it transmits as well as receives. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, one of four government ministries. The Ministry of Love is concerned with law an .....

.... of the soldiers, the inner feelings, small personal day dreams and strange things that really describe the men. Being out in the wilderness, far from home or anything they recognize, these men must deal with the mental and physical stresses of war, when they jion the army I see it as signing away there souls they are then asked to murder people over stupid issues. Here is where O’Brien starts up his literary art form. One thing that was interesting to mention is that I noticed when reading the story is the fact that the story is written in third person. The narrator is not actually in the story, merely telling us of the events, and yet we still get to .....

.... their lives. As both books unfold, the fear that these characters live in is unimaginable. It seems that they are being held hostage or being kept in prisons, yet they are almost completely free. Winston is living life on camera because of the telescreens that watch his every move, and Offred’s life is supervised by Aunts and guards regardless of the situation. She is taken to the bathroom, watched while she sleeps, and even though she is constantly being watched, her face cannot be seen. She wears white wings on her face so that no one can see her and the only way she can see out is by sneaking short peeks at the outside world. In both of these books, 1 .....

.... acceptable behavior for white’s and black’s exists. His swift anger and his destructive impulses stem from that fear and becomes apparent in the opening scene when he fiercely attacks a huge rat. The same murderous impulse appears when his secret dread of the delicatessen robbery impels him to commit a vicious assault on his friend Gus. Bigger commits both of the brutal murders not in rage or anger, but as a reaction to fear. His typical fear stems from being caught in the act of doing something socially unacceptable and being the subject of punishment. Although he later admits to Max that Mary Dalton’s behavior toward him made him hate her, it is not that .....