.... the epic ends with Telemachus taking part in two battles. Not having any father figures as a child severely effects Telemachus. He becomes a timid, shy and spineless boy who is greatly pampered by his mother. He is not helped by being the son of a world- famous father- a difficult reputation to live up to. This lack of motivation and assertive behavior does not help Telemachus when the suitors start eating away at his estate. Telemachus knows what the suitors are doing is wrong but yet does not do anything about it. Telemachus foolishly hopes that his father will come and clean up the mess that the suitors are to blame for. Telemachus knows that his fat .....

.... felt as if she was not worthy of it. The ending was meant to show how overwhelming and frightening love could be. For myself, it was not till the end of the story that I truly understood the character of Mable Pervin. This story without an explicit resolution leaves the reader feeling the frightfulness of Mabel and the actual contentment of Dr. Fergusson. “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell’s is a wonderful, suspenseful story. Minnie Wright, the character accused of murdering her husband, is brought to life by the opinions of the other characters in this story. The author to be a disheartened, lonely woman, who had changed from a flourishing singer to a .....

.... could represent the marriage, but also it could represent the character of the man. The woman did not really know the man before she married him and yet she thought he was a good person. After examining the hand I think she sees a part of him that went unnoticed before. She realizes that she doesn’t really know him and that he may not be as sweet and kind as she had imagined. She is now able to see the nasty side of him. When she cries out she seems to be almost afraid of the hand meaning she is actually afraid of him. When the hand is moved she is calmed again, but only until the morning when she sees it again. I still do not understand why she kisses i .....

.... is something better, not far off, though not in the house. I really think you must try it, or you may be ill,’’ this suggests that Lizzy is very mysterious, and this is again showed further on in page 91 when she asks Mr.Stockdale whether he can ‘keep a secret’, and then she reveals the barrels to Mr.Stockdale that contain spirits from France and this is a very unusual thing for young women of her time to be doing, because it would usually have been men that would do all the smuggling. Lizzy realises that Mr.Stockdale is very surprised, and tries to defend herself by saying ‘’Smuggling is carried on here by some of the people,’’ and ‘’It has been their pract .....

.... of modern people who are like the police of our time except that this police can see you every single second of your life through special devices that look like T.V.'s called Telescreens. This Telescreens are placed in the houses of people, outside buildings, parks, walls, anywhere they could be put and are always turned on. The Telescreens are constantly giving you information of the wars won and also telling you what to do and always watching every movement you do, no expressions are admitted in Oceania other than hatred or the one “Big Brother” tells you to. The second branch is called “The Ministry of Love” where people were punished, tortured and were .....

.... the gods’ advice of using a sacrificial bird (349). Moreover, prophecy can be negative as well as positive. Achilles was prophesied to die gloriously in battle if he chose his life’s way as a warrior. Oedipus was exiled and condemned by his own words, after he slew his sire and wed his mother. This type of prophesy can blind even the gods themselves; Chronos was fated to be defeated and his throne stolen by his son. Demeter loses Persephone periodically every year because her daughter ate Hades’ pomegranates. Prophecy plays an important role in the whole of Greek folklore. Something this ever-present bears further examination. In The Odyssey, .....

.... escaped from thee train wreck. He said there where 29 monkeys each worth 2$, except for one worth a hundred. His grandpa got so rapped up in this he almost shut down the store. they tried all kinds of contraptions but the monkeys would always outsmart him. Then one night there was a big rain storm. The next morning he went out in surch of the monkeys and found them under the bank of the bottoms. Jay Berry led them home and fed them. He went to his grandpas store and told him about it. Then he sent a telegram to the circus. They they came and gave Jay Berry the money. Then he asked his grandpa about a pony. The next day he went to pick from 2 ponies. The one .....

.... imagery, and conflicts found in the two novels provides the reader a perspective on the roles they play in modern institutions and how they are affected by those institutions. Both Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest have been classified as black humor. Black humor is defined as being a form of satire using situations that are at first humorous but are actually very disturbing. The way in which these situations take on such a drastic change in meaning results in a type of emotional experience for the reader. At first, the reader is entertained, but then they realize the seriousness of the situation, and the reader realizes that the joke is on them. .....