.... would wear it. One of the reasons behind the veil might be secret sin. Father Hooper might have committed a very bad sin, which he does not want to unveil to anyone. Instead of not telling anyone the sin he shows it clearly on his face with the aid of a black veil. This black veil might relieve tension in his body that has accumulated due to his sin. In the story, Father Hooper says that everyone wears a black veil, meaning that everyone commits secret sins without revealing them to anyone. If you do not express your secret sin you would be keeping stress and tension locked up inside you, but if you express it, the stress and tension will be relieved. Anoth .....

.... a deserted island. Suddenly the troop of scouts turn to me for help. I start saying, "First, we all need to make tents to sleep in so everyone would have there own privacy and shelter. Next, to make some bonfires for warmth and in hopes of passing ships seeing it. I will send out a bunch of people to find food, good sleeping grounds, and high hills good for fires. Then set up posts so that people could watch out for passing ships. We can ration the food and everyone's belongings because there's no telling how long we all could be stranded. Everyone who has glasses, take out your lenses to facilitate starting fires. Pig, fish, and whatever .....

.... influence than Chinese. In a Chinese society a woman's social standing is measured by how successful your children are and also how well you care for your spouse. Because of this, Waverly's mother boasts about Waverly's mastery of the game of chess. Throughout all of the Jing-Mei Woo stories June has to recall all of the memories of what her mother had told her. She remembers how her mother left her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother to her first babies she had failed as a person. When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying to make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, bu .....

.... not want anyone to know about it. As if the feat itself wasn't enough, being humble about it angers Gene even more. He tries to deny the jealousy by figuring: " I was more certainly becoming the best student in the school; Phineas was without question the best athlete, so in that way we were even. But while he was a very poor student I was a pretty good athlete, and when everything was thrown on the scales they would in the end tilt definitely toward me"(47). So in Gene's mind he was better than Phineas, and this appeased the grip of jealousy for awile at least. Peace is once again retained at the Devon school, but it wo .....

.... religion and conformity into the minds of eager readers. The closeness of the buildings in proximity to one another demonstrates the level of care and interest each member of the population is meant to take in the others. One of the most prominent structures in the market place is the scaffold. “It was in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus holding it up to public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (56). It was made clear that this struc .....

.... practice and wasn't clean, and I must not try to do it any more” (4). Huck's immaturity shows in his reaction to her rule. He felt that she was “finding a power of fault in me for doing a thing that had some good in it” (4). Huck is struggling with his conscience early in the novel. He knows that the widow is right, but his reaction is still childish. Another character who tries to help Huck is the widow's sister, Miss Watson, who lives with them and was trying to teach Huck spelling. From Huck's standpoint, “Miss Watson she kept on pecking at me, and it got tiresome lonesome” (5). Huck's immaturity is obvious as he expresses his dislike of how Miss Wats .....

.... with a runaway slave. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins with Huck introducing himself. He lives with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. They are kind old ladies who are trying to "civilize" him by sending him to school and teaching him manners, even though Huck didn't want to be "civilized." Huck's best friend is Tom Sawyer. The two found twelve-thousand dollars earlier and split the profits. The boys kept the money with Judge Thatcher for safe keeping while they continued their normal childhood. Tom and Huck liked to fool the Widow's slave, Jim, and make him believe witches were around. They also formed a gang whose only line of business was to ro .....

.... him to his death. The first time Willy is seen dazing off into the past is when he discovers Biff arriving home. The conversation between Willy and Linda reflects Willy’s disappointment in Biff and what Willy thinks he has become basically a bum. After failing to deal with his feelings, he escapes to a time when things were better for his family. It is not uncommon for one to think of better times at low points in their life in order to cheer them up so that they are able to deal with problems, but Willy Lowman takes it a step ahead. His stubbornness to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is placed back in time to relive one of the happier days of .....