.... learn more about one another. Mrs. Van Hooper must leave for the America’s because her daughter is engaged. The young lady does not want to leave her loved one. That night she contacts Mr. De Winter and tells him the news. Shocked, he decides to ask the young lady to stay with him at Manderley and later proposes to her. After they arrive at Manderley, the newly Mrs. De Winter is unwelcome by the servants and is especially disliked by Mrs. Danvers. While spending much time at the house, Mrs. De Winter discovers information about the former Mrs. De Winter, Rebecca. All along, the young lady understands that everything she does is compared to Rebe .....

.... is a difference that doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain .....

.... organized and that he does not know that all actions have consequences. Brille had no control in his life. He did not have the control of making better choices in his life. He did not have the common sense to wear protection in pregnating the mother of his twelve kids. Instead, he had to deal with trying to raise twelve kids on a teacher's salary. Watching his kids fight made him depressed and lost. The violence that he saw between his kids made him feel like a savage. Brille is a political prisoner in the area of Span One, which has nine other prisoners just like Brille. Brille is not physically intimidating. He wears glasses and has "a hollowed-out .....

.... to buy him a gift. This makes Della very unhappy. Finally, she decides to have her long, beautiful hair cut off for money. With the money, she buys a golden fob chain for her husband's most prized possession, which is a pocket watch. The ironic thing in this story is that her husband sold the watch so that he would have money to buy her combs for her hair. They both sacrificed themselves for gifts for each other. On the other hand, in "The Necklace", the main character, a middle class woman named Madame Loisel is selfish, greedy, and an uncaring woman. Although she is beautiful, she only cares about money. In the story, she and her husband are invited t .....

.... there is a smile on everybody’s face. Naturally, the most important cliché is also included—we see the white picket fence with ruby red roses against a bright blue sky, making out the colors of the American flag. There is, however, trouble in Paradise. First we witness a man—who later turns out to be Jeffrey’s father—suffer a stroke and, after showing his helpless agony, the camera burrows into the grass revealing insects “in a ferocious, predatory, and cannibalistic fight for life” (Dirks, “Blue Velvet (1984)”, http://www.filmsite.org/blue.html). These pictures, made even more terrifying by the extreme cl .....

.... old man are fishermen. They do not fish as a hobby, but a way of life. Then boy is put on another boat because the old man's luck has left him for over eighty days, which means he has not caught a fish for a very long time. The boat the boy is now on is a lucky boat and has caught fish every day that it has gone out. The boy, Manolin, is the old man's closest friend. Manolin get's up every day and helps the old man, Santiago, take the mast down to the shore to his skiff. The captain of the boy's boat does not let him carry anything, yet Santiago let him carry things when the boy was just five years old. That is how young the boy was when he first star .....

.... Marvin to be unhappy, her daughter-in-law's frustration, and her own death. Hagar's overwhelming pride was the reason she could not show love nor affection to those around her. She inherited her pride from her father and from an early age she always refused to show emotion because she was too proud to let anyone see her weaknesses. Her father made aware that she had "backbone" (p.10) and that "she took after him" (p.10). The first sigh of Hagar's excessive pride was shown when her father scolded her for telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me .....

.... with there all around feeling and theme. Now one can tell "Rip VanWinkle" is set in a fantasy world right of the bat by the way Irving sort of zooms in on the scene, first he tells of the mountains and then the town and down till he's in the room with Tom and his wife. In "The Devil and Tom Walker" the author gives some info on the situation and the charters and then just jumps into the story. In both of the stories you get the feeling of something supernatural is going to happen. Also in both they take place in remote areas. Next we have the husband wife relationship in both cases. Now Rip was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and .....