.... Buck was able to recreate a fictional experience of a 40 year span of Wang Lung’s life as he gains sudden wealth and changes his lifestyle. Wang Lung’s story unfolds after his marriage to O-lan as they raise their family on the land. The earth pulled Wang Lung through many hardships such as famine, floods, drought, and robbers. In the beginning, Wang Lung was successful in gaining just enough surplus to become a stable farmer. During this first year, they had a son and a “handful a of silver dollars over and above what they needed” (32). Soon later they had another son and a daughter. During this time, Wang Lung purchases some land from the House of Hw .....

.... essential philosophical and human question is: “What is the meaning of Being?” Before delving straight into this question there is one important side note. Heidegger believes, as do many existentialists, that existence precedes essence. In this sense, humans exist before they are given any sort of purpose. More traditional philosophies understand essence to precede existence. For example, God created humans for some sort of end. In other words God had an underlying purpose in the creation of human existence. It is from Heidegger’s belief that existence precedes essence, which he finds the question of Being such an important question to come to terms .....

.... The evil in the pearl had reached the heart of the doctor. The pearl's evil did not restrict itself to infecting Kino's peers; it also affected Kino himself. He wanted to sell the pearl and use the money to better his family's standard of living. He had dreams and goals that all depended on the pearl. When Juana wanted to destroy the pearl, Kino beat her unmercifully: He struck her in the face and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side...He hissed at her like a snake and she stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before a butcher. (742) Juana saw through the outer beauty of the .....

.... married Mary Beatrice. Mary had a very good relationship with her stepmother, and founded in her a friend. William-as he was described in the novel, he looked faintly mischievous. His face was impressive. He had penetrating gray eyes, thick brown hair, an aquiline nose and thin lips. He was of smart stature, very thin and stooped slightly. He was beastly, cold inside and hellish. He was much older then Mary and he didn’t love her and during their marriage he always had a lover. The story begins with the description of Mary’s family. When she was turning 15, she had to get married with Prince of Orange-William, and had left her family, moving to Hague. Mary was .....

.... they will live in for the remainder of their lives. One day while Equality was tending to his job as street sweeper, he came across a beautiful young woman taking care of the fields. Even though it is forbidden, he decides to go over and talk to her. While they were talking, we see the first sign of emotions when "Their face did not move and they did not avert their eyes. Only their eyes grew wider, and there was triumph in their eyes, and it was not triumph over us, but over things we could not guess." Later, Liberty follows Equality into the forest, and the first sign of forbidden love is shown when "we bent to raise the Golden One to their feet, b .....

.... gives the expectations of a love story where every one would be happy in the end. The plot is actually ironic in the end; Gatsby is murdered and never gets Daisy, the women he loves. The plot is well structured and easy to follow even though it is very complex and has a lot of internal conflicts. The plot is very entertaining because it involves a character striving for a goal that he is never able to accomplish. The Characters in the novel played a big role in developing the story. The characters give the impression that they are respectable and wealthy. They all are very charming and elicit. They are in fact horrible people who had hardly any moral .....

.... we need to have morality and virtue; we need to be in the world, but not of the world. To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a few characters who are all very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the focal point of the book and the single person whom we are meant to learn the most from. On the ship, the Rights-of-Man, Billy is a cynosure among his shipmates; a leader, not by authority, but by example. All the members of the crew look up to him and love him. He is "strength and beauty. Tales of his prowess [are] recited. Ashore he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost"(9). Desp .....

.... the attention from Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley became disassociated from his father. This separation continued until after Mr. Earnshaw had died. Another example is between Hindley and Hareton. Hindley became such a drunk and a gambler that he could not properly care for young Hareton. This led to a separation between Hareton and his father as well. One primary example of an uncaring parent is shown between Heathcliff and his son Linton. Heathcliff did not even want his son for anything except enacting a part of his revenge. This is shown by Linton's fear of Heathcliff and Heathcliff's enmity toward his son. Linton even says “... my father threatened me, and I drea .....