.... gold thread and a manuscript by Jonathan Pue (the man who once held Hawthorne’s job). Finding the story extremely interesting, the author thus retells the story of Hester Prynne from Massachusetts’s Puritan history. The first chapter begins with Hester being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter “A” on her gown at all times as punishment for her crime. She has stitched a large scarlet “A” onto her dress with gold thread, giving the letter an air of elegance. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. On the scaffold she is asked to r .....

.... the most extreme case of someone avoiding enslavement comes from the main character when she attempts to kill her children. The main character , Sethe, is not willing to let her children end up re-enslaved and would rather see them dead and in Heaven then in an earthly hell of being slaves. I believe that from Sethe was justified in her actions. Slavery is a very harsh and horrible way to live, and living in chains and without freedom is not living as a human should. Slavery degraded African Americans from humans, to that of animals. They were not treated with any respect, or proper care. Even modern day criminals, those that have murdered large numbers of peo .....

.... Atlantic. This can be inferred because of the fact that the boys are British and that they arrived on the island by way of a plane cradsh. The story also occurred during wartime. The story begins when a group of British boys crash on an uninhabited island. In the beginning they area all unruly and unmorginized. Finally, a boy by the nakme of Ralph decides to take charge and call a meeting. The boys declare him “chief” and then begin to follow his lead. Ralph is also assisted by another lad by the name of Piggy. The group of boys were getting along fine until Jack Merridew, a boy who wanted to be “chief” instead, decided to go his own way. He disobey .....

.... use drugs are from a broken home, with parents that don’t care. In this book there are actually a few different settings. Some of these places are San Francisco and even her hometown. Alice found drugs quite easily in both of these places. A character in this book that I really disliked was Jan because when her “so called friend” was in big trouble, she lied and got her in even more trouble. The second reason that I dislike Jan was because she gave Alice a Coke (Coca-Cola) with LSD in it without even warning her. Another reason I really dislike Jan is because she was going to baby sit a young child while she was high. She could have killed that young infant b .....

.... and before the first scaffold scene. Hester’s hair is let down, shining and “so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam.” This hair compliments an elegant, beautiful woman standing tall and proud. During this time, Hester’s emotions, at full integrity, mirroring her appearance. When Hester is being questioned upon the scaffold, her virtue shines through when she refuses to name the partner of her sin. In the next example, Hester’s pride and stature both seem to dwindle in accordance to her appearance. Within the next seven years, Hester has gone through a change both physically and emotionally. The book describes to have absorbed all the rebellious .....

.... which the circle of life is forever revolving. persents a diversity of chracters that creates the atmosphere that it is a whole life and a complete portray of a functioning Egyptian socity of the forties. Mahfouz successfully relates the events in with the outside world by refering to politics. This is illustrated when he states that -at this period of the Egyptian history, working girls were usually jewish-they were the starting flare that began modernization. The materialistic insentive that characterized most of the inhabitants of the alley; best seen in Hamida, who in pursuite of her dreams of wealth and dresses became Titi that belongs to Ibrahim F .....

.... Frank and other friends would tell him to get other things for them. Then they would ditch him. They would also use the phrase, "You pulled a Charlie Gordon". To pull a Charlie Gordon, means doing something stupid, but Charlie did not know this. He thought his name being mentioned so often meant that everybody really liked him. As Charlie got smarter, he started to realize who he thought were his friends were not. This one night he soon found out that this really was true. That night Charlie tells Frank that he does not want to drink, because he already drank before and he felt sick the next morning. Frank did not listen to Charlie. Instead, he .....

.... and life of art have long since been drained in the endless cycle of their teacups(Fryxell 112). The women, "taking of Michelangelo" seem to feel no real passions and they have no real thoughts; they are machines without the gas or oil that keeps a machine going. Prufrock himself is something of an exception, but not much of one(Fryxell 110). Eliot's dramatic monologue is built around three major themes. The first of these is the time theme. Drenched with anxiety, Prufrock says: "And indeed there will be time." Prufrock uses time as an excuse to remain comfortable in his undisturbed universe. By opening the fourth stanza with: "And indeed there w .....