.... of World War The background of war-torn Italy adds to the tragedy of the love story.The war affects the emotions and values of each character. The love between Catherine and Frederick must outlast long separations, life-threatening wartime situations, and the uncertainty of each other's wereabouts or condition. This novel is a beautiful love story of two people who need each other in a period of upheaval. At the start of the novel, Frederick is given a vacation to leave the war for a period of time in order to relax. He befriends a priest because he admires the fact that the priest lives his life by a set of values that give him an orderly lifes .....

.... with Pilate, learning from her wisdom and accepting his responsibilities to women at last. By accepting his true inheritance from women, he becomes a man, who loves and respects women, who knows he can fly but also knows his responsibilties. In the first part of the novel, Milkman is his father's son, a child taught to ignore the wisdom of women. Even when he is 31, he still needs "both his father and his aunt to get him off" the scrapes he gets into. Milkman considers himself Macon, Jr., calling himself by that name, and believing that he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and th .....

.... believe in a mixture of rebellion towards their parents and a sign of maturity. Another reason for teenage drinking is it represents a daring gesture. According to Dr. Joseph Franklin, ”The way drinking starts is, one kid dares another kid to take a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his friends to think he is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow.” In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it o .....

.... hung. When he finally reached the point on the mast where the bird is hung, he proceeds to free the Peregrine Falcon. After freeing the bird, it pecked him on the hand, thus drawing blood. In retaliation, the boy struck the falcon upon the head with his fist. The action proves the saying “what goes around comes around.” A little later in the story another situation that proves this saying is displayed. The boy purchased himself an orange. His plan was to travel to the top of a bluff and devour the succulent fruit. On his way to the bluff, he encountered a girl who was near his age. She admired his piece of fruit. The boy at once decided to do the manly .....

.... Gurov saw her the first time he just saw a woman, a new person in the city with a dog. But “One evening while he was dining in the public garden the lady in the beret walked up without haste to take the next table. Her expression, her gait, her dress, and the way she did her hair told him that she belong to upper class”. He felt eager to know her, to have sex with her without knowing her name. He did not love her then, but after a few days he could not forget her. She was in his mind all the time. Gurov did not like his wife and was unfaithful to her for a long time. When he meet Anna, I felt, she was the woman that he was looking for in his life. Anna is tr .....

.... is defined by his entreprenurial ventures and monetary fixation. He is a stock character of greed and capitalism. Even when he and Yossarian were looking for the kid sister he is preoccupied with making profit. As soon as Milo hears about the opportunity to smuggle tobacco he loses all interest in helping Yossarian. “Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering. He moaned calmly as though in remote instinctive distress and kept repeating ‘Illegal Tobacco, Illegal Tobacco” (Heller 421). This obsession .....

.... accurately through the characters. One critic stated that “The only bad of it is that the characters are mostly so unpleasant in themselves that the story becomes rather a bitter does before one has finished with it” (Wilson 149). Where as one may take this as an insult, it can also be taken as a compliment. This shows that Fitzgerald described the character and their action so realistically that the reader developed strong opinions of the characters. Fitzgerald’s use of the setting is also another incredible technique used in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby’s mansion is a perfect example of this. “Th .....

.... individualism, but his life clearly shows that Abelard thought his individuality was a natural part of him, a part that was as inseparable as his faith. From the beginning of Abelard's Story of my Calamities he portrays himself as an individual. The as oldest child in his family his life was intended for a military career, but as he tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, denouncing the popular and glorious profession of arms for that of learning. In writing this he shows his clever and distinct way of thinking by referring to dialectic, the art of examining options or ideas logically, as a weapon of war. "I chose the weapons of dialectic to all the oth .....