.... a kid, he had already lost his innocence in many ways. When Michael Aikenhead was a kid, he had beaten his step brother Dave Choate, and "rubbed his face steadily in the dirt" after he had quarreled with and refused to accept Dave. Michael Aikenhead had also lost his innocence when he was young by running away from home because of his feelings of anger towards his father for marrying Martha Choate, and taking his sister, Sheila Aikenhead, with him. Michael had not only lost his innocence by running away from home but he also lost his innocence by convincing Sheila into thinking negative thoughts about her father, Andrew Aikenhead, and saying such things a .....

.... Emma had read he books when she was still learning, but had reached her critical period before she could learn about actually reality. The other girls didn't have this problem. They could distinguish between fantasy and reality. This failure to distinguish between the two was Emma's "tragic flaw.' Emma had read about these ideas in books, but instead of viewing these concepts as fantasy, she viewed them as reality, and later in life, acted as if that was the normal thing to do. Anything different, anything that deviated from her current life appealed to Emma. What was new was romantic, exciting, bold, and adventurous. She perceived Charles to be a charact .....

.... uses the characters of George Milton and Lennie Small to thoroughly explore his idea about dreams. George an Lennie are ranchhands who believe that they "don't belong no place". They are both considered to linger among the lowest rung of the social ladder. Society has driven these two men to believing in the idea that they "ain't got nothing to look ahead to." Even though George and Lennie have a dream about owning "a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and rabbits"someday, their own individual faults hinder their dream from ever coming true. George's fatal flaw is that he puts to much trust in Lennie. Lennie is mentally handicappe .....

.... quote is a major theme that is encountered throughout the book. Jack and the Judge, here is where we mainly see the web at work. Jack, at the request of Willie, went to dig up dirt on the Judge. Jack finds so many things out and as he exposes it everything goes wrong, the spider got him. When Jack reveals his findings to Judge Irwin, his father, he ends up killing himself before Jack has a chance to talk to him father to son. Although, for the most part, Jack's goal as stated at the beginning of the book was that he was to pursue truth and knowledge, he needed to leave this alone because it was a pursuit of knowledge, but it had no positive moti .....

.... a group of wandering ascetics known as the Samanas. The author’s message is brought to our attention in the form of ’s goal of finding what he describes as “his Self, his innermost.” It is clear that Hesse is telling us that we must identify ourselves before finding true peace; finding peace by conquering the barrier that is mortality. The author says, “These were Siddatha’s thoughts; this was his thirst, his sorrow.” Because strays from his goal as the depth of his contemplation makes him long to abandon the Self, Hesse shows a lack of contentment in the character’s lifestyle. is still restless. ’s second life, one of excess and desire, shows him trying .....

.... the past five years. The occurrences on the island with the beast folk and the way I come upon the current life that I now live. After being found at sea I was taken to land where I tried to start a new life. It was very hard as I imagined that all that I saw was not as it seemed. I met a woman –a scientist- named Catherine Plumeria. I told her about the island and my experience on it. It was only a natural reaction from my story that she thought I was crazed. We sat and talked about it for hours until I finally convinced her that this did actually happen to me. She asked me if I had ever thought about going back to the island and I said no. I guess .....

.... Scout connects Boo with the Mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines a mockingbird as one who "…don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (90). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem's pants that tore on Dill's last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to Scout's primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully treated Boo when she thinks about the gifts in .....

.... Huck got scared and shook his clothes off, and turned in his tracks three times. He then tied a lock of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ask him why Pap is here. Jim gets a hair-ball that is the size of a fist that he took from an ox's stomach. Jim asks the hair-ball; Why is Pap here? But the hair-ball won't answer. Jim says it needs money, so .....