.... Montressor invites Fortunato, a wine expert, to his home to sample his Amontillado. Fortunato gladly accepts and they set off to Montressor's vaults. Montressor has a plan for Fortunato but is good in keeping it to himself. Having planned all the details of his revenge, Montressor had given instructions to his servants not to leave the house. The servants naturally left the house, thinking the master would be out for the rest of the night. Montressor had told them not to leave knowing that they most defiantly would. The house was now empty and perfect for his plot. Montressor led Fortunato into the gloomy depths of the vaults. The humidity caused Fortu .....

.... Lafeyette and the other children in the neighborhood. LaJoe liked the idea. However, she then said, "But you know, . They've seen too much to be children." Alex Kotlowitz entitled his book, . It is a story of two brothers growing up in a housing project of Chicago. By the author following the boys throughout their day to day lives, we, the readers, are also enveloped in the boys' surroundings. We learn about their everyday lives, from how they pick out their clothes, to how they wash them. We go to school with them and we play with them. Throughout the book, we are much like flies on the wall. We see and feel everything the boys' go through at Henry Horner .....

.... immediately try to make light of the entire situation. The reader has yet to learn what the “dire offence” is, but already likens it to the Adam and Eve’s “trivial” mistake, eating from the tree of knowledge, which forced them out of Paradise. It will take a further reading of the poem to learn that the crime is simply the cutting of a lock of hair, and not a monumental fall from God’s graces. Pope goes on to pose the questions, “Say what strange motive, Goddess! Could compel/a well-bred Lord to assault a gentle Belle? / O say what stanger cause, yet unexplored, /could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?” .....

.... even like the town. It is perhaps because they fear if they do not keep their faith, they are putting in jeopardy their fate after death; this is the primary concern of all religions, life after death and fear of the unknown. "For years we couldn’t talk about anything else. . .and it was obvious that we weren’t doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the place and the mission assigned to us by fate"(113). " ‘All right, girl,’ he said to her, trembling with rage, ‘tell us who it was’. . .’Santiago Nasar,’ she said"(53). Whether or not Santiago Nasar was the reason behind Angela V .....

.... live. As the Younger family moves themselves into a white suburban neighborghood the whites in the community are upset that they have come to be with them. Their direct neighbors who have a son that is Travis's age no longer lets her son play with Travis and he become hurt and confused. Walter has to explain that many people that are white beleive that they are better then those who are black. Travis who is stay in dismay and is confused waits at home while Walter goes over to the neighbors house to talk to them about what has happened. Walter is, in good reason, very angry and annoyed by the racist whites. He goes over and at first tries his best to s .....

.... This is the first instance in which the reader sees the Invisible Man through different eyes. He is now on equal standing with the white man. The reader finds the situation ironic because the black man is the one that is usually made to look ridiculous and forced to tolerate embarrassment. But here the Invisible Man is declaring that he will not put up with this kind of treatment. Who would expect the Invisible Man of all people to make a statement such as this one? The second literary technique Ellison uses is antagonism. The narrator's reaction to an advertisement sign stating that whiter skin is better shows the black man moving towards a feeling of im .....

.... is neccessary. Chapter 2: Something I found very different in the Chinese culture is that the spouse you marry is not yet wholly yours until you have had sex. Wang Lung still tries to impress O-lan and wonders if she even likes him. O-lan comes out to be a very hard worker and is much help in the house. She fits in very well. Chapter 3: O-lan has the first baby and it is a boy. O-lan also tells Wang that she will return to the House of Hwang to show the mistress her baby. Wang Lung goes loco and plans to do a lot of thing to celebrate the birth. He plans to die a basketful of eggs red and give them out so that everyone will know he has a son. Chapter 4: O .....

.... given a characteristic that was shared by the two heroes, a willingness to help people. Randle Patrick McMurphy is portrayed in the novel as similar to the traditional Western hero. Appearing quite early in the book, he immediately gives the impression of being bound to nothing at all; he was shown as unrestrained from the beginning. Chief Bromden, the narrator, presents evidence of this by describing McMurphy's laugh as "free and loud"(Kesey p. 16). The Western hero is known to be carefree, and so was McMurphy when he was first admitted as he "laces his fingers over his belly without taking his thumbs out of his pockets,"(Kesey p. 16) a very relaxed poise. Mc .....