.... surroundings while still retaining part of the character's view of reality. When the narrator says "It was a wild-looking place, and there was no one there" we are given the mother's view of the boy's beach, which in her opinion is "wild looking". This gives us a clear picture of the setting. Additionally, the sentence "He went out fast over the gleaming sand, over a middle region where rocks lay like discolored monsters under the surface, and then he was in the real sea - a warm sea where irregular cold currents from the deep water shocked his limbs" clearly describes the beach where the boy is swimming and how it is seen by him. With the addition of word .....

.... that are not created to offend certain groups. Political correctness, the underlying ideal, is the "particular set of attitudes about the world that its proponents maintain should be actively promoted." [Clark 369] Proponents of political correctness, or PC, had good intentions in devising the idea, but it has serious flaws. Although political correctness was founded with good intent, it does more harm than good. The most noticeable example of harm is how PC proponents try to please everyone at the same time. The burning of the bruin was just one of many activities held during the week before the big UCLA game. The idea being that everyone could find someth .....

.... hero must possess. A tragic hero must neither be an evil villain nor a great hero, instead the tragic hero must be either a flawed hero or a villain with some good traits. Also, the tragic hero must not deserve what mighty punishment is dealt to him. Another key feature of a tragic hero is the fact that a tragic hero must be a high-standing individual in society. The tragic hero must not deserve his punishment for the play to be a tragedy. Also, a tragedy happening to someone in high authority, will affect not only the single person but also society as a whole. Another reason for the tragic hero to be in high authority is to display that if a tragedy may happ .....

.... for the fundemental understanding of the play. It describes the battle between the two kings for some land, an occurrence in the past which is important to what is happening in the present. Shakespeare uses historical settings to develop conflict in the plot of the play. After the murder of the King Hamlet by Claudius, his brother, the reader is led to believe that young Forinbras will now fight back for the land his father once lost, “Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras, holding a weak supposal of our worth, or thinking by our late dear brother’s death our state to be disjoint and out of frame, colleagued with this dream of his advantage, he h .....

.... Because of the girl’s different appearance from the usual shoppers in A & P, Sammy couldn’t help but stare. This type of dress was not part of the “A & P policy” especially since “the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street”. An example of Sammy’s imagination is exemplified through his description of the other shoppers in A & P. Sammy refers to the shoppers as “sheep” twice in the story. Once as he views the customers continuing to push their carts down the aisle only glancing slightly at the girls and continuing to shop. Sammy “bets you could set off dynamite in an A & P and the people would by .....

.... a minister, and bound by the social class of his benefactor, Lady Catherine, always puts on a façade that makes him seem much classier than normal when he is around others. He constantly showed off his possessions. Charlotte, Collins’ wife, was not so much his wife by choice, but rather, out of necessity. Charlotte, a twenty-seven year old single woman nearly doomed to remain a spinster for the rest of her life, had to marry soon, and the only man that made a proposal was Collins, therefore she had to say yes. Mrs. Bennet, the mother of Eliza, always hurriedly rushes about to get her daughters married. Her haste is understandable, partly, because, the B .....

.... this world ? Eternal life? Eternal love, but what is it all in the end really, In this lifetime only one thing is eternal. Power, power and fame. Does anyone remember the true lovers? No, but no one ever forgets power. Who was the most powerful man in the world in the BC. era, Caesar, the ruler of all of Europe. And next came Christ, the essence of power, power over not only those of his day, but still to all of those who fight his holy wars in these latter days. How many men have died in his name and for his honor? Millions. And look at all the lives he has touched. That is true power. But not me, I want a different kind of power. I want power ov .....

.... invites horror to their dwelling through an ever-expanding security system. Fear leads to paranoia, paranoia to tragedy. As the little boy, living out his fantasies becomes ensnarled in his parents' obsession, the tragedy unfolds and everyone is left searching for answers. The tale draws a clear parallel to a child shot by the family gun, or attacked by a guard dog purchased to protect property. In contrast, D. H. Lawrence assesses the entrapments of gambling. He profiles a boy obsessed with winning at the horse track in order to please his mother. Fear, in this story, resides in the boy's mind, as he struggles to prove his luck to his mother. His moth .....