.... on how he ruled his women and what control he had over them. In Things Fall Apart, the tribe was preparing for the New Yam Festival. Okonkwo had three wives at the time of the festival. As Okonkwo sat in his hut, each wife sent a dish in order of importance. Wife number one sent the first dish and so on. Not a bad set up if Okonkwo did not like what his first wife prepared, he had two more meals to fall back on. If a man's first wife did not produce the sons he longed for, he had other wives to impregnate and hope they would produce the sons he desired. In Things Fall Apart, the book seems to depict men as getting all the benefits of polygamy, or do they? .....

.... young, the youngest being twelve years old, and their mother, whom they call Marmee, is left to guide them while their father is away fighting in the war. As they grow and mature, they learn many hard lessons about life. For instance, there was the time when Amy, the youngest, suffered her first punishment in school. She carries that anger, humility, and embarrassment with her for the rest of her life. There were also more serious lessons to be learned, like when one of the sisters, Beth, dies. By the end of the book, they really have turned from little women into real women. Jo was the second oldest of the four sisters. Her birth nam .....

.... and shackles that bind my hands and legs show that without freedom, I would not be allowed to carry out my own actions because I would be instructed to perform other people’s wishes. My taped mouth symbolizes the loss of a right that is granted to all Americans, the freedom of speech. Without this freedom, I would be restrained from speaking my mind and expressing my beliefs and desires in a world where I would be pushed down by those in control and punished if I tried to speak. Finally, my blindfolded eyes signify that in I would be forced to look through the eyes of others rather than my own. This means that I must accept other’s opinions even if I .....

.... that was watching from a distance. It was not one of the warriors, for they ran off. Perhaps it was just a commoner that wants to see what is being done for his own safety. This story was passed by mouth for close to five hundred years. Told to warriors right before they went out to battle. The story teller would have possibly sang this story so that it could be remembered. Because of this there is a certain flow to the piece, not any rhyming, but there is a general flow. The first sign of alliteration occurs on the first line of the piece extracted from the story. "Then the dangerous dragon…" It goes on to emphasize the burdening problem the dragon, .....

.... a bad impression of Jarvis. One scene in the movie seemed to be added to intentionally make Jarvis look racist. This was when he went to identify his son's body and made the bad remark about natives. Finally, during the funeral Jarvis refused to shake a native's hand. In the book he did shake their hands but was not happy about it. Him just completely refusing in the movie makes him look extremely rude even during a funeral. The setting was also significantly different in the movie. Though there was not a lot of description of the setting in the book the setting in the movie made a difference. Ndotshenti in the book was described as a drought stricken enviro .....

.... "I find all this quite natural for I never laugh off duty. I am a very solemn person and people consider me - perhaps so - a pessimist. This quote signifys that he is not a person that would bring his job home. For instance, if a doctor had to work on a cadaver, he wouldn't bring home the cadaver and work on it, he would leave it at the hospital, as is in the laughers situation. Finally, he only likes to lzugh on the job, but otherwise he doesn't have the deire to laugh in other ways. The laugher's married life is not like any others. Boll writes " During the first years of our married liek my wife would often say too me " Do Laugh !"" This quote .....

.... with the white race, but within his own race. He physically participates in a brawl that leaves the fighters bullying members of their own breed. This battle among the black race consists not only of physical trauma, but emotional trauma as well, for the boy believes he is somehow not connected to the black race. As he waltzes into the hotel, the boy feels as if he is on a higher level than his fellow black men because he is educated, and he says of his racial equals, "I felt superior to them in my way, and I didn't like the manner in which we were all crowded together into the servants' elevator"(175). The boy undergoes a realization that he is, in fact, .....

.... time. In all of Dickens novels he has an extensive cast of characters, each of whom makes an important contribution to the plot. Despite the number of characters in the novel, each one can be easily distinguished and remembered--even when left un-mentioned for several chapters--due to Dickens's brilliant characterization techniques. One of the methods that he employs to enhance the uniqueness of his characters involves describing them connected to their surroundings. He creates landscapes and residences that parallel the essence of the character found within. Dickens also uses the past and future to create a vivid picture in the readers mind. Colors are anothe .....