.... Kail- a evil man at the top of Bavmords army Queen Bavmorda- Destroyer of Tersline that is searching for a child that can destroy her The book starts of at Nockmar castle. A child is born in the dongon with a mark. The same mark Bavmord is looking for. One of Bavmords servants smulgs the child out of the castle and miles away to a creek bed. She is being tracked by dethdogs so she bundles up and sends the child down the stream in a basket. She is killed by the death dogs but wile the child is floating down the stream. The child traveled down the stream until it a nelwyn village. Two children "willows children" found her and brought her to Willow. Willow d .....

.... and the Victorian era's perception of disabled people which lead John into believing that his dreams can never be satisfied. In the generation of John Merrick, the English society dominates itself with powerful people who obsess over others' ill fortunes and appearance malformations. The disabled people are merely objects for their "owners" (16) revenue, which is why John is afraid to go back to Bytes. While in the hospital, John has wealthy, prominent, fame-crazed people come to see him everyday. Mrs. Madge Kendal starts these visits from London's high society, simply with respectable intentions. Mrs. Kendal, as well known as she is, has a group of follo .....

.... to test how cold it was. His test taught him that it was colder than he had first thought, but he never thought of that as a danger only as a reality. "That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head" (119). To many times modern man plods along oblivious to the reality that lies one moment or misstep away (Votleler 272). The man sees that he is feeling the effects of the cold more and more as he goes along, but more than ever he pushes on. Several times he comments that the cold is making his hands and feet numbed, and frostbite is killing his cheeks. He thinks "What were frosted cheek? A bit painful, that .....

.... ten o'clock tonight. I could have taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, but I couldn't do that. It wanted me to bring it out slowly, so I often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it aside to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This book was written, not churned out or word-processed. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, maybe because it wasn't a point for me in In Our Time, but He doesn't often enough credit quotations with, ",he said," or, ", .....

.... fulfills the prophecy by marrying Jocasta, his biological mother, and becomes King of Thebes after murdering a man who was his true father, Laius. Oedipus resolves to lift a deadly plague that had descended on the city, only to learn that in order to do so he must find and punish the murderer of the former King Laius. He invokes a curse on the sinner. Ironically, Oedipus remains ignorant of the fact that he himself was the transgressor; he was jinxing himself. When the blind prophet Teiresias is summoned to shed light on the subject, he warns Oedipus not to be overly presumptuous and assures him that the future will come of itself and the past will surface wh .....

.... his family continued to mirror the rigidity of traditional Chinese society. They borrowed money to buy more mulberry trees for the . After they had sold the silk, they would repay part of the debt. There is never enough to cover the whole debt because the harvest was always worse than they expected. Even if they had a great harvest on the cocoons, there would not be enough people to spin the silk. They were never be able to get out of debt. It is amazing how they managed to survive under such poor economy. Things such as predicting harvest by the amount of sprouts that a garlic put out, the way they isolated Lotus believing that she would bring bad luck to the .....

.... by any other local dogs. he was a mix between a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepherd dog. He weighed one hundred and forty pounds, and he carried every one with utmost pride. Buck had everything he could want. Little did he know, he would soon have it all taken away from him. One night, while the judge was away at a raisin grower's committee meeting, the gardener, Manuel, took Buck away from his home. Buck was then sold, and thrown in a baggage car. This would be the beginning of a new, cruel life for Buck. On his ride to wherever he was going, Buck's pride was severely damaged, if not completely wiped out by men who used tools to restrain him. No m .....

.... is a mere ten lines. By beginning the play with the witches, Shakespeare is making it clear that something wicked is going to happen involving Macbeth. In Act I, Scene 1, the third witch states "There to meet with Macbeth. (I,i,8)" This shows that the three witches are planning to meet with Macbeth but the reason is still unknown. The words and phrases that the witches choose to express themselves foreshadow Macbeth's plot to become king: When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurly-burly's done, When the battle's lost and won. Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun. (I,i) Although she knows .....