.... she feels attatched to this tradition. Her tradition is to marry a boy from a good family and of course, from the islands or others may think negatively of her family for not following the tradition. In the telephone man, Jack has been raised by a racist father. His father's beliefs have become a tradition in the household. "I wonder if my dad would mind if I stopped hating niggers for awhile." (Crutcher) The father has influenced Jack so much that Jack doesn't know the appropriate term for 'African Americans,' and he questions whether or not his father would mind if he didn't hate African Americans. The prejudice in this family is common, and without k .....

.... his face" (5). Along with Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Du Bois was one of the main figures of African American thought and an advocate against racial injustice. He devoted his life to the 'freeing' of black people in America in both the political as well as social sphere. In his collection of essays, the Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois speaks from both personal and objective accounts of the position of the black man in American society. As the excerpt of the introduction notes, the book is based on the premise that "one may know the soul of the race by knowing the soul of one of its members." In effect, Du Bois seeks to expose his own soul through his tribu .....

.... explore the happenstance of the Russian Revolution, while simultaneously creating a completely individual train of events. The novel takes place on a farm called “Manor Farm”. In the initial stages of the book, the power over the farm is directly in the hands of a certain “Mr. Jones” who in recent times has taken up alcohol consumption. Mr.Jones is parallel to Tsar Nicholas II as suggested by his antipathy toward his people (the farm animals, in Jones’ situation) and his denial of the current bureaucratic state. Before his abdication in 1917 (as is parallel to Jones’ escapement from his spiteful farm of animals), the Tsar is known to have partaken in exces .....

.... from disappointments. addresses the romantic problems of these two sisters with contrary worldviews. The elder sister, Elinor, the embodiment of "sense," loves a man engaged to an ignorant, manipulative woman; the younger, Marianne, who embodies "sensibility," is infatuated with a man who suddenly without explanation ends their relationship. Very much a Romantic, sixteen-year-old Marianne is governed by her feelings, not by reason, unlike Elinor. Passionate in her opinions and certain of their morality, Marianne lacks prudence and relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor’s sense, on the other hand, reflects "the seventeenth .....

.... and Moon Orchid has created two inimical viewpoints on the value of physical appearance, necessity versus extravagance, and modesty in manner. Physical appearance is very important in America’s society whereas women in Asia only dress-up on special occasions. Most of the time, Asia’s women are cooking, cleaning, and sewing, which is manual work. In America, when women go out in public, they try to look presentable, pleasing to the human eye. After Moon Orchid arrives, one of the first things that Brave Orchid does is point out that Moon Orchid is fat and looks very old. “You’re an old woman...your hair is white and your face wr .....

.... swears he is not mad. This is an irony, considering a person does not try to convince you he is not insane unless he is actually so. He is also very proud of his cleverness in planning the murder, which is ironic, because he is too clever for his own good. The old man- the victim of the narrator’s madness- is afraid of burglars and intruders, so he locks his doors and shutters tight. In fact, his real danger is already inside the house- which is an obvious irony. It is most ironic that he could have disposed of the body in any other way- but he chooses to hide it under the floorboards where he will walk over it every day. His heavy conscience causes hi .....

.... human or real. She had lived it and had some terrible experiences from it. However, back in California, where she was born she understood the segregation with a certain realism. Sometimes I explain to myself that the history ofsegregation could not be otherwise. It would have been difficult for the master to accept equality with the former slave. However, the way that Maya has described the situation in the book tells how horrible it was at that time. First of all, growing up black and female as she said was very painful. At Stamps, where as a child she was raised, the first act that made her burst in tears was when the three little powhitetrash .....

.... baby without the proper instruments necessary and dies. The boy is brought up in a dirty home with little to eat and under poor conditions. No one knows of the boy’s identity. His government caretakers give him the name Oliver. Oliver grows up in a world with no sympathy for poor orphans. He goes to London to escape his mean guardians and to try to make a better life for himself. On his journey he is mixed up with thieves and is caught stealing even though it was the people he was with. He gets sick and is taken care of by the people who he originally stole from and they grow to love him. The thieves find out about him staying with the people and kidnap .....