.... to as tools to solve life’s problems. By using these tools one is able to overcome anything that life throws his or her way. Delaying gratification as Peck puts it is “a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.”(p. 19) I feel Peck’s point is to save the good things for last so that you can always have something to look forward to and an incentive to finish whatever task is at hand. Good scheduling skills and the lack of procrastination are very important in delaying gratification. Responsibility is very importa .....

.... theme of the poem is that man should follow his heart, leading him to do what he loves best. In the poem, the theme is symbolized by a man chopping wood. Although he may not be the best at what he does, he does what he loves and wants to do. The nature flows through him every time he swings the ax, and that's all that matters to him. Also, in another work, frost writes about the beauty of nature. In the poem "The Road Not Taken ", the man has to make a decision at a fork in the middle of the road. He notices one road has been used many times and the other road looked hardly used "Because it was grassy and wanted wear"(8), he makes the choice to go down th .....

.... a hero will make him the person he wants to be. In reality he doesn't know what he wants, or if he truly wants to be a hero. He runs from a battle confused, he believes that he was better off than the other soldiers who might die were. In the end the character in the book believed that it was better not to run and to make up for his running he fought as hard as he could. The youth believed in what he fought for and even risked his life to hold the flag in the heat of a battle. The other characters also believed in what the fought for in the end of the book and for example the loud soldier who (believed that he wasn't afraid ended up changing and becoming a .....

.... was the dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London for many years. He gave many valedictions in his days as the dean, unfortunately one of his valedictions may have been for his lost wife. Donne was very well educated and grew up surrounded by the church and the arts. These influences no doubt helped to shape his views on love and the passing of life. Each stanza of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is tied together by an " a - b - a - b" rhyme scheme. This is not surprising because of the calming effect expected of this poem. The steady back and forth motion of the rhyme calms down the reader, much as a hug that rocks you back and forth calms you. This .....

.... workhouse asylum. There he found poor conditions and poor nutrition. Some of the children who lived with Oliver died due to systematic starvation: Unfortunately for the experimental philosophy of the female to whose protecting care Oliver Twist was delivered over, a similar result usually attended to the operation of her system; for at the very moment when a child had contrived to exist upon the smallest possible portion of the weakest possible food it did perversely happen in eight and a half cases out of ten, either that it sickened from want and cold, or fell into the fire from neglect, or got half-smothered by accident, in any one of which cases the mi .....

.... is the embodiment of Sethe's pain. is the symbol, if not the child, whom she murdered, an event, which is closely tied to her worst pain. The action of killing occurred while she was trying to kill all her, children and it is the reason that two of her children run from her because they fear for their lives. wishes to consume Sethe, she wants to own Sethe, a relation not unlike that of a master and slave. "I am and she is mine," (Morrison 211) is one of the more eerie statements in the book. How traps Sethe is simple, for Sethe "the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (Morrison 42) and when her past, , catches up with her the futu .....

.... His notebooks are used as part of the chronicle. M. Michel was a concierge and the first person to die of the plague. After his death, many cases of this illness were reported widespread. Father Paneloux was a priest in Oran. Raymond Rambert was a Paris journalist that became trapped in Oran when the plague became widespread. Cottard was a criminal who hides from arrest in Oran, contracted the disease and one of the last few who died from the plague. He looses his sanity at the end of the book and tries to kill a lot of people. Joseph Grand was a petty official and also a writer. Jeanne Grand was the divorced wife of Joseph. M. Othon is Oran's poli .....

.... Invisible Man starts out the book by illustrating his acceptance of society's lies when he was young. "All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often . . . self-contradictory. I was naïve." (15) Here the Invisible Man accepts the masks others have given to him of submissiveness and expected "black behavior," thus becoming the hopeful, innocent boy at the beginning of the novel. As Invisible Man recounts his degrading experience with the white town leaders, he remembers that his lack of indignation was so great that he did not even mind scrambling f .....