... me a lot. I'm conditioned to the point where I feel guilty for going out because I know they don't like it. It sucks because all my other friends don't have to go through the same thing. Their parents let them go where ever they want at any time." Wong was born in San Jose. Still living with his parents, he has experienced situations where he felt torn between two cultures. Wong's parents came to America in 1974. For the first couple of years, they lived a life not exposing themselves to the American culture. Once Wong started school, his surrounding influenced him, as in his friends who spoke "perfec ...

... another planet. Mars is perhaps the most common source, in early SF literature, for invasions into Earth - the most famous example being H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. In Bradbury's novel, we see how it can happen the other way around. As in Wells' work, here, too, the Martians are killed by Earth's bacteria -- but rather than a case of victory in a war, this is a sad disaster. The desease wiped out a beautiful, wise, and ancient civilization. The book depicts humankind as mostly violent in nature. Bradbury holds a mirror in front of the reader's face, and the reflected image is not very nice. The science in the boo ...

... with no help, and she was only 13. She was a young girl and it was hard to do the right thing in America with the Cambodian ways. Then there is Jonathan. Jonathan is an American boy who falls in love with Sundara, but she is not allowed to be around because he is white. Jonathan does anything he can to be with Sundara and it all worked out at the end. Soka is Sundara’s aunt, but now she has Sundara as a responsibility. Ravy is Sundara’s Cousin. He falls quickly into the American ways. Yet, no one stops him. Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon are Jonathan’s parents. Mr. McKinnon saved Ravy’s life when he came to America. ...

... matches wits with the most fearsome of the dinosaurs in their home territory and in his time period. To me, this was the perfect addition to his already fabulous collection of writings. The setting was on a remote island in Costa Rica which is part of a chain of the five islands named somehow after death called Isla Muerte, Isla Matanceros, Isla Pena, Isla Tacano, and of course Isla Sorna. Isla Sorna is the island where it all takes place in an overgrown InGen factory that runs on sulfuric fumes. One quote describing the island was "Thorne glimpsed rugged, volcanic terrain, overgrown with dense jungle. This ...

... the reader’s attention and creating suspense. Both Grafton and Cornwell are using the introduction and the development of characters, the setting and the plot in writing a good suspense novel. Characters introduced in the novel have a great influence on the outcome of the novel, and by getting to know about the characters the reader is kept in suspense. He wants to continue reading and finding more about those strange and different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer� the victim is Lorna Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdn ...

... the Wife of Bath in the General Prologue as a stereotypical ordinary woman for that day in age. He only gives a brief description of physical appearance and a possible glimmer of a strong minded female. "In making cloth she showed so great a bent / She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent. /… Bold was her face, handsome, and red in hue. / A worthy woman all her life…(31)" These passages depict a woman who has a normal physical appearance and who is good at making clothes, a typical female ability. The general prologue does not show the strong willed, intelligent, independent woman that the Wife of Bath ...

... by Milton, who opens the book by mourning his loss of sight. It is through this loss of physical vision, however, that Milton is able to more clearly portray Heaven: So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Hughes, 51-55). Milton's lack of sight is an asset here. We are forced as readers to look upon this scene with the same physical blindness that Milton had. He makes it clear that we could not see it anyway. Instead we must seek ...

... his Puritan community is not virtuous. Brown discovered that the entire community including his wife, whom is portrayed as being pure, indulges in sin and therefore Brown’s life turns dark due to his loss of hope. Literary critic Mark Van Doren states: “Young Goodman Brown” means exactly what it says, namely that its hero left his pretty young wife one evening … to walk by himself in a primitive New England woods, the Devil’s territory,…and either to dream or actually to experience (Hawthorne will not say) the discovery that evil exist in every human heart…Brown is changed ...

... in such an environment is the underlying subject of the novel, which can serve as our aim of exploration. The opening chapters of the work are as crucial as childhood can be; the books, especially Bewick's British Birds, that Jane reads at Gateshead determine her imagination: in the pictures she paints, the way she interprets her story. The shocking account of that extreme terror and brutality she suffers from John and Mrs Reed (the book flung at her, shut up in the red-room) points out that the fountainhead of her emotional life is the experience of oppression. Yet, her little self is full of fiery energy ...

... of racism in the South during the early twentieth century. Harper Lee's effective use of racial symbolism can be seen by studying various examples from the book. This includes the actions of the children, the racist whites, and the actions of Atticus Finch. The actions of the children in this novel certainly do have their share of symbolism. For instance, the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one winter is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then covered it with what snow they had. One could interpret this in two diffe ...