... different in the Chinese culture is that the spouse you marry is not yet wholly yours until you have had sex. Wang Lung still tries to impress O-lan and wonders if she even likes him. O-lan comes out to be a very hard worker and is much help in the house. She fits in very well. Chapter 3: O-lan has the first baby and it is a boy. O-lan also tells Wang that she will return to the House of Hwang to show the mistress her baby. Wang Lung goes loco and plans to do a lot of thing to celebrate the birth. He plans to die a basketful of eggs red and give them out so that everyone will know he has a son. Chapter 4: O-lan ...

... others were also suck on the island so he blew the pink lips of the shell to get them to come to were he was. As the story went on the colors of the conch began to change. It changed, as the boys grew farther apart. When Jack’s troops split off from the rest of the boys it had become more of a white color a little more brittle than it had been when they first found it. It still had the power over the boys though they still listened to the person who was holding the shell. By the time Piggy was killed though the conch had changed to a bleached color though, and was very brittle. When Piggy died the conch w ...

... morals and thought (as Swift intends) In each land Gulliver visits, there is a different ironic comparison to English/European politics and philosophy. Book 1 (Lilliput) is a rich satire of the English politics of Swift's time. The small but extremely immoral Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose viscious foreign policy and accusations of treason agaainst members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of the Lilliputians is in inverse proportion to the amount of their corruption. Similarly, the Brobdingnagians find Gulliver's culture to be too violent for the size of its people, and Gulli ...

... the school would set off guilt within him. Devon brought back memories of Finny, and Gene just had to get away from there. Therefore, Gene escaped, and joined the navy. It was there, in the navy, where Gene tried to forget about his past, tried to rid himself of all the feelings of pain and guilt, but failed. “I never talked about Phineas and neither did anyone else; he was, however present in every moment of everyday…� However after many years Gene stabilized and was able to realize that although these feelings of guilt might stay with him forever, he must learn how to live them. Although, Gene lived a hard ...

... ). He believed that he would make a difference in battle and would have a direct impact on the outcome of battle. When Henry arrives for his duty in the military he begins to second guess himself. Henry begins to think that he will not fight but he will run from battle like a coward. In Chapter Three Henry is tested in battle for the first time and stays and fights like a man should. This is the first time that Henry sees a realistic viewpoint of war. Henry begins to become angered for his government sending him on this deathmarch, then he realizes that he had enlisted voluntarily. Henry still had an idealisti ...

... cannot--so he hangs himself III. The pity aroused by Achebe A. The people do not like Okonkwo for his treatment of less successful men (26). B. Death of Ikemefuna (87) C. Okonkwo beats Nwoye, due to his attraction to the Christian faith.(148-153) IV. The fear aroused by Achebe A. When Okonkwo learns that Ikemefuna must die, the reader fears that he will die, and how he will end up dying. (87) B. When the priestess says that Agbala wishes to speak to Enzima, we wonder (also due to Ekwefi’s fear) C. Fear is aroused when the conflict develops between Okonkwo and Nwoye over the argument of Nwoye’s ...

... story made me realized the dissimilarity between the ruled and the rulers, and the reality that when people are left with no choice and money, that stealing and murder is the only way to protect and feed their families. In the story Steven Kumalo, a black reverend, sends his son, Absalom, to Johannesburg to find his sister who's husband had gone looking for work in the mines. After a couple months, Steven became concerned since he had heard no word from his son. When he travels to Johannesburg to search for his sister and son, he is abject to find that his sister, who had become very frail, was forced to become a ...

... and Jim a certain amount of freedom in actions, words, and emotions. "Freedom in this book," as Marx says, "specifically means freedom from society and its imperatives." (346) Huck senses this truth when he mentions how "other places feel so cramped and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." (96) He resents the objectives and beliefs and the so-called "civilized" people of the society around him. He disbelieves what societal beliefs have been ingrained in his mind since his birth, which is shown by his close friendship with Jim, a runaway slave. The river is the onl ...

... Blanche hung on to it unable to move on and face reality. Blanche comes to Stella in an unbalanced state of mind in need of her sister's aid. The impression is given that this isn't the first time Stella has been there to help Blanche through a time of trouble. As much as she needs her help and as much as she respects her, Blanche strongly disapproves of her sister's new life. Stella tolerates Blanche's continual criticism of her husband, home and friends very well. From this and many other incidents throughout the play we see what a tolerant and adaptable person Stella is. Stan and Stella's relationship is far fr ...

... just like any other heroes, at the end, she returns to her home with a victory on her hands. Janie who continually finds her being defined by other people rather than by herself never feels loved, either by her parents or by anybody else. Her mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her. All she had was her grandmother, Nanny, who protected and looked after her when she was a child. But that was it. She was even unaware that she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marr ...