... a boy named Steve, who is ashamed of his street, because everyone keeps making fun of it. He does not recognize the beauty of his street and only sees the bad points of his home. He later learns to appreciate Sandra Street and sees the finer aspects of it after talking to his teacher, Mr. Blades, who tells him to open his eyes and be more aware of the good things in Sandra Street. Steve then goes on a walk with his teacher and realizes the significance of his home. Steve recognizes the finer aspects of his neighborhood and sees beautiful features that he had never notices before. By the end of the story, it d ...

... surrounding. In so doing, it establishes a contrast between darkness and light, which evokes a sinister irony. In such tales, darkness often prevails, and according to literary scholars, elevated these horror stories into “Gothic sublime” (Bernstein 333). Specifically, the Gothic sublime symbolizes a “black hole which finally absorbs history into its own emptiness” (Bernstein 333). Gothic fiction is, quite simply, man taking a “walk on the dark side.” There is, undeniably, no novel which epitomizes the popular Gothic structure more than Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ...

... brawn and brutality will often overwhelm intellect (Piggy represents the intellectual part of society). Jack even goes as far as to break Piggy’s glasses, another symbol of order and society, which shows how he is going to later destruct and eventually destroy every last part of normal society that remains on the island. The second part is life and death. In this case, Jack represents death. This is first symbolized by Jack’s black choir cloak, since black is associated with death. When Jack first appears, he comes out of the “darkness of the forest” and Ralph, the symbol of goodness, cannot s ...

... physical blindness to reveal to Oedipus his mental blindness. Lastly, Teiresias is ultimately responsible for imposing dramatic irony because of his great knowledge of the truth of Oedipus. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, the character of Teiresias is developed in such a way that he utilizes many dramatic devices in order to reveal information and move the play along.As a fortune teller, Teiresias is able to see the fate and destruction of Oedipus’ life. Teiresias uses his great ability to reveal to the reader the downfalls in Oedipus’ life that will soon occur because of his quest to know his fate. Th ...

... he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which teaches them the "great" life without man and with no more bad leaders: Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings, Of the golden future time. Soon or late the day is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, And the fruitful fields of E ...

... we discover that Lennie has a weakness for soft things.. i.e mice and this had caused them to be ran out of Weed, a town upstate, after Lennie had grab the hold of a womans dress and refused to let go. The woman then thought she was being attacked and the townsfolk sent a lynch mob after George and Lennie. They managed to escpae after hiding in a drain pipe that whole day. This incident greatly angers George because it lost them their job and out their dreams one step further away. Their goal was to own a shack and an acre of land that they can call their own and to live of the "fat of the land' and Lenn ...

... of Southern society firsthand, especially through false notions of aristocracy. Huck observes that "[He] hadn't seen no house out in the country before that had so much style."(97) The Grangerfords house, is seen as a grand house to those inside. This fancy house makes a visitor think of the sophisticated homes in town, however they are still back country people who only view their home as having style for the things inside. In the parlor of this house "there [are] beautiful curtains on the windows, white with pictures painted of castles."(101) The curtains painted with castles give the family a false feeling of be ...

... very close and Victor showed unconditional love toward Elizabeth. Victor was also blessed with a second brother, William. Victor had the most fulfilled childhood, which is why it was so peculiar that he went of the deep end. After Victor’s mother died, his father thought it best that Victor attend school in Ingolstadt, where he would study natural philosophy and chemistry. Victor is an obsessive compulsive person. When he gets involved in something, he engrosses himself in it. He began to study all the time and was, for the most part, unsociable. He became intrigued by the human frame and what gives it li ...

... the mysterious forest, for the four main characters. Hawthorne uses the forest to provide a "shelter" for the members of society in need of a refuge from daily Puritan life. In the deep, dark crevices of the forest, many of the central characters bring forth hidden thoughts and emotions. The forest track leads away from the settlement out into the wilderness where all signs of civilization vanish. This is precisely the escape route from the strict ordinances of law and religion. It is a refuge where all humankind, can open up and naturally be themselves, and here that Dimmesdale openly acknowledges Hester and his u ...

... most corrupt character in the novel. His brutal methods of ruling the farm draw strange but clear comparison to his human character Joseph Stalin. Napoleon is described as "a large, rather fierce-looking boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way" (Orwell 25). He dominates the political scene on Manor Farm, controls the education of the youth, and is a brilliant strategist when it comes to rallying support for his cause. Napoleon, throughout the novel, fails to present an idea that is original, but tends to take credit for the ideas of others (Meyers 10 ...