... positive qualities he is chosen leader of a group of boys on an uninhabited island. Ralph knows the difference between right and wrong and is willing to act as the absent adult figure. He knows that the children could not survive without rules so he makes up a list of rules based upon common sense. It is Ralph’s job to lay down rules and organize some type of society on the island. Throughout the novel we see many changes in Ralph’s character since he is always in conflict with Jack Merridew, the novel’s antagonist. These many changes put Ralph into the category of a round character, one who ...

... Ryan unearthed facts that were unknown before his novel was published. He discloses, for example, that Rommel actually was never informed by his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hans Speidal, about the invasion until ten fifteen on the morning of June sixth, ten hours after the invasion had started. He also reveals many intriguing sidelights: the five crossword puzzles in The London Daily Telegraph containing the key code words of the invasion; the mysterious ill-wrapped envelope which burst open in Chicago’s central post office dumping out the plans for D-Day and the decoding by an alert German intelligence office ...

... no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others."Footnote1 The veil is a metaphor for the separation and invisibility of black life and existence in America and is a reoccurring theme in books abo ut black life in America. Du Bois's veil metaphor, "In those somber forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a veil"Footnote2, is a allusion to Saint Paul's line in Isiah 25:7, "F ...

... is rejected by his family, and he is not cared for properly which results in his death. Following Gregors death is a gleeful ending, which eventually implies that the cycle will be repeated, though this time through his sister. It is apparent even in the first sentence "As Gregor awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (P862, Ph1) that Kafka meant something underneath the surface. Awakening from uneasy dreams could mean awakening from an uneasy, labored life by quitting it all. His transformation could mean how society can compare him to a cockroach for ...

... time. So long that he tried to become an attorney but no one would come to him. Pudd'nhead then started to get into fingerprints. He would take many peoples finger prints and examine them to its fullest. To Pudd'nhead's luck all the fingerprint examining paid off. Pudd'nhead got a job as an attorney at law. He proved the man guilty by fingerprints. By the end of the book I would say Pudd'nhead would have to be the protagonist. The antagonist in this book would have to be the people of Dawson's Landing. They judged him for what he said before even knowing him for very long. You can't judge a person for on ...

... however, it plays a key role in the story. This village plays a key role in the story because Peter meets Sir Philip Morton for the first time after running away from Cumberland and joining the acting company. This chance meeting occurs when Peter stops to view an ongoing play to take his mind away from the troubles he has with Sir Philip Morton. The night before he had arrived in Penrith, Peter, his father, his brother Tom and his neighbors plan to throw down Sir Philip’s wall. They were angry at Sir Philip for his threat to repossess their land. During this siege, Peter was tolled to stand on guard. He ...

... shirts being tossed over his head out of his dresser is a good example of how his money means nothing to him and how he would give it all away to have Daisy. Also his eccentric cars were the center of attention because of their high price and extreme beauty. All of these examples of prosperity represent the lives of the people of this novel to a point. Together, the citizens of this book are more concerned with their possessions and money, than their health and lives. Subsequently, the people at his parties show careless recklessness with their abuse of alcohol and their bodies. First of all, the people at Gatsby¹ ...

... learning about how to be different types of people by imitating their personalities. When he comes out of apprenticeship and becomes a man, Duddy has to decide on one type of person to be for the rest of his life. Duddy's Uncle Benjy tried to explain this and make it clear to Duddy in his letter by saying, "A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others." (p.279) I think that this was the best advice he ever got, but he didn't need it; in the end he allows himself to become the con-artist, the sly scammer person without even realising that he had a decision in the matte ...

... little information about the character’s situation or their pasts, the use of symbolism in the character’s dialogue throughout the story makes it a whole lot easier to understand. The only thing I really noticed the first time I read the story was the tension between the two main characters throughout the story. In the first dialogue, there seems to be some tension between Jig and the American man. They speak to each other in short sentences and Jig starts getting sarcastic with her male companion (Hemingway doesn’t state whether they are married) when he says that he’s never seen whi ...

... virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.� All along, I felt sorry for Nick being dragged into more and more tragedy, but I especially felt bad for him during one instance. His friend Daisy was married to Tom, but Tom was having an affair with Mrs. Wilson and Daisy had a thing for Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were driving home from town after an argument amongst the group of friends when they passed the Wilson’s gas station. Mrs. Wilson ran out to Gatsby’s car, because they were driving Tom’s car, and was hit. Mr. Wilson went positively crazy, and Nick ...