... with Phoebe, his younger sister, Holden realizes that this goal is quite unachievable. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye, then realizes it is an unreachable ideal. Holden begins his story misguided and without direction. After flunking out of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before he leaves, though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess ...

... a good person at heart. He was my best friend. And my sister didn’t work. She tended to her house, and did work there. Biddy, a friend of the family often helped us out here and there. She taught me how to read and write. I would often go and visit my parent’s tombstones in the local graveyard down by the marshes. On day while I was there, saying hello to them, I was confronted by a very scary man. A man who would soon change my life forever. He was a scary looking kind of guy, and he was very demanding. He ordered me around to get him things. And from the chains on his feet, I could tell he was a con ...

... dazzeled by the prospect of life in New York, the center of the age of the New Negro. They were people enthalled, the decived in Jazz, by the music. The images of the music were encompased in the young girl Dorcss, whom Joe fell in love with despite his attachement to Violet. The story opens with Dorcas’s funeral, where Violet had tried to slash the poor dead girl’s face, now the town reffered to her as “Violent”. Joe had killed the girl because she had tried to leave him. From that point on the story became a struggle of suffering and survival after the deception of “jazz”. ...

... the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The two men in which didn't even know the Clutter family went into their house and shot all four of them. There were two main characters. Dick is the first one that I will talk about. Dick was 33 years old and he did not have the best character. Dick was one who helped participate in the killing of the Clutter family. I didn't like him from the very beginning. He struck me as the type that is your friend one minute and enemy the next. Perry is the other charecter that I will talk about. Perry wasn't as bad as Dick but yet he still struck me as having a bad character for what he did ...

... The unassuming villa held inside unknown beauty and also unknown pain, as Tess did. The Herons became a mocking island from which Tess could not escape, as she could not escape Alec either. She was trapped there in an awful environment with no way out. Tess did eventually find a way out of the Herons and out of Alec. She finally finished him off by stabbing him in the heart, symbolically breaking his heart as he had done to her years ago. Once he was dead, Tess was free of her sin and could finally have the love of Angel unhindered by her past. She had killed her past in the house which was slowly killing her. T ...

... this means that Candide’s reason is also dead! No problem he just goes finds a new companion, “Lacking him [Pangloss], let’s consult the old woman� (37). He soon loses her, gains another, looses him, and then gains another. Thus we see that Candide can only think if he has a companion. Voltaire is thus saying that all the nobles are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession� mathematicians th ...

... both agreed that they were going to jump side by side at the same time into the river, but in fact what happens was that Gene didn’t fall with Finny and he held on when he shook the branch. This is supported in this quote right before the event, "Side by side we are going to jump… Holding firm to the trunk, I took a step forward to him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb" Gene held on when he could of fell with him like they agreed upon. He even states that he in fact does jounce the limb, which made him fall. Another reason the Gene did it intentionally was because after the accident he couldn’t b ...

... to him. His reason for this is that he does "not want any external influence in [his] life" (Wilde 24). This is almost a paradox in that it is eventually his own internal influence that destroys him. Wilde does this many times throughout the book. He loved using paradoxes and that is why Lord Henry, the character most similar to Wilde, is quoted as being called "Price Paradox." Although Dorian and Basil end up hating each other, they do enjoy meeting each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil ...

... upon as different. He signifies those that look and/or think uniquely. Bernard is the outcast who longs to belong. Bernard is pretty high up in the social system in Brave New World. He is an Alpha Plus at the top of the caste system and he works in the Psychology Bureau as a specialist on hypnopaedia. Bernard, though, is flawed according to his culture on the inside and out. “’He’s so ugly!’…’And then so small.’ Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste’” (46). Bernard’s looks pushed him to be an outsider. His physic ...

... in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the materialistic, superficial Daisy. She is, however, completely undeserving of his worship. "Then it had been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (p.79). Nick realizes Gatsby's estate, parties, shirts and other seemingly "purposeless" possessions are not purposeless. Everything Gatsby does, every move he makes and every decision he conceives is for a reason. He wants to achieve his ideal, Daisy. Gatsby's "purposeless splendor" is all for the wom ...