... what I mean." The contractions; you'd and can't - since they are common in everyday language - establish a very common and simple tone. Stress on the first syllable of "different," reinforces the tone by demonstrating how typically they speak, just as in reality. He uses dashes for pauses and signaling associative digressions. Instead of signaling pauses, commas are used mostly where mechanically required, for instance: "So all of a sudden, I ran like a madman across the street - I damn near got myself killed doing it, if you want to know the truth - and went in this stationary store and bought a pad and pencil." ...

... [Spade] looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan” (p. 3). Suggesting he is not angelic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isn’t true to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un-charming hero concept the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the “things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammett’s message.” Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with Mike from ‘The House of Games.’ Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid O’Shaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him using her ...

... text, and how Puritanism forms the basis for Bradford's motivation in writing. In Bradford's text, there are numerous instances in which his beliefs affect his interpretation of what happens. In Chapter IX (nine) of "Of Plymouth Plantation", entitled "Of Their Voyage…" , he tells of a sailor "..of a lusty, able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end". But, "it pleased God before they came half-seas over, to smite this young man with ...

... trials the results can be devastating. The Crucible is a heartfelt tale of agony and devotion. Throughout Salem's struggle for justice and purity, the townspeople are faced with a question, "Are we really messengers of God?" Everyone handles the question differently. Those of the town who are in positions of power, such as Judge Danforth, doubt themselves, but must admit to being true messengers of God for the sake of political hierarchy. Danforth admits this in his lecture to Reverend Hale, "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till ...

... interpretation. Other ways of interpreting these symbols can be as an expression of an author's inferiority complex (A. Adler) or of human desires repressed by society (C.G. Jung). There is also a difference in the approach taken by psychoanalytic critics. For example, those of Freud's generation would concentrate on the author and his state of mind, however, later critics focussed more on an analysis of the characters. A psychoanalytic interpretation of The Turn of the Screw can bring about many questions. Primarily those concerning the ghosts, the sanity of the governess and the goodness of the children. A p ...

... mother would never get the money to which they considered themselves entitled. However, James urges us to understand, this does not matter. Murder, for whatever reason it is committed, is still murder, and it is always wrong. However, the murder of Enid Bolam is not the only violation of the social order which James describes in this book. Chief amongst his other villains is Peter Nagle, the young and attractive porter at the Steen Clinic. Peter is also a gifted painter, and is only working at the clinic to pay his living expenses while he waits for a prestigious arts grant to come his way. However, Peter is in ...

... days but Ellen did not believe this. Ellen left the house in the middle of the storm with her baby and was on her way to her parents house. Paul noticed they had left and went out searching for them. He later found Ellen crouched in a drift of sand, the baby had died. So, as you can see Ellen was a very negative type of person, a complete failure. She was always thinking negatively and could never say anything positive about the situation. I think she found later found out how much of a mistake it was when the baby died. It did all create success in the end. The storm finally ended in the three days Paul said ...

... put the book down. In the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured. The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son. The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character view to another, to piece together a whole view of the story. Th ...

... Socs jumped him. The Socs pulled a knife and threatened to hurt him. Before anything really happened Soda and Darry pulled him away from the Socs. Ponyboy was afraid to complain to Darry. Sodapop and Dary always took Ponyboy with them places. One of Soda’s friends Steve was always with them. He was Soda’s best friend. They both worked at a gas station. They always were the busiest. Maybe it was because Steve knew so much about cars or maybe because Soda could have any girl he wanted. Steve Randle was seventeen years old. He was tall and thin. Then there was Two-Bit Mathews. His real name was Keith and h ...

... a maiden. This situation is similar to that of the Wife of Bath and her first three husbands. She had all the power and domination over her husbands. They were constantly trying to satisfy her lust. She believed that the only way she could he happy was if she had complete sovereignty over her husbands. However, a relationship in which one member takes complete domination never results in happiness. As the wife develops, he enters into a relationship where the powers of both dominance and submission are absent. She believes that her relationship can be successful with out these two characteristics. Yet, she is le ...