... do such a horrid thing, how could he soak his own home in blood? Even after Odysseus had killed Atinoos, those who begged mercy saying that Antinoos had led them to their dishonor, were slain brutally. All this harshness to others because Odysseus desired revenge on the number of men lusting for Penelope. This seems unjustifiable, and very inhumane. Odysseus was so overcome with his hate that he lost control, perhaps it was his years of denying the power of the gods that led him to brutality. Odysseus’s actions are indeed aggressive and morality at this point in his life seems to have faded. All these thin ...

... of the most respected figures in English History, was a well-known writer and a statesman. He would be known or being the author of the book Utopia and his religious stance against Kng Henry VIII that would later cost him his life. Thomas More was born in London in 1478, during the last years of the reign of King Edward IV. When Thomas was five years old,Edward IV died and left throne to Edward V. He then died shortly after and Richard III became king. Thirty years later, More would become Rchard’s biographer. Two years afterwards King Richard III was slain in the Battle of the Roses. Henry VII later became ...

... this in his book by showing how a once respected member of the community, Hester, became an outcast for life after making a simple judgement error. I am very grateful that things today are different and knowing that if I mess up in life, I can always pick up the pieces and count on my friends to be there for me. Back then, if you didn’t follow the rules exactly, you had a dark cloud hanging over you for the rest of your life. All of your friends would turn on you and make your life miserable, there weren’t any true loyalties, and you couldn’t really trust anyone. The took place in Boston, Massachusetts ...

... King, Mary Stewart's The Hollow Hills, and Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset. In T.H. White's The Once and Future King, which also takes place in the Middle Ages during the fifteenth century. It is similar to Malory's account, but the style and some of the details are different. It begins with Arthur living with Merlin. He continues living with him up until the day of the tournament. On the day of the tournament, he is given to Sir Ector and Sir Kay. From that point on, he is referred to as Wart. The first the reader hears of the sword in the anvil is when Ector, Kay, and Arthur hear of Uther's death for ...

... a million. And then after Huck tells Aunt Polly that he is Tom, Tom shows up...uh-huh, I bet. It is things such as those I just mentioned that make it very difficult for me to read a book without becoming frustrated. It is probably because I am used to real life and like it or not real life is just not that perfect. My other gripe was that Twain seems to ramble on and on and on an..... To me it seems as if the story that he was writing became faint shortly after the time when Huck says, “It's me. George Jackson, sir�(pg. 95). I do have to give him that the feud was interesting filler, but you can only tak ...

... the parts for his creature, is the only one possible to blame for its appearance. Martin Tropp states that the monster is "designed to be beautiful and loving, it is loathsome and unloved" (64). Clearly it is Frankenstein's lack of foresight in the creation process to allow for a creature that Frankenstein "had selected his features as beautiful," (56) to become something which the very sight of causes its creator to say "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"(56). He overlooks the seemingly obvious fact that ugliness is the natural result when something is made from parts of different corpses and put tog ...

... is an easy banter between the two of them. While they have settled into a fairly familiar and ordinary routine, they are still responsive to each other’s sense of accomplishment and agree to celebrate with a night on the town. Elisa is earthbound, rooted securely in her garden but also held down by her connection to it. Their house is described as “hard-swept� and “hard-polished,� and is the only outlet for her talents. However, Elisa needs something more in her life than a neat house and a good garden. Their marriage is childless and conventional and she has begun to sense that an important part of her is ...

... that took the lives of so many of their comrades. Before they had a chance to live the war engulfed their youthful aspirations to conquer the world. Torn apart by war, yet unified by the noble cause of defending their country in all its glory. ''On the threshold of life, they faced an abyss of death.'' Among the many new recruits, Paul Baumer and his classmates, enlist with youthful enthusiasm in the German army of World War I. As soldiers they know not what awaits them on the battle field. Many of their comrades will die before their very eyes. And for what? They don't know ...

... In the novel, Ellison conveys this to us in many ways. At the Invisible Man’s college campus, he describes to the reader a statue of Booker T. Washington, the founder of the school, which shows Washington lifting a veil from a kneeling slave. The Invisible Man wonders if the veil is really being lifted or is the veil being lowered. Symbolically, Ellison is showing us a sense of blindness, or being invisible to the world. Thus giving the reader the illusion that education is being hidden from the blacks, denying them of a proper education. “I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is ...

... the young soldier’s worst nightmare, which gives him conflicting thoughts, emotions, and fears. The young character soon realizes as all of these things affect him emotionally and physically, that the war is very different from what he had hoped it was going to be. Although the soldier becomes nervous and even runs away at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he eventually returns to find that he and his fellow soldiers have grown. They had learned more about themselves than they ever believed possible. The young soldier becomes a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book. Stephen Crane brings the reader i ...