... progress of Jane's emotional and temperamental development, it is important to construct a frame of reference, to have a base from which to work towards her final character. Her childhood home, Gateshead provides the groundwork of her emotional/character being, which at the beginning of the story is an isolated creature, devoid of loving and nurturing contact and shunned by humanity. Two excerpts from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact, her reading of Bewick's “History of British Birds,� and her punishment for striking Master John, the stay in the red room of Gateshead. In the opening scene, Jane is fo ...

... in some fashion. I think that I am more of a leader than a follower… more of an activist. I stand for my rights as well as other people’s rights. I was very secure in my feelings through the book in that I was brought up to have an open mind about others racial backgrounds as well as my own. The whole concept of someone disliking someone else due to a racial difference baffles me. Differences between people are the one thing that holds are species together. We embrace it, but yet use it to discriminate, separate, and emotionally destroy others. In Black Like Me, John was a white man that stepped into th ...

... and often risked exile by his own government for expressing such radical views. Many different objects in The Overcoat can be mirrored with the objects of true life. Everything from Akaky Akakyevitch's coat, to his administrator is used by Gogol to symbolize the situation of Russia during Gogol's time. In truth, the Russian government was against the free-thinking man, and so was against Gogol. Akaky himself is used as a symbol of the Russian people. The communists were against any sort of free-thinking, and respected any man who performed his duties without question. Akaky is described in the story as bein ...

... by his friend and mentor.Again, both novels portray the human spirit's motivation and vulnerability. In the novel Frankenstein, Victor, the main character, is driven to insanity and death by his motivation, his own creation.He dedicates all of his time and knowledge to create a living human being from dead tissue.This "monster" becomes his motivation and influence throughout the rest of the novel.Victor blames himself and feels guilt for all of the crimes that the monster commits, and becomes sick and sorrowful.For example, the monster kills Victor's youngest brother William, and he takes the blame and feels the gui ...

... lightens the severity of his predicament and makes living with his problems much easier. Jim Dixon's relationship with Margaret is the source of considerable anxiety and distress; yet, he dodges the need to remedy this. Jim sees Margaret as a girl possessing "minimal prettiness" (Amis, 1953, p. 105), a person who is unenjoyable to spend time with, and whom he knows is manipulative. At the same time, he feels compelled to continue seeing her. Although it is not clear, his behaviour seems to be partly derived from a tragic sense that beautiful girls are not for him. As well, it seems to come from an unpre ...

... each sees a different solution to the chaos. These opinions give the book its fullness and bind it together. Each individual section could not succeed in its goal without the views given in the other sections. They all work together to for m the complete work. The first section is narrated from Benjy's mind. Unfortunately for the reader, Benjy is mentally incapable of clear thought. In other words, this section of the book appears to be a jumbled mess of sounds and senses at first glance. However, this section can be "translated" to make some kind of sense. Once this happens, the story does make sense and d ...

... "Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' She said aloud," (Carroll 20). Alice falls and falls to a point where she cannot even tell how long she has been falling. In reality, falling for long periods of time, such as skydiving, is as close as one can come to true, unaided flight, just like Alice's fall down the rabbit hole People who use hallucinogenic drugs have reported falling, as though they could fly, but few have ever actually felt that they were flying. Even those users who report they are flying report more of a blurred sense of flying, ...

... he had to endure a strange torture of being forced to watch horrific movies. When Alex gets home, all the people that had done him wrong had their revenge on a weak, recuperating Alex. I'll let you find out what happened at the end =). "" is a cult classic. It was Stanley Kubrick's 2nd Critically acclaimed film (the first being "Spartacus"). I was first interested in the book by Anthony Burgess (which in my opinion, is equally as good as the movie). "" contains only a few of the element that can make a good film. One of them is the makeup. Alex and his gang (droogs) all where a makeup when they go out and do ...

... TV and most people owned only one. Today, TV is a big part of people's lives. In a lot of homes there are two or more TV's. Another thing that has become more and more popular are Walkmen and Discmen. In Fahrenheit 451 these are called “seashells.� They are a little bit different but basically the same. Another thing in the book was the “green bullet� which also vaguely relates to Walkmen or walkie-talkies. Almost every kid in the United States owns a Walkman and many tapes or CD's. Many teenagers lives' are spent listening to music. Instead of talking and carrying on a conversation with somebody ...

... it on the river bank. Hester receives her punishment for adultery. Hester must stand up on the platform for three hours while the townspeople participate in her punishment. She must wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life, no matter what she does to redeem herself. Hester, and Pearl were not the same as the rest of the townspeople. No one ever talks to her, and she was not allowed to make any clothing for the other Puritans weddings. Pearl was picked upon by the other children often. Hester was no longer accepted by the Puritans. Dimmesdale has had as much punishment as Hester for their sin. Dimmes ...