... loves tennis. She finally finds something that she is good at, and practically makes her into a celebrity. Kathy is told by many people, including Marty her tennis instructor, that she has got what it takes to make it to the top. When Kathy plays against Ruth, she becomes annoyed because it should have been a simple match. When she finds out ruth is dead, people accuse Kathy of it, and kathy even blames herself. Kathy proves she was at the ball game the night of the murder. She regains her confidence, and works her way up to the top. Julia and Kathy have been best friends since they were in first grade. Beca ...

... to work. The Grapes of Wrath combines Steinbeck adoration of the land, his simple hatred of corruption resulting from materialism (money) and his abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile environment. The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the turtle at the beginning ...

... seven long years of traveling, the rough looking, worn out Caledan Caldorien is returning to his home town Ireaebor and finds it has been taken over by a tyrant known as Cutter. In Caledan's absence, Cutter has passed many ridiculous laws and anyone violating any of these is forced into slavery under the Tor which the city is set upon, where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil power, believed to be. Caledan finds this out through a connection within the slums and goes to find his old traveling companions who once made up the Company ...

... of Atticus when he shoots the mad, rabid dog. At this scene he also takes many risks. Atticus risks the chance of missing, and the dog running up, and attacking them. He also risks the chance of shooting a non rabid dog. Atticus could miss the dog, and cause damage to a living, and or a non-living thing. Thirdly it is courageous of Atticus to be willing to charge Jem with Bob Ewell's death. He risked the loss of Jem in the process. He also risked the chance of Jem getting mad at Atticus, and never talking to him. Also It was courageous of Atticus to teach his children not prejudge others until they really know w ...

... wears only poor clothing while she embroiders marvelous works for the rest of Boston. The only piece of clothing forbidden to create was the wedding vail. How could a woman wearing the scarlet letter create a dress that represents the values of marriage; having committed sin as she did to be involved in the marital bonds of another couple. Although she does the job willingly and rarely ever looks back to the horrid past behind. The scarlet letter was constantly worn by Hester with pride and dignity. Hester knew that what was done in the past was wrong and that the scarlet A was the right thing to do, therefor i ...

... their people out to war. Two authors that conveyed this war time really well were Stephen Crane and Robert E. Lee. Stephen Crane depicted the attitudes of Americans at that time really well. In his poem "War Is Kind" he shows us how tired Americans were of war. This poem is very strong and emotional because he gives us mental images of how horrible war is. In this piece Crane keeps repeated "war is kind". These three words really show how he and other Americans felt about war. He is not saying that war is good. He is saying this in a sarcastic way. For example, he talks about how peoples loved ones are dyin ...

... of a self-sufficient man, an entrepreneur making it successful for himself. The is about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s, a time period when the dream had been corrupted by the avaricious pursuit of wealth. The pursuit of the American Dream is the sublime motivation for accomplishing one's goals and producing achievements, however when tainted with wealth the dream becomes devoid and hollow. Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is one character who longs for the past. Surprisingly, he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Gats ...

... Steinbeck begins his narrative with a very detailed physical description of Elisa. She is a thirty-five year old women living in Selemas Valley in central California (304). She has a “lean and strong�(304) face. Elisa’s eyes are “as clean as water� (304). Her figure appears “blocked and heavy in her gardening costume� (304). She had on a pair of “clodhopper shoes� and a “man’s black hat pulled down over her eyes�(304). Her figure is completely covered by a “corduroy apron with four big pockets� (304). She wears a pair of “heavy le ...

... to hold them together, he was the glue that made them stick together when trouble came. There was only one thing that could dissolve the, the arrival of the two brothers. - When Eddie dies, the audience is expected to feel sympathetic and upset for the loss of the main character. Alfieri enhances this feeling with words, in his final speech. ‘I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients’ This makes me think that Eddie wasn’t stupid, and he wasn’t a fool, he was just oblivious to the fact that Catherine was going to grow up, to love others but him, he couldn’t understa ...

... with her stepmother, and founded in her a friend. William-as he was described in the novel, he looked faintly mischievous. His face was impressive. He had penetrating gray eyes, thick brown hair, an aquiline nose and thin lips. He was of smart stature, very thin and stooped slightly. He was beastly, cold inside and hellish. He was much older then Mary and he didn’t love her and during their marriage he always had a lover. The story begins with the description of Mary’s family. When she was turning 15, she had to get married with Prince of Orange-William, and had left her family, moving to Hague. Mary ...