... 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”. ...

... That in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important work of literature as it is one of the few books supporting the Indian cause. This is done through the use of council records, autobiographies, and first-hand accounts. Each of the book's nineteen chapters deals with a certain tribe, battle, or historical event. Brown goes into deep and explicit detail throughout, as evidenced by the book's nearly 500 pages. However, while some may complain Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is boring or text-book-like, I believe the opposite is actually true. Generally, very little is known about this terrible genocide a ...

... theme of sin, isolation and reunion. One the main places in the setting that he uses this process is the scaffold. The scaffold is used in the novel for a place to show sin in the beginning of the story when Hester is displayed on it. Also during this scene it was used to isolate her from the rest of the community. Then later in the story it is used again when Arthur stands up on the platform of the scaffold giving false penance, which drives him further into isolation. Then at the end of the story it is used again to reunite Arthur with himself, the community and God before dies. It is also used in this scen ...

... five-act pattern. In Act I, the Act of Introduction, the setting, characters, and plot are introduced to the reader. The background and setting of the play are introduced in order for the reader to fully understand it. In Act II, the Act of Development, the plot develops, the conflict intensifies, and signs of character’s flaws appear. Act III is the Act of Tragic Decision. Characters usually act under the influence of a tragic flaw, causing them to make a crucial decision. In Act IV, the Act of Falling Action, the character realizes the error in the decision. In a futile effort, they try to revers ...

... The doctor who had resided in the upper-class section of the town, refused to assistant the child, turning them away when they arrived at the door. Lastly they turned to the sea to seek their fortune. When Juana set sight on the "Pearl of The World." she felt as though all her prayers had been answered, if she could have foreseen the future what she would have seen would have been a mirror image of her reality. Juana's husband was caught in a twisted realm of mirrors, and they were all shattering one by one. In the night he heard a "sound so soft that it might have been simply a thought..." and quickly attack ...

... thy forehead gaze: Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest.� This is a very pleasant to her ears and had the speaker curbed his impatience he might have gotten the girl. Getting frustrated the speaker’s arguments become more graphic and less genteel as the poem progresses, as he appears to become increasingly desperate. “…then worms shall try that long preserved virginity.� This man is trying to convince her that if she were to die a virgin, her virginity would go to the worms. The point he is trying to make here is that why should she wait to have sex. That she should give i ...

... the book, where Jem becomes disagreeable, moody, and displays general discontentment with his sister and her conduct. Jem said of scout: "It's time you started bein' a girl and acting right!"(115). Scout was reasonably appalled by his new manner, and asked Atticus about it. "Reckon he's got a tapeworm?"(115). Although Scout's conceptions about his [Jem's] behavior may have been wrong in some respects, she was right to recognize he wasn't acting his usual self. I believe these behavioral changes may have been because of Jem acquiring a mask. He began wearing this mask around the start of his teenage years, as a re ...

... If this boy had stabbed him, it would have been a an underhand cut. Not like the overhand wound found on his dad. What about the old man claiming to hear the boy yell? How could this be possible? The old man does not have that good of hearing. Also, at that same time, the train was going by his house. This train is very loud. How could an old man with poor hearing hear this? . This old man is not a believable witness to the murder of this man. You can't believe what he said. The train was just too loud for him to possibly hear the yells of the boy. After leaving his house, the boy went to see a m ...

... an Indian person marring a non-Native, perceived as non-Indian also from that point on. Hence, that person may not receive monetory benefits any farther. “It has everything to do with history--the signing of treaties, the refusal of government to acknowledge and correct the illegal expropriation of prime lands in North America� (69). By Canadian law McDonald could no longer live or be among her own people. She was devasted, spiritually wounded. Her “roots�, which is one of the most important aspects of Indian culture, were severed. “I stood alone, once more, but this time naked--stripped of my identity and ...

... we have. These classes of society can really make people talk, and act differently towards some people. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the novel shows these classes really well. In the beginning of the novel, we see a little bit of the black class, and how they were treated. “Miss. Watson’s big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear” (14). Jim, Miss. Watson’s run away slave in the story, is part of the black class. We see the sub ordinance that blacks were placed in America, because blacks were not allowed to be in the house, because t ...