... history, Snowball is like Trotsky, who is Stalin's rival. Snowball and Trotsky are always trying to get the animals and people to understand that what the leader is doing is not best for them. In both cases, Stalin and Napoleon get tired of the competition and run them off by turning the animals and people against them. Boxer is a cart horse who works night and day on the windmill and for Napoleon's cause. When he hurts his hoof and is unable to work, Napoleon is uncaring and sends him off to the slaughterhouse since he is of no further use. Some of the animals come to realize what is happening and are mad at N ...

... important person in their life, but yet a chore, something they regretfully did everyday. “And yet she had loved him-sometimes. Often she had not-What did it matter!”(13) When told of the news or her husband’s death, Louise Mallard reacted in the only way she knew how; she completed her “job” as the wife by storming into tears and weeping in her sister’s arms. She felt no horror or shock, just grief that this person, this “friend”, had passed away. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its si ...

... in this book, Conrad Jarett tries to kill himself. He attempts suicide because he is depressed about his older brother's death. He lost his brother in a boating accident and he blames himself for his death. He believes that he could have prevented the accident by coming in from the sea when the waters began to get rough. However, there was nothing that Conrad could have done to prevent the boat from capsizing. His attempt to commit suicide is one of the things that makes him unordinary from normal teenagers. In the real world, many teenagers attempt suicide. But, this is not ordinary. It is unusual fo ...

... battle of self-hatred by obtaining blue eyes, but not just any blue. She wants the bluest of the blue, the bluest eye. One of the main themes in this book is the fact that Pecola’s madness was not brought on by herself, but rather society and in particular, her family. Pecola Breedlove is an innocent little girl who, like very other young child, did not ask to be born in this cruel world. It is bad enough that practically the whole world rejects her, but her own parents are guilty of rejection as well. Her own father, who is constantly drunk, sexually molests his daughter more than once. The first time he has sex ...

... causing her to fall back striking her head. When Jane tried to defend herself, John was hurt and called for his mother and the servants. Jane was locked in the room in which her Uncle died, for the whole night, as punishment for misbehavior. D. Jane is a girl who is used to unjust treatment. Most of her life she had to live in a house with no one who cared for her and no one she cared about. When she leaves Lowood ( the school she attended as a child and teenager ), I believe she is looking for happiness. Jane is extremely independent, for instance when she walked all the way to town to mail her letter. She is also v ...

... beginning of the novel, it would seem that both Huck Finn and Jim are trapped in some way and wishing to escape. For Huck, it is the violence and tyranny of his drunken father. Kept in a veritable prison, Huck wishes desperately to escape. Jim feels the need to escape after hearing that his owner, Miss Watson, wishes to sell him down the river-a change in owners that could only be for the worse. As they escape separately and rejoin by chance at an island along the river, they find themselves drawn to get as far as possible from their home. Their journey down the river sets the stage for most of Mark Twain's comments ...

... of a loss of power incomparably impedes progress on the island. Stating, "‘I ought to be chief, because I am chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.'" (Golding 22), Jack simply tries to find any kind of reason why power should be taken out of the deserving hands of Ralph and given to his own. Jack demonstrates his dread towards losing control and power. Ralph handles the situation very efficiently and in a well-organized manner. Because of Jack's greed for power and his fear of losing it, the small community of young boys are not able to effectively and pragmatically plan ways to eventually be ...

... beginning, however it has brought fortune for him at the end when he eventually reunited with Mr. Brownlow. In Great Expectations, Pip has been abused mentally and physically by his sister. Pip is mentally scared of his sister when his sister beats him up physically with a tickler, which is a wax-ended piece of cane. “Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she's out now, making it a baker's dozen� “Is she?� “Yes Pip,� said Joe; “and what's worse, she's got a Tickler with her.� At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my w ...

... possesses. Atticus knows children need guidance and understands that the things he says to his children can have a profound effect on them. Joe believes he must communicate his feelings to Pip about his own actions and tell Pip what he needs to know. When Pip tells lies to Joe, Mrs. Joe, and Uncle Pumblechook about Miss Havisham and reveals this fact to Joe, Joe becomes upset with Pip. “‘Terrible?’ cried Joe. ‘Awful! What possessed you?’�(99) Joe can not believe what he is hearing and takes the right course of action by making Pip really think about what he has done. A child like Pip does not see the co ...

... man who lived in the Florida area. Janie allowed him to kiss her over the fence. Unfortunately, Nanny saw everything. With Nanny’s horrendous background of sinful deeds done to her, she wanted the best for Janie. As she saw the kiss, the doors of life opened for Janie and Nanny wasn’t going to have her make the same mistakes that she had. Yet, Nanny had been impregnated under the circumstances of being a slave and this was not the case for Janie. Nanny stated that “black women were the mules of the world”, but she didn't want Janie to be a mule. She wanted to see Janie in a secure situation be ...