... The character Drew Ballinger in Deliverance is a sales supervisor at a soft-drink company who is very devoted to his son and his job. Drew is the character who represents the middle-aged man's desire for talent and attention. Drew plays the guitar and his music is his true companion. Without having any talent, as he would be the first to tell you, Drew played mighty w ...

... in the book in that she awakens a love and desire in Montag to enjoy the simple things in life. Clarisse attains this knowledge from her uncle who reads the forbidden books. Clarisse suddenly dies from fatal car accident, and Montag is devastated that she dies so soon after meeting her. Meanwhile at the fire station, Montag is discovered hiding his books by the fire chief, Captain Beatty. "A natural error. Curiosity alone … We let the fireman keep the book twenty-four hours. If he hasn’t burned it by then we come and burn it for him." (pg. 68) Beatty lets Montag keep the book until that night when Montag w ...

... true value of kindliness and being able to forgive and forget. Jane seems to be consistently moving from one type of servitude to another throughout the novel, from her beginnings at Gateshead under Mrs. Reed and Mr. Brocklehurst at Lowood Academy, to Rochester at Thornfield, and then to St. John at Moor House. She Jane ultimately realizes that attaining true liberty is not only beyond her power, but it is also not really her true desire. She rejects the idea of seeking spiritual liberty alone and accepting a life of solitude like St. John, and chooses instead to remain in a type of servitude as Rochester's wife. ...

... such a thing could not happen again. Mr. Pontellier also expected Edna to be a perfect housewife and mother; responsibilities he expressed as pertinent to their marriage and often observed were disregarded and made her aware of it. Edna’s strong sense of individuality, a characteristic forbidden in women during the time in which was set and therefore a limitation for most, allowed her to overcome other limitations of being female. Edna refused to attend her sister’s funeral even though, according to her father, she should go out of “womanly consideration�. And as most wives unconditionally obeyed their husba ...

... was "one of the oldest. It’s nearly thirteen"(1752). Laura is the oldest sibling just as the unicorn is the oldest. Laura also has the mentality of a younger person it is as though she was thirteen as well. Laura tells Jim that the unicorn has a "single horn on his head"(1752). Laura too has just a single difference from everybody else, her handicapped leg. Laura is lonesome in this house where she is different from both her mother and brother. Jim says that the unicorn "feel[s] sort of lonesome"(1752). Laura is alluding to herself when she talks about the unicorn being the only one among the other horses. Whe ...

... he is also talking to his "faith" to God. He is venturing into the woods to meet with the Devil, and by doing so, he leaves his unquestionable faith in God with his wife. He resolves that he will "cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven." This is an example of the excessive pride because he feels that he can sin and meet with the Devil because of this promise that he made to himself. There is a tremendous irony to this promise because when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before. When Goodman Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares ...

... against Charles Darnay, a tutor who made constant trips between France and England and was thus accused of treason. During these times both governments were very paranoid about anybody who had the aperence of commiting treason. Darney, since he travled back and forth between countries was a perfect suspect for treason. The French Government had just been overthrown by the beggars, and middle class and now run by them, the British on the other hand was still a monarchy and had awful factories and many slums, like France did. Darnay was acquitted when a lawyer, Carton, looked much like him and an eye witness faltere ...

... next day we get up to go back to work. The strenuous towing and pulling has been much worse since boxer was gone. He was such a hard worker. The animals have had to do twice the work. Napoleon, as usual sits in his office doing his "paper work." Rumors have been circulating that the cat has seen Napoleon sleeping at his desk, then after waking, moving to drink his rum. Something must have to be done. That night, when Napoleon was asleep, all the animals were told to meet at the "Old Major Orchard" at midnight. Sure enough, the animals arrived. They had an inquisitive across the hay dark empty field, they all sat d ...

... to mention difficult to adjust to the silent screen. The first horror film on record was Frankenstein in 1910. Elements from Frankenstein are evident in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. When the demonic somnambulist Cesare creeps into Lil Dagover's bedchamber, director Robert Wiene was exploiting a fear common to us all. Prone and sleeping the woman is uttlerly helpless. She is carried off into the expressionist labyrinth that Wiene used to symbolize the darkest torments of the human mind and soul. A beautiful woman is carried off by evil, a play on the Beauty and the Beast themes that would become so popul ...

... piece you understand how the Underground Man feels about society and why he thinks people make the choices they do. His thoughts begin to make sense and he expresses many reasonable ideas, which is a big development in the character. The Underground Man seems to be very sarcastic when talking about why people do bad things. If everyone were enlightened and knew their real normal interests then they would become noble and good. His only advantage would be in the good. The only reason he does bad things is because he does not know his own interests. The Underground Man does not really believe that though. He thi ...