... of it refers to the problems of racism in the South during the early twentieth century. Harper Lee's effective use of racial symbolism can be seen by studying various examples from the book. This includes the actions of the children, the racist whites, and the actions of Atticus Finch. The actions of the children in this novel certainly do have their share of symbolism. For instance, the building of a snowman by Jem and Scout one winter is very symbolic. There was not enough snow to make a snowman entirely out of snow, so Jem made a foundation out of dirt, and then covered it with what snow they had. One could in ...

... but all too quickly the reader will “discover, quite unpleasantly, that it is not a satire at all.� Nineteen Eighty-four is not simply a criticism of what Orwell saw happening in his national government with the coming of English Socialism, but a warning of the consequences of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to bring about. Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more comftorble with the book if they could rule out ...

... personality has undergone drastic transformation from abusive using of alcohol. The conflict begins when the cat bit the narrator. At this point he started to be very abusive to the animal. Considering the fact that Pluto bites him only in elf defense, he should understand his behavior. However his mind created him as a greatest enemy which is trying to destroy him. Therefore the story is filled with violence; the things narrator did to the cat were I would say inhuman. No--at least I think-- normal human being would caught his own loved cat and cut his eye out. At this point reader can clearly see that narra ...

... whose citizens are deprived of freedom through physical and psychological conditioning." (Bloom 17) The amazing thing about these civilizations is that the majority of the citizenry, at least publicly, applauds the government's totalitarian actions. Both Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984 have governments that repress thought and action through the use of physical and physiological force. One of the most visible ways the government of the United State is able to control the thought and actions of its citizens is by the use and abuse of a system by which each member of society receives a number at birth instead of ...

... soon. He was strong and his black hair hung over his brown forehead. His eyes were warm and fierce and bright and his moustache was thin and coarse. Juana: Kino´s young wife.She had dark eyes and she was always looking at him when he awakened. She was a patient, fragile wife- but Kino often wondered at the iron will in his fragile wife. She was obedient, respectful, cheerful and patient, she could arch her back in child pain with hardly a cry. She could stand fatigue and hunger almost better than Kino himself. In the canoe she was like a strong man. She always took Coyotito out of his hanging box and cleaned h ...

... the oncoming future of the Great Plains. Although this tale tells about the great fortune of the plains, it forgets to mention the heartaches of the Native Americans. Willa Cather was born December 7 , 1873 in a town west of Winchester, Virginia.2 In 1884, the Cather's moved their four children to a town called Red Cloud in Nebraska where they arrived to a place uninhabited, but with much fortune and hard work ahead of them. 3 In 1890, Willa attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she gained the knowledge and creativity to write such beautiful work. In her first works, Willa's animosity towards Nebras ...

... grew up in the time of the Holocaust and saw many evil dictators rise and fall. This is why Golding's vision of reality is that all man is savage at heart. He lived in a time when the whole world was divided and a little spark was all that was needed to set off world destruction. It was at this time that Golding wrote Lord of the Flies, the title itself means true evil and destruction. Translated into Hebrew it is Beelzebub and it means devil. Lord of the Flies is a story of a group of boys from different backgrounds that become stranded on an isolated and uncharted island when their plane crashes. ...

... within him (Bloom 107). Dorian continues to lead a life of sensuality which he learns about in a book given to him by Lord Henry. Dorian's unethical devotion to pleasure becomes his way of life. The novel underscores its disapproval of aestheticism which negatively impacts the main characters. Each of the three primary characters is an aesthete and meets some form of terrible personal doom. Basil Hallward's aestheticism is manifested in his dedication to his artistic creations. He searches in the outside world for the perfect manifestation of his own soul, when he finds this object, he can create masterpieces b ...

... my old rags and my sugar hogshead again, and was free and satisfied." When Pap returns for Huck, and the matter of custody is brought before the court, the reader is forced to see the corruption of society. The judge rules that Huck belongs to Pap, and forces him to obey an obviously evil and unfit man. One who drinks profusely and beats his son. Later, when Huck makes it look as though he has been killed, we see how civilization is more concerned over finding Huck's dead body than rescuing his live one from Pap. This is a society that is more concerned about a dead body than it is in th ...

... examples of this are when he decides to take Jim to freedom and when he decides to tell the people about the King and the Duke's plan. 's character is mainly influenced by one of his friends, Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is similar to Huck, in the way that he is always getting into trouble. Tom sees everything as a game and as an adventure, This sometimes makes things more difficult than they actually are. An example of this is when they are planning to rescue Jim. Tom wants to dig Jim out with a spoon and make this spectacular escape and Huck decides bake some tools used for escaping into a pie and get Jim out that way. ...