... husband Roger Chillingworth. “This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die”. (Pg. 43) From that day on Hester is isolated from the rest of the town and looked as and treated as a sinner. The letter “A” was a symbol for everyone to see that she has committed a sin. When the townspeople see that she is wearing the letter “A” they know that she is a sinner and has committed adultery she is looked down upon by the people of the town. In the middle of the book as several years have passed the meaning of the letter “A” starts to change. Instead of it meaning ...

... he does explain that hard-core pornography is more abstract in that, it depicts the sex act only and not the emotional or personal characteristics of the people involved in the act. (Davis, p. xx) He believes soft-core pornography is describing "a sexual experience", which conveys characteristics of the participants that are not described by hard-core pornography. Hard-core pornography describes "sexual behaviour" which involves more of the act of sex rather than the characteristics and feelings involved with sex. (Davis, p. xix) Although Davis admits that the vocabulary of sex is changing (Davis, p. xxv), he a ...

... idea is in the poem Beowulf, Grendel is portrayed a large animalistic beast. This gives the reader the feeling that Grendel is solely driven by his animal instincts and does not posses the same thought processes as humans do. For example the line “the monster stepped on the bright paved floor, crazed with evil anger; from his strange eyes an ugly light shone out like fire� (Beowulf line 725), proves this point. In the novel however this point lacks development. Rather Grendel is portrayed as a confused creature passing through life looking for answers. Surprisingly Grendel walks the forest in har ...

... His hidden evil identity surfaces when he hides his true identity under a mask of paint, abandoning all of the civilization that he has ever in his life known. Jacks excitement about killing is chilling to the bone. “I went on. I thought, by myself--� The madness came into his eyes again. “I thought I might kill� In this quote from Jack, He shows his desire to kill, alone. It also shows that from the beginning, Jack had to kill, and it was driving him crazy not to kill. All that Jack could do while stuck on the island was think about killing, talk about killing, and actually killing. That was his firs ...

... mishandling of the natural world. Leakey's aim for his book is simply to make people aware of the real situation this planet and its ecosystems are facing, as a direct result of man. The statistics that have been compiled for '' are alarming. This is evident considering: fifty percent of the Earth's species will have vanished inside the next 100 years; mankind is using almost half of the energy available to sustain life on the planet, and this figure will grow as population jumps in the next 50 years from 6 billion to approximately 10 billion. Now, with the use of satellite imagery of much of the worl ...

... about learners. Kohl seems to be a passionate spokesman on behalf of students and how certain environments and circumstances can change their desire to learn certain things. According to Kohl, these students turn to creative maladjustment while “breaking social patterns that are morally reprehensible, taking conscious control of one’s place in the environment, and readjusting the world one lives in based on personal integrity and honesty.� The concept of not-learning, being something that can be learned is an interesting phenomenon to me that is explored by Kohl in the title essay of his book. Some ...

... which will hopefully help us all to devote ourselves to the enormous challenge which we will face in the future. We are responsible to inform and educate ourselves, our friends, our families and neighbours in the difficult days ahead. To explain McQuaig's title I'll briefly describe the beginning of the "mystery." A baby hippo, born in a zoo, is to be shot because of recent government cutbacks which leave nothing to feed or care for the hippo. This image grabs the attention of the reader and leads to numerous other examples which McQuaig uses to break down the popular myths about the deficit. McQuaig, d ...

... and his paranoia of his own hands. An example of Wing Biddlebaums fear. "Wing Biddlebaum forever frightened and beset by a ghostly band of doubts."(p. 882) Adolf Myers, or Wing, as the town people called him, was a dreamer, he wanted others to dream with him and experience what he did. "Adolf Myers walked into the evening or had sat talking until dusk upon the school steps lost in a dream."(p. 884) "In a way the voice and hands, the stroking of shoulders and the touching of hair were a part of the school Master's effort to carry a dream into the young minds."(p. 884) This is a man that was run out of a town for ...

... all over the land in regards to who led France, King Louis or Napoleon. The citizens of France became divided by the two ruling parties. Royalists and the Bonapartist cut at each others throats in order to declare that their ruler was supreme. This situation has a profound effect on the events of the story. Dantes' enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If.. Basic Plot: The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dant ...

... However, the summoner does not challenge the statement in either tale, but warns the friar on the grounds of the friar’s immoral teachings (repent for stealing from poor in the name of the church.) The friar clearly depicts an image of the summoner, whereas the summoner, out of rage, resorts to vulgarity. The friar offers many analogies of the summoner, and he readily interchanges the occupations of a summoner and a thief: “And Judas kept a bag, and was a thief, just what a thief was he…he was a thief, a summoner, a pimp.� By doing so, the friar implies that a summoner must indeed know the deceitful arts o ...