... had forbade him to sign that muster book then and there, I would have lost a son. Is that what you want? But I saw him there so tall and strong I could have wept. You can't shelter him. There comes a time, and this is that time" (page 75.) I think that Moses had to die in order for the story to continue because if he had lived I don't think that the Battle would have been such a alarming experience for Adam, and because of the traumaticness of watching his father's death Adam was able to grow up and become more of a man. Some of the actions of Moses's death were Adam went into a state of almost shock, and w ...

... works are so powerful because he uses his experience and observations from his everyday life and places them into his unique stories. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital. Stephen, his mother Nellie, and his adopted brother David were left to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, recalls how his family life was altered: " ...

... and treat her as inferior: "Hey girl take of your monster mask - oops. She's not wearing a mask!" (118). The Chemotherapy caused hair loss and a sickly appearance and the numerous operations left her face deformed. She felt ugly as a response to people's public display of shock. As if the stares and whispers were not harsh enough, some children would even call her 'baldy' as they would run past and knock off her hat. At school, girls would gaze at her disfigurement and boys would laugh shamelessly as they pointed and blurted out insults. All of these experiences added to the sense of shame that consu ...

... with a book. While slowly browsing through Bewick's History of British Birds Jane took a special notice of "the solitary rocks and promontories." (Bronte 2) The reader comprehended Miss Eyre's feelings of desolation and loneliness. After spending a sleepless night in the room, Jane looked out upon daylight to find "rain still beating continuously on the staircase window." Her "habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, and forlorn depression" were deepened by such gloomy weather. (Bronte 9-10) Much like the beast's castle in "Beauty and the Beast", Gateshead, Jane's home, appeared to have an evil spell that would ...

... life without any regards to her in an attempt to solve this murder mystery (17). Angela’s body was discovered by the porter of her apartment who is “astonished that there should be so little blood on the floor” when he discovers that she is lying on the ground dead after being stabbed several times (18). This is the first clue that Angela is cornered in her own little world. She has little blood, which is regarded as the seat of emotions, and her lack of such nourishment suggests that perhaps she was never nurtured. Furthermore, her cause of death, internal hemorrhage, suggests that those fe ...

... 33% of the heaviest alcohol drinkers are with in the age of 21 and in the book "" Holden is drinking at a age of 17 which is below the drinking age which is typical of a teenage in New Zealand. Today in schools they bring coke bottles and put alcohol in it, they drink alcohol in the toilets at schools and usually they get into pubs and nightclubs with their fake ids. As u can see the drinking age of alcohol compares to Holden and New Zealand teenagers is basically the first step they take, the second step is smoking. Teenage smoking in New Zealand is very common, 31% of teenagers in New Zealand are regular smokers, ...

... own kind all throughout the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he was. "The reason Stradlater fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself." Holden had a difficults with no being good. He was afraid of not having any special talents or abilities and and did other thi8ngs to make himself look tough. "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk as a bastard. I could hardly see straight." Holden tried all he could to try to be cool he was faking it just to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life l to make it ...

... is the hero is a strong one, but there is a stronger belief that Kreon, the Ruler of Thebes, is the true protagonist. Kreon’s main and foremost hamartia was his hybris, or his extreme pride. Kreon was a new king, and he would never let anyone prove him wrong or let anyone change his mind once it was made. One main event that showed Kreon’s hamartia and also caused the catastrophe was when he asked his son Haimon, who was engaged to marry Antigone, if he still loves his father. Haimon says he respects Kreon’s ruling, but he feels, in this case, that Kreon was wrong. Haimon asks his father to take his advi ...

... and utilizes Lucy’s internal struggle as a means of transforming her from a petty young woman to a subtle heroine. Lucy Honeychurch is introduced to the reader as a somewhat petty young woman, obviously ignorant to the "ways of the world," who is being chaperoned by her cousin, Charlotte Barlett, while vacationing in Italy. Numerous conversations over matters of dress, the acceptability of various pieces of furniture, and other’s vacations, suggest the snobbish nature of both Lucy and Charlotte. In fact, matters of convention encompass Lucy’s life until George Emerson’s "caddish," y ...

... suffer prejudices that could be avoided. By achieving clarity, a deeper holistic view will be achieved, making basis of prejudices more valid. My growth of writing in this semester has developed immensely. When I first came into this class, I had very poignant views that were based strictly on my morals. Through this class though, I was able to create a sense of clarity in my thoughts and writing by looking deeper into other people’s opinions, not just the single sided judgments that I had. The transformation that I went through created a greater worth of the words I wrote in my papers, and helped to make sense ...