... use objects to give power, like a crown, sceptre, or other thins that show who has power. We also learn that objects don't really give power when people choose not to obey it, like Ralph's conch. The pig's head, or Lord of the Flies, is an important object. To Jack it is a sacrifice for the beast. This object shows that people will make religions and rituals to control their world, even when what they think is not true. The Lord of the Flies is also a symbol of Satan, or the Devil. When Simon talked with the Lord of the Flies, he learned what the real evil was, which is the evil in people's hearts. The Lord of the ...

... W.E.B Du Bois was one of the main figures of African American thought and an advocate against racial injustice. He devoted his life to the 'freeing' of black people in America in both the political as well as social sphere. In his collection of essays, the Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois speaks from both personal and objective accounts of the position of the black man in American society. As the excerpt of the introduction notes, the book is based on the premise that "one may know the soul of the race by knowing the soul of one of its members." In effect, Du Bois seeks to expose his own soul through his tribulatio ...

... objects! Worse than objects! The way that Henry Ford produced cars are the way this world is producing things that are barely humans. All problems that occur can be "solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of Identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Mass production of humans. This is one of the principle issues - treating humans like nothing, a "cell" in the "social body". Even as children they are spoken of in terms of mass production, when "the infants were unloaded". If mass production of humans is harsh, their whole world is summed up ...

... with an overbearing mother that has particular goals for her children and it happens regardless of her efforts, the children do not grow up and be what she wishes. The children do end up either trapped inside themselves or forced out by the mothers high expectations. Williams shows us how Amanda who's love that can be overwhelming also has particular goals set for children. Her former husband had left her with a always present "larger than life photograph" (1900) of himself. He also left behind Laura and Tom for her to raise. he left so he could go and "skip the light fantastic" (1900). Amanda knows all of what is g ...

... and usually does what he’s supposed to. He would rather be with a group of friends than by himself. He might get frustrated once in a while. He sometimes laughs at other peoples misfortunes, such as the girl in the picture getting shaken off the ladder by the boy. Now I am going to start to tell how I relate to the boy and give examples. Last year several kids, one of them being me, were chosen to do two grade nine courses. I started out at sixty-five and sixty-nine percent but I ended up at a seventy-five and eighty percent by the end of the school year. At the start of the year of most school years I get off to ...

... child, Henry James had only private tutors and never gained any strict education. The year Henry James turned twelve years old his family moved to Switzerland and later to France and Germany. After the completion of his family’s travels, Henry James returned to America and enrolled in Harvard law school for a while. He withdrew soon after his enrollment because he desired to pursue writing rather than an education. His father’s leisurely lifestyle as a traveler and writer allowed Henry James to meet people like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott. His youthful years in Europe left a great impression. Later in ...

... than his sales ability, while Linda is Willy's wife who stands by her husband even in his absence of realism. Biff and Happy are the two blind mice who follows in there father's fallacy of life, while Ben is the only member of the Loman family with that special something needed to achieve. Charlie and his son Benard, on the other hand, enjoy better success in life compared to the Lomans. The play romanticizes the rural-agrarian dream but does not make it genuinely available to Willy. Miller seems to use this dream merely to give himself an opportunity for sentimentality. The play is ambiguous in its attit ...

... her people up. When Mama set aside the money for Beneatha's education, Beneatha believed that her dream would be realized. When the money was discovered to be lost, she thought her dream blew up in smoke. This dream wasn't the quest that she was intended to do though, her quest was to find her "African side" and to connect with it. Beneatha started to fulfill this by talking to Asagai (a man from Africa). She told him, "Mr. Asagai-I want every much to talk with you. About Africa. You see, Mr. Aasagai, I am looking for my identity." Asagai became a link to Africa for Beneatha, a guide to her ancestry/roots. In Act II ...

... his eyes we see loss of innocence. “…Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart…” In the above quote Ralph cries after piggy is killed. Jack can be seen as a cruel, ugly, skinny, and the leader of choir at first then the leader of hunters. In a deeper sense Jack represents dictatorship and a primitive hunter. His leadership depends on in the ability to threaten and frighten those under him. His victory over piggy represents the triumph of violence over intellect, his knife represents death and destruction. It is through jack we see Brutality and savagery. Piggy i ...

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