... of death and destruction. In "Beat! Beat! Drums!", by Walt Whitman, the bugles give society shrills. In this piece Whitman writes, "Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or gathering his grain, So fierce you whirr and pound you drums-so shrill you bugles blow." This passage tells of a farmer having no peace now that the war is happening on his fields. Some writers however tried to keep their literature free of war, and they wrote about the westward movement. The civil war authors told of the sorrows society felt during the Civil War. Before, during, and after the Civil War writers were writi ...

... in school. and family could gather around int he back yard to dig the soil and spraying seeds fro gardening. likewise, in the garden where as everyone could take their first breaths of fragrance that comes from the blooming flower. even the bees and butterflies could have their first lift in the garden that poured with the glowing and shining color of the tender blossom. yet the doves continue cooing throughout their chorus. such a long, long winter has held children in the caves as young dder had their ffet tied. now is a time for the twilight stars to be out on their feet withjoy and laughter. friends tha ...

... Ralph and his friends, Piggy and Simon, try to accomplish the task of building shelter on the island. They are alone doing this, for many of the boys are too young to help. Jack and his choir group go off hunting small pigs which populate the island. The disagreement about hunting causes great tension between Ralph and Jack during the book. As the book progresses, the group of boys forget their civilized ways, and there soon becomes a lack of order. Ralph and Piggy had the idea that a fire should be kept going at all times on the mountain on the island, so that they have a better chance of being rescued. They ...

... wasn’t as submissive and helpless as Torvald thought she was. He called her a “poor helpless little creature�. A perfect example of Torvalds control and Nora’s submissiveness was when she got him to re-teach her the tarantella. She already knew the dance but she acted as if she needed him to re-teach her the whole thing. When he says to her “Watching you swing and dance the tarantella makes my blood rush�. This shows that he is more interested in her physically than emotionally. Then when she told him to stop he said to her, “am I not your husband?� Again, this is an example of Torvalds control over N ...

... first. Woody and his crew would cut down the trees and they would be shipped to a nearby river where they would be floated downstream to the new lumber mill. At least this was what was supposed to happen. After the first couple loads, there came reports that the logs weren’t reaching their destination. Some of the men started talking about how they were logging on uncharted territory and this was a bad omen. Woody just laughed and said, “Uncharted territory or not, we have a job to do and I’m not going to let some little thing like this ruin my reputation. I ...

... Boo with the Mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines a mockingbird as one who " don t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don t eat up people s gardens, don t nest in corncribs, they don t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (94). Boo is exactly that. Boo is the person who put a blanket around Scout and Jem when it was cold. Boo was the one putting "gifts" in the tree. Boo even sewed up Jem s pants that tore on Dill s last night. Boo was the one who saved their lives. On the contrary to Scout s primary belief, Boo never harms anyone. Scout also realizes that she wrongfully ...

... decisions made by him during this story. In the old south, bloodlines are very important to the status of a family and their social placement, so the "purity" of the family must be kept. This "purity" does not accommodate marriages of mixed race. Knowing this, Armand marries an old friend who he had known since he was eight when he moved to Louisiana from France with his father after his mother had died. She was a girl of no distinction, who had no history or reputation of family name like that of Armand, but despite this he fell in love "as if struck by a pistol shot".(317). Others had warned Armand against marryi ...

... girl growing up in a small Southern town, tells the story of her childhood, when she witnessed the trial of a Negro falsely accused of raping a white woman. The Negro's lawyer is Scout's father, Atticus Finch. He defends the Negro vigorously, though he expects to lose the case. As well as being the story of childhood, it is also the story of the struggle for equality of the American Negro. To Kill A Mockingbird can be read as the story of a child's growth and maturation. Almost every incident in the novel contributes something to Scout's perception of the world. Through her experiences she grows more tolerant of ...

... behind them to try and find a better life. It was not like the gold rush. People during the gold rush did not have to leave their homes. They left voluntarily. It was a totally different story during The Grapes of Wrath. The men who drove the “cats” (caterpillar tractors) came to the houses of the people and told them that they had to leave by a certain time. If they did not leave, they would be put in jail and then the men on the cats would plow over their houses anyway with no remorse. When asked why they did this, they simply said that they had a family to feed just like the rest of the people ...

... cremation process when “Mama's� own comments lead us to understand that her personality and spirit will live on. Shaw's diction is effective in conveying his mood and dramatizing the process of cremation. The traditional words of a burial service “ashes to ashes, dust to dust� are not altered for the cremation, the interior chamber “looked cool, clean, and sunny� as by a graveside, and the coffin was presented “feet first� as in a ground burial. In selecting aspects of a traditional burial service, Shaw's mood is revealed as ambivalent toward cremation by imposing recalled fragments of ground buria ...