... humor. In the beginning, Sammy is ringing up an older woman’s groceries when three bathing suit clad girls walk in. Sammy, of course, forgets what he is doing momentarily, and rings up a box of HiHo crackers twice and the old woman catches the mistake (Updike 316). “She’s one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up,” Sammy thinks about the old woman (Updike 316). Updike also makes humorous descriptions of all the other customers. They are referred to as sheep because of the way they move ...

... though he has extraordinary failures, Stephen Benet presents Jabez Stone as an ordinary man. His perpetual misfortune is burdensome on his weary mind. Finally, Jabez gets frustrated with the poor condition of his animals, his sick and hungry children, and his unproductive crops. He inadvertently summons the Devil and makes a deal with him (188-189). The deal stipulates that Jabez would have great success in all his undertakings, and that in seven years time he would relinquish his soul to the Devil; known in this story as “Scratch” (194). Jabez becomes very prosperous, but there exists an underlying anxi ...

... they get through their problems. An interesting part is how they figure out a way to transport their injured Fiver and Pipkin across the river to escape the dog. Using his brains, Hazels has the idea to ship the two injured rabbits across the river upon a flat piece of wood. When this act had been done, the other rabbits had a new admiration of Hazel. This new admiration was brought upon, when he had to choose to leave injured rabbits behind he refused and thought of idea to help them across, Hazel has shown himself as a competent, caring, and wise leader. Fiver is a small rabbit that seems to have the ability ...

... the fasting by the artist is done solely for himself. When confronted about why he was doing such, the artist says that he hasn't found any food that is enjoyable. His fasting is done then just because he can't find anything good to eat, but also because he was finally given the opportunity to test his limits of how long he can go without eating. Throughout the entire story the artist is kept inside a cage, and toward the ending of the story, he is treated less and less like a human being. Out of all three of these stories, the hunger artist is the most in control of his life and what he is doing. In "The ...

... defeat the Polish in weeks. Soon afterward, the Jews are forced out of their homes to report to the train station, where their names are registered. Over 10,000 Jews are being shipped off to Krakow. People tease and yell at any Jew they see in the street. There is even a little girl screaming "Goodbye Jews" repeatedly as the line of Jews is moving and kids are throwing dirt at them. In Krakow the ghetto is overcrowded with Jews. The Jewish people are all gathered together and organized into working groups by the Judenrat (twenty-four elected Jews responsible for the order). Oskar Schindler visits the ghetto. ...

... "" was written in 1938, and the story takes place roughly around the same time. It is winter in Salinas Valley, California. The most prominent feature is the "grey-flannel fog" which hid the valley "from the rest of the world" (396). The mountains and valleys and sky and fog encapsulate everything inside as a "closed pot" (396). Inside this shut-off habitat the environment is trying to change. Just as the farmers are waiting for an unlikely rain, Elisa and all woman are hopeful for a change in their enclosed lives. Steinbeck foreshadows, "It was a time of quiet and waiting" (396). The action of the st ...

... unquestioned law. In Brave New World reading is something that all classes are conditioned against from birth. In the very beginning of the novel we see a group of infants who are given bright, attractive books but are exposed to an explosion and a shrieking siren when they reach out for them. This thus prevents them from wanting the books and causes them to scream and shrink away in horror at the mere sight of the books. In reference to the accomplishment of this conditioning, the director said, "Books and loud noises...already in the infant mind these couples are compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repe ...

... not going to church, not knowing the Commandments, etc.) persecuting basically good people while the truly evil escape and are even seen as the innocent victims. The people of Salem condemned many based on the few things that were considered ‘ungodly’ and since they committed one sin, then it was assumed that they were committing many others. They were condemned because they did not follow the exact ‘rules’ in their society which ‘defined’ who was good and who was evil. The people who followed the ‘rules’ were in turn deemed ‘good’, the nature of the ...

... a love affair with the beautiful and seemingly innocent Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to accumulate his wealth to reach her economic and social standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When his hopes don’t show true he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraw ...

... all� (4) shows his verbose nature. Whitman does not do directly to the point, but gives every little detail. Most importantly, Whitman’s’ use of catalogues stands as the most recognizable Whitman characteristic that illustrates his beliefs. These long lists that he uses set the mood of the poem. “All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,� (5) shows the idea that everything is connected in nature. Similarly, “All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations languages.� (10) furthermore emphasize Whitman’s belief in the Over-Soul. Although Whitman uses a great deal of struc ...