... in the novel, realizes once he had reached the front, how betrayed he had been by his teacher and the older generation. He said, “The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.” This bitter quote shows that after the war is over their generation does not know what will be left for them. The characters felt betrayed. This idea of betrayal is paramount in the loss of war. Even though they may be able to go home after the war is over, they will constantly have to fight themselves. Another force that led to the loss of innocence at the front was the things that the boys were learning. ...

... would rather stay at home rather than go off on some kind of “adventure”. Both are what are considered prominent, wealthy, normal, conforming members of their communities. However, both Babbitt and Bilbo show inner turmoil with their need to be “free”. Here is where the differences start to appear. The hobbit refers to something as simple as climbing a tree as an adventure. The prominent business man thinks that spending a weekend away from his wife and family is an adventure. To set forth upon an adventure of any kind a person needs to be free again, both characters define freedom in different ways. Bilbo simply needs to be away fro ...

... to taste of the grapes of California, his stubbornness not to leave home may have caused his death, but his lack of concern for his family shows that he did not care for much else other than himself and the farm. Yet along the trip there are many members of the family that stand out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy, a man representative of Jesus C ...

... not expect love to come about; thus, she decides that it is probably even better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying. While Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth about her sister, she expressed her opinion as to Jane Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She says it is probably better not to study a person because you would probably know as much after twelve months as if she married him the next day. Charlotte even goes as far as to say that “it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life” (p.21). Charlotte considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but sinc ...

... daughter. Lucie Manette is his driving force. Dr.Manette wants little except for his daughter to live a full and happy life and himself to be a part of it. His desire to be a part of Lucie life makes it hard for him to give her up to Charles Darnay. After the wedding Dr.Manette says “Take her, Charles. She is yours.”2 He does so with a quite sadness. A huge portion of the story revolves about Dr.Manette's past suffering in the Bastille. The Doctors Bastille time is pure hell. Ever after being freed he still mumbles crazy things such as “It is a lady's shoe. It is a young lady's walking-shoe. It is in the present mode. I have had a pattern in my hand.”3 Outburs ...

... I can't be telln' that. I keep Uncle Hallahan's method a strict secret, you see, in case I need it myself someday."(Pg.40-41). In this passage, McMurphy is telling of what he will do to the Big Nurse if she keeps on acting like she does, with what his uncle did to the woman he went out with. In the beginning McMurphy seems to be winning his battles with the Big Nurse but she is simply waiting for the right time, awaiting her opportunity. The Big Nurse has ultimate power over the patients and this is what makes McMurphy lose to the Big Nurse. McMurphy find out the reason why the other patients are in the ward when they say to him "Mr. McMurphy…my friend…I'm not a c ...

... say whether I can be of further service to you.'" This quote show's that since M'Treville respected M. d'Artagnan, and how he would gladly be of service to his son, thereby continuing the friendship to the son. Another example of friendship is the on between d'Artagnan, Porthos, Athos and Aramis, this is shown throughout the book. It all started when d'Artagnan was pursuing the man from Meung and ran in to Athos, who was freshly wounded in a small skirmish with the Cardinal's Guards. D'Artagnan asked Athos to pardon him and let him be on his way but Athos being the brave and gallant musketeer, demanded a better aplogy, d'Artagnan was very insulted by this so he ch ...

... in the end result the child in the story “ A Christmas Memory “ really had a good memory of the gifts that he got because they meant so much to him, Unlike the child “ A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. In both of the stores the similarities can be contrasted by saying. Is that one similarity that stood out and also really brought the two stories together. Was how both of these family’s in both of the stores had such a love for each other and which in both of the store brought them together and how the both of the family’s prepared there food around the Christmas time. Also the Christmas feeling that both of the family’s had around the Christmas time. From the fall ...

... Russia, the working class had difficult lives. While they worked hard, they had very little to show for it. They experienced food shortages and problems taking care of their families. The focus of their efforts was to take care of the monarchy, Czar Nicholas and his family. Leaders of the working class started telling people that their lives could be different under a new system of government. These leaders believed that all people should and could share equally in the wealth of the country. The first leader of the animal revolution was Old Major, a prized-boar belonging to Mr. Jones. Old Major gave many speeches to the farm animals about hope and the futur ...

... it. "Fame" can both destroy and create. It can result in the eternal preservation of great works and their creators. However, Chaucer is quick to note the precarious nature of "fame" noting the unreliable process of attaining it and its potentially momentary existence. Every creator with their respective work/s naturally crave and desire "fame"; they want their subjects to remain fresh in the minds of their audience. Chaucer, while neither totally praising the written nor the oral, reveals how essentially the written word is far more likely to become eternal as opposed to the oral. The relative "fame" of any work is dependent on many factors. Many traditional and c ...