... threatened her feeling of security, and that made Irene despise Clare. It is true that before one attempts to address the questions and problems of racial identity, the equally important questions of gender and sexual identity should be addressed. While it is true that Clare is passing, Irene is passing as well. As a Negro, Clare must "pass" to gain security in a white world, but by the same token Irene, a lesbian, must "pass" to gain security in a heterosexual society. Until Clare arrives on the scene Irene is a "secure" woman. She busies herself with social activities and the raising of her two boys (148). However, something is very wrong. While en route to ...

... wide and a thousand two hundred kilometres long. When Universe landed The passengers were allowed on to the surface but only if they had some body with them so that if something went wrong they could help each other out. Floyd found some caves and decided to investigate it but came back empty handed. After The universe dropped the passengers back off at the moon base the universe was assigned to go pick up a ship that had crash landed on Europa. Universe went to pick up the people when it was hijacked by Universe's stewardess and was forced to land when Universe had landed The Hijacker killed her self by shooting herself in the head. after the ship had land the l ...

... autobiographical nature of this novel exists in the comparisons between Lawrence and his parents with their fictional counterparts in the book. David Herbert Lawrence was born in 1885, in Eastwood, England. Eastwood is an industrial town, the main industry being coal mining. In the novel, Eastwood becomes the town of Bestwood. As in the novel, Lawrence’s family was poor and working class. Lawrence was a sickly child (Croom, 1996). He had bronchitis a mere two weeks after he was born, and lung problems would plague him all his life, eventually developing into repeated bouts of pneumonia which permanently weakened his lungs (Meyers, p. 248). Eventually, it was tube ...

... chooses not to use weapons; he relies on his strength. During the fight, Beowulf's strength takes over and Beowulf wrestles with Grendel until he is able to rip one of the monster's arms out of its socket. Superhuman feats also appear in the fight with Grendel's mother. When Beowulf enters the water, he swims downward for an entire day before he sees the bottom. He does this without the use of oxygen. During the battle with Grendel's mother, Beowulf realizes that Unferth's sword is useless against the monsters thick skin. He grabs an enormous sword made by giants, almost too heavy to hold and slashes through the monster's body. Beowulf's spirit and teachings do not ...

... own decisions. Then Finny makes Gene get involved with athletics which takes time away from Gene’s school work, and doesn’t allow Gene to mature by doing what he was already good at. Finny also affects Gene’s decision to enlist in World War II. When Finny found out about Gene joining the war he wasn’t supportive of his decision to enlist. That slowed down Gene’s maturing because in order to mature you can’t back down on your decisions just to please another person.. However, Finny isn’t the only thing that affects Gene and his maturing process. The war acts as an antagonistic force toward Gene because it forces him to mature too fast. When Genes friend, L ...

... [a] special blind. She could dip down her hands to feel the bumps of the world, touch house roofs, probe attic bins, reap dust, examine droughts that blew through halls and souls that blew through people, draughts vented from bellows to thump-wrist, to pound-temples, to pulse-throat, and back to bellows again (Bradbury 143).” The carnival selects her because of her unique ability to sense emotions and feel the body’s reaction to the world around it. After the boys thwart her first attempt to find them and give them to Mr. Dark, the old witch went in search of them during the parade, but encounters Will’s father instead. During their confrontation Mr. Halloway’s ...

... the wild red rose outside the prison door, giving Hester hope that everything would turn out positive. Pearl is not just a mere token of sin, her purpose is much greater- she symbolizes the love affair of Hester and Dimmesdale, Hester’s passionate nature, she is a living daily punishment to Hester, and a living conscience for Dimmesdale. Yet, Pearl is the one who saves Hester from death and Dimmesdale from eternal sorrow. It was Pearl who acts as a guardian angel to Hester and Dimmesdale. She both guides them and teaches them the true lessons of life. In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, the infant Pearl represents the immoral love affair between Hester ...

... whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. Her family and friends are expecting and encouraging this dependence.Elaine and Robert, Mattie's two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight year old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get rest because she is slowing down and can't keep going as steady as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Ma ...

... United States during the late 1940's. Both authors have created fictional characters behind which they are able to freely account for some of their own adventures and observations. Twain's style of writing is that of a deadpan narrator, who tells of Huck's foibles without Huck being able to laugh at himself because he does not know that some of the things he does are funny (Bloom, p.32). Many times Huck's remarks are two sided- Huck is serious about what he is saying, and Twain is using Huck's character to show the underlying humor. Also, like Kerouac's Sal, Huck is a magnificent observer: Huck notices the details of what everyone around him is doing. One of ...

... man emulates his life after other people. The first example of this is how he behaves like his grandfather. On his deathbed the invisible man’s grandfather tells him to “to keep up the good fight”(Ellison16). Following this he was always doing what was right and was “considered an example of desired conduct—just as [his] grandfather had been”(Ellison 17). Once the invisible man goes off to college he begins to act in a manner to please Mr. Norton. Not only does Mr. Norton not identify with the invisible man racially, he views blacks as “a mark on the scoreboard of [his] achievement”(Ellison 95). Despite these ...