... become a wonderful wife. Amelia is married to a snobbish man named George Osborne who will not allow Amelia’s brother to marry Becky simply because she is a “low connection.” Instead she marries a man named Rawdon and her social difficulties and marital problems are paralleled by Amelia’s. Amelia’s marriage to George Osborne is threatened when her family sinks into financial ruin and George’s father refuses to countenance a union between his son and the helpless daughter. However, inspired by his friend Dobbin, who is himself in love with Amelia and always selflessly thinking of her happiness, George rebels against his father and marries her. George is kil ...

... sister’s arms” (Chopin 47). It is implied that Mrs. Mallard’s love for her husband has disappeared and she takes the news rather calmly. Mrs. Mallard cries not because of the tragedy, but because it is expected of her. Many responses come from already learned behavior. People react the way they are taught. Mrs. Mallard was a devoted wife; she certainly learned from her mother how married women behave. She sits in her room, “merely letting impressions of the outer and inner worlds wash over her” (Papke 132), trying to make sense of all the emotions that are suddenly falling on her. First, she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she n ...

... from dealing with relationships. This withdrawal from society is caused by many factors, which include: stress, a death of a loved one, a transitional change, or not being able to deal with the fact that old age is quickly approaching. A well known example of a person dealing with old age in negative ways is Charles Dickens’, Miss Havisham, in his 1879 classic, Great Expectations. Great Expectations is said to be one of Dickens’ best books. Not only because of his style, his thematic elements, or his plot structure, but also because of the detail he gives to each character. The book is about loyalty, love, broken hearts, and life. Pip, an orphan, lives with his s ...

... which I will discuss the different topics and parallelisms that I believe are related to an emerging border culture, and second, I will discuss and complete analysis made by Roberto Cantu, published in The Iden tification and Analysis of Chicano Literature. The novel by Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima, was printed in June 1972, but won the first price in the Second Annual Premio Quinto Sol Literary Award in 1971. The main characters of the novel are Antonio, his father, mother, two sisters, three brothers, Tenorio and his three daughters, and Ultima. The argument presents how a child, (Antonio), matures in one year, thanks to the different episode ...

... of flying fish and dolphin of which he would like to have salt on. This part of the story tells of a cold and harsh sea, that is, one that has value and mystery as well as death and danger. It has commercial value as well as the population of life in it. It is dark and treacherous though, and every day there is a challenge. A similar story tells about a tidal pool with life called `Cannery Road'. This part of the story has to deal with figures of Christ. It mainly deals with Santiago as being a figure of Christ and other characters as props, that is, characters which carry out the form of biblical themes. On the day before he leaves when he wakes up, Manolin ...

... Another reason why a woman's role is harder than a man is that the woman takes care of the children health. They make arrangements for doctors and dentists appointment. Mothers have to amuse there children when they're feeling down by bringing them to the park, playing games with them or just reading them a book to them every night. Furthermore, schooling is another big responsibility that a mother has to take seriously. Mothers have to make sure that their children are prepared for school, by registering them. In many other cases mothers have to sacrifice time in order to attend PTA meetings. So they know what's happening with their child's education. The ...

... his wealth can replace his missing love. He admits this when speaking to Eppie, “though I haven’t been what a father should ha’ been to you all these years, I wish to do the utmost in my power for you for the rest of my life and provide for you as my only child” (714). However, Eppie “can’t feel as [she’s] got any father but one,” (715) meaning , who cared for and loved her for sixteen years. The lack of love that Godfrey has given Eppie can not be replaced with wealth, and Godfrey’s life must remain incomplete. was once incomplete and unhappy also when he was “cut off from faith and love,” (602) ...

... to reprogramming. Robert Louis Stevenson is one of these authors who revealed to the public its moral and cultural disrespect towards other human beings that are equal and parallel in all ways except beliefs. In doing so, he created the novel Kidnapped. In the novel Kidnapped, Stevenson carefully molds his theme of duality and character's personal and cultural conflicts to narrate a story about a kidnapped boy, named David, who, through his growing cultural tolerance and open-mindedness, matures from a naive adolescent to a young man capable of dealing with crisis and accepting his role in the culturally divided world. Despite extensive cultural differences, ...

... is the first sign of a supernatural or unusual atmosphere. When the narrator is examining the building from the outside he describes what he is seeing and how he feels as he looks upon the house, “the vacant eye-like windows…upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surrounding ...

... Censored). But Media has often been criticized for promoting a mass mediocrity, because it only tells the public what it wants to hear. The idea of Media promoting mass mediocrity is a reoccurring image in Fahrenheit 451. Such is not the case in today’s society. One of the most successful freedom fighting campaign has been the Tibetan Freedom Concert, a rock concert where artists and citizens converge, sharing their views for Tibetan freedom from Chinese oppression. Over the three years of its existence, the concert has generated so much publicity that it has forced President Bill Clinton to step in and try to hasten the negotiation between the Chinese gov ...