... in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural town where most blacks worked as tenant farmers. At the age eight she was blinded in the right eye when an older brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun, after which she fell into somewhat of a depression. She secluded herself from the other children, and as she explained, "I no longer felt like the little girl I was. I felt old, and because I felt I was unpleasant to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business es ...

... fictional writing it is very good. Raptor Red is a very smart young Utahraptor that has just gotten a mate. They cross the berring straight to a far away land where their instinct does not provide any protection. These animals must learn of all the dangers of the new land without being killed. Unfortunately Raptor Reds mate is crushed by a 20 ton herbivore which they were hunting. Now she is all alone. Raptor Red uses her brain, which is very capable of learning, to solve problems by means of using things she knows and applying them to things she does not know. Then all the information she gathers is stored forever in her memory sorted by separate thoughts. L ...

... feature of Enlightenment philosophy is the belief that people can actively work to create a better world. A spirit of social reform characterized the political ideology of Enlightenment philosophers. While Voltaire’s Candide is heavily characterized by the primary concerns of the Enlightenment, it also criticizes certain aspects of the movement. It attacks the idea that optimism, which holds that rational thought can inhibit the evils perpetrated by human beings. Voltaire did not believe in the power of reason to overcome contemporary social conditions. In Candide, Voltaire uses Pangloss and his ramblings to represent an often humorous characterization of th ...

... of power to the fact that the members of the black bourgeoisie hold strategic positions in the segregated community. However, he maintains that all of these “power” positions still feed into the white power structure. Next, he discusses the break with traditional African-American culture. According to Frazier, the black middle class has abandoned the folk culture of “the black masses” in favor of shell of the middle class white world that rejected them. Therefore, the black bourgeoisie lives in what Frazier calls a cultural vacuum, disdainful of the culture of most African-Americans, dismissed by the white middle class culture. Finally, Frazier discusses the re ...

... the odds. The novel is set at a marine base in the Carolinas. The climate in the novel is fair and mild. The year is most likely in the 50's or 60's. The time is between large wars. World War II has ended a while back, and the Korean War is about to start. The reserves fought in World War II and one of the officers in command threatens to send a person to Korea. The time and setting lend to the plot and theme in the way that it shows that the march is taking place in America in the peace time. It advances the whole theme showing that the superiors of battalion aren't trying to get ready for war, just being cruel. The author uses several styles, and an overall to ...

... Janie who continually finds her being defined by other people rather than by herself never feels loved, either by her parents or by anybody else. Her mother abandoned her shortly after giving birth to her. All she had was her grandmother, Nanny, who protected and looked after her when she was a child. But that was it. She was even unaware that she is black until, at age six, she saw a photograph of herself. Her Nanny who was enslaved most of her lifetime only told her that a woman can only be happy when she marries someone who can provide wealth, property, and security to his wife. Nanny knew nothing about love since she never experienced it. She regarded tha ...

... he must learn how to live in this strange new environment quickly. He has to make many painful changes and ends up a completely new person with a new outlook on life. Hatchet is written in an interesting way. The author, Gary Paulsen has written “Hatchet” in two styles. First person and 3rd person. He will often start a paragraph with one word. This word sums up what Brian is thinking. For example: Starving. Then he will go on about what Brian is thinking as Brian in a more detailed manner. The other way he writes is in 3rd person. He will describe what Brian is thinking, and/or doing. An example of this is when Brian is hunting deer for the first time. He e ...

... the whites. They paid up to twenty-five dollars as a bounty for Indian scalps, before the Indians ever took a single one for trophies. The whites were also responsible for the first mutilations of corpses, the Indians just folowed suit off the method’s they witnessed for interrogation and trophies. There was an underlying prejudice against Indians; their skin color made it easy to identify their race. They were prohibited from many jobs and professions even El Parker, a very well educated Native American, who had to obtain aid of his friend U.S. Grant before he could join the union army and fight in the Civil War. Again the striking similarity to the plight ...

... the King and the Duke's plan. 's character is mainly influenced by one of his friends, Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is similar to Huck, in the way that he is always getting into trouble. Tom sees everything as a game and as an adventure, This sometimes makes things more difficult than they actually are. An example of this is when they are planning to rescue Jim. Tom wants to dig Jim out with a spoon and make this spectacular escape and Huck decides bake some tools used for escaping into a pie and get Jim out that way. Another example is at the beginning of the story when Tom decides to play a trick on Jim by hanging his hat above is head while he is asleep on the tr ...

... nor contemplate the effects that come as a result of our actions. In 1984, we get a sense of a greater authority in Big Brother. Although we never come to know if Big Brother actually exists, the power and authority that this idol holds over the people is unimaginable. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk to each ot ...