... the most predominant theme of The Wall and is especially prevalent in Pablo's thoughts. OM page 292 Pablos states, "How madly I ran after happiness, after women, and liberty. Why? I wanted to free Spain, I admired Pi y Margall, I joined the anarchist movement, I spoke in public meeetings: I took everything as seriously as if I were immortal. At that moment I felt that I had my whole life in front of me and I thought, "It's a damned lie." It was worth nothing because it was finished." In this passage Pablo realizes that his entire life has been a continuous sequence of events and eventually the outcome must be the same for him as well as all men, which i ...

... to the hungry. This is ironic because Chris eventually died from starvation. Many people criticize McCandless for not keeping in touch with his parents and family. Chris was 22 years old. He did not have to tell his parents anything. He was doing what he wanted, not what other people wanted him to do and he was happy. They call him selfish for disregarding his parents’ feelings. McCandless was living his life for himself. He wanted to be happy and it happened to upset his parents. Wanting your own happiness is not selfish it is your right. I don’t think that McCandless was trying to upset his family, he was just trying to make himself happy by ...

... here about Silas contributes to the whole novel. Silas wants to stay away from social human life and keep to himself. He takes the job of a weaver so that he can be alone at his work. We learn from his flashback of 15 years earlier that he comes to the village of Raveloe because he has been falsely accused of stealing by the members of his religious sect in Lantern Yard, his hometown. Having lost faith in both God and man, he seeks a new life in Raveloe with new inhabitants, and falls into a routine of work and loneliness. We learn that his greatest joy is in amassing money. He likes how they shine and feel. Silas' few attempts at being neighborly are receiv ...

... over their daughters, as well. It is then that the concept of is mentioned as a way in which to keep women from venturing out at night. It is difficult to ascertain which of the two older women is the true antagonist and protagonist, as they both accomplish some unfriendly activities within the story line. As one of Alida's encounters as antagonist, she attempts to harness her jealousy, guilt and vindictive gratification regarding the fact that Grace double-crossed her in love. It seems that Grace feigned an illness one evening in their youthful years, begging off any further activities following a late night sightseeing expedition. What really occurred, wh ...

... good technique in the early part of her parenthood when parent child interaction mean the most. When Olsen writes "Though her cries battered me to trembling and my breasts ached with swolleness, I waited to the clock decreed," she shows the lack of knowledge the mother had in caring for a newborn because she ignores her maternal instincts and instead chooses to go by the book (p. 169). With just one line in the story, this statement packs powerful reasoning into the mother's helplessness, showing how her immaturity and lack of knowledge is working against her and to no fault of her own. Closely related is the narrator's single status in a time of male dominanc ...

... in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Hardy's protagonist seems to have been born in a dilemma. Tess was the oldest of a very large family and she had the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings. Young Tess had many concerns to cope with in her life. Her father who drank too much came to understand that the Durbeyfield family could very well be the descendants of a royal family known as D'Urberville. Motivated by greed of becoming part of a higher class, with no thought for Tess, her mother and father made the conscious choice to send Tess to the D'Urberville mansion to acquire work and marry a wealthy man. While employed at the D'Urberville mansion, Tess was ...

... and accompany Santiago on his fishing trips. Santiago is viewed as an outcast in his village because he has not caught any fish for more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for their whole lives. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio is injured with a heel spur. In this way Santiago n ...

... uninvolved in the hedonistic lifestyle. Jay Gatsby, the man who gives his name to the book, lives in an extraordinary estate adjacent to Nick, where he incessantly welcomes guests to sumptuous parties. Nick develops a fixation and a selfless devotion to Gatsby. Gatsby is a dreamer, absorbed by the past, and Nick reluctantly aids him in attempts to fulfill his ideal. The impractical illusions, in the end, destroy Gatsby and lead Nick to see the ultimate manifestation of corrupt American society. In , greed and corruption centralize the theme. Fitzgerald uses the contemporary public as a core of life for his characters. Gatsby’s intent to win a love from his past by ...

... Dimmesdale changes from a strong, hearty man to a weak and sickly one, but also given enough time (and some encouragement), he re-grows to once again be a strong man, perhaps more so than he was before. As we first meet Author Dimmesdale, he was a “…young clergy man... His eloquence and religious fervor has already given the earnest of high eminence in he profession.” (p. 62. 3rd paragraph)* The people loved and respected him. He was thought to be “…a godly pastor,”(p. 48) of Hester. But the people do not know his secret. They do not know the dark sin that he holds in the deep recesses of his heart. This causes him much p ...

... reading about the lives of Sethe, Halle, and Paul D., the reader is capable of identifying just what some of these trials consist of and the effects they have on American black slaves. One of the more obvious degradations the characters in Beloved face is that of physical abuse. Morrison writes, “ That’s what they said it looked like; a chokecherry tree.” In this instance, Sethe is describing the tree-like shape of the scars on her back. Like many slaves, Sethe is whipped, only so badly that the scars form this shape; forever branding on her tender back the agony she suffers along with many others. In addition, Paul D. states, “ I had a bit in my mouth.” As a ...