... a while. The heroine of the novel, Chyna Shepherd, is a 26-year old psychology student working hard to avoid being Edgler Vess’ next victim. Staying in the guest room of a friends house she hears “a soft thump, as though a heavy object had fallen to a carpeted floor.” Then there is “silence sifted down like a snowfall.” Pg.23. Things become suspenseful already. As mentioned in a book review by Mark Harris, Chyna doesn’t act like a horror-movie teenager and run into the hall. She does like most of us would do; she hides under the bed. Koontz really makes it feel like you could be the one squished under that bed. When the killer leaves the room Chyna searches ...

... the south. Her parents were plantation farmers that were extremely poor and when her father left her mother Anne and her family was much worse off. Her mother moved around a little and had very little money. Anne's childhood consisted of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites and the blacks. She and her sister were friends with two white children across the street and this led to one of her first experiences in realizing her black skin made her appear inferior to the whites. Anne and her sister accidentally followed their white friends into the white section of t ...

... of corruption resulting from materialism (money) and his abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile environment. The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the turtle at the beginning to the rain at the end. As each symbol is presented through the novel they show examples of the good and the bad things that exist within the novel ...

... becomes a man, who loves and respects women, who knows he can fly but also knows his responsibilties. In the first part of the novel, Milkman is his father's son, a child taught to ignore the wisdom of women. Even when he is 31, he still needs "both his father and his aunt to get him off" the scrapes he gets into. Milkman considers himself Macon, Jr., calling himself by that name, and believing that he cannot act independently (120). The first lesson his father teaches him is that ownership is everything, and that women's knowledge (specifically, Pilate's knowledge) is not useful "in this world" (55). He is blind to the Pilate's wisdom. When Pilate tell Reba's lov ...

... best friend in the tragedy. Banquo is with Macbeth when Macbeth meets the witches and they tell him of his upcoming fortune. Banquo notices how Macbeth is too ambitious after he sees Macbeth's reaction to the witches predictions. He feels even though Macbeth is his best friend he feels Macbeth is capable of wrong doing in the future to get what he wants. This is shown in one aside after they leave the witches. "…And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's in deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. (Act1, SceneIII,line123)" This quote is stating that Banquo thinks Macbeth ma ...

... and "better" society/class. Pip gains wealth from a secret benefactor and gets moved to London, where all have money and are high class. He lives and grows up in this new and different society, learning how to fit in and use money not as a precious commodity ( like he was accustomed to in his previous, low class lifestyle) but as it were a regular, common thing that if not used quickly, would soon be out-dated. He goes through his teens like this and finds great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and interacts wit ...

... trough where Don has stowed his armor. This was such a commotion at the inn, that the deeper quickly smacks Don on the neck and he is knighted and sent back to his village. On the way back he encounters two adventures; a farmer whipping his servant and the other six merchants, from Toledo who refuse to agrees that Dulcinea is the fairest maiden in the world. Don then attacks them and serves a beating for his troubles. A peasant passing by recognizes Quixote and loads him across his donkey. They head back to their village as Don wildly describes his mishaps. returns to his village where his met by his niece and housekeeper. While he is sleeping, his chivalric ...

... of the effect of Utopia's absence of love. In a world of bottled-births, not only is there no need for a family, but the idea is actually considered obscene. The terms "mother" and "father" are extremely offensive and are rarely used except in science. Huxley uses Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, to portray the vulgarity when he explains the obscenity of life before Utopia to a group of students: And home was as squalid psychically as physically. Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking with emotion. What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the member ...

... late night party that was held in the ward at the end of the movie was amusing, and so was McMurphy losing his patience trying to teach the patients to play cards. However, this movie had very dramatic moments as well. The scene with Billy Bibbit breaking down emotionally in front of the Nurse and then eventually committing suicide were among the most dramatic. Nevertheless, the most dramatic moment was when the new McMurphy was revealed to the viewers. Up to that point we were used to McMurphy being a lively and cocky character. What we were exposed to was a character with totally contrary characteristics. He looked like a dead corpse with just enough energy to b ...

... is that Torvald is a good husband but we rapidly realize that she is his helpless thing. The author lays the emphasis upon the fact that she never had the possibility to develop a since of self, never went her own way and always accepted her fathers and husband opinions as her own. The play aims at showing the contrast between the male characters and their female counterparts. Nora is totally controlled by her husband. She has a subordinate role: she relies on him for everything, from movements to thoughts. One could argue that her most important obligation is to please her husband, making her role similar to that of a slave. Nora’s society has a hypocrite s ...