... aren’t as bad as they really are. When the boys are sent to the front, it is only then when they start to realize how war is not great. This is when the boys are cramped into the trenches. Some of the soldiers were shell-shocked because of the constant bombardment. When one of the boys was wounded, he was taken to a hospital where there were many wounded soldiers. Some soldiers had to have parts of their bodies amputated in order to survive. When Kemmerich was in the hospital, Müller ask for his pair of boots. The boots was a visible reminder to the boys of the cost of war. Paul then has to face his own conscience when he kills one of the Frenchmen. He doe ...

... led to her imprisonment and trip to America to live happily with her husband. chose her life as a prostitute. She states on page 138: "Well, let her life have been the way it would then, it was certain that my life was very uneasy to me; for I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom, and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery and destruction;..." Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she fel ...

... 1873, but there are many flashbacks to the year Sethe attempted to run away, which is in 1856, four years before the start of the Civil War. Sethe, Paul D., and Baby Suggs were all slaves on the same farm in Kentucky, which was ironically named Sweet Home, though for them, it was neither home nor sweet. Plot The plot of the novel is loosely based upon the life of a former slave named Margaret Garner, who tried to kill all of her children when they were captured by her slave owner, and she did succeed in killing one. When the novel begins, Sethe and her daughter, Denver, are living with the ghost of the baby Sethe killed when she was about to be recaptured. After ...

... trying to locate for years. The second island is only a few hundred miles away from the original , and they both were abandoned when a freak and tragic incident left nearly everyone on both islands dead. Not many people who knew about the second island survived so it took him a long time to find one of the old employees of InGen and get him to tell him about and the location of the island. With his information Levine made a team of five people to take to the island himself, Ian Malcolm Sarah Harding, Jack Thorne, and Eddie Carr, the top employee of Thorne. They were going to leave in two weeks when Thorne finds out that Levine has left for the island early wa ...

... Monopoly Tournament." If the reader reads through the monopoly scenes narrowly and doesn't give them any critical thought, it seems as though there is no correlation to them and the book. While the game may have only lasted for two weeks for a couple of hours each night, it didn't stop them from playing in spite of all the work that had to be done (81). The tournament is significant to the book in that it illustrates the another aspect of their lives that Smiley left out. The infamous monopoly tournament between Ginny, Ty, Rose, Pete, and Jess went beyond a mere harmless board game played to pass the time and fill pages of the book. Beneath the seemingly ...

... also. Vincent was no ordinary boy either, his father had sent him to the “wood school” which is similar to regular school in America. With the education he had received, many boys disliked him and named him a coward for not working as hard in the family farms. Getting back to Elliott, many things occurred since the announcement of the Junior Astronaut program. Elliott is chosen to become to first teenager in space and begins his nine month training along with his alternate, Mandy Jane Harris. This was it, the only chance that Elliott Andrew Schroeder was going to become a national hero and the only thing in his way was Mandy. Because of that he de ...

... described as, "The sin of intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims" (357). Upon leaving for his twenty-year journey, Brand becomes deranged in the eyes of the townsfolk. His peers see him as a man who has spent too long a time alone in front of the kiln. Stories arise; such as he "conversed with Satan himself in the lurid blaze of thus very kiln."(356) His search for self-gain leaves him detached from the world of mortals. steps into the world of gods, when he learns of the unpardonable sin, and yet he has not left the realm of man. He has eaten the forbidden fruit. He l ...

... ? Superficially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school, 'The Catcher In The Rye' is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's understanding of his human condition. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950s New York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term, and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents' inevitable wrath. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bout ...

... "the master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle." The whole beginning of 's story was created from memories which related to Dickens' childhood in a blacking factory. While working in the blacking factory, Dickens suffered tremendous humiliation, which is expressed through Oliver's adventures at the orphanage. Throughout his lifetime, Dickens appeared to have acquired a drawing towards the bleak and dreary. Most of , for example, takes place in London's lowest slums. Many of the settings, such as the pickpocket's hideout, the surrounding streets, and the bars, are described as dark, glo ...

... friends and would go to extreme lengths to ensure their safety. Although her friends are part animal she considers them to be the same. BOXER : Boxer is half baboon half human but he has a good grip on language. He is very smart, even for a human, and is stubborn and not prepared to hold the truth even when threatened. Physically he is very fit and is great at climbing walls.This comes in handy when he is trying to find out information with out being caught. Half way through the book the keepers do to him what is known as ‘ deprogramming', which gives him a stroke and his skills are reduced due to the left side of him being limp. Boxer goes through a lot of pain t ...