... diseases, who made no effort to uphold a handsome appearance. With his tanned complexion and sound build he resembles Hercules, one of the flawless Greek Gods of mythology (17). Billy’s full name is William, but the sailors felt that the childish name, Billy, was more appropriate. Commonly only young innocent boys hold the name Billy, but the sailors see the man as an innocent boy. Billy’s innocence sparked the Dankser to give Billy a nickname because “…whether in freak of patriarchal irony touching Billy’s youth and athletic frame or for some other and more recondite reason, from the first in addressing him he [the Dansker] always substituted ‘Baby’ for ‘Billy’”( ...

... for Eveline to imagine a good life. When Eveline met Frank it was uneasy for her to fall in love with him. Since Eveline never knew what love was, loving somebody else was difficult for her. It is hard for a person to love if they've never been loved. Frank wanted to take her away from her terrible life. He knew Eveline was miserable. Eveline wanted to leave Dublin and marry Frank but something stopped her. The fear of leaving the younger children and having a new life scared her. she would have boarded that ship and never returned to Dublin. ...

... have to say they originated down South. I think it originated down south because I am from up North and I have never heard any one speak of those superstitions. Huck believes in these probably because he grew up with them and they were always taught to him and he is so ignorant he does not know better. One morning Huck turned over the salt-cellar at breakfast. He went to throw the salt- cellar over his left shoulder to cancel the bad luck, but Miss Watson stopped him. All day he wondered when something would fall on him and what it would be. This all implies that Huck thinks something is going to fall on him, because of his accident. I have heard about bad l ...

... his madness knew no caution. A dozen times he charged, and as often the club broke the charge and smashed him down (London 18). Buck "...had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. ...the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed..." (London 20). Buck learned to do as his masters say. "...he grew honestly to respect them. He speedily learned that Perrault and Francois were fair men..." (London 21). Buck also learned when and how to defend himself against man. Londons depiction of Buck's struggle to learn how to survive in an ...

... the role of a hero without distributing the accomplishments between the other characters. This book represents a celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun. Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called The Neverending Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the reality and truth of their past, they are again separated; but in a resolving mood. This coming together of reality and fiction associates with t ...

... 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 lover ...

... Huck rejected the Bible but tried to teach Jim about it. Huck, later on, he has an internal conflict about the question of turning his "friend", Jim, in. Huck also has various discrepancies with authority, which includes Miss Watson, Pap, and social values of the 1800's in general. Through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the character of Huck, Mark Twain question humans and their relationship with social authority and the hypocrisy in their actions. Huck has a "desire" to turn in Jim a few times in the book. One instance is when they are on their way to Cairo and they think they see it. Huck takes the canoe by himself to talk to this "police" boa ...

... There was no insulation, just a wood board separating them from the blazing sun. The slave cabins were very short because when Julilly straightened her shoulders she almost reached the cabin door. The only thing which Jullily and Mammy Sally could keep warm with was a small, thin blanket. Surrounding their slave cabins was a garden which sometimes a hen would scratch around. Although the living conditions were better at the Hensen plantation it turns out the condition was much worse at the Riley plantation. The slave cabins were far behind a row of trees in the back yard, behind the Big House so the Massa and Missy did not have to look at the pitiful slaves. Us ...

... content with life as it is and dreaming of lions and reading about baseball. The old man is unlucky, he hasn't caught a fish in eighty-four days and he is poor that he must rely on a boy to provide for him his necessities of life. The boy is attached to the man but his parents will not let him fish with the man because he has become so unlucky. So the man goes alone on his skiff out to the sea, doing the most he possibly can with his weathered and deteriorating body. The man going alone with no help from the boy is an important factor in the story which is based upon independence of spirit and the drive of one man against nature. Life brings challenges and obstacle ...

... his love to his wife Annette. As children grow up, the need to free themselves from their parents grow stronger. This is a perfectly normal process, but it does not have to mean that they should completely ostracize their parents. Doris has recognized that she is no longer very necessary in John's life and has accepted this with quiet resignation. She still looks for signs of affection however, but they seem few and far in between. She has virtually no relationship with Annette whom she sees as a representative of the new, efficient generation. While Doris does not fear progress, she fails to see the use for many of the modern products. Annette on the other hand h ...