... out with the time traveler trying to explain the time machine and how it works to four other science guys. He goes on about four dimensions and how nobody thinks that there is a fourth dimension and how there is only three. He goes on describing the fourth dimension to them and then he demonstrates how the time machine works. The whole time he is demonstrating it the other four scientists don't know what to think. And then it disappears into thin air. All of his friends can't believe it and leave. Except one of his friends, David Filby a good friend of his. He tries to talk him into not going through with this whole time travel notion, and then he leaves. ...

... process is sometimes amusing.” In the , three evident themes include death, corruption, and despair. During Marlow’s journey into the “,” death, corruption, and despair became the manifest themes of the novel. First of all, Marlow came face to face with death several times throughout his voyage. Marlow finds out about the death of Kurtz, the climax of the novel, when the manager’s boy said to Marlow, “Mistah Kurtz—he dead” (Conrad 64). Another death occurs when the attack on the steamer leaves the helmsmen dead with “the shaft of a spear in the side just below the ribs” (Conrad 64). Marlow decides to “[tip] him overboard” because “if [his] late helmsmen was to be e ...

... Geismar sums up the novel as “…an eminently readable and quotable [novel] in its tragicomic narrative of preadolescent revolt. Compact, taut, and colorful, the first half presents in brief compass all then petty horrors, the banalities, the final mediocrity of the American prep school” (Geismar 195). Holden can not understand the purgatory of Pency prep, and futilely escapes from one dark world into darker world of New York City. The second half of the novel raises the intriguing questions and incorporates the deeper meaning of the work (Geismar). Holden sits on the cusp of adulthood, tethering dangerously close to his fate and reality and The Cat ...

... a mocking island from which Tess could not escape, as she could not escape Alec either. She was trapped there in an awful environment with no way out. Tess did eventually find a way out of the Herons and out of Alec. She finally finished him off by stabbing him in the heart, symbolically breaking his heart as he had done to her years ago. Once he was dead, Tess was free of her sin and could finally have the love of Angel unhindered by her past. She had killed her past in the house which was slowly killing her. The next residence for Tess after the murder was in an abandoned mansion: Bramshurst Court. This was the perfect place for Tess and Angel to escape to. ...

... novel, the narrator provides a vivid description of the his decaying surroundings: “In the tall weeds of the borrow pit, I took a leak and watched the sorrel mare, her colt beside her, walk through burnt grass to the shady side of the long-and-mud cabin . . . . The roof had fallen in and the mud between the logs had fallen out in chunks, leaving a bare gray skeleton, home only to mice and insects. Tumbleweeds, stark as bone, rocked in a hot wind against the west wall (1).” Welch opens the story with this line to show a relationship between the narrator’s feelings of worthlessness and the worthlessness of his environment. In addition, the aut ...

... aspects of farming. At the same time however, he makes constant references to various gods and goddesses, explaining their relation to whatever aspect of farming he is currently discussing, and continuing by illustrating the proper method of paying homage to these gods. The overall frame of mind held by Hesiod can be seen in lines 456 through 481. This passage begins with the work ethic held in such high esteem by Hesiod when he writes, "When ploughing-time arrives, make haste to plough."(pg. 73 l. 456) Constantly, Hesiod is making references to work ethic, describing idlers as men who will "wrestle with ruin all their days."(pg. 72 l. 407) The concept of idlers ...

... doctor told them he wasn't' going to treat his baby. Then when the doctor found out about kino having a pearl the doctor immediately went to Kino's house to treat the injured baby. In the story the Indians didn't care about money only the well being of each other. When they found out kino's baby is stung by a scorpion and needs help from a doctor the villagers go to the doctor's house to ask for his assistants. When the priest heard the news of the new found fortune of Kino he wondered what the pearl would be worth to him and his church, he tried to remember whether or not he had baptized Kino's baby or even married them. The priest didn't do neither of these t ...

... experience for her. Despite the negative experience, she manages to raise a loving family. Granny is pessimistic toward life but manages to go on, “I want him [George] to know I had my husband just the same and my children and my house like any other woman. A good house too and a good husband that I loved and fine children out of him. Better than I hoped for even.” (p.611) Working hard to maintain the household further strengthens Granny’s character. Her ability to fence in a hundred acres, dig post holes and care for sick children and horses reflects her strengthened character. On her death bed Granny wishes things to be orderly the way she handled the ...

... thine own sunshine, I have none to give thee.” To the untrained eye Hester may seem repentant. She may even seem like she is wollowing in her own misery. However, under close magnification you can cleary see that Hester is actually angry at the hypocrisy of her Puritan neighbors to the point where she does not openly display her anger but in a rather sarcastic manner. In chapter forteen Chillingworth urges Hester to remove the A. She there replies by saying, ‘'Were I worthy of it, it would fall away of its own nature or transformed into something of a different puport. Hester is saying this her old cynical husband, clearly not her best frinend. For the safety of ...

... This is almost a paradox in that it is eventually his own internal influence that destroys him. Wilde does this many times throughout the book. He loved using paradoxes and that is why Lord Henry, the character most similar to Wilde, is quoted as being called "Price Paradox." Although Dorian and Basil end up hating each other, they do enjoy meeting each other for the first time. Basil finds something different about Dorian. He sees him in a different way than he sees other men. Dorian is not only beautiful to Basil, but he is also gentle and kind. This is when Basil falls in love with him and begins to paint the picture. Basil begins painting the picture, but does ...