... was pleased when Scudder was wanting to get started as soon as he could. Agassiz handed him a huge jar with a specimen of a fish, told him how to care for the specimen,then sat him down at a table. Samuel sat at the table and looked at the fish just as the Professor had instructed him. After ten minutes he saw all that could be seen of the fish. Hours pasted, with no sign of the Professor. Samuel moved the fish closer to him this time, feeling the fish with his hands, turning it is he was able to see every angle of the specimen. This inabled him to take in the whole fish, seeing more then the first time that he looked. Samuel draw the fish, and saw more things ...

... As part of Napoleon's plan he disagrees with Snowball on most of the issues. Napoleon is a secretive plotter that works behind the scenes and someday plans to eliminate Snowball as a rival. For example he secretly trained the guard dogs in secret, keeping them completely hidden from view. Napoleon was also very good at developing support for his ideas, after meetings he would talk to the other animals one on one and "psychologically brainwash" them. He is very kiniving in his ways to get more power and is always trying to discredit and undermine the other animals. One time he urinated on Snowball's plans for the windmill. Napoleon's sense of timing is ...

... is an alchoholic who sees nothing positive in himself. Carton demonstrates a sensitivity which helps others in the long run. His partner, Mr. Stryver relaxes while Sydney works long hard hours to prepare the defense materials for the following days. Carton does most of Stryvers work, he is a man of great talent but lacks the character traits that would make those talents work to his own advantage instead of others that he helps. He always use to be satisfied with faling into his rank and never did anything to attempt to change his life. He further destroys himself with drinking and although he is not satisfied with his life now, he feels that he cannot do anything ...

... Cosette even if it meant giving her to someone else to be taken care of. She left Cosette in the hands of the Thenardiers, who not only made her hate, but also feel hated. Jean Valjean, an ex-convict who had been on the run from the authority most of his life, took Cosette into his own hands by request of Fantine before she died. Before he had Cosette in his custody, he had already change his name to Monsieur Madeleine. This character name change got me off track at a point in the story. However, in the end it all came together to show how desperate he tried to get away from his past. Hugo had a good way of showing the emotions of the characters; no ...

... beliefs at one time. You don’t believe you broke the vase and the dog broke the vase, you absolutely know you broke the vase and are trying to put the blame on the dog as to avoid trouble. Changing ones mind is also different from doublethink. Changing ones mind is accepting or believing one thing, then deciding to accept or believe something else different then what you thought before. An example of changing ones mind would believe the earth is flat and then after seeing sufficient evidence that it is not flat but actually round. Due to the new evidence you would change your mind and now believe the earth is round as you previously thought it was fl ...

... big brother, Holden. This novel begins when Holden is in a mental hospital in California. The novel is a flashback of the events over a time period of four days. The flashback starts off when Holden gets kicked out of his boarding school, Pency Prep, because he is failing most of his classes. Holden decides to go into New York City for a couple of days until his parents will be expecting him home for Christmas vacation. Holden goes to bars and meets with friends during this time. On the third night, Holden decides to go and visit his sister, Phoebe. Phoebe is one of the only people that Holden actually loves. Holden talks to Phoebe about his life bein ...

... When he marries Mrs. Corney, he loses authority. She makes all the decisions. The Artful Dodger - A talented pickpocket, recruiter, cheat and wit. Jack Dawkins, known as the artful dodger, is a charming rogue. Fagin's most esteemed pupil. A dirty snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy (short for his age). Dickens makes Dodger look more appealing by describing his outrageous clothes and uninhibited manners. Fagin - A master criminal, whose specialty is fenang (selling stolen property). He employs a gang of thieves and is always looking for new recruits. He is a man of considerable intelligence, though corrupted by his self-interest. His conscience ...

... Williams, deeply depressed, dropped out of school. He survived his depression for awhile through his poetry, plays, and stories, but the strain soon resulted in a nervous breakdown. "Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory" Williams once said. Tennessee used his stories to express his childhood pain. Alcohol was a prevalent theme in his childhood. His father's drunken attacks on his mother had a great impact on Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. "Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!" screamed Stella Kowalski at her husband Stanley. Stanley had just finished throwing their radio out the window, because it was interrupting his poker game. Aft ...

... in the indirect first person, in which everything is “seen through the eyes of Stephen.” Joyce's method of writing for this novel and apparently for his other novels is stream-of-consciousness. Nowhere in the novel does Joyce include his own thoughts. The character of Stephen Dedalus is revealed through only his observations and reactions to the world around him. This novel is “enclosed in a sustained symbolic pattern.” Stephen Dedalus is symbolized as “rich and many-faceted.” Critic Elizabeth Drew states that Stephen is a rebel who withdraws from Ireland, family, nationality and religion. Stephen rebels in two ways. On one level, his “ intellectual and ...

... her future, but when she ends up in Arizona she has a beat up car, and an unexpected child. She has not created the future she was aiming for. She is totally thrown off from her utopian plan, and realizes that she is forced to face reality: she must deal with motherhood, being of Native American decent, coming across the unexpected, and learning about the real world she never knew existed outside of Kentucky. The idea of “beans” is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room to rent, she interviews a group of hippies who tell her that “…[they] eat mainly soybean products”(78). Soon after, when Taylor and Lou Ann become friends, the ...