... and Jim Conklin. Wilson was as exited about going to war as Henry, while Jim was confident about the success of the new regiment. Henry started to realize after a few days of marching, that their regiment was just wandering aimlessly, going in circles, like a vast blue demonstration. They kept marching on without purpose, direction, or fighting. Through time Henry started to think about the battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty calls. He felt like a servant doing whatever his superiors told him. When the regiment finally discovers a battle-taking plac ...

... Thoreau makes many references to this great struggle which has popped up many a philosophical debates. “The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.” This is the first reference to the Trojans and their war. The Myrmidons were the people of ancient Thessaly who followed their king, Achilles, to the Trojan War. “Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus.” This statement was in reference to a little red ant, who either dispatched his last foe without ...

... with Mrs. Dubose and understanding her problems, being able to change their views about Atticus after the confrontation with Tim Johnson and encountering the town’s racist ways through the injustice of the court trial, and finally determining the identity of and becoming friends with the mysterious “Boo” Radley. To Jem and Scout, Mrs. Dubose was a mean old lady who carried a pistol in her shawl and never had a nice thing to say about either of them. Mrs. Dubose would make snide comments to them because she assumed that they were trouble and were always up to no good. She would point out Scout’s unlady-like appearance with, “What are you doing in those overall ...

... representative of Heller; indeed, he could be considered an everyman. Because of a traumatic experience, which is revealed bit by bit throughout the novel, Yossarian is terrified of flying. Yet Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly. Yossarian's attempts to avoid flying are met with the Army's Catch number 22, which is a sort of mythical stumbling block to free will and reason. In the end, Yossarian defects and takes a stand against his situation by running away from it. The moral of the story seems to be that nothing is truly worth dying for, but there is plenty worth fighting for. Yossarian is an antihero: the reader sympathizes ...

... he puts his fingers into his mouth, gets a little bit of it, and develops a taste that he will never forget.” Johnson believes “many psychic wounds in a man come because he touches his Christ nature, that is individuation process (process of integration and becoming whole), prematurely, can’t handle it doesn’t see it through, and is wounded by it (Johnson 9).” Johnson’s idea is somewhat universal; the majority of men can find a moment where the innocent veil of boyhood was pierced, or an event in that the ease of being gives way to struggle and conflict. In this sense, “all men are Fisher Kings. Every boy has naively blundered into something that was too bi ...

... to describe Laura and the world she lives in.In the play,Laura represents the very fragile,shy and emotionally crippled girl.In her mind she lives in a world of glass animals and doesn't have a connection to the real world.The managerie of glass also represents the fragile relationships among all the characters.The glass unicorn is most obviously a symbol of Laura-- delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief romantic enco ...

... time and yet a time of remorse, Jandale has come to China to find her Chinese roots that her mother told her she possessed, and to meet her two twin half-sisters whom her mother had to abandon on her attempt to flee from the Japanese. Some people have no opportunity to get to know their heritage and their long lost family members. Jandale however, had almost waited her entire life to connect with her heritage and her family. She was willing to visit China and meet with her two half-sisters only out of respect for her mother's wishes. Jandale should have been delighted to have the opportunity to visit China and get to know her roots and her family. The theme to t ...

... Stark Wilson, Shane tries to give Stark Wilson a chance out, Shane gives Stark wilson a chance to walk away, but Stark Wilson refuses. Since Stark Wilson insited on fighting Joe Starrett Shane is forced to go back to his violent past. Shane dresses back up in his all black clothes, just as he wore when he first arrived. Shane grabed his gun and met Stark Wilson for the final showdown. By having Shane return to solving problems with a gun, Jack Schefer implies that a man can not changed, there is no breaking the mold. In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens expresses his belief on changing ones personality. The moral of A Christmas Carol is "People can make chang ...

... of the Ibo society. This society has cultures and religion that has been passed down from many generations, but the culture and religion and are not able to stand up against the whites and their religion. When the missionaries first come to the village, the people, who are still secure in their own religion, are confident that the tribal village will destroy them. When this does not happen, the villagers become convinced that the new religion has some sort of magical power, and this weakens their confidence in their own culture. Once again, racism pervades the novel, with the intrusion of the missionaries into the lives of the villagers. The weakening ties in ...

... in the form of Joe Starks. Joe is a "citified, stylish man with a hat set at an angle that didn't belong in those parts," and he wants to take Janie away. Joe's dream is to become "big man" and pleads Janie to take part in his dreams of the future. He proposes marriage to her, and arranges a rendezvous at the bottom of the road at sunup the next morning. Janie is torn because Jody "does not represent sun-up pollen and blooming trees, but he spoke of the far horizon....The memory of Nanny was still strong." (pg. 28) When Janie decides to leave the next morning for, if nothing else, a healthy change, she looks down and sees the apron which has stood for all the things ...