... Sister Leopolda explains her harshness to Marie as a difference between herself and the Devil. "He wants you. That's the difference. I give you love." Marie both does come to hate and love her. This nun made her as strong as she was. She gave her pride in herself; pride to prove to Leopolda that the Devil was not within her and that she could succeed even as the wife of an Indian. There are relationships in the novel that contained true love. Many of these relationships were not marriages, but they outlasted everything. Nector Kashpaw is possibly the most significant character in that sense in the novel. His love life ties the lives of the two main characters of the ...

... whether or not she is physically able to do them, simply because people associate age with inability and dependence upon others. Her family and friends are expecting and encouraging this dependence.Elaine and Robert, Mattie's two unmarried children, along with other family and friends, are encouraging her to be what they expect a seventy-eight year old woman to be. They talk about how she needs to get rest because she is slowing down and can't keep going as steady as she seems to think. When she decided to try and help a young juvenile, Wesley Benfield, become a better person by taking him to church and offering him to stay the night with her, Robert thought that Ma ...

... the people. The church still held power over peoples' morals, but without the monarchy's to enforce it the church's found their power decreasing. In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the government and the church are interchangeable. The government is what used to be called the church, they have come together to become one unit of power. The power of a modern day government with all the knowledge and weapons combined with the fanaticism of a medieval based church create a dictatorship like none other. The novel deals with the treatment of children harshly for a society which views children as their last hope, their most valuable commodity. Children are taken aw ...

... a universal and archetypal situation. There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to adventure, the threshold crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test, a flight or a flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation. The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are many ways that this is found in literature includ ...

... he was in that wretched rat race of a society. Even as he barely treaded the halls of sanity, he knew that his position in life was not right, that he should at least be granted a few human rights, not the miniscule scraps of liberty that fell to the floor from the metaphorical table of civilization. In the first book, Fear, Bigger stands out on the street with Gus. He and Gus see an airplane in the sky and Bigger says: “…God, I’d like to fly up there in that sky.” “God’ll let you fly when He gives you your wings up in heaven,” Gus said. The racial tension that has been building up since the first time the two races ever met has finally gotten to the point where ...

... his parents would be spared their grief, or that some doctor would come up with a revolutionary idea that would heal him. Because of his hope, Johnny never complained or protested during the entire course of his illness. He always obeyed the doctors' wishes and followed their instructions to a "T" because he wanted so desparatly to get well. Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still never gave up the hope that perhaps he could outsmart his fate to die, if just to steal a few extra hours. Each day, until his last, the determination Johnny had to get well, live a normal life, and even maintain his schoolwork was phenominal. After be ...

... enough."(pg. 31). To a sand, to Mr. Monette's hiding would discourage most people. The use of this particular hiding place appears affective. It is not likely that Mme. Defarge would attempt this limb. Mme. Defarge's behavior appears to be secretive. Because there are strangers in the taver, Mme. Defarge warns her husband with gentle coughs and raises her eyebrows to get his attention. Mme. Defarge said nothing...but coughed just one grain of cough. This, in combination with lifting her darkly defined eyebrows suggesting to her husband that it would do him well to look around the shop.(pg. 28). The reader, at this point, becomes aware of the same secrecy between the ...

... is exemplified by the story Paso, from the theme to the setting. So since it is known that traditionalism is a favored style by Donoso it will make following the plot that much easier. The plot of Paso is slow at first introducing the characters and situation, but quickens towards the end. As the end draws to a close the reader is left with a mixture of feelings from pity to happiness. This is the result of traditional tail, it is intertwined with common feelings and situations to which all can identify with that all are affected by the story. In the beginning the situation is introduced to the reader by a narrator recounting the story from a childhood expe ...

... explorers just that to figure out the mysterious Indians. The explorers later theorized that the Indians came from Siberia through a land bridge in the Bering Strait during the time when the water levels were not high. They also realized that it was difficult to predict the times when things happened to the Indians since they did not keep written records. Then they figured out by use of imagination that the Indians crossed over the land bridge to Alaska finding wild game. And following rivers and bodies of water, they moved south covering most of America. Another evidence was found near the site of Folsom, New Mexico, which was an arrow points or dart point. Fossils ...

... she can get John Proctor. An example "Abigal's Jealouey is euident to belive she leeds her uncles for I would not be her slave. Next Rev. Paris, the minister of Salem is a weathly man. He isalso paranoid because he belives that his ministry is in jeopardy and he is mostly concered about his status. Paris is obviosly a hypocrite. He is supposed to serve God and his fellow man, but he is materialistic and petty.Instead Paris is also a selfcentered and greedy " don't a minister deserve a house to live in"(30) Lastly, Abigail wants revenge on Elizabeth Proctor. In Act one, for example Betty tells Abigsil " you drank a charm to kill John Proctors wife" (19). Also Abby d ...