... uses personal imagery to portray the feeling that the reader is actually participating in the shocking racial discrepancies of a “dusty” Southern town. Faulkner sets the mood in the first paragraph of his story, with strong descriptions of the seemingly endless dry summer days of the South. He stages the characters with distinctive language patterns, and the repetitive use of the slang term for a colored person, is used much to frequently. The town is demonstrated to the reader as a closely knit community with no strangers. As the rumor becomes clear, it is the men in the Barber shop that bring it to the reader’s attention. Miss Minnie Cooper and Will Mayes ...

... women are treated as materialistic objects and promised by their father or brother to a man in return for reciprocity. The reciprocity could be another women or political alliances. The trades are often practiced in the culture. Polygamy is also a part of the culture. women are kept in the male’s possession. The man tries to collect as many wives as he possibly can in order to demonstrate his power and masculinity. As polygamy in American Culture is referred to as bigamy which is against the law. Besides, polygamy, the practice of infanticide plays a role in the lack of women in their society. prefer to parent a male child rather than a female child ...

... deeper themes mainly have to do with the world of inner feelings of fantasy and the soul. Three sets of opposite characteristics that have a strong influence over feelings and the soul contribute to the depth and character of Dandelion Wine: life and death, heaven and hell, and the past and the future. The themes of life and death become entwined with raw fantasy in Dandelion Wine. One of the first experiences of young Douglas Spaulding is to realize that the pure, unbridled energy, emotion, and fantasy of the summer make him truly alive. (Bradford 69) The pure, unadulterated fantasy of life and joy in Dandelion Wine gives a more than magical feeling to the bo ...

... people of the church would take advantage of that Leading a life pleasing God was one of the most significant concerns of the medieval man. The existence of God was never questioned and the one thing that man wanted most was to be with the divine. In order to do this, he had to achieve salvation. The simplest way to achieve salvation was to buy it. The character of the Pardoner is truly one of the books most evil-hearted and despicable, for he is the person who can “sell” salvation. He takes total advantage of his position intimidating people into buying his pardons, indulgences, and holy relics. The Pardoner has no real concern for the sinners, he only ...

... Dandelion wine took place in a small town called Green Town, Illinois. In Green Town the Spauldings owned a patch of land that they grew dandelions on. Every summer, Douglas, Tom, and their grandfather would pick the dandelions and bottle it for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job op ...

... except for Finny suspects that Gene caused Finny to fall off the branch, not Finny's loss of balance. Finny's outlook on the whole situation is very grown up. He did not blame anyone but himself, even though it was not his fault at all. Finny seems as though he will never grow up because he is so immature, with his silly denial of the war's existence, and his habit of always coming up with strange things to do just for fun. Inside he is suffering with the anger and hurt of being excluded from the one thing that he wants to do most, fight in the war. This is an excellent example of how the war suddenly made the boys grow up into men. They had to face adulthood, and ...

... heads as they sleep. This is the only time during the novel when Holden thinks twice about considering someone as a pervert. This is also the only time in the novel when Holden considers a positive side. This event, however, does not constitute a significant change, as even Holden himself says, "It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” The sun, of course, is a reference to decency through the common association of light and goodness. Thus, Holden’s perception of the world remains, essentially, unchanged. The belief that does change during the book is that Holden can evade or protect the world. He sees a ...

... is described as a ‘Gala occasion’ and many people acted as if they were attending a ‘Carnival’, rather than to see a man on trial for his life. The town’s reaction to what is happening tells us a lot about people’s ideology and the general time frame. We learn more about the mutual hatred between African Americans and ‘whites’ in a legal sense. Groups like the ‘Idler’s club’ and the Mennonites enjoyed seeing a Black man’s freedom taken away from him. Tom Robinson was found guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, in the face of very strong evidence that his accusers were lying. One reason why he was convicted was because it was a white man’s word against a black man’s o ...

... is running from the police. He knows that his only options are, "to hide, or he had to surrender", (Wright 19). The sirens of the police cars which wail in the distance mark the audible beginning of Daniels' separation from regular society. He decides to hide when he notices a manhole cover on the ground. "The cover clanged into place, muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world. . . the rite of separation is complete; the opposition between "aboveground" and "underground" is firmly established" (Bloom 147). Though at times in his journey, Daniels does go aboveground, he never again crosses that border until the very end of the story when he goes ...

... of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain” (I, iv, 99-103). With this statement, the play makes a transition. Hamlet gives up the role of a student and mourning son, and commits himself to nothing else but the revenge of his father’s death. There is no confusion and certainly no sign of madness in Hamlet’s character. In Chapel Scene, when Claudius is praying alone for his guilt, Hamlet accidentally sees him. He realizes that this is the perfect opportunity to perform the revenge. Seeing the opportunity, Hamlet says, “ ...