... Hayden was born in a destitute area of Detroit in 1913. He had an emotionally tumultuous childhood. Because his parents separated before he was born, he was raised by neighbors. As he grew up in a foster family, he and his foster father have a generation gap. He does not realize how much his father loved him until he is an adult. In the first stanza, Hayden uses vivid language to show that his father woke up before everyone else to light the fire. Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made b ...

... and intuition. Either one might have helped save him" (p.221). Since the man was arrogant to the wild, he was slow to recognize the significance of the dropping temperatures. The cold, beginning to set in, soon affects three major things that eventually lead to his death. It affects his ability to think clearly, his awareness and his memory. The first area which is affected by the cold is the mans memory. This is shown when the man sits down for lunch, removes his mittens and unzipped his jacket. "The action consumed no more than a quater of a minute, yet in that brief moment the numbness laid hold of the exposed fingers" (p.227). Then the man strikes his finger ...

... starts going horribly wrong in true King style. Kemp informs Vic of the affair. Ouch. Donna's life is quite obviously ruined. Brett and Charity discover the "decent people" aren't quite as decent as they thought, and then there's Cujo - who contracts rabies. Cujo does a lot of slaughtering while Brett and Charity are away visiting the "decent people". These slaughterings definitely pose to be of King's best, most-intense and goriest scenes ever. Cujo is (was) a good dog 'til he contracted rabies. The story really reaches the heights when Donna and Tad are stuck in their car, trying to keep safe from the dog. The final part of the book focuses on Donna's str ...

... events which occur suddenly and with increasing speed, so shocking and destructive, particularly for David. David’s view of life dramatically starts to change through the eavesdropping of his mother and father’s conversation regarding Frank’s behaviour towards the woman on the Indian reservation. While David must pretend, not just for the remainder of the novel, but for the next forty years, to be ignorant of Frank’s crimes, and therefore of much of what is happening although his parents do not realise that he has overheard their discussions. David’s previous image of Frank along with happy memories therefore were gone, never to return, and within si ...

... her advantage. A "nor'easter"(15) snow storm allows her to 'forget' about "Mr. Barclays wedding gift for Mr. Hathaway."(15) which just happens to be a tinderbox. She uses the storm as reason to bundle up with Mr. Mears so as to stay warm. Kezia never wants to marry Mr. Hathaway, so after the storm clears she proclaims to Mr. Mears that she'll "have to say [she] bundled with [Mr. Mears] in a hut in the woods."(21), and of course "bundling was an invention of the devil."(22). Therefore Kezia cannot declare her bundling with Mr. Mears to Mr. Barclay or Mr. Hathaway for fear of being punished. Kezia then offers herself as wife to Mr. Mears, thus getting her out ...

... Depression many people had to travel around to work which did not allow companionship to develop because they always moved around to different places and lacked a true home. Another cause of loneliness during the Great Depression is discrimination because of age, race, or sex. Loneliness is demonstrated in this novel by many of its characters. One character, Crooks has to live in an isolated shack next to the barn because he is black, his only companions are his books. He shows his loneliness when Lennie and Candy comes into his room and even if he says he does not want them in his room he cannot conceal his pleasure with anger. Curly’s wife is anoth ...

... to me because they have distinct levels of understanding and meaning to the play. Line 41 goes back to the original conflict that Romeo and Juliet are from feuding houses, the Capulets and the Montagues. It shows that Juliet does not want her family to fight the Montagues, and that she believes it is ridiculous because it is not the people they hate and fight it is their name, Montague. The section I chose reveals that the kids, Romeo and Juliet, feel that they can not have what they want because of the parents’ feuds. It makes you feel as helpless as they are, because you know that with their parents’ permission to get married, they would b ...

... camps, people never really stop to think about what it must have felt like not knowing what was going on or what was going to happen next. Throughout the book, Wiesel talks about people not realizing what happened. He shows the reaction of the townspeople when they first heard of Hitler and German troops. I did not realize how much effect the book had on me until I noticed how much life has changed for Wiesel and the rest of the Jews and how unexpected this change was. The book shows the progression of an innocent twelve year old boy whose life was devoted to studying the Torah and was changed to a life of terror. The book also shows how the German forces we ...

... rope, the relationship between these characters is one of consistent domination. The stage directions say that "Pozzo drives Lucky by means of a rope passed round his neck." [15] Lucky is whipped often, and he is essentially the horse pulling Pozzo's carriage in a relationship that seems cruel and domineering. Yet Lucky is strangely compliant. In explaining Lucky's behavior, Pozzo says, "Why he doesn't make himself comfortable? Let's try and get this clear. Has he not the right to? Certainly he has. It follows that he doesn't want to...He imagines that when I see how well he carries I'll be tempted to keep him on in that capacity...As though I were short of ...

... when his son, Biff, returns home from the west. Willy discusses his disappointment in Biff with his dear wife Linda. When Willy fails to cope with this misfortune successfully, he returns in his head to a time when everything was going well and life was more fortunate to him. It is perfectly normal for one to remember more fortunate days at the more dispirited times of life, as long as they can return to the present and deal with the reality of the situation. However, Willy never does return to the original problem, he just continues on with life, fleeing from the troubles that cross his path. His refusal to acknowledge reality becomes so significant, that he h ...