... an American and no one could tell her otherwise. Jing mei had a totally different perception about China before her visit. She imagined China to be not so Americanized. Jing mei saw China as a Communist country. She envisioned a poor country containing small villages, with people who would not have the slightest idea of what it felt like to have the same luxuries that many Americans are fortunate to have. She later found out that she was totally wrong. Right from the beginning she was surprised as she arrived at the train station where she saw crowds of people wearing drab Western clothes, as she described, with spots of bright colors and old ladies in gray tops ...

... all things that have caused people to step over that line into evil. Hitler is a prime example, his hatred towards all other races combined with his complete insanity provided for the death of millions of people. Not a person in this world, with their sanity in tact, would deny that he was as evil as they come. His was an evil, not rooted in money, but in a hatred for people; and if the evilest of the evil isn’t rooted in money then how can it be stated that money is the cause of all evil. By definition, evil is causing harm, injurious, or a cause of suffering. Tom was subject to an evil that is ever present in today’s society, loving someone that cannot cross eco ...

... in the cinders beside the rail-way track. He was happy.” (134) Nick comes to terms with things while he is in nature and is able to think. He contemplates the separation of he and his friend Hopkins and after thinking it through, feels settled about it. “It made a good ending to the story.” (142) In fact, Nick doesn’t necessarily have to analyze his problems for his life to suddenly simplify, just being in nature and by the River calms him down. “From the time he had down off the train and the baggage man had thrown his pack out of the open car door, things had been different.” (134) Hemmingway uses the trout as symbolism for ...

... on, so he did the only thing he could, he wrote a book about a future without books. In Bradbury's book the firemen were burners of the illegal books that some people still insisted on clinging to, they had taken censorship to a whole new level and just done away with books completely. To Bradbury this was almost the same as what was going on around him, as he wrote in his Coda, "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority...feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse." To Bradbury ripping a page or even a paragraph from a book was one of the ...

... her that things would be like they were "in old times." His point of view was that it was good to get past the "trouble" he and the girl caused. The girl in the story was labeled as a girl, which is interesting to note because the bar-worker was labeled as a woman. The impression that is given is that she is an immature character. Her point of view is that she will do what it takes to please the man. She is nervous but is in denial; she tries to reassure herself. She feels the man’s distance from her and tries to draw him back in to her world. The setting was very important in "" and contained a lot of symbolism. One of the first comments the girl made was th ...

... the marrow out of life." I think this means making the best out of our lives. In another words we should take advantage of every minute we have, and do what we have to do. We have to get done what is supposed to get done. So that when we look back we can be satisfied at all that we have done. Because if we just lay back and leave everything for later, we will never be able to do the things that we have an urge for. Life is short, and time passes by quickly; so as every minute passes we should make the best out of it. In the movie the teacher Mr. Keating tells the students that the Dead Poets met in order to suck the marrow out of life. We have to do everyth ...

... those not directly involved in the murder of his father, and interactions with the ghost of King Hamlet. For a man thought to be feigning insanity, Prince Hamlet seems to have very little control of his emotions. In fact, Hamlet admits this to Horatio, when he says, "Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep"(5.2 lines 4-5). This lack of restraint leads to Hamlet's unpredictable mood swings throughout the play. Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia easily spawns such dramatic alterations in the prince's attitude. For example, when Hamlet first suspects Ophelia acting only as a pawn for her father Polonius's benefit, he reacts rashly ...

... “an eyesore among eyesores”(177). The description of her house represents a place side by side of the past and present and was an emblematic presentation of Emily herself. Through lack of attention the house has evolved from a beautiful representative of quality to an ugly holdover from another era. Similarly, Miss Emily became an eyesore; for example, she was first described as a “fallen monument”(177) to suggest her former grandeur and her later ugliness. She was a “monument,” an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death and decay. According Fetterley, “the violence implicit in the desire to see the monument fall”(194 ...

... you've done raises the white flag.'" (107-108). This political scientist obviously took this statement of regret out of context. Previously stated was a comment about "raising the white flag" which symbolizes retreat, defeat, and weakness. "I think those brave enough to admit fault would find a... power at home: It's amazing how an apology, if it seems sincere, can dissipate another's anger.... Erich Segal got it exactly wrong. Love doesn't mean never having to say you're sorry. Love means being able to say you're sorry..., being strong enough to admit you were at fault." Tannen boldly stated (109). I agree with her, I don't think that saying you're sorry ...

... demons Marito possesses is his writing itself. he seems to constantly be in the middle of writing another short story to send to some newspaper or magazine. The thing is, none of these stories actually ever seem to be very good or successful. Throughout the novel, not one of them is ever actually publisher. Not even MaritoÕs friends really like his writing. In Chapter thirteen he reads the one about Aunt Eliana to Javier, Aunt Julia, and even to Pascual and Big Pablito. After they hear it, not one of them really has anything nice to say about it at all. So, although writing is one of MaritoÕs passions, it is also one of his demons. It is basi ...