... she is old. Basically he describes her old age and how she will read her book near the fireplace dreaming about how she was when she was young. She is “old and grey and full of sleep.” “Grey” describes her hair color, and her eyes look “full of sleep” since she is old and has wrinkles around her eyes. She is “nodding by the fire”, taking “down this book” that she reads slowly. She is reading a book near the fireplace. She is also dreaming “of the soft look” her “eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” Therefore, she is thinking about the times when she was young and ha ...

... by Yutang. He has also added his own commentary and a very lengthy introduction. Some of the books that Yutang used were: The Analects, written by one of Confucius’ disciples Mencius, Spring and Autumn, written by Confucius himself, and The Book of Songs, which includes over three hundred Chinese songs and anthems edited by Confucius. Confucius was born in the small town of Tsou, Lu in 551 BC. His real name was Ch’iu K’ung. Ch’iu literally meant “hill”, and he was named this because he was born with a large bump on his head. The name Confucius means “K’ung the master.” When he was a young boy, Confucius ...

... could write a book with such a short and sudden ending. The last images he leaves the reader with is George and Slim walking off as Curly says " Now what in the hell is eating them?" thus the book ends on a harsh, cruel note, topped off by the lack of understanding and compassion of an extraordinarily immoral and cruel man. Whatever Steinbeck’s intent for writing such a jarring ending, he leaves the reader with a powerful sense of the world’s immorality.   In this book there were several characters, but only a few had significant roles. I would have to say Lennie is the protagonist of the book even though George is an ...

... ways. In both stories mankind was exterminated because things were getting to chaotic. In the god Enlil’s reason for wanting to destroy man was “the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible” The other gods agreed with this. In the Bible, God also saw how the wickedness of man had taken over earth. Utnapishtim was chosen to survive the great flood because he was a true worshipper of the god Ea, who came to warn Utnapishtim about the flood. Noah was the only man on earth who found grace in the eyes of God, and was really good. Because of this, God came to warn him about the flood and told him to build the ark. The ...

... territories on the game board. In Risk one is attempting to conquer the entire world, while in Diplomacy one wants to control Europe. The play of the former entails strategy and dice rolls to simulate battles. A player begins his turn with a certain number of armies which he places in the territories he already controls. How many he receives is decided by the number of territories he controls. He then proceeds to attack neighboring countries and move his armies into those countries if his attack is successful. A battle is simulated by the attacker rolling up to three dice (depending on how large his army is) and the defender rolling up to two. The dice ar ...

... loves a man engaged to an ignorant, manipulative woman; the younger, Marianne, who embodies "sensibility," is infatuated with a man who suddenly without explanation ends their relationship. Very much a Romantic, sixteen-year-old Marianne is governed by her feelings, not by reason, unlike Elinor. Passionate in her opinions and certain of their morality, Marianne lacks prudence and relies on instinct, typical values of the Romantic Movement. Elinor’s sense, on the other hand, reflects "the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which had advocated a commitment to reason and considered and other source of conviction irrational." Marianne, says of lo ...

... father's death in 1939 (Shelden 11). As a result of his parents class prejudice, Orwell had few friends as a child because he was not allowed to play with the "common" children. He eventually invented an invisible friend named Franky to play with (Shelden 19). In 1911 Orwell was sent to St. Cyprian's, a preparatory school, on the Sussex coast. Known for his intelligence, Orwell was "distinguished among the other boys by his poverty and intellectual brilliance" ("Orwell, George." 1020). After attending St. Cyprian's he attended Wellington college for nine weeks in 1917 (Shelden 59). He won several scholarships and decided upon attending Eton from 1917 to 1921. H ...

... an unique structure to achieve his goal. As the book progressed there was not a steady progression of time. He changed from past to present in order to illustrate the idea of conflict between new and old. Emily personified a way of living, a society, that was slowly being dismissed. Examples of her clinging to the old ways of the south are found everywhere. One example can be found in this short excerpt from the story. "On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offerin ...

... but he does have some likeness to what the grandmother pictures. The grandmother describes him as a rough rugged man who is very mean. He is also described as a person who is not well dressed and very dirty and scruffy looking. When she encounters the Misfit she is surprised at how wrong she was. The Misfit is a very well dressed man who looks very clean and innocent, according to the grandmother. He would not be mistaken for a criminal. This surprises the grandmother, because he not only is very innocent looking but he is acting very intelligently. He presents himself in a very polite manner, and his facial expressions and his clothing speak very highly of hi ...

... Their actions frightened other young people, who soon showed the same symptoms, such as loss of appetite and sickness. A belief quickly spread over Salem and throughout the state that evil spirits are being seen in Salem. Terror took possession of the minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely. "The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous that no one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were ...