.... they will sing to me (120-125). The mermaid being his love which might reject him if he so dares to ask the question. Prufrock is a procrastinator and the older he gets, the less likely he will propose his love. He stalls by saying to himself “there will be time”(23) for “a hundred decisions”(32) as he focuses on not disturbing the universe and not disturbing the women “who come and go Talking of Michelangelo”(35-36). Prufrock is a shy man that does not take risks. He is scared of what the world has to offer so much that he says, “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” (51). The overwhelming questi .....

.... was born in Lodz, Poland in 1933. Kosinski was separated from his parents shortly after Nazi Germany's invasion of Lodz, and the fear and violence that he experienced during World War II left a scar on his soul. Shortly after the war, Kosinski was reunited with his family. Kosinski studied sociology and political science at the University of Lodz. At the age of 24, he left his homeland and established a new culture in the United States, where he taught himself the English language in 4 months. Kosinski's life truly is present in the novel. He writes about moving, being out of place, and looking for love, all of which describes .....

.... In the same way Pip has expectations in a material level, Estella would be Pip's love expectation. In a Christian sense, the star is a quality applied to the Virgin Mary. Stars are used for orientation, to guide us when we are lost at night. We could say the Virgin Mary lights her sons in the night of sin. In the novel, Estella appears as a light, it is Pip's orientation and he always has her in his mind. If we look at the sky we can see different kinds of stars. One of them is a star which moves and shines in an intermittent way. That's Estella's movement in the novel. Joe, who is always in the countryside, and Mr Jaggers, who i .....

.... a character he was. It takes a very unselfish person to be able to be happy with what you have and also be happy for your friend. Some people may have been jealous and upset that their friend got all the attention and took first place from them. The same personality trate applies to my friend Lauren. Me and Lauren decided that we wanted to try out for a play. We both took private lessons and worked very hard for the big day, tryouts. We liked to sing and dance for each other so we could critique each other. When the day arrived we were driven by my mother. We could hardly open the car door we were so nervous. We learned t .....

.... external struggle because Fortunato and Montresor are in a life and death fight. However, the conflict is largely internal, because Montresor has a fierce hatred that Fortunato is unaware of. The narrative hook seems to occur when Fortunato follows Montresor into the vault. Even if the reader was confused by the language of the first paragraph or is puzzled by the motive of the narrator, he/she is curious to know what will happen next. Knowing that revenge is at hand the reader wonders what it will be. Why is he taking him underground? The climax of the story is when Montresor chains Fortunato to the wall and begins to layer .....

.... to Mari, she portrayed herself in a few ways as being Diana. She did this by giving the name of "Worshipping Diana to the act of Joop kissing her. Her skin was white except for one violet-colored bruise just under her right collarbone; it never disappeared entirely during the hunting season and came from the kick of her hefty weapons. It pleased her that he liked to kiss this particular spot. She called it "Worshipping Diana" (Stern 112). By doing this, Mari therefore implies that she believes she is the goddess of hunting. Not only does Mari imply that she is similar to the goddess Diana, but Joop also f .....

.... her mother recalls the urge Dee had to improve everything she could. Her mother said, "Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made form an old suit somebody gave me." Even though she knew her family couldn't afford "nice things" she had a burning desire for them. This desire made her take the time and effort to alter a suit her mother was given, into a nicer green suit. Even while Dee was still enrolled in high school, she was trying to help make her mother and sister more educated. She would read to them relentlessly in a futile atte .....

.... his identity, and he becomes, Roger Chillingworth. Hester agrees to keep his secret. The novel takes us through the seven years that Hester keeps quiet. A reader of the novel finds out early that Arthur Dimmesdale is the man Hester is trying to protect. One notices, that even in the beginning, there is deep inner conflict affecting Dimmesdale. On the scaffold stands his parishioner, and his lover, Hester. She is publicly paying for her sin of adultery, and although she has the opportunity, she does not reveal Dimmesdale to the public. Dimmesdale is lost. He wants to confess, but he is scared. He is a clergyman. How w .....

.... goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents' inevitable wrath. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's thoughts and activities over these few days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of unexplained depression, impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the 'madman stuff' that is happening to him - until it begins to encroach on their well defined social .....

.... When his punishment comes he takes it like a man and goes off to prison. Sounder demonstrates his own courage by taking a shotgun blast to the face while trying to prevent his master from being taken away to prison. Wounded and approaching death, Sounder treks off into the wooded marsh to heal himself with the acid from the oak-tree leaves. The heroic actions of both the father and Sounder perfectly demonstrate the strength they possess to carry on in a life of hardship, day after day. Armstrong utilizes the boy’s thoughts to exemplify not only the mental strength of the father and Sounder, but their physical strength as w .....