.... boys on Jacks side came out and looked to see what was going on, they still believed in the power of the conch: "He [Ralph] put the conch to his lips and began to blow. Savages appeared, painted out of recognition, edging round the ledge toward the neck. Ralph went on blowing and ignored Piggy's terrors" (175). Once the conch was shattered into a million pieces, the dwindling power left in Ralph's group was completely gone, Piggy was dead and Sam n' Eric had converted to Jacks group of savages. Ralph was alone. Then unable to pick up the pieces, Ralph continued to endure the hatred and aggravation of Jacks savage society all by .....

.... his mother mourned for "a little month" and then she married a man who was "no more like [his] father/ Than [he] to Hercules" (I, ii, 153-152). These extraordinary events cause him to launch into a state of melancholy and depression in which he desires "that this too too solid flesh would melt" (I, ii, 129). In this melancholy, Hamlet loses becomes disenchanted with life, and to him the world seems "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable" (I, ii, 133). Later in the most famous of his soliloquy's, Hamlet contemplates committing suicide because he is troubled by "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" (III, i, 58). His disin .....

.... to understand because Huxley has the Director throw large amounts of "scientific data" at you without giving you time to figure out their meaning. Huxley thereby undermines one of his intentions here- to use the Director as a cartoon character who expounds some of the scientific ideas that the author wants you to think about. He also wants to satirize a world that makes such a know-it-all important and powerful. Sometimes the real world gives such people power, too. You may meet scientists like the Director in college or businesspeople like him at work. The Director talks about incubators and fertilizing, about surgically removing .....

.... In the meantime, he tries to find the meaning of his existence. There's Holden's false front, a rude and without standard teen, but what's behind it are important. A decent, sympathetic and mature teen lies behind the mask. The only time he reveals these distinctions is when he comes to some points and some people, especially children. For example, when Holden decide to go to the west, he wrote a note to Phoebe to tell her that meets him at the museum. While he was waiting, there's two kids that came up and asked Holden where is the mummies, he stated: ". . . The one little kid, the one that asked me, had his pants open. I tol .....

.... Spellman's voice of reason comes from a spiritual Mexican couple who are Thoros's servants. They not only warn but predict of many consequences to the ignorance to which nature is being shown. “Nature will not permit alteration on such a scale.”(Emilio, 114). However, these warnings are ignored by the men who do not appreciate a bizarre servant couple speaking of things which money can't buy and power can't control. This is when Spellman's utilization of irony comes into the picture. A member of the party catches a tropical fever, yet he can't be cured because the tree which possesses the antidote was destroyed in th .....

.... fear of Heathcliff and Heathcliff's enmity toward his son. Linton even says “... my father threatened me, and I dread him - I dread him!”(244) to express his feeling about Heathcliff . The hostility and separation between father and son in this book shows that uncaring parents can cause serious damage in relationships with their children. This element of destructive behavior may stem from an unhappy marriage in which the husbands or wives don't know each other. This had happened between Isabella and Heathcliff. Isabella did not really know Heathcliff when she married him, but after she had married him she saw that Heathcl .....

.... like this dream. The house was small and red with tight steps in front and small windows. It was old and broken down. It was not the most secure or safest place to live and it was not what Esperanza wanted. Throughout the entire book, Esperanza and many others were trying to escape Mango Street in order to look for a better place to live. Finally, Esperanza didn’t have many friends. Sometimes she went as low as to pay five dollars for a friend. She then met Sally. Sally was the closest friend Esperanza had. Sally introduced her to many things such as boys, make up, clothing and much more. The things Sally taught her was not the .....

.... students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed, he turns towards alcohol. in Chapter 12, Holden is at Ernie's night club and he got served even though he was only a minor. In Chapter 20, Holden gets drunk. The way he acted when he was drunk shows how pathetic you are when you can not function properly. The next topic, sex, is a very common word nowadays. Sex is so common it is on television s .....

.... brother’s estate has been burnt down. Bohlen, a local rancher, was suspected of doing it. Ann, the lady that Pike escorted earlier, was at the house. She had escaped however, and was now on the run. Pike caught up to her and they headed back to the town. Along the way Bohlen attacked the group and killed Eddie and Ann’s brother. Pike and Ann made it back to town and Pike got his revenge on Bohlen, but only after he went through a court hearing and the truth came out. This book was very confusing and disorganized. It was very hard to follow and the author could have done a better job in explaining the plo .....

.... married right away. “Yeah, Janie, youse got yo’ womanhood on yuh. So Ah mout ez well tell yuh whut Ah been savin’ up for uh spell. Ah wants to see you married right away.” Janie’s grandmother did want what was best for Janie, but she basically told her what to do instead of letting her know what she wanted for her. Janie’s grandmother told her exactly who she was going to marry and who she wasn’t even to think about. “Whut Ah seen just now is plenty for me, honey, Ah don’t want no trashy negro, no breath-and-britches, lak Johnny Taylor usin’ yo’ body to wipe his foots on. Brother Logan Killicks, he’s a good .....