.... reverend. Then again, if he doesn’t, he will be forced to carry the ever so heavy burden. Dimmesdale waits for such a long time that the guilt has already got to him by the time he is ready to confess. He carves the letter, “A,” into his chest. He beats himself with leather whips, and has to go for long walks in the woods. Back then the woods where known to everyone as the place where the Black Man lives. In this book, Dimmesdale is the dominant character that shows how guilt can rip you apart at the limbs. People could say that Pearl really was possessed and that she was mean, but in all seriousness why would Heste .....

.... she gained the knowledge and creativity to write such beautiful work. In her first works, Willa's animosity towards Nebraska was relevant in her work. 4 After she went east in 1896 and became editor of McClure's Magazine and gained success, her feeling toward Nebraska changed, which was evident in "The Bohemian Girl," in 1912. 5 When she published O Pioneers in 1913, many of her memories of childhood and life on the prairie were depicted in the tale. For example, a phrase in the tale O Pioneers is a memoir of the Divide when she was a child: "The variegated field, are all one colour now; the pastures, the stubble, the roa .....

.... changed, "The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle."(128) Their change in values, was the first step in adapting. The change of environment came progressively: first at home, then their life on the road, and finally when they actually arrived in California. Life on the road was slow, unpredictable, and so very new to the Joads, who had never traveled before. "The moving, questing people were migrants now. Those families which had lived on a little piece of land, who had lived and died on forty acres, .....

.... fear) C. Fear is aroused when the conflict develops between Okonkwo and Nwoye over the argument of Nwoye’s desire to be a Christian V. Conclusion A. Restatement of Thesis B. Concluding Remarks Things Fall Apart: A Tragedy Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is book about a man named Okonkwo, who is part of the Ibo culture of the mid-first millennium of AD. Aristotle defines a tragedy as a work that provides catharsis by the use of a tragic hero who is within a tragic setting or environment. Achebe reveals Things Falls Apart as a tragedy through his tragic hero, Okonkwo, and by the pity and fear aroused i .....

.... he [is] the champion, afloat the spokesman; on every suitable occasion always foremost”(9). Despite his popularity among the crew and his hardworking attitude, Billy is transferred to another British ship, the Indomitable. And while he is accepted for his looks and happy personality, “…hardly here [is] he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship’s companies of the merchant marine”(14). It is here, on the Indomitable that Billy says good-bye to his rights. It is here, also, that Billy meets John Claggart, the master-at-arms. A man “in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not e .....

.... is coming, Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown, And the fruitful fields of England, Shall be trod by beasts alone. Rings shall vanish from our noses, And the harness from our back, Bit and spur shall rust forever, Cruel whips no more shall crack. Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon the day...(p.22-23) After the song the animals were even more excited. They sing the song so loud it wakes Mr. Jones up. Mr. Jones starts firing his gun into the darkness. This quickly scatters the animals. Three days later Old Major dies so Snowball and Nap .....

.... other strong characteristic was taking the life of a friend, out of love and compassion. He also did it out of respect, so Lennie could die with dignity. “George was quite for a moment. “But not us,” he said. “Because____” “Because I got you an’____” “An I got you. We got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us,” Lennie cried in triumph. George cared, he cared a lot about Lennie. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he bought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. His hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger, The .....

.... is a confused sixteen-year-old who refuses to grow up. He is frightened to face his approaching adulthood and often thinks of killing himself so he doesn’t have to. He often thinks of his deceased brother Allie who will always be remember as a child, and he realizes the price one has to pay to remain a child is death. Holden’s fear of growing up and his love for children is an important aspect of this personality and cause of some of the problems he has to deal with .....

.... to look at, filled with shame. I retreated into solitude, and read stories and began to write poems." In 1961 Walker won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, where she became involved in the civil rights movement and participated in sit-ins at local business establishments. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating from there in 1965. She met her future husband Melvyn Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights attorney, in Mississippi where she was an activist and teacher. In 1967 Walker and Leventhal married, becoming the first legally married interracial couple to reside in Jackson, the stat .....

.... a more simple, to the point modern style I would have read the story, absorbed its content, and would not have given it a second look. The story could be summarized into 3 lines and thus reduce the amount of paper it is replicated on the amount of bandwidth required to transmit it, the space it takes, and the time it takes to read it. I came to this conclusion after reading "The Death of an Author" for the fourth or fifth time. I began to wonder why does this man write this way? What caused him to have so much distrust toward the critics? Those are the thoughts he was trying to persuade us not to think. Barthes wanted the a .....