.... his mother. Fear, in this story, resides in the boy's mind, as he struggles to prove his luck to his mother. His mother equates luck to money, henceforth, driving the child to accumulate money and in his mind become lucky. The mother's assumptions push the boy to the brink and beyond in an effort to determine which horse will win the race. The two mothers in the stories view their roles in child rearing quite differently, unfortunately yielding the same results. The authors reveal that even the best of intentions can have disastrous results. In "Once Upon a Time" the doting mother attempts to insulate the child from the outs .....

.... We have noticed that important motives in Heart of Darkness connect the white men with the Africans. Conrad knew that the white men who come to Africa professing to bring progress and light to "darkest Africa" have themselves been deprived of the sanctions of their European social orders; they also have been alienated from the old tribal ways. "Thrown upon their own inner spiritual resources they may be utterly damned by their greed, their sloth, and their hypocrisy into moral insignificance, as were the pilgrims, or they may be so corrupt by their absolute power over the Africans that some Marlow will need to lay their memory .....

.... further than the Polish villages of 1939, the novel¹s implications extend to all of us. Not only did Hitler¹s stain seep into even the smallest crannies of the world at that time, it also spread beyond limits of time and culture. Modern readers, likewise, are implicated because of our humanity. The conscientious reader feels a sense of shame at what we, as humans, are capable of through our cultural mentalities. That is one of the more profound aspects of Kosinski¹s work. It is this sense of connectedness between cultures, people, and ideas that runs through the book continuously. While the ³backward² nonindus .....

.... cries. He is, further, depicted enjoying a cup of coffee with milk during the vigil, and having a smoke with a caretaker at the nursing home in which his mother died. The following day, after his mother's funeral, he goes to the beach and meets a former colleague named Marie Cardona. They swim, go to a movie, and then spend the night together. Later in their relationship, Marie asks Meursault if he wants to marry her. He responds that it doesn't matter to him, and if she wants to get married, he would agree. She then asks him if he loves her. To that question he responds that he probably doesn't, and explains that marriage real .....

.... over-confidence when he boasts of his role as the perfect ruler of Thebes. In addition, Creon believes he is always correct in his judgments and his beliefs. Before the sentry even explains the event that has occurred, the sentry states that he is only a messenger and that he has not committed the act. Yet Creon still accuses the sentry of receiving money for the act and threatens to punish him. "That will teach you in the days to come from what you may draw profit…ill-gotten gains ruin more than they save" (p.172-173 l.342-346). Creon does not think logically that the sentry would not t .....

.... their room that night, that he must have stolen the money and diamonds. The reverends affliction with the church did not phase her at all. Not surprisingly, it turns out that it is the Reverend Friar who stole Lady Cunegonde's money and diamonds. Another great example of Volatires prejudice is shown when Cacambo is talking to Candide about Paraguay. Cacambo is going on and on about how wonderful it is and how they have a great government and how "the Fathers have everything, the people have nothing: it's a masterpiece of reason and justice. I don't know how anyone as divine as the Fathers...". This is how Voltaire sees the church a .....

.... on individual feelings and emotions. It can be hypothesized that Chopin remained as a proponent of the Romantic Period in his compositional style, whilst Ravel, however, writing in the twentieth century, reverted to the Classical styles on occasions to gratify his own fascinations. Through the comparison of the musical elements of Chopin¡¦s Ballade in G minor, Op23 and Ravel¡¦s Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs, it becomes evident that Chopin¡¦s work remained within the framework of the Romantic style while Ravel pursued a course which combined elements of Classicism and Impressionism. A Ballade is an instrumental piece wi .....

.... home the marlin brought further complications from the sharks. The sharks could represent those who would tear apart one's successes. These loathsome, scavengers delight in tormenting and bringing about defeat or tragedy, similar to how some people react to other's successes. Like the marlin and the sharks, the lions also symbolized different attributes. The lions in Santiago's dreams represented his lost youth and his decreasing strength. For instance, when he needed strength on his long and strenuous voyage he thought of his dreams of the lions, and of them playing on the beach without a care in the world. With this in his .....

.... talk about love between two people and how it is a very unrestrained feeling. This is shown in Gilgamesh between Enkidu and Gilgamesh, men who feel a very deep connection to each other. Also in Civilization and Its Discontents when Freud talks about how "at the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away" (Freud 13) basically saying that love is a very intense feeling that makes people feel boundless. One main idea presented in both writings by Mason and Freud is the religious feeling one gets when they are in an environment that has no limitations. In Gilgamesh, Mason describes how En .....

.... of. George and Lennie are the perfect example of how opposites attract. The two of them have spent the majority of their adult lives together and know each other better than they know anybody else in the entire world. They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. That dream is of having “a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs an’ live off the fatta the lan’”(14), where Lennie can take care of the rabbits just as George has been taking care of him over the years. This is Lennie’s chance to pa .....