.... main character. The story starts off saying, "The high Gray-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from the rest of the world."(Steinback 267)from the first sentence the author is developing a setting that compliments the character. At this point in time of the story nothing is known about the Elisa Allen, but this quote about how the Salinas valley is closed off from the world is a symbol of the struggle that Elisa is soon to face. The second sentence of this story reinforces that the this place is isolated by saying, "On every side it sat like a lid on the mountains and made the great valley a closed pot. "(Steinback 267) The symbol of a ....

.... man looks at DiMaggio as a role model in the sense that if DiMaggio can play with a bone spur in his ankle and tough things out, then he will work around his cramp and continue to fight the fish, as would the great DiMaggio. This is what the old man thought, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? I am sure he would and more since he young and strong. Also his father was a fisherman. But would the bone spur hurt him too much?"(68). "But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly, even with a bone spur in his heel"(68), this particular quote from the old man ....

.... The first horror film on record was Frankenstein in 1910. Elements from Frankenstein are evident in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. When the demonic somnambulist Cesare creeps into Lil Dagover's bedchamber, director Robert Wiene was exploiting a fear common to us all. Prone and sleeping the woman is uttlerly helpless. She is carried off into the expressionist labyrinth that Wiene used to symbolize the darkest torments of the human mind and soul. A beautiful woman is carried off by evil, a play on the Beauty and the Beast themes that would become so popular in horror films. Used expressionism, films that explored dream, nightmare and psyche and that found t ....

.... of landing on the steps, it hit the Clerk of the U.S. Senate on the head. As a result, Forrest is arrested for assault with a dangerous weapon. These sorts of fiascoes happen during the course of this novel. Throughout the novel, Forrest is telling of his remarkable life that he has led. It starts when he is a child. When he was in school, he was transferred to a special school because he had an IQ of an idiot and did not fit in with the mainstream. When he was about sixteen, a guy stopped him on his way home from “nut school” and asked him why he had not seen him around before. The next week, he was taken out of that school and placed in a public high school ....

.... we can never hope to know each other's true selves. The themes in the story are suggested by the veil- symbol, the tension between the minister and the community, and the use of pro-Freudian psychological analysis. The symbolic significance of the black veil lies in the physical and mental barrier that it creates between the minister and his environment, and the guilt that it expresses. Many people believe that the face provides information about a person's underlying characteristics and, therefore, about his or her probable behavior. Thus, by wearing the veil, the minister takes away the basis on which people can predict his behavior. This is the main cause of the ....

.... on unlikely soil, and without benefit of tragic theater or tragic audience. Both authors were aware of the untimeliness of their books. Hawthorne, in the famous letter to his publisher, Fields, spoke of fearing that his novel would "weary very many people and disgust some" by keeping so close, and with so little diversification, to "the same dark idea." Would he have an audience receptive to his peculiar view of things? The Greek and Elizabethan dramatists or Racine or even the poet of Job could count on an audience culturally predisposed through myth, theater, or racial view to accept at once a drama of direness. Hawthorne had to make his own audience, to lead it by easy s ....

.... they simple explanation for a coincidence (superstitions 1-4). Here are three most common superstitions and how they came about that have been passed on through history to this very day. The most popular superstition is that if a black cat is crossing a person’s path it will cause that person bad lucks before his or her journey is over. If this occurs the individual can take twelve steps backwards to ward off the bad luck (cat-report 6). This belief originated in ancient Egypt where the cat was considered sacred and to kill one was sacrilege. It is believed that the folklore surrounding the black cat began in the Middle Ages when it was associated with witches. I ....

.... etc.) and proceeds to say Moby Dick is all of these things, "Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?" He is esentially asking us "if you lived in a world where nothing had any meaning, and a great white whale was taunting you to give chase, what would you do?" My method of attacking the question, how would the three main characters from Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter see the whiteness of the whale?, is going to be a comparison to Melville's characters. The first comparison is between Hester Prynne and Ishmael. Hester Prynne is a brave lady who faces her sin, as seen in her ability to face severe ridicule on the scaffold. Ishmael is a brave young man who handles any conflict w ....