.... humor and cynicism, down- home simplicity, naivete, and "boy-next-door innocence" that Semple easily becomes a character that hard-working, average, everyday people can relate to. He quickly becomes this sort of Black Everyman whose bunions hurt all the time and whose thoughts are relatively quite simple, yet he is a man who rises above these facts and has a perception that shows the man to have great wisdom and incredible insight. And although he maintains a seriousness for all his wisdom to come through; his presentation of the facts is given in a humorous manner. In Bop, "That's why so many white folks do not get their heads beat just for being white. But me --- a ....

.... He was a man of great pride, and though he longed to taste of the grapes of California, his stubbornness not to leave home may have caused his death, but his lack of concern for his family shows that he did not care for much else other than himself and the farm. Yet along the trip there are many members of the family that stand out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. J ....

.... home due to her spite of it. Dee’s mother observes her daughter, under a tree, watching with great fascination as their home is destroyed (Walker 73). Dee believes that her mother subjects her family to substandard living conditions, by choice. In a letter to her mother, Dee writes, no matter where she (Dee’s mother) “chooses” to live she (Dee) will manage to visit (Walker 73). Although Dee indicates that she will visit, shame prohibits her from revealing what she considers an inferior home life to her friends. Her mother realizes Dee’s embarrassment and knows “she will never bring friends [to the house]” (Walker 73). Unfortunately, the manner in which De ....

.... same place as the night before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in as essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore, as that man truly said, it requires enormous, presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That was why, he said, the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the say. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of your day. Gregor woke up one morning to find himself turned from a human being to a ....

.... and small ", and walks like the "pendulum in a grandfather clock" ever so carefully with her "thin, small cane made from an umbrella." The description of Phoenix Jackson at the beginning of this story gives the reader a glimpse of how difficult this trip is going to be for an elderly woman such as her. The description "Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin has a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles" are indications of Phoenix Jackson's old age. She supports herself with a cane, striving not to fall with every step she takes. She wears a "dress reaching down to her shoe tops" along with "an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket." Th ....

.... J.B. Salingers book, The Catcher in the Rye, aptly describes the immense confusion of the in between stages of being a boy and a man. Throughout the whole story, the narrator, Holden tries to act both the boy and thw man but cannot. He tries in vain to get a grip on the adult world, but never is quite successful. Holden's first attempt at adulthood is exemplified when he leaves his school without permission from his parents or the school. This act in itself sets the stage for his trial and error attitude about adulthood in the sense he failed out of school, which was a childish act. He tries to rectify his failing out of school by leaving, which he views as an adult ac ....

.... that the house was built not only for function, but also to impress and engage the attention of the other townspeople. Similarly, the wealthy women of the era, Emily Grierson not withstanding, were dressed in a conspicuous manner. This, for the most part, is because their appearance was perceived as a direct reflection on their husbands and/or fathers. This display of extravagance was egotistically designed by men to give an impression of wealth to onlookers. Emily was regarded by her father as property. Her significance to him was strongly ornamental, just as their overly lavish home was. As the plot progresses, the reader is clearly made aware of the physical ....

.... usually mean that we can turn to that person comfortably if all other doors of the world are shut to us. This is the one person that we trust and like to be in company with. In the novel Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano loves Roxane more than anyone else but he is shy to tell her so. When he finds out of her feelings towards another character Christian, who she likes because of his looks, Cyrano finds a way to express his love to Roxane. He decides that he would write to her in the name of Christian who comparatively is a poor writer and "wishes to make Christian his interpreter"(II,85). Both Christian and Cyrano love Roxane but Roxane loves only the person that has been wr ....