.... was torn between his love of gambling and his love of a woman who did not return his love. He felt passionately about things that he did, even if he got into trouble over them. He knew that what he thought was right was often in stark contrast to what his society deemed proper. He disagreed with the social hierarchy of Russia and paid the penalty. He may have paid a penalty for standing by what he thought was right, but he knew inside that he was doing the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with th ....

.... then stages his kidnapping and subsequent killing, and takes a canoe across to Jackson’s Island in the Mississippi River. There he comes across a runaway slave, Jim, and the two decide to leave the area. Huck leaves to avoid his father, and Jim leaves to escape a false charge of murder. The rest of the story follows all of their exciting and action packed adventures down the Mississippi River. Themes Slavery is a big theme in this story. Mark Twain was obviously against slavery because it is hypocritical. Throughout the book we see Huck interacting with Jim as human to human, while everyone else treats him like a piece of property. He was especially against the Christians ....

.... only by whites, but sometimes by their own race. His accounts painted a real life picture for all of his readers. First hand experiences of fear, pain, and anger can be felt through the many confrontations faced in the story. It showed of the way that society forces black people to live and work, just because of the color of their skin. The thing that I found most enjoyable about this book, was the author’s own bravery. He risked his comfortable lifestyle and everything that he had to research something that he truly believed in. Here you have a white man who turns his skin black. He wanders around places he has never been, trying to figure out how to not stand o ....

.... on the island by way of a plane cradsh. The story also occurred during wartime. The story begins when a group of British boys crash on an uninhabited island. In the beginning they area all unruly and unmorginized. Finally, a boy by the nakme of Ralph decides to take charge and call a meeting. The boys declare him “chief” and then begin to follow his lead. Ralph is also assisted by another lad by the name of Piggy. The group of boys were getting along fine until Jack Merridew, a boy who wanted to be “chief” instead, decided to go his own way. He disobeyed Ralph and did things his own way. He was to preoccupied witdh his own whims to do the act that was mo ....

.... in all of Shakespeare's plays so full of serpentine power and poison as Iago. He is envious of Michael Cassio and suspects that Othello has wronged his honor; but his malignancy is all out of proportion to even his alleged motives through which he shows his ambivalence of nature. His goodness of nature is not pure but simply good in appearence to the other characters. The reader sees the true evil of Iago and how he fools the other characters into believing he is an honorable man. His false displays begin with him and Roderego informing Brabantio of Desedemona's marriage to Othello, a Moor. The reader knows from the conversation between Iago and Roderego in Act I scene ....

.... non-Indian also from that point on. Hence, that person may not receive monetory benefits any farther. “It has everything to do with history--the signing of treaties, the refusal of government to acknowledge and correct the illegal expropriation of prime lands in North America” (69). By Canadian law McDonald could no longer live or be among her own people. She was devasted, spiritually wounded. Her “roots”, which is one of the most important aspects of Indian culture, were severed. “I stood alone, once more, but this time naked--stripped of my identity and banished into a world of alienation and discrimination” (73). That, however, did not stop her to become educ ....

.... of when the thirty community women congregate in front of 124 Bluestone to battle the ghost haunting the house, is carefully constructed to contribute to the theme of healing and structure of the work. As Denver is awaiting transportation for her first day on the job as Bodwin's evening nurse, thirty neighborhood women pray and sing at the edge of the yard after hearing speculations from that the ghost of Sethe's dead daughter is causing the family to deteriorate. Sethe and intrigued by the music move to the porch. "Sethe was breaking a lump of ice into chunks.When the music entered the window she was wringing a cool cloth to put on 's forehead.Sethe and she exchanged gl ....

.... as they are destroyed mentally as well as physically. Chillingworth is afraid of being dishonored by being known as the husband of a whore. He also wants revenge on Dimmesdale for corrupting Hester. His thoughts are read by the reader, and his actions represent the fiendish ways that have overcome him. The way he torment s Dimmesdale is seen when he acts as his physician. Chillingworth knows that Dimmesdale was the father of Pearl, Hester's daughter. But he wants to torment and take revenge on the Reverend Dimmesdale, who suddenly became sick. Chillingworth uses his knowledge of the human mind and of medicine to deduce that Dimmesdale's sickness lay not in his body, b ....