.... chocolate," so is a person in a state of sexual arousal. A recurring symbol in Like Water for Chocolate is food (the title is a good tip-off of that). Hardly a scene goes by without someone eating or preparing a meal and some of the more hilarious sequences surround a pair of banquets. Each of these scenes has a meaning beyond the obvious, however. Food is equated with life and excitement, two subjects into which this story pursues. Sex, food and magic are mixed in sparingly in the story, which revolves about Tita, third daughter of a Elena. The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging, but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on co ....

.... was born a decent human being. Unfortunately he was born into poverty, which forced him to steal in order to survive. After getting caught stealing a loaf of bread he was imprisoned. A few years later he is caught after escaping, he is then sent to the galleys for 19 years. He later escapes from there to goto a town where he was not wanted. Still a criminal he steals some silverware from a kind priest who gave him shelter. When caught, the police ask the priest if Jean stole the silverware. To everyone's surprise the priest said it was a gift this started his conversion toward a good life. After this he tried to live a peaceful life. He started a new factory in a ne ....

.... in nature with no rations or food. He must survive with nothing but the his mother gave him before he left. Brian knows that he must learn how to live in this strange new environment quickly. He has to make many painful changes and ends up a completely new person with a new outlook on life. Hatchet is written in an interesting way. The author, Gary Paulsen has written “Hatchet” in two styles. First person and 3rd person. He will often start a paragraph with one word. This word sums up what Brian is thinking. For example: Starving. Then he will go on about what Brian is thinking as Brian in a more detailed manner. The other way he writes is in 3rd person. He will d ....

.... lured in and taken advantage of. She in so many words simply implies that “if I talk to you that should be enough” and to her advantage it usually is that way. Men meet many a lady, but none quite as rememberable as Miss Judy Jones. Unfortunately for these men, Judy’s personality leaves quite a bit to be desired. She is a very arrogant self-centered person, whose philosophy in life is, “do every thing for me”. She knows that these men who such desire her will sacrifice life and limb for her, and she not only excepts that, but also usually makes them prove it. Judy looks out for herself only, and does anything that will benefit her. This is typical behavior from the ....

.... engages in many activities that people would consider inhumanly wrong. These include the changing of history with the objective of making the party look good. They also make up things it has the people believe through its telecasts, which the entire population watches. The main character is Winston, who works for the Ministry of Truth, which is an ironic name since it makes up what the people are to believe. Winston has thoughts all the time against the party, but luckily has never been caught by the “thought police”. He keeps on seeing some woman and eventually they meet and he finds out her name is Julia. They differ in their view of how best to oppose the party. He ....

.... John Steinbeck does a good portrayal of the theme, that people have always had to adapt to changing times, in his book, The Grapes of Wrath. People often had to adapt to new environments. In Steinbeck’s book, the Joads along with the majority of Oklahoma farmers, were all having to move to California. People were being evicted from their farms and told to move some fifteen hundred miles away. The Joads’ lives had all of a sudden drastically 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 a ....

.... whose lives are completely controlled by their nurses and their routines. McMurphy and the patients have a significant effect on each other. The mental ward and the world that McMurphy comes from are completely different. The mental ward is completely based on rules. The patients' lives are based on the routine that their nurse, Nurse Ratched, has established for them. Nurse Ratched believes that the rules she sets for the patients are in their best interest or getting better. The nurses have entire control over the patients. They are locked into their beds every night, get up at the same time, they eat at the same time, and they watch tv at the same time every day. T ....

.... of a house that is near a canal that comes very important later in the book. Tommy goes off to a secret convention for old detectives and Tuppence takes off to find the house that is painted in the book. Tuppence comes to a town that is called Sutton Chancellor where she finds the house and a numerous amount of interesting characters. She meets two gossipy old ladies, a child’s missing grave, and a caretaker of a church. She finds out a lot of information about the house and is planning on returning home the next day but, she finds the child’s missing grave and is about to uncover a secret she is knocked out and falls hard onto the concrete tombstone. ....