.... is used describing how aesthetically perfect Billy is. Besides Billy’s stutter, he seems absolutely perfect. Billy is a sailor. His original ship was the Rights-Of-Man but he later was impressed by the Bellipotent. Here he becomes a foretopman. As usual he charms everyone. They even call him “The Handsome Sailor”. On the ship, Billy is respected by everyone except the protagonist, John Claggart. Claggart is extremely jealous and holds considerable amounts of contempt for him. At first he tries to be nice to Billy but soon his true jealousies surface. He begins to scold Billy for insignificant lapses and tries to degrade him. In one instance when ....

.... the beginning of the story Huck runs away from his friends and family to Jacksons Island. On Jacksons Island he is confronted by Jim who is a runaway slave. Jim being an African American is looked down on by society. When Huck is faced with the decision of choosing to rat on Jim or keep his secret Huck has a hard time. He knows subconsciously that Jim has done something wrong. Yet he follows his heart and decides to keep Jims secret. He says” people would call me a low-down abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum”. Huck here shows that he isn’t only running away form home but He’s running away from everything that home stands for. This happen ....

.... with the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. Huck grew up living wild out in the open, just going as he pleased. Now he living in a house, with two ladies that are very strict with manners. Although, he doesn’t runaway back to the woods, he still wishes he could go back to the easy living in the uncivilized outdoors. When Huck’s father learns of his wealth, he kidnaps Huck, and takes him back to a cabin on the other side of the river. After repeated beatings Huck escapes and makes the scene look as if he had been murdered. He then hides on Jackson Island, and returns to his life of freedom. Also on the Island is Jim, Miss Watson’s runaway slave. After finding ou ....

.... a fierce commitment and willingness to do whatever it takes in the name of peace, it exemplifies a selfish desire for political amnesty at the high cost of destroying a family. The cause is actively consuming Sonny's life, annihilating his family. He is becoming so entangled within the political endeavor that he is slowly beginning to dissipate from his commitment to his family. He emerges himself in a relationship with Hannah, a young woman working for a human-rights organization. “It was then that it began, that it was inescapable. Needing Hannah”(53). Sonny and Hannah share the same fierce drive to end apartheid. They are fighting the same battle. She is hi ....

.... political system. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and soon after moved to England to be employed by the diplomat and writer Sir William Temple. (Encarta 1) He became involved in politics and in some of the most important developments in the history of England at the time. During this time, he was recognized as an ingenious and witty man for his age. He originally was a member of the Whig party but in 1710, he decided to become a Tory due to differences with the Whig party. The Tory party leaders at the time were Edward Harley and Bolingbroke. (source 6) His main duty with the Tories was writing pamphlets defending the Tories administration. These pamphle ....

.... her emotional growth, over the course of the novel. Her first anticipation that Boo was a nice man came from the fact that she found gifts in a tree on the Radley lot.. Scout stated: Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers. (Lee, p.67) Although Scout may not have realized the connection of the gifts, she later realized they must have came from Boo. This was the start of her acceptance of Boo as a "nice" person. When Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, ....

.... reality in many ways. In 1984 the government was able to watch every move their citizens made by the use of telescreens, helicopters and spies. “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a blue bottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol snooping into people’s windows”(Orwell 4). However unlikely it may seem, our government has the capability to watch us just as “the party” watches the citizens of Oceania. As we speak, hundreds of satellites orbit our planet, each capable of watching everything we do outside. This technological advancement highly mimics th ....

.... him conflicting thoughts, emotions, and fears. The young character soon realizes as all of these things affect him emotionally and physically, that the war is very different from what he had hoped it was going to be. Although the soldier becomes nervous and even runs away at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he eventually returns to find that he and his fellow soldiers have grown. They had learned more about themselves than they ever believed possible. The young soldier becomes a man with plenty of courage by the end of this book. Stephen Crane brings the reader into his book, first with his power of describing details so eloquently, and second by telling us very little o ....