.... care of yourself, as well as others is an enormous responsibility. In both books, the main characters must take care of themselves because they do not know who they can trust. The boys in the Lord of the Flies basically have to live their own lives, for they are on an island with no one to run to except themselves, or some of the other boys that they trust. Although, the ones they trust are already fending for themselves. The characters all go through changes as they adjust to their new world, and become different people because of it. In example to this, Jack seems like a strong willed character at the start of the book, but the other boys never would have imagined he wo ....

.... At the beginning of the story she is under the care of her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed. At the Reed household, Jane is neglected and mistreated with favoritism being given only to the three obnoxious Reed children. Jane begins her struggle for love here at Gateshead. Her temper and self-will become apparent there. She stands up for herself not only to her cousins, but to Mrs. Reed as well. "You think I Burkhart 2 have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness, but I cannot live so: and you have no pity" (Bronte, 45). Her early life at Gateshead proved to be a rather traumatic period in Jane's life. Jane "dared commit no fault: [she] strove to fulfill ever ....

.... narrator then does something that I think set the tone for the rest of the story. He referred to a baby just born as being dropped from its dam. Animals are dropped from dams, not humans. Therefore poor people in this story are nothing more than animals. We are told how the children are a burden and how instead of requiring food and clothing the rest of their lives, they will contribute to the feeding and clothing of many people. Any intelligent person would assume he intends to put them in factories or farms to work and not be on the streets begging for food. We are also told that his plan will prevent voluntary abortions and women murdering their bastard babies. ....

.... writing became more mystical in character, as in Eyeless in Gaza and Time Must Have a Stop, while Island is an optimistic Utopia. He also experimented with drugs. The two essays about his mescaline adventures are The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, nicely chronicled through letter correspondences during the time in Moksha. The title of Doors of Perception, lifted from poet William Blake, inspired rock singer Jim Morrison to name his group "The Doors." Then in 1963 Huxley with his wife by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed. Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World shows humanity, that an obsession with a utopia, as they world they live in, w ....

.... tainted. “To live according to natural law, this realease of the imagination. In discovering truth we create beauty.” As I said before, Hemingway believed that nature was the ultimate. It was simple, it was beautiful, it was clean. It was perfection. For Hemingway, nature was good. It epitomized all that he stood for. Places with the clutter of men invariably led to pain and suffering or death. Hemingway was really big on simplicity in his works. Everything was simple, from his style, to his characters (ie: Catherine - simpleton if I ever saw one). I think that he likened civilization to a giant machine. The larger and more complex it got, the more th ....

.... that it was not acceptable for women in these days to work and leave their children at home. After they got married, my grandfather was a career man in the Air Force and my grandmother assumed the life of a military wife with multiple moves (Massachusetts, Hawaii, Wisconsin), and she stayed at home to raise their family. Once again, my grandfather went over seas in the Korean War (in the area of Persian Gulf) and left behind now two children with my grandmother. When he came back from the War, he and his family were stationed in Illinois then relocated to Ohio. In Ohio, my grandfather soon decided to retire. They diagnosed my grandfather with cancer in July 1960, and i ....

.... A sort of hereditary obligation that triggers a memory. In 1894 when Colonel Sartoris had remitted her taxes, but generations change within the story, and their values differ. So the next generation, feeling no hereditary obligation attempts to collect these reportedly remitted taxes. The encounter between the next generation with its more modern ideas and the aged Miss Emily gives the first visual details of the inside of the house and of her. Inside was a dusty, dank desolate realm dominated by the presence of the crayon portrait of her father. Miss Emily was described as a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into ....

.... conclusion of an event. Most of the time the narrator isn't looking at the situation objectively and as Moffett says, "seem unreliable, try to get us on their side, or assume values or views we don't share" (p.179). Right away we become aware of this in the opening paragraph. There seems to be a sense of urgency for the narrator to tell the reader "the truth": I know what is being said about me and you can take my side or theirs, that's your own business. It's my word against Eunice's and Olivia-Ann's, and it should be plain enough to anyone with two good eye which one of us has their wits ....