.... 59 The white men come to Shanty town. They come and wonder what they can do, there are so many of us. What will the poor devils do in the rain? Pg. 72 Murder in ParkwoldASSAILENT THOUGHT TO BE NATIVES. Pg. 75 I say we shall always have native crime **** until the native people of this counrty have worthy purposes to inspire and worthy goals to work for. Pg. 77 We went to Zoo lake dear. But its quite impossible. I really don't see why they can't have separate days for natives. Where can these poor creatues go? Pg. 78-79 and others say there is a danger for better paid laor will not , but will also read more, think more, ask more, and will not be content to be forever v ....

.... in hospital, so the graveyard and even his death seemed unreal to me.` The fact that Esther couldn't really accept her father's death contributed to career problems: she had no idea of what to do with her life, she `thought that if my father hadn't died he would have taught me....` Before visiting New York and getting thrown into the real world Esther had been very successful academically: `I had already taken a course in botany and done very well. I never answered one test question wrong all year.` Because of her perfectionist attitude, Esther was surprised to hear herself say that she didn't know what her career plans were: `Usually I had these plans on the ti ....

.... around 410 AD. In its place arose small villages whose rulers struggled for political and military supremacy. Around 540, a Welsh monk and historian named Gildas wrote in his book Concerning the Ruin and Conquest of Britain that “The disasters that the British people suffered at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons after the Roman withdrawal were clear evidence that god was punishing them for their sins.” It was during these disasters that the monk was referring to that Arthur held up resistance for the Britons against the Saxons, at a time when Britain was constantly being threatened by invaders. Through being the commander who routed the battles against the enemy and t ....

.... the literal or actual effects that elements of nature have on the characters in the story. But more importantly Guterson uses nature to convey substantial and symbolic meaning in the lives of the characters in his stories. One of the elements of nature that Guterson uses as a tool to develop the conflicts in Snow Falling on Cedars are the strawberry fields on the island. These fields represent an important source of income for the community. Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and the white Americans owned the fields. The question of the ownership of seven acres of strawberry fields serves as the apparent motive for the murder of Carl Heine. To a loca ....

.... holy rooms and chambers filled and designed with beautiful icons, angels, and Madonnas into a house of sin and deviltry. It is the atmosphere at the church, which Gation renamed Limelight, that helped to make it such a success, for who could resist the thrill of sinning in the very place where sinners came to repent? And what kind of man designed and planned for such a place to exist? Peter Gation is that man, and he knew that no one could resist the inspiring temptation, but while getting people to submit to their base desires, he also managed to convert them to the sinful lifestyles he himself led. Gation lives in a five-story mansion with his personal financial advisor ....

.... all the time. She wants to stop being a girl and become a woman. Hemingway then presents the reader with two contrasting hills. One hill on one side of the station is dull, desolate, and barren; “it had no shade and no trees”, very desert like. However, the other hill on the other side of the station is beautiful, plentiful in nature, and had “fields of grain and tress along the banks of the Ebro River.” Also on each side of the station where each hill is, there is a train track. These objects are symbolic devices prepare the reader in realizing that the characters are in a place of decision. The railroad station is a place of decision where one must decid ....

.... Whitman published several revised and enlarged editions of his book. Walt sent a copy of the book to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Ralph would send the poet an enthusiastic letter which he hailed him “at the beginning of a great career”(Whitman 732). Walt believed that Leaves of Grass had grown with his own intellectual development. Calamus, a section of poems in Leaves of Grass is a section talking about love and friendship. Poems in Calamus have been put in and taken out through the years with the revisions of the book. Two poems that can be found in Calamus today are “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” and “To a Stranger.” These two poems have not been ....

.... which is closely tied to her worst pain. The action of killing occurred while she was trying to kill all her, children and it is the reason that two of her children run from her because they fear for their lives. wishes to consume Sethe, she wants to own Sethe, a relation not unlike that of a master and slave. "I am and she is mine," (Morrison 211) is one of the more eerie statements in the book. How traps Sethe is simple, for Sethe "the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay" (Morrison 42) and when her past, , catches up with her the future is gone and she is enslaved. What's more, does not intend to allow her slave to go free, "I will not lose her ....