The Giver Rules govern our freedom, rules are laws or guidelines set up to protect and direct a certain group of people. Rules made, can determine our freedom, even so, our destiny; because its been said, that rules can brake or make a person. In light of recent events in our nation, rules have been created while others demolished, all in the name of “freedom.” This reminds me of Jonas’s

The Ceremony The Ceremony by Silko The Truth In Our Lives Everybody goes through times/pressures in life where we are trapped in a phase where all our thoughts are but a blur. We are “confused” and uncertain of what to do, what to believe, what to think, etc.... Then we suddenly stop and ask ourselves, ‘Wait! What is the truth'' What is the right thing to do'’ The real

The Chocolate War The Chocolate War By Robert Cormier Chapter1: The first chapter begins with football team tryouts. The young man, who is apparently the lead character, is amongst those trying out for the team…although he isn’t doing very well. The boy is being tackled left and right on every play. The internal monologue of this boy makes it very apparent to the reader that m

The Choirboys THE CHOIRBOYS by Joseph Wambaugh The Choirboys is a very raunchy, tell-it-like-it-is book concerning ten fellow officers who belong to the Wilshire Police Station and have after-hour rendezvous in MacArthur Park. These sessions were called choir practices. It was merely an off-duty meeting, usually in a secluded hideaway, for policemen who, have just finished their t

The Chrysanthemums In John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums,” the author uses the flower to symbolize the main character, Elisa. Like the title flower, Elisa is soft and delicate with a tough, protective shell. She worries for herself and her flowers that an insensitive person will be able to get inside the gates and wreak havoc among her feelings and flowers. Both the woman

The Grapes Of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck portrayed the rebirth of a man's conscience dealing with his troubling trials throughout the novel. The character that goes through this monumental change is Tom Joad, son of a tenant farmer from Oklahoma. Tom's conscience was changed from a loner who cared nothing about the people to a hardy leader of them. He first looked afte

The Grapes Of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The Joad family had to abandon their home and

The Client 11-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother Ricky, stumbled upon Jerome Clifford one day, as he was trying to commit suicide and the boys witnesses the suicide of the drunken Mafia lawyer. Before the Clifford dies, he tries to take Mark with him, holding the boy prisoner while the Cadillac they sit in fills with carbon dioxide. As he's fading, Clifford reveals to Mark the

The Client Setting This story took place at a trailer park in Memphis. Characters The main character was Mark thirteen year old boy who gets him self in a pretty bad deal. Dianne was Marks mother and Ricky was Marks brother and both of this two were in danger. Reggie love was Marks lawyer. And the blade was the mobster after Mark. Point of view A narrator told this paper. Theme

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby (chpt.5) The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about the American Dream, and the different effects it has on people in the 1920’s. For Jay Gatsby, the protagonist in the novel, his dream is to find his true love, Daisy, through wealth and power. Through their appearance there remains an empty space that only love can seal. As d

The Great Gatsby Why did Daisy choose Tom in the end''' In the novel "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan was faced with an enormous decision. She had to choose between Tom; her husband and Jay Gatsby; her lover. Gatsby seemed to be the ideal man of his time. Fabulously wealthy, handsome, charismatic and intriguing, he seemed to be able to offer everything a woman coul

The Great Gasby AND THE BAND PLAYS ON. Time tells us that success often comes with a price. Often money will create more problems than it can solve. The richness of a person’s soul can be hidden in the folds of money. Such is the case of Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is constantly altering in the readers mind due to the various puzzling events that transpire in the novel creating a level of mys

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Chapter One: The story starts off with a personal note by the narrator, Nick Carraway. Carraway came from a prominent family from the Midwest, graduated from Yale and fought in the Great War. After the war and a period of restlessness, he decided to go East to learn the bond business. At the book's beginning, Carraway has just arrived in New York, liv

The Color Purple By Alice Walker “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a novel that is written in letterforms. In the novel Alice Walker writes about several ideas, such as courage, friendship, and independence. “The Color Purple” is told through the eyes of a fourteen year old girl named Celie, who is repeatedly raped and impregnated by her stepfather. What does the color “purple”

The Coming Of Age: My Antonia THE COMING OF AGE The novel My Antonia, is a novel that is full of stories, but the most central story is the one of Jim and Antonia and their growth from childhood to their adulthood. Each character follows a different path to adulthood, each with their own influences and obstacles. I will focus on Antonia and Jim’s coming of age throughout the nove

The Environmental Effects of the High Dam at Aswan INTRODUCTION: The livelihood and stability of Egypt `s population is directly linked to the Nile valley and delta. Although these two regions account for less then 5% of Egypt `s land surface (fig. 1), all its agriculture and water sources are concentrated in these areas (White 1988). The water sources for the Nile are the Blue

A Clean Well Lighted Place: The Concept Of Light And Darkness In Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place the concepts of darkness and light help one understand Hemingway’s code hero and theory of nothingness. The code hero drinks excessively. He has love affairs with numerous people. He evades death because death is the termination of everything. Therefore, this fear of death makes the

The Great Gilly Hopkins The Great Gilly hopkins The Great Gilly Hopkins was an interesting novel with many themes, some were hidden and others were obvious. Katherine Paterson has a way of telling a story in a manner that is interesting to the reader yet has a very strong theme, life is what you make of it. Gilly made life hard for herself and never realized it until it was too late.

The Controversy Over Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by Mark Twain, and was published in 1885. Many people who have read the book love it, and some call it “The Great American Novel.” But, there are just as many people who hate the book as there are people who like the novel. Even though it is held in such high r

The Count Of Monte Cristo In the Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas brought about one of the best revenge tragedies filled with such exhilarating details. Edmond Dantes, whose life was brought to ruin by Fernand, Danglars and Villefort, sought vengeance on his enemies by taking away what they loved the most. Fernand, who participated in Edmond’s imprisonment and suf

The Courage To Exceed Ourselves Michelle Beers The Courage to Exceed Ourselves If you give a child a book but do not teach them to read will the child understand the story' If only half of a lesson is presented to a child, the full picture is unattainable. There are many personality types and a varity of role models available to children today, to choose right from wrong is

Amistad AMISTAD Amistad is a recreation of the true story about an 1839 slave revolt on a small Spanish schooner, La Amistad, ironically the Spanish word for "friendship." Spielberg does a great job in recreating the Amistad revolt that spurred a series of trials beginning in the lower courts of Connecticut and ultimately ending in the Supreme Court. Events following the revolt rais

The Culture Of Different Times The Culture of Different Times The legendary story of “Beowulf” is a classic example of a heroic warrior class figure in an Old English/Anglo Saxon society. He is tough and brutal, noble and heroic. Reading “Beowulf,” we get a sense of a less human society where fighting for ones honor is what matters the most. On the flip side of that, we see a sort of

The Curruption Of The American Dream In The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the corruption of the American Dream, and the downfall of those who try to reach its goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is a theme in many novels. The novel shows that the 20th century is a wasteland and a corruption of the original idealistic American Dream o

The Curse The Curse In the story “The Curse” by Andre Dubus there is some questioning about who the main character is in the story. It would be easy to present an argument that the young female, who was raped in the bar, would be the main character; but after much emphasis is given to Mitchell Hayes, the bartender, it is clear that he is the main character after all. Hayes is seen as

The Curse Of A Fatal Flaw - Medea Every highly tragic and dramatic figure has a fatal flaw that leads to his or her downfall. The character of Medea fits into this category perfectly. Excessive passion is what leads Medea to her destruction. Her love for Jason, her selfishness, and her rage are all factors of Medea's harmartia. First, the strongest factor contributing to Medea's fata

The Dark Side Of A Streetcar Named Desire The Dark Side of A Streetcar Named Desire In A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, the characters presented represent Williams' own view of society. In Streetcar, Williams has created a medium to observe and reflect upon the darkest aspects of society and the result of these societal downfalls. Williams has po

The Dead “The Dead” by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year’s Eve party held by two sisters, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner and dance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out the good emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. All things that are emotionally attached to memories don’t always

The Death Of A Salesman The Dysfunctional Family In Arthur Miller’s drama, “Death of a Salesman” the protagonist is a sixty-year-old salesperson by the name of Willy Loman. Willy suffers from self-delusion and is obsessed with the desire to succeed. Willy’s actions strongly influence his family, which contributes to their self-delusions. Willy’s wife Linda is an enabler and is codep

Young Goodman Brown In my reading of Nathaniel Hawthornes classic “Young Goodman Brown” I was left with the impression that Browns tribulation involved a battle in which both good and evil were present. I feel an appropriate theme for this work would be “faith should be placed in God, not in man.” Because one professes to be true with God does not necessarily mean that he is. In this sto