Hills Like White Elephants Hills Like White Elephants The story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is about two lover’s false perceptions and disillusion. A man and a girl constantly travel never staying in one place because the two are insecure about settling down. The couple’s insecurities directly effect their irresponsible behavior. The major conflict in the story ar

Compare Contrast Comparison Between Novel and Film Version of "Lord of the Flies" Many novels are so successful that producers can't wait to adapt the story into a film. The majority of times, however, the original novel is much stronger than the movie because it is able to capture the emotions of each character, all the symbols and meaningful events. Due to the novel's flexibility, r

The Fix The Fix The novel, The Fix, is a book showing the failure of the war on drugs in the United States in the past twenty years. The author, Michael Massing, paints an elaborate painting of all the factors contributing to the loss of drug control on the streets and in the heart of America. Massing also offers ideas to how the people and the government may be able to conquer the

The Goal Alex Rogo is a plant manager who is continually fighting to meet the output requirements of his business. There are ongoing conflicts between marketing, accounting and production in the organization. Through some suggestions from Jonah, a friendly management guru, Rogo learns to identify and manage the problem areas in the operation. Specifically, Rogo identifies production bo

The Goal The Goal Reaction The book The Goal is a story about a manager whose manufacturing plant is not exerting sufficient production numbers and efficient and cost effective inventory levels. The main character in the story is Alex Rogo, the plant manager of UniCo which is a division of UniWare located in Bearington, Massachusetts which is the very city that Alex grew up in. Uni

Go Down, Moses In the story “Go Down, Moses” by William Faulkner, many situations come about. The story takes place when sharecroppers were around. Many of the blacks and whites worked hand in hand with each other and there was no apparent sign of racism. One situation that arises was wether or not Gavin Stevens should help Mollie Beauchamp get what she wants. Gavin Stevens, the a

Of Mice And Men In the early chapters of the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, there are many examples of foreshadowing. Upon the ending of the book, the examples of foreshadowing show why the “American Dream” was not fulfilled by the main characters Lennie and George. In the first chapter, Lennie and George are traveling from the weed to the ranch in which they wil

Sins And Consequences Of The Scarlet Letter The Consequences of Sin in The Scarlet Letter Every person knows that with sins come consequences. However, in the book, The Scarlet Letter it seems that the characters forget that small detail. The three main characters are Mr. Dimmsdale, Mr. Chillingworth, and Hester, and all commit sins and suffer the consequences. Although they all comm

The Glass Managerie This Reality The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams follows the lives of three people of a middle-class family, Amanda Wignfield and her two children Laura and Tom. Mr. Wingfeild left his family many years prior to the time this play takes place. The only representation, besides memories, is a large picture hanging in the living room. Each character in

The Girl In Hyacinthe Blue The Girl in Hyacinth Blue, is a novel of a great interest. The novel is about a painting that is believed to be Vermeer, by the last owner. Could this painting be an undiscovered Vermeer' Where is its paperwork' Each subsequent story draws us deeper into the fascinating history of the painting. We explore various places and times and meet compelling and all too

The Green Mile The Green Mile The movie, The Green Mile, is a film that is based on a true story set in the state of Alabama during the Depression Era. The story is told by Paul Edgecomb, who during that time was the head guard on Death Row at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary. The former prison guard reflects on how he developed a unusual, relationship with one of the inmates that may

Puce Fairy Book Alice Major’s “Puce Fairy Book” is a satire. The title hints that the fairy book or story being told is somewhat majestic. Puce is a shade of purple and purple represents royalty. Thus the title represents something that is almost magical and very unlikely to attain. The poem itself raises the issue’s of image. Society has an idea of the perfect girl and the poem suggest

The Giver Within the past three years, scientist have made several infiltrations with Human Stem Cells, also animals. These breakthroughs have catapulted the issue of Stem Cell research into the middle of a nationwide debate. Most people have no problem with the research itself, however the source of the Stem cells (adult or human embryos) used in research is the primary cause of the deb

The Giver Imagine living in a world with no color and no feelings. That is what’s happening in a seemingly perfect world that Jonas is living in. Jonas is a boy in a community where there is no pain and no feelings; Jonas feels peculiar in this community. Then Jonas is very surprised by his chosen job. He becomes the new receiver of memories this bring many adventures, burdens, & new

The Giver The Giver By Louis Lowry Jonas and his family live in a place that would be looked at as a dream in today’s world. A place that is “perfect” in many ways, free of war and pain. It’s a place where people see no color and remember few things from the past. At the age of twelve, kids become adults and their lives will change forever. At this date they are assigned their duty in

The Giver The Giver By Lois Lowry “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is about a community that is monitored very closely. Everything that the people of this community do is watched and recorded. They are punished for not doing something right or by the rules, and they are rewarded when done right. There is a procedure for everything, and they must follow the procedure or be punished. There is

The Glass Menagerie Symbolism: The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams uses symbolism throughout his classic play The Glass Menagerie. Through the eyes of Tom Wingfield, a character in the play, the reader gets a glance into the life of his family. Tom’s mother, Amanda, is a southern belle desperately clinging to her past. Tom has a sister named Laura and she is a twenty-somethin

The Glass Mengerie The Search for Happiness Tennesse Williams examines the main theme of happiness in his play “The Glass Menagerie.” The play revolves around the Wingfield family, a family caught in a life just outside the reach of happiness. Each family member strongly acts in different ways to fulfill their interpretation of individual happiness. But the family member’s differen

The Great Gatesby In the history of the United States of America the 1920s will always be marked as a time of great wealth, prosperity and corruption. This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The two main themes in this highly symbolic novel reflect on the disintegration of the traditional “American Dream” through the shallowness and corruption of

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby portrays 1920’s life. The novel’s author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, describes the lives of the upper-class segment of society, a group of which Fitzgerald possesses first-hand knowledge. Although they lead glamorous and seemingly carefree lifestyles, the characters in the novel possess many glaring moral deficiencies and personal insecurities. They endless

The Great Gatsby The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is very strong. Gatsby and Daisy love each other deeply. The two were separated for a while because Gatsby joined the army, but after he returns, Gatsby devotes his life to be reunited with Daisy. They still love each other after five years of separation. In the first stage of the relationship, Gatsby and Daisy are madly in lov

The Great Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, materialism corrupted many characters. Daisy blew off a life of happiness because she believed that material possessions were more important. Gatsby had low self-esteem because he could never have the belongings that would satisfy his love’s wants. Myrtle was given all the love in the world by her husband William, bu

A Lesson Before Dying I thought that the book A Lesson Before Dying was all right overall. I think Ernest Gaines did a good job with the plot but the idea of the book was not to interesting to me. A book about a black man becoming a man on his way to the electric chair is a very dull plot to me. I give Gaines credit for making the book semi-interesting even though the plot was terrible.

The Great Gatsby Llamas – By Sam Llamas are the ancestors of great war beasts known as the Mastodons. Evolving to the peak of their existence they became great grazing mammals and conquered rough paddocks on mountainous hillsides around the world. Armed with their advanced spitting capabilities they defend their territory with an aggressive suppressed rage that makes them dangerously

The Great Gatsby To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” each of the main characters changed quite a bit. Through the experiences each character went through and the natural maturing that occurred in each of them, the characters were altered from the way they were at beginning of the book. The children, Scout and Jem, were the two most dramatically changed characters

The Great Gatsby Does Fitzgerald portray Gatsby as the one who is ‘Great’ or is Nick Carraway the true hero of the novel' Nick Carraway provides the eyes and ears with which Fitzgerald shows us a period ‘described as a corrupt, amoral and violent time, in which loneliness, frustration and lost spiritual values are typical.’ Within this bleakness Fitzgerald has chosen to write about

The Great Gatsby Great' Or Not So Great' In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby we see the constant battle between morality and secularism, mainly through his use of symbolism. Two main symbols used throughout his work are the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg and the green light. One must sometimes wonder why people create dreams and images of false hope which almost never come

Monkeys Paw The Monkeys Paw ‘The Monkeys Paw’ is a story based on the fairy tale idea of a man who has three wishes. It is based on very ordinary characters living in a very ordinary house in a mundane setting. In this story there are four main characters. We are not given much description of them, they are pretty ordinary. Mr and Mrs White live in a small house together with their s

The How Of Pooh The How of Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh just is. He is a simple-minded bear that travels around and has many adventures without becoming smarter, or losing his simple mindedness. As a result, he is the perfect symbol to explain Taoism and the eastern worldview to the average busy Western thinker. In the Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff explains Taoism through the extensive use of s

The House On Mango Street The book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros takes place on a run down street in Chicago called Mango Street. The main character of this book is a 13 or 14-year-old girl named Esperanza. Throughout this book she is faced with many different feelings and learns a lot of lessons in life. The main thing she learns about is men and her feelings toward th