... he is made out to be Anti-Christmas and he is
constantly commented about by characters in the book, some feeling pity,
others feeling hostility.
"External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could
warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he�
Nobody ever stopped in the street to say, with gladsome looks, �My dear
Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?'. No beggars implored
him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man
or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a
place, of Scrooge." (Dickens 14).
Next there is Tiny Tim, he seems to be a sym ...
... March and April of 1935, Amarillo, Texas, and Dodge City, Kansas had twenty-eight, and twenty-six dust storm throughout their towns. The dust storms were often times massive and destroyed crops, houses and the lives of anyone living near it. By mid March, the storms had become commonplace in Amarillo and Dodge City. Residents began to accept them as a part of daily life. On April 10, 1935, a dust storm rolled through Texas and Oklahoma and on to Kansas. The storm lasted for over twenty-four hours, and set a record for intensity and duration of a storm. This storm came four days before the dreadful �black blizzard� that hit Amarillo, Texas on April 14, 1935.
In ...
... in an ideal relationship, it must be perfectly ideal. Ideal does not necessarily translate to a positive viewpoint, though. It could mean the perfectly wrong relationship. It just implies that the characters are both dedicated to their relationship not being positive. In a realistic relationship, there are constant factors interfering with the relationship, and opinions of the other change and vary throughout the work. Claire Kemp, in her short story, �Keeping Company� gives an example of a relationship that is controlled by the male. He suppresses his wife. Perhaps the cause of this is his own insecurity with the relationship. Securing her love for him has taken pr ...
... the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony
collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured.
The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the
usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the
usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came
back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son.
The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character
view to another, to piece together a whole view of the story.
The structure of the story is from 3 different views, one is the victim' ...
... proud to let anyone see her weaknesses. Her father made aware that she
had "backbone" (p.10) and that "she took after him" (p.10). The first sigh
of Hagar's excessive pride was shown when her father scolded her for
telling a customer that there were bugs in the barrel of raisins. She
refused to cry before and after the punishment: "I wouldn't let him see me
cry, I was so enraged" (p.9). She continued to build a wall around herself
to hide her emotions. Her pride interfered with many relationships in her
life. When her brother Dan was dying, her other brother Matt asked her to
put on her mother's shawl and pretend to be her to comfort Dan. Hagar
refused ...
... and for other women, like
in the airport incident. There again we were reminded of the way she was
brought up: "Once upon a time we were well brought up women; we were dutiful
wives who kept our heads veiled, our voices shy and sweet" (543). Only this
time the statement is ironic. Shaila's actions show us that she is far from the
voiceless, week female she was brought up to be.
Shaila was not responsible for her own heredity. She could not control much of
her environment in which she was brought up, but she had the power and internal
strength to face the life with her individual rejoinder. She admits to being
"trapped between worlds" (543), and we ...
... too."
All of this starts off quite interesting. It is October, the month of
Halloween, and in this strange year Halloween came early. A lightning rod
salesman, come to the town predicting a humongous storm that is coming this way.
The clouds speak their own words, telling the same. Jim Nightshade and William
Halloway, neighbors and best friends, one born a minute before October thirtieth
and one born a minute after October thirtieth, both lay there in Jim's front
yard. The salesman stopped and told them that the storm was coming and it was
coming for them. One of their houses would get struck by lightning and who was
to say which one. "This," said the sal ...
... be right if it is believed and practiced by highly respected members
of the community. Even the widow who rescued him from his father owns
slaves. Huck shows his own belief in the practice of slavery when he
discovers that Jim has run away. He has promised not to tell but worries
that people will �call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for
keeping mum....� (43). During the course of their journey, the line that
Huck envisions between himself and Jim becomes increasingly fainter.
Society and its mores seem extremely distant and remote from the simple yet
ideal life Jim and Huck lead on their raft.
Just as slavery was an almost universally recognized pr ...
... learn and improve their knowledge. People
would rely on the computers rather than "try to memorize enough to match
someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55).
People would not chose to study, they would only want to be
educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than
reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using
a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might
began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting
computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what
computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computer ould ...
... which wail in the distance mark the
audible beginning of Daniels' separation from regular society. He decides
to hide when he notices a manhole cover on the ground. "The cover clanged
into place, muffling the sights and sounds of the upper world. . . the rite
of separation is complete; the opposition between "aboveground" and
"underground" is firmly established" (Bloom 147). Though at times in his
journey, Daniels does go aboveground, he never again crosses that border
until the very end of the story when he goes up for the final time. Here,
Fred Daniels has not only escaped from the police for the time being but he
has also escaped from his racial definition ...
