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... and people who live here. Normal for them however is quite different than it is for most of us. Living with drug dealers, pollution, poor hospital care and an abominable education system not to mention the social system of the city, is the “norm” for these children. In his interviews with the children of this squalid neighborhood, we find that the children speak honestly and freely about their feelings. Forgotten, hidden, abandoned, are just some of the words that come to mind. One boy named “Malcolm X” wears his hair in a style referred to as “25 years to life”. His sister asks “Like in prison..? This is how you want to wear your hair?” His reply ”You don’t have to be in jail to ...

... castle. Sir Gawain manages to keep his word for two of the days, but on the third day, he keeps the lady's scarf. The reason he does this is obviously for its protective properties. This seems like a good idea, but this violates his promise to give everything he gets back to the lord of the manor. It also violates his faith in God's ability to save him from being decapitated. Sir Gawain isn't as good at following the code of honor in this story as in the other stories. The final example I will point out is when he faces the Green Knight. He is confident that the Green Knight can't kill him, just like he couldn't kill the Green Knight a year ago. However, he gets impatient ...

... Russian Revolution. The corruption which followed within this government gave Orwell the basis to construct the dystopia found in Animal Farm. The feudalist dystopia found in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is altered by the inspirational theories of Karl Marx and by the Russian Revolution, into the communist dystopia found in George Orwell's Animal Farm. The castes found in Brave New World depict an accurate representation of segregation in feudalistic society. This is most efficiently portrayed during the tour of the factory where "people are created on an assembly line. . .(Smith, 1)" and engineered to perform the social task associated with their respective caste. Huxley highlights t ...

... his desire, Ms. Julie Gregg, had the hots for the new town doctor, Doc Stair. So in his eyes he had to make one of them look bad in order to boost himself up. He called Julie on the phone and impersonated the doctor, urging Julie that she had to come to his office at once, knowing the doctor was out of town, because he had something he needed to tell her at once. Julie bought into it and went to the office just to find no one there and to heed the abuse of Jim and his cronies as they made fun of her all the way home. Jim also made fun of a boy in the town, Paul Dickson, that had an accident and in turn was mentally harmed by it. Jim would send him on errands that could never be fulfil ...

... Algernon, and Fay, a character who did not make much of an appearance, but in my eyes believed, that she played a very important part in Charlie's involvement in trying to sort out his past and figure out his present and future plans. Charlie is a mentally retarded person who has impressing people and gaining friends as one of his top priorities. He then hears of an experiment which could possibly make him smart. He makes himself subject to this human experiment with the hopes of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally, and instead of making him gain friends he actually is looked on in the ...

... and gave elaborate parties. He tried to make an impression on these people. Many to these people went to these parties "...without having met Gatsby at all" (ch. 3,p. 41). Gatsby did not have a formal education. His background did not support the background of the old wealth. He lived in West Egg, "...the less fashionable of the two..." (ch. 1, p. 5). The old rich would not live there. Jay Gatsby could have never in his life been a part of the old rich. Even with changing his names and and lifestyle, he could have never changed his interior. He would always been James Gatz. ...

... the figure Faux-Semblant (False Seeming) found there. As seen in the General Prologue, a pardoner is a layman who sells pardons or indulgences, certificates from the pope by which people hoped to gain a share in the merits of the saints and escape more lightly from the pains of Purgatory after they died. This particular Pardoner works for a religious house notorious for fraud in this trade. Just as the indulgence bought with money seems to make confession, absolution and repentance unnecessary, so the fact that pardoners had permission to preach in the churches led to a confusion between them and ordained priests (who alone had power to absolve sinners from guilt). There was widespread ...

... next to apes"(Robinson 190). This section of the story is filled with Twain's commentary on the absurdness of the ideals of Chivalry. When Camelot is looked at from the standpoint of twentieth century practicality, it looks so absurd that it is funny(Robinson 184). An excellent example of this can be found in the banquet which the Knights of the Round Table attend and at which Hank is sentenced. The knights, supposed pillars of Chivalry, sit around the table discussing their own deeds, drinking, and embellishing the facts of events which had taken place. The Knights also partake in activities that we would label as childish, such as the amusement over the dog chasing its tail(Tw ...

... to her cousin, Mattie, because she brought a bright light upon his dismal day. He seemed to have found someone that cared for him, was always happy and could share his youth, unlike his sickly wife who always nagged him. He longed to be with Mattie, however he had loyalty to his wife. Being married to the wrong person proved to be Ethan's first failure. Ethan's second failure was not being able to stand up against his wife. His wife claimed that a new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him without any discussion that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that ...

... on time is Mr. Quentin. Many of the Compson family members have had some connection with time itself. The Compson family hold fast to time and signifies loss. They are more focused on the old south rather than the new. In the Dilsey section there is the sermon about the resurrection that Reverend Shegog gives on Easter day. The resurrection is a rebirth of God coming back from death just as the south is trying to move forward from their "death" in the past. During the Reverend's sermon he says," I tells you, bredden, en I tells you, sistuhn, dey'll come a time. Po sinner sayin Let me lay down wid de Lawd, lemme lay down my load. Den whut Jesus gwine say, O bredden? O sistuhn? ...