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... sense of intuition because they believe that there are things that lie beyond the senses. The Scarlet Letter is written in the Romantic style. It contains many elements that are vital to the Romantics. It is full of symbolism. For example, by the end of the story, how many different ways could the letter "A" be interpreted? What about the lot described in the beginning? Was Pearl Hesters child or was she symbolic of the wild life that sin leads to? The people in the story seem to have an innate sense of intuition, much like the Romantics. They are constantly reading each others feeling and reacting to them. Emotion plays a key role in the story. People didn't ignore or hate Hester for h ...

... dies. I think that these events show a sense of independence in both of them. They started to take care of themselves when they were teenagers. That gave them a few good qualities such as being strong and independent. They have another similarity dealing with women. Pip loves Estella, but she does not love him back. She looks down on him because he is not wealthy and is not very well educated. Dickens does not have much luck with women, either. He loses his first love. It seems that he cannot keep a girlfriend. If he does keep one, the relationship does not last long because the girl hurts him (Sirs). Dickens and Pip get something I like to call good luck. Dickens becomes a successful w ...

... and play cards. They do not talk about their narrow survival during their last trip to the front. Kemmerich, one of Paul's classmates and a member of the Second Company, is in the hospital with a thigh wound. Paul and his classmates' schoolmaster, Kantorek, urged them to enlist as volunteers to prove their patriotism. Joseph Behm did not want to go, but eventually he gave in to Kantorek's unrelenting pressure. He was one of the first to die, and his death was particularly horrible. With Behm's death, Paul and his classmates lost their innocent trust in figures of authority. Kantorek often writes letters to them filled with the empty phrases of patriotic fervor. They go to see Kemmerich, w ...

... legend mentioned was about a race of giant Indians who supposedly lived on the land that Yazoo City was built on. Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having saved the town from a band of thieves. They usually spent a lot of their time in Bubba's Model A Ford. Bubba was about eleven or twelve and had a car. They mainly stuck with the guys, but Rivers Applewhite, a girl friend, went with them on many of their adventures. They took trips up into the hills some weekends to look for old Civil War battlefiel ...

... wall. He was infuriated because he knew all the children would see it. He said, “ Somebody'd written ‘Fuck you' on the wall. It damn near drove me crazy” (201). Holden wiped it off because he wanted to protect the children form seeing it. In fact, the title of the book deals with Holden wanting to protect kids. Holden told Phoebe, “...I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff... I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all” (173). I believe the cliff represents innocence, and Holden wants to keep the kids from falling off and losing it. Salinger stresses Holden's feelings about phony people and honesty more often than any other value Holden holds. Holden values ...

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... a meager job for his helpless son in a small town with an old friend who was looking for someone trying to regain status as Peter now was. Whitaker was not as exciting as Portland was to Peter, but he began to be accustomed to the town when he began his handling small criminal cases and ran into an old friend who graduated with him from highschool, Steve Mancini. Steve, like Peter's father, was a football star, but at the Division II level for the Whitaker State football team. Hale became close with Mancini and met many other residents of Whitaker through Steve. One being Steve's beautiful and intelligent fiance, Donna Harmon and her slightly retarded brother Gary. Just as things b ...

... through a dictionary. His language also includes slang and foul words which help illustrate opinions on certain topics. For example, "Liberal Media, my ass" clearly shows his disbelief of the idea that the media is liberal (125-130). Not only is this helpful to an uneducated reader by using common slang language, but the use of a foul word help to explain the severity of the issue. A reader that is not accustomed to this type of language takes note of what is being said. Other crafty language techniques include quotations of scripture and the naming of individual sections with football teams. Overall, the language used by Hightower is not the typical scholarly prose found in most po ...

... Had Hester been put to death because of her sin, Pearl might not have been as successful as she became. Hester was a very admirable person. After committing her awful sin (awful as seen by the townspeople), and losing the respect of most of the townspeople, Hester was able to turn her life around for the better. Her turn around, however, happened slowly. It took Hester and Pearl a while to earn some respect in their community. Hester became a renowned seamstress. She made clothes for herself and Pearl, she even sewed gloves for the governor. For Pearl, she made some beautiful dresses. She made some of these dresses a crimson color, (which was a color close to scarlet). She did t ...

... the house was on after the bomb to what his wife cooked for dinner with the food rationing. He even likes to write how people cured themselves of radiation sickness and what the burns and other injuries look and act like. These things are like myself in the fact that he does not like to forget what things are like, wants to see first hand what the effects are, and is very interested in finding information about new things that he has never seen before. He also likes to help people greatly such as his constant wanderings looking for coal for his community. If you were depended on would you help your community? I think so. The theme that is very meaningful to me is that war hurts two diff ...