.... is one of the dramatis personae.” ‘In The Fall of the House of Usher,’ the tragedy is so far from being either gratuitous or a matter of capricious volition that both family and mansion are foredoomed to destruction’” (Buranelli 74). He had a difficult childhood and lived a very disturbed, lonely and sad life. Poe was the second of three children. He had a brother and a sister. He was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 19, 1809. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold and his father was David Poe, Jr. Poe’s mother died two years after his birth on December 8, 1811. Edgar w .....

.... Finn enables the reader to better understand his message of slavery. First, Huck’s relationship with Jim shows the authors views on slavery. Huck was taught at home and in school that slavery was a part of the natural order. He never found anything wrong with the way slaves were treated. In the beginning of Huck and Jim’s journey Huck treats Jim in a prejudice manor (according to our standards) in the way that Jim is different from him. “When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Ji .....

.... his major way of approaching life and finding truths. History is revealed to be inconsistent and subject to interpretation and loss. History is not nearly as reliable as Francis' frail desert faith. The last section of the novel shows the first Earth colonists arriving at Alpha Centauri. There is another nuclear explosion and the threat of another apocolypse, but the real question hinges upon suicide. Government sanctioned euthanasia has encroached upon the monastery of Leibowitz, both physically, in the form of a euthenasia station, and spiritually, as the abbot and a do .....

.... Company, is reassigned, the family moves to move to Berlin, Germany. After World War II, Howard is secreted by the CIA back to New York to escape extradition for crimes committed while under cover. Howard eventually turns himself in and is sent to Israel to be tried for war crimes. In the novel Mother Night, Howard’s crimes are not justified by his position in the CIA. Werner Noth, Police Chief of Berlin and Campbell’s father-in-law, believes that Campbell is a spy from the beginning. In a conversation with Campbell, Noth tells him he doesn’t care if he is a spy “because y .....

.... human existence, creating anxiety, reverence, and dejection (Moore & Bruder 503). And man faces, as the most prominent fact of human existence, the need to decide how he is to live within this “absurd and irrational world” (Moore & Bruder 504). “Macbeth” employs many existentialist concepts. Macbeth’s murdering of Duncan to obtain his kingship displays a basic existentialist philosophy in that he eliminated his obstacles in order to fulfill his ambition (Gellrich 17). The witches who constantly taunt Macbeth drive him to his ultimate goal (Craig 255). Dostoevsky also employs an .....

.... was when he first wrote a comedic piece for a friend for a local radio station. One thing led to another, and Drew eventually landed an appearance on the popular 80's TV show 'Star Search', as well as, what is often considered to be the peak of a comedian's career: an appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1991. Finally in 1995, The Drew Carey Show premiered. After near cancellation, the show has become one the country's top-rated sitcoms. Drew Carey is truly a remarkable story of the American Dream. Kathleen Tracy perceived Drew in this biography as a .....

.... will face in the afterlife. The physical and cultural settings in The Power and Glory guide the reader through an odyssey of one man's struggle to find meaning in the world, as it parallels the priest's internal perspective, and symbolizes his redemptive conversion and his final unconscious achievement of martyrdom. Ater the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican government established anti-Catholic laws against the churches. The government dismissed the Church's system of redemption, and became jealous of the Church's rising influence over society. This system required "sinners" to .....

.... decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 80) showed a comparison of the past and present while also showing a representation of Emily herself. “The house smells of dust and disuse and has a closed, dank smell.” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). A description of Emily in the following paragraph discloses her similarity to the house. “She looked bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that palled hue” (qtd. in Kirzner & Mandell 81). It notes in the story that she had not always had that appear .....