.... whereas I'm almost sure the couple did not. Jim also couldn't stand the fact that the object of 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 a .....

.... the beginning of the novel, all Ralph wanted was to get rescued from the island, and go back to his home. At the beginning of the novel, he talks about his father, who happens to be a "commander in a navy" (p. 8), in such a way hoping that he will somehow finds the boys and bring them off the island. Furthermore, at various moments of the novel, especially when Jack lost interest in the fire, Ralph reminds the boys how important the fire is. At one point a ship passed by the island but did not see the smoke because Jack took all his hunters who were supposed to keep the f .....

.... and a former slave. Janie, like her mother before her, was born of rape, and Nanny is committed to protecting her from the sexual and racial violence she and her daughter endured. She pushes Janie into marriage with an older man named Logan Killicks, a farmer with some property. Her life with Killicks is full of boredom and hard labor, so she runs off with Joe Starks, a handsome and well-off storekeeper who moves her to the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida. Even with the prestige and security this new marriage brings, she is bored and unfulfilled by her stunted life with .....

.... be there Gilgamesh is alloud in and goes through twelve leagues of darkness before he reaches the golden garden of the goddesses. Upon arriving there he is greeted by Shamash, the Sun God, who tells him, "You will never find the/ life for which you are searching." This upsets Gilgamesh because he has traveled so far to now just "sleep and let the earth cover my head forever?" From leaving Shamash, Gilgamesh is sent to see Siduri. "Beside the sea she lives, the woman of/ the vine, the maker of wine…" and she does not want to allow Gilgamesh pass. Gilgamesh pleads with .....

.... time to be doing, because it would usually have been men that would do all the smuggling. Lizzy realises that Mr.Stockdale is very surprised, and tries to defend herself by saying ‘’Smuggling is carried on here by some of the people,’’ and ‘’It has been their practice for generations, and they think of it as no harm.’’ Then to astonish Mr.Stockdale even more, she begins to show him how to extract the liquor from the barrels, by tapping one of the hoops around the barrel, forward using an awl, then making a small hole in the part that was once covered by the hoop. Then Lizzy .....

.... were derived from these choices, ultimately led to his demise. The day on which James Gatz disappeared and Mr. Jay Gatsby was born, was the beginning of the end. When Gatsby trod his first step upon Dan Cody's boat, it was as though he was proclaiming that his old self never existed, and his new-self would flourish. This act of rejection shows not only his self-centered nature, but his blatant disregard for others. The reader is able to see, though, when Gatsby's father, Mr. Gatz, returns later, that this family is extremely odd. After Gatsby's death, upon Mr. Gatz's retur .....

.... a corrupting experience. Another example of someone who has been stripped of his innocence through his experience is well depicted in the famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” In the short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne illustrates how a person can go from a state of innocence to a state of experience, thus corrupting the individual. As one reads the short story of Hawthorne, it is easy to observe that the overtone is one in which it displays the corruption of a man’s mind. The corruption of the protagonist, Young Goodman Brown, would no .....

.... Dimmesdale when Roger Chillingworth questions him about his thoughts on sinners and their secrets. Feeling full well the torment of his own secret, Arthur proclaims that those who hold such "miserable secrets…will yield them up that last day…with a joy unutterable." By this expression, Arthur offers a glimpse into his tortured heart and shows how heavy a burden his secret is. When Chillingworth further inquires about such sinful secrets, Arthur holds his hand to his breast, a motion that he carries out as "if afflicted with an importunate throb of pain." Evidently Arthur .....