.... ironic because when one thinks of a lottery it is looked on as an amusement to test one’s luck in order to win a prize. Tessie’s death is seen as another irony. Tessie could not restrain from stoning another person but when she found out she was to be stoned she threw a fit. Tessie could not wait to go to the drawing. It was a major event and tradition in their village and many other villages. When Tessie remembered it was the twenty-seventh she ran to the village. Ironically she was running to her death. The theme of “The Lottery” is that people do not care when someth .....

.... Not only is it the way that others think of him but also the way he thinks of himself that forces him to find solitude. The most evident case of loneliness is Curley’s wife. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t fit in. For example, when she tried numerous times to talk to George and Lenny she was either ignored or told to leave. Because of her reputation for being a flirt none of the farmhands wanted to talk to her. It was the threat of getting in trouble with Curley that caused many workers to avoid her. In addition, because of Curley’s insecure feelings he neglected her .....

.... and comes to a stop. From here, Siddhartha meets the elegant and beautiful, Kamala, gets caught "off track" and entangles himself in a "senseless cycle" of acquiring and squandering wealth. In the final chapters, Siddhartha proves that achieving or over-coming obstacles do lead to better Unity. Prior to making a leap forward in reaching his goal, Siddhartha finds himself in despair. He speaks to Vasudeva, the ferryman. The ferryman smiles and says very little, allowing the River to speak for him. Siddhartha listens as the River reveals its first true, complete message. "Om." Si .....

.... friendship is shattered by their families' disagreement. They both become fishermen. Along with the Kabuo/Carl tension and subsequent trial is another relationship filled with stress: that of Kabuo's wife Hatsue and her high school sweetheart, now local reporter Ishmael Chambers. He cannot get over the loss of their relationship that ended when Hatsue was sent to a relocation camp. All of these conflicts are interwoven with the trial that rocks a small town. The charges against Kabuo are eventually dropped when Ishmael, trying to ensure his love's happiness, brings new ev .....

.... September 19 through September 25 she goes on about how nothing every happens in her life. She does not enjoy her teachers, subjects and school. She thinks everything is losing interest and everything's dull. I think she just is going through the "teenager blues". Julie Brown had a party but she didn't go because she gained seven whole pounds. I don't think that seven pounds is a big deal. On September 30th her father was invited to be the "Dean of Political Science at --------- ". She says that she is gonna become a new person by time she gets her new ho .....

.... late 1800's. The Natives were traveling to a neighboring camp, when soldiers came upon them, and "captured" the natives. The natives were asked to give up all weapons, and a misunderstanding led the soldiers to believe there was a resistance. The soldiers opened fire on the Natives, and over three quarters of the natives were killed. There, at Wounded Knee, The natives set up road blocks meant to keep tourists out. They did this so that the government would take notice of their plight. But things went horribly wrong. The FBI intervened, and set up their own road blocks. Th .....

.... dedication to Whitmore, Alix sets off to locate the father of the murderer. The reason this infatuation continues relies solely on the fact that Whitmore offers Alix an “intellectual and psychological stimulus of an unusually invigorating nature.” The chain effect remains evident as individual dilemmas that arise between members of a social group ultimately affect the group as a whole, underlying the theme of the novel. Throughout the novel, when two or more people disagreed on an issue, a third party swiftly enters the picture offering either hurt or help to the issue. .....

.... living rather than the life that she had always yearned for. With the winds of change came a person that she found contrasting to her current life. This man was Alcee Arobin. His role in her life was not true love either. He merely introduced the taste of tangible love to a searching body. This love was not the kind that Edna was longing for either. Arobin's role was to introduce her to the importance of sex. This was something that was foreign between her and her husband. She felt more like an individual when she was enjoying the act of love making, rather than acting on acc .....