.... existence of the treasure. The decease of his son, and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improve his family’s level of affluence; his dreams, and goals entirely counted on the infinitesimal detail that the pearl wo .....

.... The prize for his success is similar to one who has made a deal with the devil in the sense that the reward is not worth the sacrifices made to attain it. Gatsby is a man whose delusions of achieving the American Dream is corrupted by the basis on which he strives for it. American Dream consists of becoming rich through hard work and determination through legal means. Gatsby’s poor background didn’t afford him to take the straight and narrow path through life, so instead he chose to make his money by working for the mob. After leaving the Army he met this rich .....

.... of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus holding it up to public gaze. The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron” (56). It was made clear that this structure was a symbol of punishment to the people, but it also came to be a symbol of sin, guilt, death, and release. How did this structure take on so many meanings throughout the book? The answer is that each time there was an event occurring at the scaffold, each of the main characters was present. The place tha .....

.... again strongly questioned the War. After Paul's company were returned to the huts behind the lines, Himmelstoss appeared and was insulted by some of the members of Paul's unit, who were then only mildly punished. During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp with s .....

.... types of behavior. Laura and Lizzie could be one person having two separate desires fighting within her. Laura would be the part that desires the fruit and falls into temptation and Lizzie would be the part that desires to stay away from it. The doubleness between Laura and Lizzie parallels the doubleness between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Similar to Laura and Lizzie, Adam and Eve also had opposing desires, and Eve, similar to Laura, fell into temptation by eating the forbidden fruit. The parallel between the couples is also reinforced by the similar idea .....

.... between the state, the outer world and the people, the inner world, creates an ignorance that the state refuses to attend. It is widely known the two factors for the makeup of a civilization lies in the people and the state or the state and its people. Without one or the other to depend on, reliance hinders stability. The functional branch or government in Rome is thousands of miles away that there is a barrier between the Italian people. Because the capital is not located in the village, they cannot interact and develop a personal fulfillment of needs .....

.... “The Truth was that Jay Gatsby, of west Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.”(pages 104, 15-16) Distorting his name, inventing a seventeen-year-old self-conception, he masked his counterfeit wealth from bootlegging with an image he wore with the help of Dan Cody. He was the man that gave Gatsby the opportunity. After Cody’s death Gatsby “was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man”, and in this he based his rising. So begin his incessant parties of frantic car .....

.... Tom, he finds out how it feels to have no money, be filthy, and have nobody believe him for anything that he says. At the end of the story when Edward gets his thrown back, he remembers the poor people in Tom's town and gives money and food to them. 4. Describe briefly two dramatic scenes that would make good material for a preview, if a movie were made of this book. The first scene would be when Miles Hendon, Edward's best friend fights all the people who were attacking Edward when he is the pauper. Second, is when Miles fights for Edward's thrown back. Then when Edward .....