.... by love Hester choose to stay in the town and wear the scarlet letter “A” instead of revealing the other adulterer. She faced society only to protect and be close to the man she still loved. The “impulsive and passionate nature” (54), which to Hester seemed pure and natural had to be faced under humiliation alone, without the partner of sin. It seemed as though she was paying not only her own consequence, but that of her lovers as well. Saying so herself while standing on the scaffold “I might face his agony as well as mine!” (64). Now taking on all blame she has give .....

.... for wine. Summers in Green Town were very hot and winters cold. It was a town where almost everyone knew each other like a big family. In this story many problems confronted Douglas. There were many deaths, Great-Grandma, Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh and Elizabeth Ramsal, which were friends and neighbors of Douglas. A good friend of Douglas, named John Huff, moved away to Milwaukee because of a job opportunity for his father. Also, Douglas got extremely sick and was dieing and there was no information on what kind of illness he had. Douglas took these proble .....

.... white men of his town so he can accept his scholarship to the state college for Negroes. However, he first has to fight in a battle royal. This scene is shocking and nightmarish, but serves to set the tone for the surreal delivery of his speech. After the battle royal his mouth is bleeding and his eye is swollen. He's having a hard tInvisible Mane seeing the crowd. We can make symbolic connections to his Invisible Manpaired vision and how he does not see his circumstance very clearly, as well as the blood he must swallow to continue his speech. The white men ignore .....

.... forced into a loveless marriage and hence she would be the "good guy," or girl, as the case may be. Also the townspeople, the magistrates, and Chillingworth, Hester's true husband, can be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the law -she committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are they going to extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's daughter, away just because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to enforce an unjust law that does not even apply to this situation? Although the subjects of t .....

.... people from her own class and loses all sense of morality. And for all her social ambition, Myrtle never succeeds in her attempt to find a place for herself in Tom's class. When it comes to a crisis, the rich stand together against all outsiders. Myrtle's condition, of course, is a weaker reflection of Gatsby's more significant struggle. While Myrtle's desire springs from social ambition, Gatsby's is related more to his idealism, his faith in life's possibilities. Undoubtedly, his desire is also influenced by social considerations; Daisy, who is wealthy and beautiful, repres .....

.... the war could be. After he finished fighting in the war, he wrote stories. In them he tried to make people realize that war was bad. I think that Ambrose Bierce described the setting and the time period very accurately. By reading his story I could picture the scene very accurately. He explained that the sun was shining, and that it was autumn. Because it was autumn it was not too hot or too cold. He also described Carter’s location very well. From what I read Carter was on a cliff like thing, and was asleep in brush. He was well hidden. The author also describes .....

.... The boy purchased himself an orange. His plan was to travel to the top of a bluff and devour the succulent fruit. On his way to the bluff, he encountered a girl who was near his age. She admired his piece of fruit. The boy at once decided to do the manly thing and offer his prize piece of fruit to the young lady. In turn she offered him a kiss. Once again establishing the “what goes around comes around saying.” The next situation that portrays this saying is when the man tries to stop the boy from going to see the girl again. The drunken Russian man who had gi .....

.... not my fault.” Meursault also wishes that the funeral were already over so that, “the case would be closed, and everything will have a more official feel to it.” On the way to the funeral Meursault is greatly affected by the sounds and smells of the bus and sleeps the whole way to escape his physical discomfort. When he arrives at the home the caretaker asks him if he would like to see his mother one last time before the casket is closed and he declines. Sitting down near the casket, his attention is focused not on his mother, but rather on his .....