.... Cory loses a lot of respect for his grandfather when he realized that he left everyone for his own safety. This taught Cory that people cared more about themselves before anyone else's safety. The author uses magical realism many times throughout the novel. When Cory and his friends do their annual ritual at the end of the summer, they pretend to fly with their dogs (pg. 187). They do this at the beginning of the summer because it shows the innocence and magic that they begin to lose. It also shows that they lose almost all of their responsibilities during the summer. .....

.... the people, who are still secure in their own religion, are confident that the tribal village will destroy them. When this does not happen, the villagers become convinced that the new religion has some sort of magical power, and this weakens their confidence in their own culture. Once again, racism pervades the novel, with the intrusion of the missionaries into the lives of the villagers. The weakening ties in the village are reflected in the story of Okonkwo and his family. Nwoye's conversion to the white religion fills Okonkwo with uncontrollable 2 anger because he .....

.... the word "legitimate" sarcastically when saying, "well, my legitimate," since he does not mean it in a positive way. Again he mentions legitimate negatively saying that he, the base, shall top the legitimate meaning that one day he will exceed his brother. This sarcasm shows the bitterness with which Edmund views all legitimate children. Another way of showing bitterness, which has almost the same effect as sarcasm, is ridiculing. Edmund feels that married couples are "between asleep and awake" when they go to "creating a whole tribe of fops". This nasty way of referring t .....

.... that they would see "…coffins and corpses lie strewn about…" [Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (Ballantine Books, 1982), p. 71.] The war would change them permanently, and unfortunately, they did not realize this until they were actually faced with its brutality. They began to realize that "…a broken arm is better than a hole in the guts, and many a man would be thankful enough for such a chance of finding his home way again." [Remarque, p. 52] When new recruits came to the front and witnessed the harshness of the war, they frequently heard comments like .....

.... a drain pipe that whole day. This incident greatly angers George because it lost them their job and out their dreams one step further away. Their goal was to own a shack and an acre of land that they can call their own and to live of the "fat of the land' and Lennie wanted to rasie rabbits. This telling of the their dream was greatly loved by Lennie.. especially and only when George told it to him (altough he knew it word from word). George also blames his current situation of down and out luck on Lennie because he has to always keep a look out on his behalf. Knowing .....

.... of responsibility George could have abandoned Lennie whenever he wanted to. While blowing off steam George admits, “If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an work, an no trouble. No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want.” George feels the responsibility to his Aunt Clara. Also while talking to other ranchers George reflects on a time when he and Lennie were working together for the first time. George told Lennie to jump into the lake, he did and nearly drowned. George jumped in .....

.... that her husband has the heart to kill the King for the crown: Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promise'd: yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition…(I.V.15-19) This shows how little Lady Macbeth cares about her husband's wishes. This is very ironic since normally it is the man who does not ask for approval. Even when Macbeth disagrees to her plan, Lady Macbeth starts taunting her husband and calls him a coward: "…Art thou afeared/To be th .....

.... all the time, but she was someone who had gone out a lot of the time with her friends and drank. The drinking was the reason that she was in the hospital. It never once showed Christine as being happy, she was always in a bad mood, and never really seemed to be pleased with anything. Towards the end of the book we find out that Christine is going to kill herself. The reason for which she decides to take her own life is that there is nothing for her to live for, nothing that she had made for herself. Christine had done nothing in her life time worth enough to live for. W .....