.... consternation in this most magnificent and most agreeable of all possible Castles (Candide 2) Voltaire is obviously ridiculing optimistic philosophy, especially that of Leibnitz for whom Pangloss was a follower. It seems as though Voltaire is condemming metaphysics and theology in general. "Pangloss was a professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology (1). The name alone seems to poke fun at the entire branch of learning. A most appropriate example of this can be made of James, a man who takes in the starving Pangloss and Candide most generously. As the men are o .....

.... awful. He returns to his school, Pencey Prep. When he's in his room, in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing, he's trying to read a book, but Ackley, a guy that sleeps in the room next door, comes in through the shower curtains and disturbes him by picking up and laying down everything in the room and asking stupid questions. Finally, Stradlater, Holden's roommate comes in in a big hurry and makes Ackley think of leaving the room. Chapter 4 --------- Stradlater tells Holden he's going out tonight with Jane Gallagher, who used to be Holden's neighbour when she was young. While S .....

.... At a critical moment, Roland must choose between letting Jake drop and finally catching the dark man. Though it agonizes him, he watches Jake fall, Jake's last words echoing in his ears: "Go, then. There are other worlds than these." Roland eventually catches the “man in black”. The “man in black” gives the gunslinger a vision, which nearly explains the cosmos to Roland. Then Roland has his future read with tarot cards. (You know those ones the physics use, hahahaha) The “man in black says,"Three is the number of your fate," he intones, and these three he draws: a card sho .....

.... be swept in by the Nazis." (Gies, p. 41, 1987). The main source of background to the author's viewpoint is her own story. In order to further discuss her main points and views, a summary of her story must be given. The book began with a brief history of the childhood of Miep Gies. She was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909, where she lived with her parents until the age eleven year. She was then sent to Amsterdam by a program in the aid of undernourished and sick children and was to be adopted by a Dutch family. She became used to the Dutch way of life as she gr .....

.... are occurring. Walker starts showing the reader how she viewed herself and how others viewed her when she was a little girl ready to give her speech that she memorized for Easter Sunday. Then her accident happened. Walker then emphasizes to the reader that the way she views herself now and the way she thinks people view her at the age of eight have changed for the worse. She then states at the age of fourteen her view of beauty changes. She says she can raise her head now that she has had her I fixed. Finally she says at the age of twenty-seven she loved her eye. She s .....

.... all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment," (40-41). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay. This change occurred when the North took over the South. "After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all," (41). Miss Emily might have stayed out of the public eye after these two deaths because she was finally alone, something she in her petty life was not used to. Emily's father never let her alone and when he died Homer Barron w .....

.... Thoreau works, such as excerpts from Walden and Excursions, I was able to infer that he has his own unique, unmatched writing style. Most ordinary and banal writers start their essays with long, tedious descriptions of the point they are trying to convey. But like all great writers and thinkers, Thoreau begins his essay with a strong, captivating sentence: "That government is best which governs least" (222). Thoreau's opening line grabs and lets the reader know what topic(s) the essay will be discussing. As it turns out, this opening sentence is the basis for the rest .....

.... unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some of us, overly ambitious. Both these books are similar in that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best ofus. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no literature of disillu .....