.... all though evidence was presented to them that would prove Tom innocent they ignored it because the guy was black and in the 30’s discriminating blacks were heavily favored. The Twelve Angry Men was about a boy who was accused of stabbing his father to death in a argument. In the beginning of the trial all twelve of the juror’s voted guilty. Many of the juror’s were mean and did not care about the boy’s future they just wanted to get the trial over with so the juror’s can do what they wanted to do. Later in the case one of the juror’s .....

.... voyeuristic view through the eyes of an eighteen year-old check out cashier, as he follows a group of under dressed women throughout the store. With this you gain a certain amount of knowledge about human behavior in some form. Not only the girls, but how the young cashier reacts, tells about human behavior as Updike interprets it. In “The Rumor” I enjoyed being given a synopsis of the husband’s background and details of his marriage from his wife as to decide whether or not he is, or has been engaged in a homosexual relationship. You are also given so many d .....

.... great effort and pain – “wipe the knife handle clean of fingerprints” to allow no trace of the murderer. However, although Peter escaped without responsibility, he had to deal with the guilt that it was him who held the weapon that ended the life of Jerry. Peter had to face the rest of his life being aware of how others lived, and how one can feel so indifferent to the world yet live in the very same part of the city. Both Peter and Jerry had to accept that the world they lived in was a hostile universe. Peter led his life playing by the rules while Jerr .....

.... where he was alone, he didn’t have his wife or his son to give him a hug when he went to bed. For some one to spend that much time alone when they know they have a family and people who love them has just got to be heart breaking. Larry’s mother in this story is just thrown in the middle. Although I don’t believe that she is aware of this, to her her son is just not respecting his father. For example, "’Don’t-wake-Daddy!’ she hissed angrily". Because Larry’s mother didn’t really know that her husband and son were fighting over her, when she had a second child she just tur .....

.... up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to keep any family members' promise. Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourtee .....

.... of them have become. They have so much money, most even making multiple millions of dollars a year. They should be happy with that, but of course they are not. If one guy makes a little more another wants to top that and so on this cycle continues to the astronomical salaries that some athletes are now making. They are not happy with what they have and in turn, thus all they can think about is the fact that they want more because someone else is making that much more than they are. Samuel Johnson is so very right in his opinion-based statement. Many people do not even .....

.... the city, he gets pushed into Taronga zoo by Chas and his group, where he meets the remaining main characters. Ellie, who is caring, kind and compassionate, befriends Ben. Together, they survive living in the zoo, which is run by Molly and Steve, in the end, escaping to freedom. Taronga is relatively different to Children of the Dust, where a family of four, Sarah, Veronica, William and Catherine, has to survive in their house, away from all the radioactive material as a result of a nuclear war. Only one of the four survive, Catherine, where she then lives with some ot .....

.... of the famous witchcraft trail in Salem Massachusetts. In the story Abigail William’s, who is the orphaned niece of the towns’ minister, Reverend Parris, is the main person who accuses people of sending their spirits on her and the other girls. What starts as children dancing in the woods, leads to the accusation and execution of many innocent people for witchcraft. The two works of literature have very similar qualities including setting, conflict, and general aspects of the characters. There are also specific parallels between characters, such as Abigail and .....