.... as being “vacant” and “eye-like”, adding to the all around eerie feel the house gives off. The narrator, upon seeing the house, is immediately driven to superstitious descriptions despite his attempts to remain rational. Because the reader sees everything through the narrator, the evil supernatural imagery that is conveyed can only be interpreted as a foreshadowing of what is to happen to the narrator in the story. When he says things like “the insufferable gloom pervading my spirit” upon looking at the house, the reader has to sense som .....

.... are loved by audiences and "The Flea" written for fun would have to one of them. In the poem it demonstrates the sophisticated wit which Donne approaches seduction in his . The poem is arguably a performance designed to show the reader how cleverly thought an argument could be twisted rather than a genuine attempt at courtship. The poem is made up of three stanzas each one having a different argument to put across. It is an extended metaphor with the flea and its actions compared to the narrator and the mistress. A flea goes around his daily business by landing on unsus .....

.... "he had just heard his own sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the reader in this scene. The man realizes "a second fire must be built without fail." The man's mind begins to run wild with thoughts of insecurity and death when the second fire fails. He recollects the story of a man who kills a steer to stay warm and envisions himself killing his dog and crawling into the carcass to warm up so he can build a fire to save himself. London writes, "a certain fear of death, dull and oppressive, came to him." As the man slowly freezes, he realizes he is in seri .....

.... great when the Eberhardts’ shy bachelor neighbor, Mr. Green, takes interest in Marsha’s mother. Though murder is the most visible crime in Marsha’s neighborhood, it is by no means the only one, Marsha’s father and aunt run off together and Marsha wrongly accusses Mr. Green for the death of Boyd Ellison. Marsha’s father had left before the summer Boyd Ellison was killed. The divorce had a tremendous impact on the whole family. Marsha’s twin brother and sister spent the summer away on vacation and since Marsha had her ankle in a cast, she wasn’t able to do things mos .....

.... around family but may feel the need to appear superior around other people. This form of adjusting one's personality or mask to suit a situation in life, is also common among characters in novels, dramas, and other forms of literature. In certain characters it is evident in the novel The Stranger and the play A Doll's House . In some instances it is quite easy to notice but other times it may be difficult to identify the changes in character's masks as the changes slowly develop throughout the plot. A form of mask wearing was found at the beginning of the novel The Str .....

.... more crazy ideas and he lends himself better to be fooled. Anything could have been written at the end of the letter and it is certain that Malvolio would, in his mind, alter it to make it refer to himself. It is easy to tell what Malvolio is feeling while he reads the fraudulent letter; some parts affect him in a greater, more obvious way than others. The phrase, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them;" has the greatest impact on Malvolio. When he reads this he begins to believe that it is plausible for a woman as great as Oli .....

.... at the house for forty years. Part 1, Chapter 4. Two, David and Hilda, talking about the man's mother and how she was humiliated by his father with his affairs that he boasted about. The mother was not able to devorce because of the times. Blames his father for his mothers' death. He had not seen his father since he started college because of a dispute between what he wanted to do and what his father wanted him to do. Part 1, Chapter 5. George Lee and his wife are talking about his father's great wealth. "A millionaire twice over, I believe." (George:P17) Made his money from .....

.... the structure of the poem. The rhythm and the structure of these two poems directly influence one another. Lawrence and his free verse style are reflected in the long and short lines in his poem, whereas Dickinson's structure is more of a conventional structure. Lawrence has no set number of lines per line or stanza. Dickinson, on the other hand, has four lines per stanza and although no set number of words in a line, the meter is repeated throughout the poem. Once again, we see two diverse styles from the two authors. When we examine rhyme patterns of the two .....