.... all out of me.". Huck begins to enjoy having Jim's company, and when Jim is sold by the Duke and the King, Huck breaks down and cries while asking the Duke where Jim is Twain 208 "'sold him' I says, and begun to cry; 'why he was my nigger, and that was my money. Where is he?-- I want my nigger.". Then Huck steals Jim from the Phelps farm (eventhough he was already set free by Miss Watson's will). Huck Finn changes as we go through the story because Jim is really almost his slave and he grows to like having Jim wait on him. In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain depicts Southern life and society in the 1870's. The main point that .....

.... secret in the story; the two older daughters hide their wickedness behind a mask of kind words, and Lear allows the secret to remain a secret, by his unwillingness to accept the fact that his daughters do not love him. What follows plunges Lear into the depths of hell, and then through his eventual realization of this secret, he is able to redeem himself. Shakespeare writes this story in a manner that the reader understands the cause of Lear's problems, but Lear himself does not. This draws the reader into the story because the reader knows that Lear's actions will lead to his downfall. As the story progresses the reader begins feeling very sympat .....

.... of the his decaying surroundings: “In the tall weeds of the borrow pit, I took a leak and watched the sorrel mare, her colt beside her, walk through burnt grass to the shady side of the long-and-mud cabin . . . . The roof had fallen in and the mud between the logs had fallen out in chunks, leaving a bare gray skeleton, home only to mice and insects. Tumbleweeds, stark as bone, rocked in a hot wind against the west wall (1).” Welch opens the story with this line to show a relationship between the narrator’s feelings of worthlessness and the worthlessness of his environment. In addition, the author melodically begins the novel in .....

.... she didn't find me pleasant to look at. I had no sister. Later, I dreaded the thought of seeing mockery in the eyes of a mistress. Thanks to you I've at least had a woman's friendship, a gracious presence to soften the harsh loneliness of my life. " When Cyrano admits, "My heart always timidly hides its self behind my mind," the reader can instantly relate to this dilemma but it is the fact that Cyrano is able to overcome it that makes him a hero. Not only is Cyrano filled with emotion, but he also goes out of his way to live life to the fullest. Cyrano's introduction to the reader definitely leaves a lasting impression. Not only does he banish a .....

.... (page 91). In innocence of his own strength, Lenny had killed a woman and suddenly traded his innocence for guilt. Charlie grew up having a paradise-like world where he supposedly had many friends. His lifelong ambition, to become smart. When the chance came he took the offer readily, unprepared for the changes in his life it would bring. "And what was that Joe and the rest of them were doing. Laughing at me. And the kids playing hide-and-go-seek were playing tricks on me and they were laughing at me too... I felt naked" (page 30). All of a sudden Charlie realized everyone had always laughed at him, not with him, and he suddenly ashamed/naked. In .....

.... lines like this to turn the house into a symbol of the lives that have passed through its halls. The house takes on a persona of a living creature that exists and influences the lives of everybody who enters through its doors. (Colacurcio 113) "So much of mankind's varied experience had passed there - so much had been suffered, and something, too, enjoyed - that the very timbers were oozy, as with the moisture of a heart." (Hawthorne 27). Hawthorne turns the house into a symbol of the collection of all the hearts that were darkened by the house. "It was itself like a great human heart, with a life of its own, and full of rich and somber re .....

.... facet being based in reality and the other existing mainly in the imagination only. On the one hand, there was the medieval notion we are most familiar with today in which the knight was the consummate righteous man, willing to sacrifice self for the worthy cause of the afflicted and weak; on the other, we have the sad truth that the human knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . . notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves exposes that Chaucer was awar .....

.... resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once and I beat him for it� (182). Gatsby's determination to gain a large bankroll is a huge part of the American dream. He believes that once he achieved his financial goal it would lead to a better life. In America the car is one of the greatest status symbols. Gatsby's gorgeous machine is one of the most majestic cars created. Nick's comments on the vehicle describe its luster, “...and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes...Sitting down behind many .....

.... D., the reader is capable of identifying just what some of these trials consist of and the effects they have on American black slaves. One of the more obvious degradations the characters in Beloved face is that of physical abuse. Morrison writes, “ That’s what they said it looked like; a chokecherry tree.� In this instance, Sethe is describing the tree-like shape of the scars on her back. Like many slaves, Sethe is whipped, only so badly that the scars form this shape; forever branding on her tender back the agony she suffers along with many others. In addition, Paul D. states, “ I had a bit in my mouth.� As a slave, Paul D. is f .....

.... develop his fascination with people, and his wide knowledge of English life. Chaucer found his characters in the world about him and in the world books and brought them eternally alive through his own creative powers. He presented his characters in the jumble and haphazardy of life, with a mild apology for his neglect of rank. All was to seem fortuitous, and yet all the ranks and vocations, the trades and the professions were there.(Rowland 248) Many believe that the church created these social structures to maintain control, so it is no wonder the clergy occupied the first class. The church maintained this control by being deeply imbedded in t .....