.... in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. " I know that building' said Winston finally. Its a ruin now. It's in the middle of the street outside the Palace of Justice.' That's right. Outside the Law Courts. It was bombed in-oh many years ago'" (Orwell 83). This reflects Orwell's own life experiences as a citizen in war torn England and how he uses this in 1984. George Orwell is famous for two major novels which attack totalitarianism. The first is Animal Farm a satire describing the leaders of the Soviet Union as animals on an animal farm. T .....

.... to lose is if you don’t play. After living in an all black town until she was thirteen and being able to just be herself, when she moved to Jacksonville, FL., a larger more diverse city, she see’s what it’s like to be coloured. It’s thrown into her face. All the black people aren’t doctors, lawyers, butchers and postal workers like they were in Eatonville. As she states, “I feel most coloured when I am thrown into a sharp white backround.� She realizes that not everyone is the same anymore as they were in Eatonville. She knows that she’s “not in Kansas anymore�, similar to what anyone would feel being out of their realm. Unlik .....

.... to escape. Time passes and Candide meets some other interesting individuals and has one bad experience after the next. One day Candide meets a woman who takes care of him and this is none other than Cunegonde. They amuse each other with stories of misfortune and travel around the world. At every place Candide goes something unthinkable seems to happen to him. Candide meets several people along the way who all have their own interesting story of misfortune and the inhumanities of mankind. Candide ends up on a small farm, married to Cunegonde and living with two philosophers. He argues with others at the end of the book if this really is t .....

.... When an author’s writing has been influenced by his or her personal history and cultural background, the writer understands it. It’s also much easier for an author to write about something having to do with their personal history or cultural background. If we are familiar with a subject it is much easier to convince our reader of the ‘experience’ or ‘story’ that is being written about. Although Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegory, The House of Seven Gables, was not entirely true, the incomparable part of it had to do with his personal history and his cultural background. His relation to the house was fr .....

.... be and everything that she could have. But she says near the end, "I don’t like to look out of the windows even - there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast." She knows that she has to hide and lie low; that she would have to creep in order to be accepted in society and she does not want to see all the other women who have to do the same because she realizes they are a reflection of herself. She expresses how women have to move without being seen in society. The window does not represent a gateway for her. She can not enter what she can see outside of the window, literally, because John will not let her, (there are bars .....

.... was published in 1955 by Dell Publishing, New York, NY. Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York. During World War Two he served in the Air Force division of the United States Army as a wing gunner. After just a few weeks of war, he tried to obtain a discharge from his superiors. He was refused, and ended up flying over sixty missions. In those respects, he is a lot like Yossarian, the main character of the book. Heller was written several books and a few plays. His literary works include Something Happened, God Knows, Good as Gold, Picture This, No Laughing Matter, ( with Speed Vogel ) and We Bombed in New Haven ( a play ). Catch-22 was his firs .....

.... Mangan’s sister while he was checking her out. I could tell he was hung up over her because followed her in the morning when they were walking, he would mention her in his prayers and he would press his hands together until they were trembling and murmur: “O’love, O’love� (Pg. 90). She knew that he liked her that is why she knew he would try to go to the Araby in order to buy something for her. It was only at the end that he realized that he was “a creature driven and derided by vanity� (Pg. 92). Only then did he really figure out how dumb he was and that he was only thinking with his penis (but I already knew that). So my view of hi .....

.... day making its belly protrude and its legs so thin that there are no calves. The child has become mentally and physically deformed by this malnutrition and neglect. This is a representation of our very own sometimes gross existence. Think about our own homeless people and how they are treated. We ignore the except to make fun and laugh. We find it repulsive how they are dirty, smelly, and often beg from us. Mentally or physically challenged people in our society often receive the same treatment. We make fun because they are not as intelligent or physically fit as we are. They might have to use some sort of assistance to get around. They might no .....

.... specifications of a 15 ton ship called the X-15B, a winged craft that would be launched by three enormous rockets each with 415,000 pounds of thrust whereupon the ships two pilots would take over with the X-15B’s own 75,000 pound engine, make three or more orbits around the earth, reenter the atmosphere and land on a dry lake bed at Edwards like any other pilot in the X series." This sentence shows many technical aspects about the craft. The sentence did not seem overloaded with details because they are spaced out. Tom Wolfe’s writing helps the reader better understand the technical aspects. Another device used to keep the reader's atten .....

.... pressure. Often, this deviance can harm others, not just the dissident. Vittorio is continually badgered for the deeds his mother performed, and he is too innocent to realize that, her independence of spirit is the reason. As well, Cristina's father does not see past the cloud which has slowly been built up in Valle del Sole. The cloud which prevents most people from seeing how the failure to be an individual rules the town, and how anyone with the nerve to be unique is ostracized. Cristina's father's failure to understand this leads to the decline and eventually their total destruction of the family structure. In many ways, the story of .....