.... drinking starts is, one kid dares another kid to take a drink of alcohol, and the kid doesn't want his friends to think he is a coward so he does. Then the rest of them follow.� In the book, Between Parent and Teenager, it states the substance abuse is the number one cause of death amongst teenagers. Studies show that among high school students age 14 - 17, 60% of the students use alcohol once a week, 75% use it at least once a month, and 85% have used it once in the year. In the novel, Holden Caulfield has very easy access to alcoholic beverages. Throughout the novel, it seems that every time Holden gets depressed, he turns towards alco .....

.... sure but once I grasped hold of what was going on I couldn't put the book down. In the Middle of the Night is about an accident in a theater where a balcony collapses on a number of small children, and kills them, and a few are injured. The owner of the theatre kill himself and everyone is out to blame John the usher who was investigating the noises from the balcony at the time. Today the usher has grown up and has a son. A victim, who died in the accident but came back to life that day, is out for revenge on the usher's son. The novel is hard to follow at first because there are jumps from one character view to another, to piece together a whole vi .....

.... that the system of government that was found by the end of 1810 was not successful in fulfilling the goals that the revolution strived for. Rather than give citizens rights and freedoms, the state of the nation was quite similar to that with which it started. From the divine ruler Louis XIV to Napoleon, French citizens were still under an absolute ruler. At that moment, Rousseau interrupts by saying that the general will, while representing the people, must be controlled by the state in order to ensure that the needs of all the people are met. Deciding to take turns speaking to allow for a proper debate, Voltaire begins. Voltaire strived to find g .....

.... tangible is made.....� This is the start of the analogy that spans the entire novel. Still in Chapter 1, Atkins describes the “landscape� of the table as, “savannah blends into gentle valleys, which gradually deepen into almost fathomless gorges; hills gradually rise from plains to become towering mountains.� By using this type of vocabulary at the beginning of the novel to describe the table it prepares you for the analogies used later on in the novel. Also it is very helpful in understanding the suttle nuances of the periodic table. The first chapter gives you an introduction into Atkins’ thinking, we learn of that the periodic kingdom i .....

.... theme. The island the boys find themselves on is pristine and untouched - like the Garden of Eden - until they arrive. However, once the boys arrived, they left a scar on the island, in much the same way Adam and Eve left a scar in the Garden of Eden. Another religious element Golding uses is in the title of the book. ‘Lord of the Flies' translates into ‘Beelzebub' in Greek - a name for the Devil. This suggests the entire book is about the epitome of religious evil - the Devil himself. A final religious element is well hidden. The "stick sharpened at both ends" exists not only in Golding's description of the killing of the sow, but .....

.... of the scuffles she and everyone around her seemed to have. Anne’s Mother was a woman who was more traditional than anything else and wanted Anne to be more like a lady. One such person was Margot. As Anne’s sister, she was very nice and didn’t speak out and was very proper. The Frank’s weren’t the only ones in this attic, there were other people such as the Van Daans. Mr. Frank let them stay because they needed a place to hide and since they had helped him out so much in the past by actually teaching Mr. Frank German, he felt it was the least he could do. The Van Daans had a son which Anne later became interested in. Peter was the only pers .....

.... his impatience he might have gotten the girl. Getting frustrated the speaker’s arguments become more graphic and less genteel as the poem progresses, as he appears to become increasingly desperate. “…then worms shall try that long preserved virginity.� This man is trying to convince her that if she were to die a virgin, her virginity would go to the worms. The point he is trying to make here is that why should she wait to have sex. That she should give it up to him since saving it could end up a waste. At the end of the poem he tries to reason with her. Being still alive and young, the speaker is saying that they should put all their .....

.... they had suffered. Douglass’ speeches made a ineffable impression upon Garrison’s mind, he thought that if Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, the campaign would get to its goal much faster. It is remarkable that the advocates of the slaves is a fugitive slave, in the “person of Frederick Douglass� and that despite numerous oppressions in slavery, they have a human spirit so strong and steadfast that no power could crush it. It is also to be understand that it was slavery that darkened the mind, crippled the intellects, debase their moral nature and “oblit .....

.... lot of suspense. There was suspense as soon as I got into the second chapter. I didn't want to put the book down. I sometimes have trouble trying to find a book that's actually interesting, but I didn't have any trouble with this book. I got through the whole book fast, I was always reading it in study hall, and trying to get as far as I could in readers workshop. It was easy to understand. I've read a lot of science fiction books that are very complicated. Some books have too many characters to remember, or they have something that is really weird or unrealistic. Some science fiction books get way too far out. This book was nothing like that. .....

.... there would never have been an opportunity for Jack to show this darkness which lurked beneath the surface. Golding also uses the dead pilot conveniently against the boys - the way in which he is caught in the trees just in the right position to be caught by the wind and look like the beast and the way the wind picks up after Simon has let him down from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in the situation, Golding uses it as a weapon against them, their morale and their companionship. I think that the boys s .....