.... Lt. O'Mally thinks that Morris needs a catharsis in order to be able to sleep at night, so O'Mally gets Morris drunk. The reader might have questioned O'Mally's motives if O'Mally's thoughts hadn't been exposed. Instead, the reader finds O'Mally to be a wise, loving, compassionate man. Lastly, the reader sees the thought process of Lt. Edwards, a man stranded with 4 marines in an enemy occupied Iceland, as he kills three Russians in order to save a girl from rape. If his actions weren't enough, the reader sees in italics the sanctity and respect that he holds for women and his fellow human beings. Showing the thoughts of the characters brings t .....

.... me from getting bored and kept me reading to find out what was going to happen to each person next. I really enjoyed the profile of Louise Kahan a female Jewish American writer, because she is independent and strong willed. An example of her strength and belief in herself Louise did not instantly return to her ex-husband Oscar even though they both still loved each other, because she was strong enough to resist him and his womanizing ways. Piercy gave me a much better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the World War two era. I learned about the little struggles of working American women, such as the unavailability of stocking .....

.... from a secret benefactor and gets moved to London, where all have money and are high class. He lives and grows up in this new and different society, learning how to fit in and use money not as a precious commodity ( like he was accustomed to in his previous, low class lifestyle) but as it were a regular, common thing that if not used quickly, would soon be out-dated. He goes through his teens like this and finds great differences in his new lifestyle and his old. Pip gains much with his new found wealth. He gets new clothes; which help him fit into his new lifestyle. Also, he makes new friends and interacts with the higher class; Something which .....

.... to live happily with her husband. chose her life as a prostitute. She states on page 138: "Well, let her life have been the way it would then, it was certain that my life was very uneasy to me; for I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom, and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery and destruction;..." Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she felt the need to survive. Most anima .....

.... even more. Over a period of time the narrator begins to understand his friends' infliction, insanity. He tries in vane to comfort his friend and provide solace, however to no avail. When Roderick's only remaining kin, his sister Madeline dies, Rodericks insanity seems to have gone to a heightened level. Shortly after his sister's death, Roderick's friend is reading him a story. As things happen in the story, simultaneously the same description of the noises come from within the house. As Usher tries to persuade the narrator that it is his sister coming for him, and his friend believing Roderick has gone stark raving mad, Madeline comes b .....

.... of oral interviews: Vladek’s courtship of the wealthy Anja, the marriage that facilitated his rise in the business world of the Jewish community of Sosnowiec, his times in the Polish Army and capture by the Nazis in 1939, and his release and return. Vladek tells about how the Nazis policies of extermination were put into practice. The concentration camps began to fill; yet Vladek and Anja manage to survive using strategies, and blind luck, until they are caught and sent to Auschwitz. “We had to make for ourselves “bunkers,� places to hide� (Spiegelman, pg. 110). By hiding in these bunkers they are able to avoid the Germans. For inst .....

.... self-made, or self- invented man. He believes in and wants the American Dream of success, which Nick also refers to as "the orgastic future." Over the course of this novel, he temporarily realizes this dream with Daisy Buchanan. This temporary realization occurs over the period of time when Daisy is visiting him at his home. He confuses it with her, because as time goes on, Gatsby is in love with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. Finally, he is betrayed by it with the help of Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan, and the death of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby is called great, which you can call him great by virtue of his abi .....

.... the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a mountain and chains him to the mountain. Every day an eagle comes down and rips him open and eats his insides. During the night Prometheus would recover during the night. After Victor Frankenstei .....

.... prevent anyone else to enter or leave. "The external world could take care of itself" (202). As if being wealthy means he is not responsible for the less fortunate and only those few selected should be cared for. After the fifth or sixth month together a masquerade is planned, and in typical "Poesque" fashion the great halls are described in imagery that foreshadows a horror to follow. The "masque" takes place in the imperial suite, which consisted of seven very distinct rooms. Seven being a symbol - seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins with seven corresponding cardinal virtues. Seven also suggesting the stages of one's life, from birth .....

.... Puritan society. Hester’s daughter, Pearl, is very rambunctious and rebellious in nature as well. Rev. Dimmesdale hides his private life from the community and mutinies against his own religion. Through all these characters’ actions, Hawthorne shows us why the Puritan society was in disarray. He agrees with Thoreau and Twain in that society is corrupt and that society is the problem. However, he seems to put more blame on the individual than on the masses. Hester and her daughter, of course, were not actually Puritans, but Hawthorne is just using them as an example of how no society will ever remain “pure� because it is impossible for the peop .....