.... and Kino throws back into the sea from where it came. Kino, the protagonist, is a strong willed, if stubborn, man. He refuses to sell the underhanded pearl dealers his valuble pearl although he desperately needs the money. He does this because he feels very strongly that what the men are doing to him is wrong, and he refuses to give in to that. The main idea of the story is that good things can have bad effects. While its intentions were good, brought about the downfall of the protagonist. Due to the greed of dealers, and partly becasue of Kino's own lust for wealth, his son is killed and he loses almost everything he owns. I beleive that th .....

.... the tree, and had to go through a barb wire fence. There she had to creep and crawl, spreading her knees and strecthing her fingers like a baby trying to climb the steps." Wetly relates Phoenix to the bind many times in the story directly and indirectly. She was also described as a "solitary bind." Phoenix's age and color also symbolizes the bind, a golden color ram underneath and the two knobs of her cheek were illuminated by a yellow burning under the dark. Her hair was a black but with an ordor like copper. Phoenix may also be portrayed as a mother bird going out to get nurturing for her baby. The reader may visualize her grandson ad a bird in th .....

.... based, not on birth or wealth, but on natural capacities and aspirations. Plato was convinced that children born into any class should still be moved up or down based on their merits regardless of their connections or heritage. He believes the citizens of the State will support and benefit from such a system and presents the idea in the form of an allegorical myth. His allegory was based in part on the prevalent belief that some people were literally “autochthonous,� born from the soil, and partly from the stories of the philosopher Hesiod who chronicled the genealogy of the gods and goddesses as well as their accomplishments and exploits. H .....

.... to think about this for a minute: a beautiful goddess, a bunch of beautiful slaves, and you’re the only man, not many people would complain about this situation! I mean, Odysseus was supposed to be some kind of a superman, but all he did was whine, whine, and cry! Now if he were a superman in truth, wouldn’t he have been trying to figure a way out of this predicament? But, still he sat on the shore crying, supposedly wanting his wife! In addition to Odysseus’s infantile, he, like Bill Clinton, had some affairs. His first affair was with an enchantress named Circe. Circe had turned some of Odysseus’s men into wild pigs, and the only sup .....

.... At the beginning of the novel, Boo serves as a fictional character to the children, giving them something to make fun of in their games and dramas, as well as a topic of conversation. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Boo embodies more character than most of the citizens in Maycomb, emerging as a symbol of what is truly right. In the beginning of the story, Boo represents the unknown. The children wonder about Boo and his strange way of life, but really have no concept of who he is. At first, the children ask questions about Boo concerning his "weird" living style. When this does not satisfy their curiosities, they make up gam .....

.... similar to a history lesson of a hands on account of what life was like in Mississippi. On the other hand people felt it is derogatory toward African-Americans. It is still frequently in the news, as various schools and school systems across the country either ban it from or restore it to their classrooms. The social classes that Twain portrays in this novel are extremely slanted, and they are not just about racism. It’s more like a rich-poor issue, which is illustrated by Huck and Jim (poor) versus the upper-class townspeople (rich). The upper-class people are racist and keep slaves. Huck, being part of the lower class, is not racist and mak .....

.... there were numerous breeds of dogs living on the estate, Buck had an aspect to himself that set him aside from the other dogs and animals. "For he was king – king over all creeping, crawling flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included." (, page 14). Buck would take long peaceful walks with the Judge’s daughters; he would go hunting with the Judge’s sons; he would carry the Judge’s grandsons on his backs and roll them in the grass. Buck who had been treated fairly and justly throughout his life, had a carefreee personality and was very trusting of both humans and animals. Essentially, Buck was like an emperor that reign .....

.... and so when she tried to leave him and he would not let her, she shot him. Even though Adam survived he was demoralized for most of his life because he still loved her. Through Adam’s experiences of love in the novel, John Steinbeck shows that Adam Trask has an inability to handle love. When he first appears in the novel, Adam Trask is a young man who is not loved by his brother or mother but only by his father. Cyrus had punished Adam before and had tried to teach him to be a soldier and so Adam hated him for that and when Cyrus told him he loved him, Adam did not accept his love. Cyrus tells Adam, “I think you’re a weakling who will never am .....

.... evil and his aggression lies within him as part of human nature. Freud felt aggression can be hidden deep in our subconscious and explode in certain situations. Aggression does not have to be subconscious in nature. It can be on the surface of our behavior and in constant use. Our inclination to aggression is apparent in one's relationship with their neighbors and apparent in what they see as every day, casual behavior. Freud also believed aggression is another human instinct that brings us joy and happiness. However, civilization refuses any acts of violence, it oppresses this need of aggression deep in our consciousness. The first thin .....

.... from abolition. The arguments that the author uses, which are common knowledge in his time, if applied to Christianity in Swift's time would be quite dangerous allegations. Indeed, the reasons that Swift gives for the preservation of the fictitious Christianity are exactly what he sees wrong with the Christianity practiced in his time. By applying Swift's satirical argument for the preservation of this fictitious religion to that which was currently practiced, Swift asserts that their Christianity served ulterior motives, both for the government and for the people. If we are to prove that the government was using religion for selfish purposes, we .....