.... care of the suitors. Also when he is talking to the disguised Athena he states,� while they continue to bleed my household white. Soon-you wait- they grind me down as well.� (I, 292). Telemachus is now groveling to a stranger that these suitors are trashing his home and soon he will just except their terrible behavior. Telemachus also has doubts as to who his father really is. “My mother always told me I’m his son, it’s true, but I am not so certain.� (I, 249). This is mentioned because Telemachus, and the suitors, feel that if he were really the son of Odysseus then he would have the strength to stop the destruction of his house. .....

.... and memories. Because of the way the author chose to tell the story, we are able to learn a lot about the protagonist's troubled adolescence. Joan harbors a lot of resentment and anger towards her mother because of the serious emotional and mental abuse that she was put through. As a teenager, Joan was morbidly obese which is what encouraged her mother's mistreatment and condescending attitude. A good example of this can be found when Joan's mother says to her (Pg. 87): "Is this all your good for? Sitting around and eating? Look at yourself, it's disgusting!" This shows us just how much her mother is focused on physical appearance. The w .....

.... he finds out the truth behind his life and that he had fullifilled the prophecy. As the text states: " Shepherd: If you must be told then...they said it was Laios' child. but it is your wife who could tell you about that. (Text Omitted for space purposes) Shepherd: There had been prophecies... Oedipus: Tell me. Shepherd: It was said that the boy would kill his own father. Oedipus: Then why did you give him over to this man? Shepherd: I pitied the baby, my king, And I thought that this man would take him far away to his own country. He saved him- but for what a fate! For if you are what this mane says you are, No man is more .....

.... Gale Research, Inc. 1974. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of American Literature. 3 vols. North Bellmore: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots II American Fiction. 3 vols. England Cliffs. Salem Press, 1986. Magill, Frank N. Survey of Contemporary Literature. 8 vols. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1977. Irony, Humor, and Paradox in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "My name is McMurphy, buddies, R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling fool." So said Randle Patrick McMurphy upon his admission to the psychiatric ward in .....

.... attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his daughter lessons of love. It is this dysfunctional love that resurfaces later, because it is the only way Emily knows how to love. When Homer Baron, a construction worker, comes into Emily's life he sheds hope into her life. He offers Emily a chance to feel love and to receive the affection she has previously only dreamed of. Together they take Sunday carriage rides, and for awhile, the town's people .....

.... not applicable in the trenches. Instead of having to know, for instance, “How many inhabitants has Melbourne?”, they have to know how to light a cigarette in pouring rain. On page 263, Paul comments, “I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.” This sums up his entire disposition towards himself at the end of the novel. He was taken into the army, willfully, but still taken, in the prime of his youth, to a place where death and destruction were facts of life. Remarque depicts a transition in the value systems of Paul and his .....

.... of Aeneas; patron of Paris; on the Trojans' side Athena daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom; on the Achaian side Ares son of Zeus; god of prophecy, light, poetry, and music; on the Trojans' side Zeus supreme god and king of Olympos Poseidon younger brother of Zeus; god of sea Chryseis and Briseis who were captured during a raid in Troy are awarded as ‘war prizes' to Agamemnon and Achilles. Chryseis for Agamemnon and Briseis for Achilles. Chryseis is th .....

.... to dating again. They shared a room and Kawn would ask her too many questions. Soon students from Olivia's school would tease her for having a Chinese sister that knew nothing and she hated Kwan for it. However, Kwan didn't mind and still was nice to her sister, she would tell her stories about her past life in China and about her Yin eyes, which give her the ability to see the dead (it also got her committed in a mental institution for shock therapy). Tan makes it credible by the broken English Kwan spoke to her sister (couldn't get even her name right, she calls her Libby-ah), even after 30 years, which is where the rest of the book takes place. By .....

.... she had bought for 50 cents in the County Home crafts centre.... Stick it up your arse, said Flo" (Oates 151). The reader sees no affection between the two. In fact, the tone of the story illustrates a lack of acceptance and even disappointment by Flo and shows that there has always been a distance between the two. The title is derived from a patient Rose met at the nursing home whose only communication was spelling words. After meeting this patient, Rose dreamed that Flo was in a cage and spelling words like the old patient she met in the nursing home. Rose tells Flo about her visit to the nursing home and is obviously trying to influence Flo int .....

.... of the shell emitting a "deep, harsh tone"(17) which lead the other boys to the beach for the first meeting. This was the very first example of the power that the conch would come to have, and lose. The conch represents power and authority throughout the novel, because whoever holds the conch has the right to speak uninterrupted. However, as the boys' society decays, and the conch fades, becoming "fragile and white"(171), its power diminishes until it is finally crushed. With the intentional smashing of the conch, all order on the island is effectively lost. , a pig's head on a pike, one symbol in the novel for evil, or Satan. To Jack it was m .....