... to waist passively for biblical prophesy, as Reb does. Rather David feels it is up to mankind to make sense of the suffering due to the Holocaust. Arguably David appears the admirable character due to his open mind on religious traditions. Subsequently, Tea Cake Woods and Joe Starks, characters from Their Eyes ... look lak de change uh life- (78). Tea Cake Woods, who meets Janie after the death of Joe Starks, is a creative and vivacious man who enjoys exploring the world. Tea Cake is the more admirable character by showing respect and love toward Janie. Where as Jody treats her as an ob...

• Word Count: 1149
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Henry Fleming is the main character of The Red Badge of Courage. The story centers on him and his adventures. He is first interested in war as a romantic thing with the possibility of doing great things and becoming known as a hero. His mother is opposes the idea of him signing up for the Union Army, but he eventually signs up, without consent ... book, starts his enrollment in the army by having to wait a long time for battle. While in camp he wonders about his bravery when the time comes to actually fight in battle. He has his doubts, and ultimately decides he will just have to find out whe...

• Word Count: 818
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... fear or despair." Courage also comes from peers and from working together. In Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Flemming's goal was to prove his courage in the Civil War. Since Henry had not been in battle yet, his ideas of war came from his imaginations and stories he read. He had spent a great amount of time dreaming about the romance ... that under stress blend into one another so that the excess of one is seen as the deficiency of the other." (Amazon.com) I agree with what he is saying. Heroism and courage in war is not something that comes naturally to man. The...

• Word Count: 1221
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... at in the first part of the novel, Tom is only concerned with his own wants and desires. These attributes of Tom Joad can be seen through his interactions with some of his family members and some of the other families he comes in contact with along their trek to California, and with his negative attitude and character. However, towards the end of this journey, the reader ... sees a different, more caring side of Tom. Tom evolves to become a better ... character towards the end of the truck trip across America. Tom's interactions ... ...

• Word Count: 953
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... 1-5, Lennie says," "Tell how it's gonna be. Go on, how its gonna be. We gonna get a little place- Curley's wife is another character with dreams in mind. Her fantasy of taking part in movies and having a life of luxury covers part of her illusions. "Page 124, paragraph 3, line 1-7, Curley's wife says," "I went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was ... call it friendship? Lennie would call George a friend, but sadly George would perhaps find difficulties to admit the same of Lennie. George actually tells Slim, he has simply become so used to having Lennie around that...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... . Trying to rationalize the situation, Marlow tells himself that these Africans are criminals, and somehow deserve their fate. As He descends further down the hill he comes to a gloomy place--what he calls the "Grove of Death" (Conrad 30). Many Africans lie dying, their bodies frail and starved. He then turns and quickly removes himself from this horrible place. When Marlow reaches ... talking to the accountant a sick man groans in the background. The accountant is so agitated by the interruptions that he says, "when one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--h...

• Word Count: 882
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... qualities may be negative, while other qualities are quite beneficial. Whatever hidden traits war may bring out in a person, those traits will ultimately change the character and behavior of the soldiers. One of the most common traits that are brought out in this story is fear or cowardice. When engaged in a war, a soldier will constantly face death and dole out death during the ... in his regiment. (" a faith in himself had secretly blossomed. There was a little flower of confidence growing within him. He was now a man of experience.") Even though many soldiers will feel, like Henry, a...

• Word Count: 623
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Conformity Stephen Crane's pieces are written with the intent to establish individualism as an unfavorable quality. He establishes that group goals are more important than that of the individual and creates groups to which each character should conform. Crane supplies models for the individual to comply to and elucidates that adherence to the group would bring reward but deviation from said groups ... . Henry does the one thing that men ought not. He thinks. In his thoughts he sees past the glory and valor that comes with enlisting and comes to question what could happen to him on the ba...

• Word Count: 1138
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... to fight in the Civil War and goes through changes in his character. There is a lot of naturalistic symbolism throughout this story that explains Henry's actions and motives of his changes. His changes during war are not caused by his experience of fighting in battle, but by his environment, instinct, and fate. ... fresh fish" -- inexperienced boys nervous to go off to battle. Stephen Crane presents Henry's first dilemma that will lead to the development of Henry's character. The problem is Henry's doubt of his bravery. "He tried to mathematically prove himself he would not run from battl...

• Word Count: 960
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... character embodies many of the symptoms listed by the doctors, such as: "highly developped sense of self importance, preoccupation with fantasies of success, belief that he is special, feeling he has the envy of peers, and arrogant behavior." (Benis, 303) But the main display of Paul's illness is his over-developped sense of self ... feels that he is worth much more than the environment of Cordelia Street. A good example of that is when he comes back to his home after a concert, he feels a "loathing of respectable beds, of common food; a shuddering repulsion for the flavorless, colorless...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sonny's Blues Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin is a story in which the narrator struggles to come to grip with his brother's heroin addiction as well as his lifestyle as a Jazz musician. The narrator having escaped the streets of Harlem goes through life ignoring the things in life that bother him, until one day his daughter dies and he is forced to acknowledge his brother. In Sonny's Blues the narrator changes in many ways throughout the story, he goes from criticizing and admonishing the way his brother lives to listening to his brothers struggles, acknowledging his addiction, and gaining a d...

• Word Count: 641
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... essay, I will you to get to know Willy Loman. Main character of the play. He's sixty-three years old and is the salesman around whom this play "Death of a Salesman- is constructed. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his salesman father, who left his family for Alaska. His ... who also left his own home, when Willy was young made a fortune in the diamond mines of Africa at the young age of 21 years. An other reason for Willy to become succesfull. Willy believes that success comes from being well liked, and teaches these meanings to his sons, Biff a...

• Word Count: 619
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... to live his dreams, or merely an insane person who blindly followed voices that could only be heard within the confines of his mind? Either of these theories could be argued successfully. He builds a baseball field for Shoeless Joe Jackson. Between the movie and the book ... was given the strange ability to meet a number of celebrities from both the world of baseball and literature who had been dead for many years. In both the movie and the book, "Field of Dreams" and "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa" Ray Kinsella was introduced to the ... of faith and wisdom about life. Ray was hone...

• Word Count: 1227
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... , which includes Ray Kinsella's family and then Ray versus his father, John Kinsella. This movie revolves around metaphors that give in detail and description a feel of what Ray Kinsella went through personally. With voices to carry Ray's dream into reality, he does something that most people would think is crazy. That is to ... he can do. He can either ignore them or act on them. He begins to follow up on everything at the spur of the moment. Ray's wife, Annie, is a very special character in this movie. Unlike the ordinary wife who would have probably discouraged their husband from doing...

• Word Count: 1155
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... As time progressed, the personalities of Ralph and Jack revealed what needs were important to each character. Although being a microcosm of the human society, the island in The Lord of the Flies is also a macrocosm of a human mind. The Id, Ego, and Superego, which Freud believed to be components of an individual's brain, are divided ... desire for pleasure in killing Ralph overpowered his logics, even putting himself in danger by setting the whole island on fire. Jack's rejection of the conch shell can be seen as his inability to care for others and only for his self-preservation. Lastly...

• Word Count: 736
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... as being the perfect nuclear family as opposed to their dysfunctional nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loman as the main character of the story, his lack of praise worthy traits make it necessary for another to be the hero. This other character comes in the form of Willy's son, Biff Loman, who may not succeed in regards to Willy's dreams, but still deserves the honor ... of being called the hero of the play. Biff shows qualities describing a hero because he grows up with false ideals but later rejects them searching for his true ... importance in his life make it necessary to ...

• Word Count: 615
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... is a "school of humor," which makes Harry laugh and hence destroys the mirror. Inside the Theater, Harry is allowed to enter various rooms in which reality is what he makes it to be, including one in which he is loved by every woman he has ever met. Eventually he comes to a room where ... he has to kill his last love, Hermine, when he finds her in the arms of Pablo. After he kills Hermine, Mozart enters the room with a radio and explains to Harry that ... novel because it wraps up Harry's journey to find himself and his own reality in a world he did not feel he should have been a part ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

DUNSTAN"S WOMEN Robertson Davies" Fifth Business creates, develops and explores the character of Dunstan Ramsay and his approach to life as a spectator sport. Davies uses the women in Dunstan's life to progress the search for an identity of this "odd man out". Fiona Ramsay Dunstan Ramsay's mother, Fiona, has an impeccable good sense and a terrible need to have control over everything and everyone. As ... as the one great, true, apostolic key and cure and could not get enough of it." Davies" particular choice of name and description of this character solidifies (in the reader's mind) an image ...

• Word Count: 740
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... embodies all the qualities necessary to be a tragic hero. The first of these qualities is being the main character. Despite the title of the tragic play, it is clearly evident Brutus is the main character, for there is no other character whose actions are focused on as much with such brutal intensity and criticism ... as Brutus's. The next of these qualities is that the character is of high importance or rank. Brutus is an inextricable part of the Roman government. The commoners of Rome form the base for his magnitude. He is greatly favored by them. They ... political power. Brutus bel...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... in the village eventually making them chaotic. There are two main characters that change excessively over the coarse of the three acts. The first person in the play that changes is the main character, John Procter. Another character who encounters change is Reverend John Hale, who has the most dramatic changes during the play. All ... tells him that they did have an affair, John denies that anything happened. "Aye, but we did not." , says John. Throughout the whole beginning half of the play, John does all that is in his power to deny that he had an affair with Abigail. Eventually he re...

• Word Count: 863
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... 451 is that the entertainment business shapes a lifestyle with too much stimulation. This standard of living can cause people to lose focus and become lazy. This is well exhibited in the character Mildred. All Mildred does is sit in the parlor watching her magnificent wall to wall ... couple could be having laughs, talking in deep conversations, and making each other feel loved rather than giving one another the silent treatment. Another character that was greatly affected by the government was Faber. Faber was once a successful English professor until the government decided books were i...

• Word Count: 669
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... grief-stricken mother"..." (81). At the end of the novel, Brinker's jealousy is rekindled when Finny comes back and their friendship is better than ever. Brinker holds a trial in which they accuse Gene of purposely pushing Finny out of the tree. In this novel Brinker's jealousy allows his adversity to disclose. Gene, the main character of this novel, is the third person who liberates his inner ... darkness. Gene has the most darkness out of the all the characters ... I have discoursed about. He thought Finny was trying to ruin him, by distracting him from his studies, to participate in...

• Word Count: 964
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... Central Park, and this curious thought seems to take over his brain during an important conversation. The thought of the ducks seems to reveal a legitimate, more youthful side to his character because what kind of fully "mature" man would think of such a silly thing. For most of the book, he sounds like an ill-tempered old man who is angry at the world for even ... states, just as Holden is in a transition between childhood and adulthood. Holden purchases a red hunting hat, which is what comes to be one of the most identifiable symbols from this novel. It further enhances the reader's i...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4

... dilemma. In this book, as in the real world, racial prejudice operates as a form of social control. Throughout this story we find examples of the white man limiting the opportunities of black people. We encounter a conversation that goes on between the main character James, a young black boy, and a white preacher. The preacher and the student possess opposing views on prejudice. They each argue about ... is hard for a child. However, the consequences of racial prejudice have compelled a sense of rebellion and refusal to accept that which the white man sees as the norm. During the episod...

• Word Count: 886
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... hero? The most well known definition of a tragic hero comes from the great philosopher Aristotle. When depicting a tragic hero, Aristotle states "The change in the hero's fortunes is not from misery to happiness, but on the contrary, from happiness to misery, and the cause of it must not lie in any ... addition, he explains the four essential qualities that a tragic hero should possess, which are goodness, appropriateness, lifelike, and consistency. All of these qualities apply to the character of John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Not only does he unfortunately fall to misery,...

• Word Count: 941
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School