.... everyone changes their mind about leaving and wants to stay. This is the conflict and turning point of the novel. The climax of the novel is when the High Lama dies and leaves Conway in charge of Shangri-La. Conway doesn’t tell anyone that he is in charge. The resolution of the novel is when Mallinson talks Conway into leaving Shangri-La with him and Lo-Tsen. All three leave Shangri-La and hike to the porters that are camping 5 miles away, and they leave with the porters. This is the climax and resolution of the novel. In conclusion, the theme of the novel is how Conway and his gr .....

.... out what it was like. She attended one of the best schools in the country, where the upper-class children of Little Rock went. Melba was always abused and picked on at school. Her grandmother told her to be a warrior and not to cry, because warriors don’t cry. In the South, people were not treated equally in the 1950s. Jim Crow laws stated that people were “separate but equal”, but that was not the case. Finally the government decided that separate was not equal. So they decided to integrate one of the best schools in the country. That school happened to be in Little Rock, Arkansas w .....

.... more about those strange and different people introduced in the book. In “K is for Killer” the victim is Lorna Kepler. She was a beautiful young lady who was really strange and mysterious. Grafton introduces weirdness as one of Lorna's characteristics to create suspense. Lorna was a loner and did not have a lot of friends, and she rarely talked to people. No one really knew her and a lot of people were jealous of her. What creates mystery is the fact that Lorna was a prostitute and that she couldn’t resists flirting with danger. Prostitution is associated with danger, with pim .....

.... met up with his monster in the mountains near a glacier. Here he listened to the monster's story. How he studied and grew to love this family living in a cottage. He wanted so immensely to be a part of their love and smiles. He learned their language and how to write (by listening to them teach an Arabian relative). After a very long time he walked into the cottage when only the blind old man was there and tried to befriend him. He was very persuasive until the children and the woman returned. The boy attacked the Monster. He could have killed the boy, but, out of love, ran. The fam .....

.... still careless and naïve about some things but he did learn that he was on his own. At Furnand Hall he had received 48 demerits and was almost expelled. Willie then had to push himself to be on top of everything. The 48 demerits were not just going to go away and he couldn't have his mother do something about it. Willie had to be the one to get himself out of the mess he had created. Even when his father came to tell Willie that he could probably get him transferred to the army Willie said, "Will you do me a favor, Dad?….Tell Mom, as nicely as you can, to call off Uncle Lloyd." His .....

.... (Conrad, 84) However, when Kurtz experience power, greed overcomes him and he uses his intelligence and violence to accomplish his passionate desire. “ He is an emissary of pity and science and progress; and devil knows what else.” (Conrad, 92). It is believed that there is evil in everyone and it can be triggered by mere stupidity of man. The evil in Kurtz is unleashed because he choose his deep desires for ivory and did not look ahead in the future of what will become of him. Consequently, his soul is consumed for eternal damnation. "The improper use of knowledge is anothe .....

.... comfort. The drink took on a role as if it were her companion: someone who gave her confidence, support, and LOVE. She drank to ease the tention before meeting friends, continued to drink once they got there to keep the mood light and conversation interesting, was always up for one more round, and was always the last to leave. If she was physically able she would drink alone when she got home, until she hit the point of passing out. More times than not she wouldn’t remember the end of the time spent at the bar or even the drive home, much less what she drank when she returned home. .....

.... we meet Jim he is given a very negative description. The reader is told that Jim is illiterate, childlike, not very bright, and extremely superstitious. However, it is important not to lose sight of who is giving this description and who it is being given to. Although Huck is not a racist child, he has been raised by extremely racist individuals who have, even if only subconsciously, planted some feelings of superiority into the roots of his mind. It is also important to remember that this description, although quite saddening, is probably accurate. Jim and the millions of other slaves in .....

.... to make the list for the following day. He has to mix the papers up with the one with the black dot on it in the box. The head of the household picks the paper from the box to seen if their family drew the dot or not. This event takes just a few hours to accomplish. The losing family then has to draw to decide who will lose in the household. The person who draws the dot will then get stoned to death. This is a ritual for the townspeople each year. There are people who agree and disagree with this annual event. The older people in the town are accustomed to this event; therefore, .....

.... or Fatalist because his philosophies were based on the idea that everything in the world was determined by fate, theorized that God, having the ability to pick from an infinite number of worlds, chose this world, "the best of all possible worlds." Although Voltaire chose that simple quality of Leibniz's philosophy to satirize, Leibniz meant a little more than just that. Even though his philosophy stated that God chose "the best of all possible worlds," he also meant that God, being the perfection he chose the best world available to him, unfortunately it was a world containing evil. It seem .....