.... place and take a peek into one of the windows. This plan backfires when Mr. Radley comes out with a shot gun and fires into the air. While running away from Mr. Radley Jem gets his pants caught while trying to get back under the fence and has to slip out of them to get away. Later that night he goes back for his pants and find them folded over the fence and roughly mended. That following winter Maycomb had its first snow since 1885. At first Scout thought that the earth was ending, she had never seen snow before. Scout and Jem made a snow man that looked exactly like Mr. Avery. During th .....

.... out now, making it a baker's dozen” “Is she?” “Yes Pip,” said Joe; “and what's worse, she's got a Tickler with her.” At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. (Chapter II) Pip is brought up by his sister “by hand”, and that has become a perfect reason for his sister to abuse him. When he starts to see Miss Havisham, he is looked down by Estella, who would abuse him mentally by saying the meanest words. She came back, with some bread and me .....

.... his heart as he had done to her years ago. Once he was dead, Tess was free of her sin and could finally have the love of Angel unhindered by her past. She had killed her past in the house which was slowly killing her. The next residence for Tess after the murder was in an abandoned mansion: Bramshurst Court. This was the perfect place for Tess and Angel to escape to. She wished for nothing more than to be left alone, from other people and from her past. In this house she found a refuge with her true love, and experienced what she had not for much of her life--contentment. She did not des .....

.... years old, Katie is waiting for puberty to hit, waiting for prince charming, waiting for her father to come to his senses. Her father is a highly ranked and respected serviceman who moves his family to a Texas army base after the death of his wife. Katie struggles with the tradgety of her mothers death but handles her pain in a heartwrenching, stoic manner. Her abusive father, on the other hand, handles his sorrow by showing aggression towards his daughters. This is especially difficult for Katie considering that her father is all that she has to look up to, aside from the neighbors who ta .....

.... onto them by the farm owners and discriminating locals. Whereas the Joads start out as one family, by the end of the story their family becomes one with other families who are weathering the same plight of starvation and senseless violence. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck emphasizes the power of groups over the individual’s power to survive poverty and violence through character evolution, plot and the use of figurative and philosophical language. Tom Joad begins the novel with self-seeking aims, but with the ex-preacher Jim Casy as a mentor, he evolves into an idealistic group lea .....

.... and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten…(39,40) Gatsby did all of this for a woman he knew years ago. “…he half expected her [the woman he loved] to wander into one of his parties, some night.” (80) Finally, he arranged to meet this woman, named Daisy, at his neighbor’s house next door. They were excited to see each other again for it had been almost five years. Later in the novel, Fitzgerald explains that Gatsby had bought this mansion which was right across the bay from Daisy just so he could be close to her. Gatsby had been waiting for his long lost .....

.... snagged it in his teeth, hanging on." This showed how broke they were by showing that there were giant rats living with them and how it had no fear of them . Richard Wright did not just not just want to show the con sides to Capitalism, he also wanted to prove the Capitalism has its good sides to it also . For instance, Richard Wright purposely placed the Daltons in a spectacular house and made them very rich and famous . Another trademark of Capitalism, the upper class. The author showed how some of the Capitalist folks lived . The upper class is very wealthy and basically gets what they .....

.... the two Indian twins shows a typical problem for imigrants. In this case the twins want to change the system and the rules wich Indian people live by. Suki and her sister will not tolerate the rules and live by the normal traditions. Therefor you can say that the two twins are revulutionary. The twins want to speak in the Gurudwara, so they can tell the other women and children to fight for their rights. After normal indian traditions women don't have anything to say. It is the men who make the decitions and therfor decides over the women and children. The two sisters want to help other wome .....

.... the novel, and that it supports many of the author's lesser themes. For the purpose of portraying war as something terrible, though, the nature motif is expressed most dramatically in the following passages. These passages mark the three distinct stages of nature's condemnation of war: rebellion, perseverance, and erasure. The first passage occurs in Chapter Four when the troops are trucked out to the front to install stakes and wire. However, the narrator's squad is attacked unexpectedly by an English bombardment. With no visible enemy to fight, the soldiers are forced to t .....

.... still very please because his friend won and second place was good for him. This shows how good of a character he was. It takes a very unselfish person to be able to be happy with what you have and also be happy for your friend. Some people may have been jealous and upset that their friend got all the attention and took first place from them. The same personality trate applies to my friend Lauren. Me and Lauren decided that we wanted to try out for a play. We both took private lessons and worked very hard for the big day, tryouts. We liked to sing and dance for each other so we could .....