.... is constantly being watched, her face cannot be seen. She wears white wings on her face so that no one can see her and the only way she can see out is by sneaking short peeks at the outside world. In both of these books, 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale, the main characters know that the controlled lifestyle that they are living is wrong. At the beginning, they think that this is the way they have to live, and accept things the way they are. As we read further into the books, we soon realize that the characters want to make a difference and change their lives. Both take small steps towards .....

.... next following monday morning was the worst morning ever. My back was hurting because I had slept late from the night before. It was 7 o' clock in the morning and I was thinking to myself: "What am I doing here, when everyone else is sleeping comfortably in their beds." In addition, I was the youngest and the most ill-prepared, so the whole day was just learning how to do this and that, and what not to do. The following days got easier and easier for me just getting used to the schedule, but my uncle had this trepidating aura that surrounded him all the time, which made it hard t .....

.... from her stay at Gateshead illustrate this fact, her reading of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” and her punishment for striking Master John, the stay in the red room of Gateshead. In the opening scene, Jane is found perusing a copy of Bewick's “History of British Birds,” concentrating on the descriptions of the certain landscapes in which some of the birds live. Her words paint a mental picture, one that represents her childhood, “Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains .....

.... and a school as well. He pleaded for the clan to send their children and all others who wanted to, to attend his school. At first everyone was reluctant to explore this new option for education. Those that chose to attend Mr. Brown’s school would not only learn how to read and write, but they would also learn how to fight back against those that would come in and try to conquer them. With this insight and the kind “gifts of singlets and towels” (pg.181) from Mr. Brown, more people flooded into his school. Mr. Brown’s school not only taught them how to speak and read in another tongue .....

.... inventory, and operational expense, and everything that the manager manages in his plant is covered by them. Still, the manager must do much thinking and research in order to figure out just how to express his goal in terms of these measurement. In addition to expressing the goal, the manager is troubled by whether employees, robots, and machinery actuall need to be running at all times. At first glance many managers seem to think that an idle worker is an unproductive worker, but Goldratt shows us that in reality a plant in which everyone is working all the time is very inefficient. Th .....

.... to one of five classes, from the Alphas, the most intelligent, to the Epsilons, morons bred to do the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do. The lower classes are multiplied by a budding process that can create up to 96 identical clones and produce over 15,000 brothers and sisters from a single ovary. All the babies are conditioned, physically and chemically in the bottle, and psychologically after birth, to make them happy citizens of the society with both a liking and an aptitude for the work they will do. One psychological conditioning technique is hypnopaedia, or teaching people whi .....

.... over fallen tree trunks. Above the backdoor there was the broad moose antlers that hung there. Vanessa loved the summer at Diamond Lake because she loved to listen to the loons all night. She also loved because she would go swimming in the lake. Vanessa also loved to go there because she could spent more time with her father. For example; they would go at night to the lake to listen to the loons carefully because some day they can just disappear. She also loved it because she got to see her best friend Marvis. Piquette wasn't actually interested in the surrounding and the loons or the la .....

.... of the two, has the responsibility of caring for Lennie, who is much like a child in his ways, however, far more dangerous than his inner character reflects. George has to keep a watchful eye over Lennie, for without constant supervision, Lennie would inadvertently kill anything he touches. George has towards Lennie the tenderness and protective instinct which most have towards the helpless, the disadvantaged, and the dependent. George has encountered and embraced a responsibility, a social responsibility, and a humanitarian responsibility. It is to take care of, protect, save from hurt, .....

.... the mother of death itself, which influenced her novel. “Frankenstein is indeed a birth myth , but one in which the parent who brought death into the world, and all our woe, is not a woman but a man who pushed the masculine prerogative past the limits of nature , creating life not through the female body, but in a laboratory” (220, Kate Ellis). In the novel, Shelley turned her ideas around, creating Victor, who, desperate after the loss of his own mother, goes out to find the secret to life, and in a way, to steal this awesome power from Nature itself. Victor Frankenstein’s .....

.... there.” Death is not something that people deal with everyday. Human beings deal with death very similar to the way that the towns people stored the black box. People place their experiences with death in different rooms and shelves of their hearts. The black box also symbolizes the need for a new tradition and the reluctance of the townspeople to accept change. The black box is a symbol of the lottery itself. The physical appearance of the box suggest that it was not only the black box that needed to be replaced but the tradition of the lottery . “The black box grew shabbier each y .....