.... home, he meets a 17-year old girl named Clarisse McClellan. She talks to him about his job and they talk for a while. He finds out that this girl lives upstairs from him. He returns to his home after talking to Clarisse, and finds his wife lying on the bed with an empty bottle of sleeping pills next to her. He calls the emergency hospital and an ambulance comes, pumps her stomach, and replaces her blood with clean blood. The next day Mildred remembers nothing about overdosing on the sleeping pills. After breakfast, Montag goes to work at the fire station. Over the next seven days, .....

.... includes in his book a group of people unaffected by the changes in society, a group that still has religious beliefs and marriage, things no longer part of the changed society, to compare and contrast today's culture with his proposed futuristic culture. But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing to accept a passive approach to life, and refusing to conform. In addition, the refusal of various methods of escape from reality is shown to be a path to discovery. In Brave New World, the main characters of Bernard Mar .....

.... arms. She felt no horror or shock, just grief that this person, this “friend”, had passed away. “She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.”(12) The irony had finally creeped through into her life, her inexplicable and “sometimes” loving marriage had finally come to a sudden halt; Louise Mallard no longer had her dreadful job. The feeling of freedom, the feeling Louise Mallard never knew still exist .....

.... as a small precise man, who is neatly dressed and recently had his boots shinned. She also said the most striking characteristic of Mr. Mayherne is his shrewd and piercing gray eyes. From his brief encounter with Mrs. Mogson, we found out that she was scared with sulfuric acid by Romaine's boyfriend and has been bent on getting revenge on Romaine. Plausible characters and vivid description make this story more interesting and add to the plot of the story. The author of "Wine" was very non-discriptive about the characters. This lack of description makes the characters extremely difficult .....

.... and the community...tend to coerce and even predetermine the volition and aspirations of the self"(Tanner 125). She is self-reliant and independent, while "contemptuous of all the conventions that restrict the individual's freedom"(Litz 65). Darcy observes Elizabeth as "...sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention...disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking and thinking for [men's] approbation alone"(Ghent 185). Elizabeth rejects Mr. Collin's proposal because she does not think that "marriage was the only honorable provision for a well-educated woman... .....

.... open-minded by promoting individualism, the appreciation of literature, the defiance of censorship and conformity, and most importantly, change. Bradbury’s inspiration to convey the themes involved in the novel resulted mainly from the social situation of the time. First of all, the novel was written shortly after World War II and increasing numbers of authors began writing about serious topics. Also, the invention of the atom bomb had aroused the Cold War and the use of technology as a form of destruction (Touponce 124). Seeing technology as a potential threat to the well-being .....

.... "It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” The sun, of course, is a reference to decency through the common association of light and goodness. Thus, Holden’s perception of the world remains, essentially, unchanged. The belief that does change during the book is that Holden can evade or protect the world. He sees a corrupt environment, and at first, believes that he must either protect or abandon it. On his date with Sally, Holden reveals his feelings about his situation in the world: "Did you ever get fed up? I mean did you .....

.... very complicated. When I think of someone who is or was great, I think of Jackie Robinson, Louis Armstrong, and Albert Einstein. These are all people who affected the way we live and have changed our society as a whole for the better. My parents are great; my teachers are great, and my coaches are great. All of those people have a lot of influence directly over me and they are always changing me for the better. A truly great person has to make sacrifices and be very brave. Jackie Robinson was the first black person to enter the major leagues. To face the kind of racism that he faced and sti .....

.... and the tension between Juana, his wife, and him, triggered Kino’s breakdown. Because Kino was exceedingly possessed by the prosperity the pearl might possibly produce for him, he even assaulted Juana, as a result of her recognizing that the pearl and the greed it caused was gradually diminishing Kino and her community’s lucidness. Although Kino assumed that selling the pearl would improve his family’s level of affluence; his dreams, and goals entirely counted on the infinitesimal detail that the pearl would bring opulence. His ravenousness blinded him to the actualit .....

.... his life as a free man. His plans for freeing his family and the nearing of the completion of the "crime" begin eating away at Huck's conscience. He resolves to go ashore and turn Jim in, which immediately relieves his guilty anguish. As he takes off in the canoe, supposedly to find out if they have reached Cairo, Jim makes an incredibly timely show of his love and trust for Huck, concluding with, "Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim." (p. 110) Huck struggles to go through with the choice he has made, but when he has his chance, he .....