.... It is here that Dimmesdale openly acknowledges Hester and his undying love for her. It is also here that Hester can do the same for Dimmesdale. Finally, it is here that the two of them can openly engage in conversation without being preoccupied with the constraints that Puritan society places on them. The forest itself is the very embodiment of freedom. Nobody watches in the woods to report misbehavior, thus it is here that people may do as they wish. To independent spirits such as Hester Prynne's, the wilderness beckons her: Throw off the shackles of law and religion. What go .....

.... and collect all sorts of critters like squid, octopus, and sea cucumbers. When Doc had to leave for La Jolla on a collecting trip, Mack and the boys decided to give him a surprise party. They bought beer, plenty of Old Tennis Shoes (Old Tennessee, a blended whiskey). The whole town was going to be there, and in the minds of Mack and the boys, it was going to be a grand party. However, the party started before Doc even got there. The guests arrived at Western Biological (which doubled as Doc's house and laboratory) and soon became drunk. Windows, doors, expensive equipment, books, p .....

.... with this pallid screen, the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked". This is highlighting the vivid contrast between the ground and the sky, leaving the reader with an image of the wild expanse of vegetation. Hardy describes the nature of the heath with the words "It was at present a place perfectly accordant with man's nature - neither ghastly, hateful, nor ugly: neither... unmeaning, nor tame; but like man slighted and enduring...". This is a description of the heath, which leaves the reader with a stronger sense of place, having now .....

.... cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear how sharp they were." (126) This shows how Holden didn't like people trying to show off. This style of writing, which lets the reader know exactly what the main character thinks, helps make the book into a classic. It gives the reader a better understanding of Holden and how he feels and why he acts the way he does. The second standard that I based the book on was its use of symbolism. There are many symbols that Salinger u .....

.... call it a night. On the way to his room, in the elevator the elevator attendant offers to send him up a hooker for the night. Being a virgin Holden decides to take him up on the hooker. Once the hooker makes it up to his room he gets cold feet and decides not to have sex with her and just talk. The hooker gets mad at Holden for wasting her time and leaves. Minutes later the hooker’s pimp comes looking for money and eventually ends up beating up Holden. The following day Holden calls up an old girlfriend Sally Hues for a date. On the date they get into a minor argument with each other .....

.... of the hunters’ celebrations around the kill of an animal a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy’s (one of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet a .....

.... make an accident." Fitzgerald attacks the motif of reckless driving vigorously, since it conveys precisely the vision he had of America. He saw twenties society as recklessly careless; the society was "driving on toward death through the cooling twilight." Through out the novel, Fitzgerald foreshadows the downfall of his own generation. At the heart of the most intense conflict in the novel, where Gatsby finds out that he will never live his dream, Nick realizes, "I just remembered it's my thirtieth birthday," signifying the end of this corrupt light-hearted lifestyle at the dawn of the t .....

.... occurs over the period of time when Daisy is visiting him at his home. He confuses it with her, because as time goes on, Gatsby is in love with the idea of being with Daisy, not actually in love with Daisy. Finally, he is betrayed by it with the help of Daisy's husband, Tom Buchanan, and the death of Myrtle Wilson. Gatsby is called great, which you can call him great by virtue of his ability to commit himself to his aspirations, but at the same time Gatsby himself is a liar, adulterer, a criminal, and someone the narrator, Nick Carraway, has only scorn for. So, as time r .....

.... walk into a convenient store five miles from the beach wearing nothing but their bathing suits would catch anyone’s attention. As the narrator, Sammy, describes in the story, “A&P was right in the middle of town and women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.” It was the appropriate thing to do. To Sammy, however, it was appropriate only if you had “six children and varicose veins mapping your legs and nobody could care less.” Contrary to his belief, however, just because you are beautiful and look good in a bathing suit .....

.... Jonas is a child in this supposed "Utopia" who ends up with the most important assignment of all the "Receiver of Memory". The Receiver holds all the memories of the whole community so the community does not have to be bothered with feelings and the emotional baggage that comes with them. Jonas's trainer the "Giver" is a old man who passes the memories on to Jonas and eventually thinks of the plan to escape. The Giver also adopts Jonas and Rosemary as his own kids in a way. He had a previous "Receiver" named Rosemary who applied for and received release. Release is the term for death in .....