.... torment them. This leads to a shootout with the missionaries where Allie is shot and wounded. Paddling with their father and husband downstream on the Patuca River, in a quadriplegic state, his limbs not working, Allie is only able to speak and scream. Due to Theroux’s guidance of Allies character throughout the novel, for the reader it seems likely that he could jump up and regain control over his family and the direction of the novel at any moment. Here, Allies character is used very well to make the reader afraid. Not only does Theroux use Allies character to its peak of effecti .....

.... a rebirth he gained by slowly conforming in a three step process: Sin, Realization of Sin, and Recovery from Sin. James Wait acted cruelly to his wives. He just wanted money and someone to converse with. Leon Trout tells us in the beginning of the book about James' marriages: “Wait had so far courted and married seventeen such persons-and then cleaned out their jewelry boxes and safe-deposit boxes and bank accounts, and disappeared.”(Pg. 8) James Wait portrays his cruelness and decisiveness towards women in the story. He shows his state of an “ Iron Age” and he cheats people in .....

.... twelve leagues of darkness before he reaches the golden garden of the goddesses. Upon arriving there he is greeted by Shamash, the Sun God, who tells him, "You will never find the/ life for which you are searching." This upsets Gilgamesh because he has traveled so far to now just "sleep and let the earth cover my head forever?" From leaving Shamash, Gilgamesh is sent to see Siduri. "Beside the sea she lives, the woman of/ the vine, the maker of wine…" and she does not want to allow Gilgamesh pass. Gilgamesh pleads with her that since he has seen her do not let him see death. She answ .....

.... not follow chronological order. However, when they are all pieced together, the whole picture of slavery, Sethe's act, and its aftermath emerges. A universal characteristic of the survivor's tale is the subjectivity and incompleteness of the survivor's knowledge. The author works to provide a more objective view of events by including several storytellers. Digression also provides a more complete picture by including minute details, such as the story of Miss Amy Denver and her love of velvet. Entwined with digression is regression. The story is told in the present, referring back to differen .....

.... appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is of little consequence..." After answering no to Rochester's question of whether or not he was handsome, she goes on to tell him that appearances mean little or nothing. Jane understands that to have a true and loving relationship with someone, that both must have not looks, but a similarity in thought, and a like for the other's personality. Relationship's such as this are ones of quality that will last for a long time. Although Jane is not a beautiful women, she is able to find happiness and that is what's most important. Jane .....

.... The lawyer begins with the words, “I am a rather elderly man.” This first “I” begins a long, autobiographical narrative in which the lawyer reveals much of himself to the reader. Because the story is centered on the lawyer's life, it is imperative that the reader have this close view of him. The repetitive “I” in these paragraphs is important because it comes from the lawyer's thoughts of himself. For this text to flow in it's intended path, the reader must know a great deal about the lawyer and his employees. In fact, it is these characters which consummately def .....

.... Why, how you talk! They just set around." "No; is dat so?" "Of course it is. They just set around, except, maybe, when there's a war; then they go to war. But other times they just lazy around; or go hawking— just hawking…when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they hang round the harem." However, by using Huck's language Twain creates character and establishes realism. Huck is capable of making Twain write something merely because it is not the kind of thing Huck would say or do, and he can fo .....

.... that they were from Earth. Each martian tells them to go to another person. Finally, the men come to a house where a man gives them a key and says they "will be taken care of" in the next room. They enter only to find that they are locked within an insane asylum. They are taken next to the ship and then killed. In the third expedition, the group lands and at first think they are on Earth but traveled back in time to the year 1920. The captain and one of his men tell his men to stay on ship while they go and survey the land. However, when they came back they saw their men talking and assoc .....

.... does not mean that they need to be treated bad. If they are a different color, religion, or have a handicap, they are a human being just like any other person. When Scout’s teacher gets mad over one kind of prejudice act, but not about one that is in their own town, she gets flustered. “…How can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?” One huge principle Atticus wants the children to try to do is to step inside someone else’s skin to see how it feels to be that person. Atticus told Scout, “…You never really understand a person u .....

.... of midnight, Tom and his best friend Huck were out in the grave yard trying to get rid of warts, when they witnessed a murder by Injun Joe. At the time Muff Potter was drunk and asleep so Injun Joe blamed the murder him (Muff Potter). They knew if crazy Injun Joe found out they knew, he would for sure kill them. Tom wrote on a wooden board "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swear to keep mum about this and they wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and rot", then in their own blood they signed their initials TS and HF. A few days after that incident Tom, Huck and J .....