.... thing that I found most enjoyable about this book, was the author’s own bravery. He risked his comfortable lifestyle and everything that he had to research something that he truly believed in. Here you have a white man who turns his skin black. He wanders around places he has never been, trying to figure out how to not stand out, how to “fit in”. He faces new problems and fears with each passing day. He gave insight into something that most of us would never be able to imagine experiencing. The author was raised in Texas a prejudice state. So it made his task even harder. The b .....

.... Unfortunately Raptor Reds mate is crushed by a 20 ton herbivore which they were hunting. Now she is all alone. Raptor Red uses her brain, which is very capable of learning, to solve problems by means of using things she knows and applying them to things she does not know. Then all the information she gathers is stored forever in her memory sorted by separate thoughts. Like a tree diagram. Utahraptors are so smart that they can feel emotions much like a human. When Raptor Red looses her first mate she is so upset she stays by his side for days and risks her life protecting him from fly .....

.... of the King and the Duke toward the Wilkes girls also help to develop the major theme of the novel. The Duke and the King take their cruelty to another level because they steal and lie to the Wilkes girls, who are left all alone with no parents. And not sell the rest o' the property? March off like a passel of fools and leave eight or nine thous'n' dollars' worth o' property layin' around jest sufferin' to be scooped in?-and all good, salable stuff, too. (170-171) The Duke and the King are so inhumane that they will go as far as stealing from three innocent girls. "And he sai .....

.... Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for a long time. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio is injured with a heel spur. In this way Santiago not only teaches Manolin about fishing but also about important characteristics such as faith. In the story Santiago's br .....

.... that what they say goes and therefore the woman has no choice but to follow. "He knows there is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self satisfaction the men feel w!hen they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts. "…H .....

.... throughout the story. Candide himself was flogged many times, Dr. Pangloss was made a beggar and then hung, the Baron went from a man of great standing to a slave, and Cunégonde was forced into slavery as well. Candide's search for freedom ends up getting him in a great deal of trouble everywhere he goes. From Lisbon to Cadiz to Eldorado to Surinam to Bordeaux to Portsmouth to Venice and many other unknown lands, Candide finds nothing but trouble. At the conclusion of Candide's adventures, he is reunited with his close friends whom he never thought he would see again. They end up li .....

.... from developing their minds. She felt that females back then should have the same rights as women have achieved through the Civil Rights Movement today. Her answer to this was "A Religious Retirement." It is Mary Astell's ideal place to end her intellectual suffering and open new doors for the female mind. I feel that Mary went a little to far with this idea. She wanted to segregate males and females, live in a convent, and find alternates to marriage for women, which, I guess, would be the same as living in a convent. Mary was a feminist which I feel lead her to be so aggressive in t .....

.... state. So she makes her choice in the order of morality. She stays with her husband and leaves for India with him. It is more likely that the fate designated Juliet's future. She is married to Dave on her own accord. Therefore, she does what a good wife is supposed to do. 1. Reviewed in : Booklist v.79 p.994 Apr 1, 1983 2. " The Ivory Swing " p.18 In Kerala, where David is on sabbatical to study primitive Indian culture, the couple encounters Yashoda," a widow who does not accept the fate and rigid rules of her culture." Yashoda wants the right to wear je .....

.... Brian asks his father how rabbits are born. With this new found knowledge, Brian also sees another newborn. But this time it was a two-headed calf, who dies at birth. Because of this, Brian comes to the realization that "God isn't very considerate"(166), for sometimes he lets things like the two headed cow come into this world, only to suffer and then die. The Second instance in which Brian is confronted with the meaning of life, comes to him when he sees death, and asks himself why. When Brian's pigeon died, he asked his father why it had happened. "Why?" said Brian. "It happens to .....

.... Montressor had told them not to leave knowing that they most defiantly would. The house was now empty and perfect for his plot. Montressor led Fortunato into the gloomy depths of the vaults. The humidity caused Fortunato to cough so Montressor gave him more to drink. He made it seem like he cared about Fortunato's cough when he was actually trying to get him more drunk than he already was. Montressor's evil is shown when he responds to another one of Fortunato's insults by saying "Nemo me impune lacessit", which means, "No one attacks me with impunity". When he says this, it is as if he .....