… aware of the role of women in the play Our Town." Wilder makes the audience aware of the role of women in the play by making them appear traditional and as they stay at home all the time, it seems they are only house wives that never leave the…

… most significantly throughout the course of the book. From respectable to savage and from responsible Head Boy to corrupt leader. At the start of the book Jack was in command of his choir and he had them in columns of two, and even had them marching.…

… both his autobiography and a tribute to the life of his mother, Ruth McBride. Ruth came to America when she was a young girl in a family of Polish Jewish immigrants. Ruth married Andrew Dennis McBride, a black man from North Carolina. James's childhoo…

… Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the majority of the passage to show how Pearl and Hester act when out of the public eye. Also, he uses the theme of nature to show what Pearl is like, who she really is, and how she is accepted by nature. In the beginning…

… occurs. The chapter is very important to the Dimmesdale-Hester storyline because of a significant amount of foreshadowing. The scaffold scenes provide deep insight to Dimmesdale's state of mind. Dimmesdale is anxious, worried, and confused throughout…

… it be a house, or a home? While the words "house" and "home" possess similar definitions and can be used interchangeably-- after all both do provide some sort of shelter or protection- they embody very different connotations, and their usage evokes…

… in many interesting, as well as dangerous, predicaments. Although these predicaments were extremely challenging, Odysseus always found a way to survive. His survival depended on his mind and body combined. Without this important balance of thought…

… food chain by T. Coraghessan Boyle are short stories written to make the reader realize how humans do absurd things which as a result have unexpected consequences. The following paragraphs will discuss how irony is used in both stories. In the…

… is more significant then merely the time and place in which the story takes place. The setting of an effective short story often foreshadows or represents the character's emotions and feelings. In "The Story of an Hour" written by Kate Chopin, the…

… F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway's loss of innocence and growing awareness is one of the significant themes. Nick moves to West Egg, Long Island, an affluent suburb of New York City, where millionaires and powerbr…