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This scene starts off with Sam conversing with Dana and asks her to teach his younger siblings how to read and write. She then told Sam she needs to get permission from Rufus in order to be able to teach his siblings. Days passes and things were going pretty smooth until an event took place that changes the course of the plan. Rufus decides to sell Sam leaving his sister belligerent toward Dana and calls Dana a whore. She then starts approaching and Dana was now in deep fear of her since she was a field hand and had the strength to give Dana a good beating. Before Sally could lay a hand on Dana, Rufus interferes and orders Sally to continue working. Dana tries convincing Rufus that he was making a vast mistake and he was about to destroy all he had preserves, but Rufus replies by hitting Dana which forces her to stumble backward and fall to the ground. Dana felt betrayed and she walks back to the cookhouse with utter disbelief. When she arrives there, she warms some water and takes it to the attic and was about to attempt a dangerous action. “... washed my knife in anti-septic, and hooked the drawstring of my bag over my shoulder. And in the warm water I cut my wrists.” (239) Dana is not a type of girl that could be predicted easily and almost all her doings her random. She would conquer all barriers that gets in her way to stay

Hawthorne symbolized this through Faith, Goodman Brown’s wife, whom he deliberately left behind in order to follow the devil. The stories also expose the sinfulness of the characters, making them unlikable. Eventually, the devil takes the souls of all the characters, including those who acted the most devoutly. For example, Tom Walker “became... all of a sudden, a violent church-goer. He prayed loudly and strenuously as if heaven were to be taken by force of lungs,” (Irving 11). Nevertheless, the devil carries pious Tom away on his great black horse. In “Young Goodman Brown,” all the village’s citizens, including Faith, willingly gather at a worship service for the devil. This ruins Brown’s Christian life because he now thought there was no truth to Christianity. Consequentially, “when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave...they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom,” (Hawthorne 19). Man’s corrupt, sinful nature made it possible for the devil to capture the souls of Tom Walker and Goodman Brown.

Jack’s obsession triggers something within him that strives for power and control. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”(Golding, Page 51). Jack's transformation from civilized bully to savage killer has begun. Rounding up the other boys, Jack pulls them into the addictive chase of killing the pigs. Even Ralph and Piggy, the two that wanted to keep order alive the most, get caught up in the hunt, proving that everyone can be provoked and only a few can resist the urge to give in to wickedness. Hunting has possessed Jack, and he will stop at nothing to kill the pigs and the beast at the expense of all else, even rescue. In A Separate Peace, Gene is triggered by his jealousy towards Finny. His jealousy seems harmless at first but continues to grow. “He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he. I couldn’t stand this” (Knowles, Page 59). The novel’s plot is the problem of Gene's increasing envy of Finny. Incapable of the spiritual purity of Phineas, Gene finds himself jealous of Finny's ability to ignore Devon rules in his attempt to enjoy an "unregulated friendliness" with the adult world. “Gene has come to see that this enemy never comes from without, but always from within” (Ellis, Para 4). After being pulled into their own desires, the characters in Lord of the

In Alice Sebold’s novel, The Lovely Bones, the Salmon family learns that their fourteen year old daughter, Susie Salmon, has been raped and murdered. Because of this her father, Jack, sister, Lindsey, and mother, Abigail, all go through their own respective journeys in order to accept this ordeal. During this time of grievance for Susie’s family, her father, Jack, believes that the person responsible for the murder of his daughter is his neighbour, a man named George Harvey, and reports this to detective Len Fenerman. However, Len Fenerman becomes too preoccupied with his affair with Abigail to aid Jack with his suspicions. Meanwhile, Susie’s younger siblings Lindsey and Buckley, try to learn how to cope with the loss of one of their very own, without their parent’s attention to aid them. In The Lovely Bones, Susie’s father, mother, and sister, all explore the theme of grief by going on their own pathways through the five stages of grief; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, in order to come to terms with the brutal murder of their beloved Susie.

Samneric woke us up late last night because they said they saw the beast. Ralph called a meeting and Samneric told us what they saw. Ralph told Jack off saying he got to have the conch to speak because Jack always speaks out of turn. They argued again about being rescued and hunting the beast and getting meat. They decided I stay here with the littluns… alone. I never agreed. They went to go hunt the beast and all

in this novel there is a lot of fear operating in witchcraft accusations and tension between the people of Salem. In the Puritan Society, all these fears are covered up by the anger toward one another. All of this anger is made up of old grudges and vengeance. In the puritan society everything surrounds religion, which is everything to the

"They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with terror to the description the twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme silence. Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace." At this time of the book, Sam and Eric (or Samneric) found the dead body of the pilot but because it was dark, they mistook it for the unknown and ran back to camp believing they saw the claws of the beast. This takes the fear of the beast over the edge. They all believe that the beast as real and they all start getting paranoid and light fires and only go in the forest in groups. This event is a major turning point in the book; it also is the cause of Simon's death later in the book.

The Puritans had very strict rules and opinions regarding women and children’s lifestyles, and being a teenage girl was considered to be both. Women were supposed to be subservient to men, obedient and quiet, hardworking and respectful. Children were supposed to be stoic, seen but not heard, helpers around the house, and were considered to be miniature adults. However, reality does not tend to reflect ideals. The girls in Puritan Salem were anything but obedient and quiet, and

Marshal Herrick enters the Salem jails nearly drunk and tries to wake Sarah Good up. While doing this, he wakes up Tituba. As they were talking, A bellowing cow was heard. Tituba says, “Oh, it be no Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasure- man in Barbados, him be singin’ and dancin’ in Barbados. It’s you folks-you riles him up ‘round here; it be too cold ‘round here for that Old Boy. He freeze his soul in Massachusetts, but in Barbados he just as sweet and - A bellowing cow is heard, and TItuba leaps up and calls to the window: Aye, sir! That’s him Sarah!”(Miller 113). Tituba mistakes the bellowing cow as the devil’s call. The cow was heard because its owners were in jail, the fences were knocked down. This shows that Salem is a corrupt community and is falling apart. Later on, Hale says to Danforth, “there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere, and no man knows when the harlots’ cry will end his life…”(Miller 121). Hale says this to Danforth because there are many people being jailed, killed, or accused of witchcraft and since this is happening, there is no one to take care of their kids, tame the cows, and harvest the crops. To summarize, Salem has fallen apart due to puritans being in jail and not being able to take care of their kids,

“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.” -Alice Sebold. Alice Sebold the author of Lovely Bones creates a story of depression, guilt, and grief with the murder of Susie Salmons. In Lovely Bones the death of Susie affects all those close to her, like her mother, her father and her classmates. Her father grieves with despair as the murderer has yet to be caught. Her mother can not handle her disappearance and finds unnerving ways to cope. Susie’s classmates, Ruth and Ray both find ways to cope with each other and through other connections with Susie. A death of a loved young one is one no one is ever ready for. The grief starts and people find ways to feel guilty. If no mental aid is present the associates will

Life was hard in Puritan New England. For most, mere existence was a struggle from the everyday stresses such as crop failure, loss of livestock, or the death of a child. The stringent Puritan code that the villagers lived by was taxing as well; basically, their lives were filled with chores and religion. Puritan children lived by the same standards as the adults and would be punished if they displayed emotions or disobeyed for any reason. Also, because leisure time and fun was looked upon as a sinful distraction they did not get to play the usual children’s games. Puritan families of Salem Village were under enormous pressure to live perfect moral lives.

34). It states that other political inspiration other than the religion of Christianity has called out the devil and will continue to tempt the people that are all really on their own side. He explains that the outside will continue to tempt the people. He makes an inference that there is some people in Salem that worship the devil and are discovering the dark spirits. The Puritan belief clouds his judgment in the witch trails. Hale shows his resistant to believing Abigail and the girls are lying when he questions all of the towns and John Proctors Motives. He questions the innocents not the guilty. In the book, several times the testifiers are questioned whether they were innocents because they “were going again the court”. Hale uses theocracy to place fear in the town.

Like many viruses, unexpressed emotions go into dormancy as they are buried alive and come forth later in much uglier ways. This sentiment correlates in Sebold’s, The Lovely Bones which places 14 year old Susie Salmon gazing upon her grieving family as they deal with the spontaneous loss of herself while obscuring in the knowledge of the ruinous source. With only one tragic flaws being naive, Susie gets left sexually assaulted and viciously murdered within the hands of Mr. Harvey; a common neighbour to the family. The awareness of suspicions rose upon him, yet nothing of solid proof had been able to come forward and convict due to the lack of evidence within the case. As much as Susie urged fighting back to the events placing on earth, nothing

Updike incorporated two writing techniques that help the audience identify his tone regarding each character and situation. These techniques involved the use of present to past comparisons, metaphors, and similes. His strange symbolism and overexaggerated experiences gave this piece of writing a comical and humorous point of view. The story is written as if the audience is in the mind of the main character, Sammy. At the beginning of the story, Sammy compares a snippy 50-year-old woman to that of a "witch." Moreover, he adds sarcasm to emphasize his annoyance with this woman. Updike states, "She'd been watching cash registers for fifty years and probably never seen a mistake before" (Updike 92). The sarcasm is obvious to the audience in that it is highly unlikely that she had been watching cash registers since birth and to have never before encountered a mistake during checkout. The author's sarcasm and symbolism are intended to make the audience smile and maybe even adds a little irony to the experience, that is if the audience can relate. Sammy goes on into overexaggerating the experience by saying, "if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem (Updike 92)." The likelihood of her being burned during the witch trials in Salem for merely just correcting a cashier is highly unlikely. But the thought seemed slightly humorous and

First of all, the most notable theme in Shiver is love. During the Spring and Summer when Sam is a human he always wanted the chance to be with Grace, to talk to her. Sam does not want to become a wolf again, he wants to know Grace, to be “just Sam” (369). The night that Sam and Grace meet, the night Sam shows up on Grace’s porch, the two are instantly drawn to each other. Sam admits to being able to shift into a wolf, but only during the winter or when it is cold.