Tom Joad

There are quite a few books that are well known for their stories or important information; however, many of them contain words that are to vulgar for most people. In 1960, 34 year old Harper Lee wrote the very well known book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. However, the book is filled with words which to present day are considered to be the worst you could ever title someone by. Books containing these crude words should not be removed from libraries, but have the few that they serve no purpose in be…

One day a man came to a door in southern Calormen. After he was invited in, the boy Shasta made him supper, and then was thrown out of doors. The Tarkaan offered to buy the boy and him and Arsheesh bartered over the boy until late into the night. During this time, Shasta made his way over to the horse and made the shocking discovery that Bree (the horse) could talk. After Shasta discovered that Arsheesh was not his father, and the Tarkaan that had just purchased him was an evil man, he and Bree…

1. The Cincinnati Bengals Are A Serious Threat To Win The Super Bowl Four games, four wins, one turnover for Andy Dalton. The Bengals have dominated through their first four games. Yesterday, Andy Dalton played another terrific game. He finished with 321 passing yards and one touchdown, but what really sticks out to me, is the fact that Dalton still has only turned the ball over once this season. This is the first time in his career that he hasn’t committed more than one turnover over a span…

Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain writes about a great variety of social institutions within the American society, mocking them. The style he uses to write about these outside subjects, shows that he is not only describing them humorously but also making the audience view them in a criticizing way. The way he portrays America through his criticisms and ridicules changes the meaning of the overall message. Family feuds, slavery, and wealth and greed were all written about…

Throughout Heart of Darkness, there are several references to blindness, darkness, and light. When literal blindness, darkness, light, and sight are introduced in a literary work, figurative seeing and blindness are often involved, as in this novel. Captain Charles Marlow sets “into the depths of darkness” in order to quench his thirst for knowledge about an unnamed river in central Africa (18). However, Captain Marlow loses this flavor of childhood innocence as he witnesses the death of his…

what they go through. Through characterization Lee proved that you don’t know someone until you walk in their shoes, and see what they see every day. Lee uses characterization to prove that it’s hard to tell who someone really is. Like Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Lee makes both of the characters seem evil, and mean. But once the story goes on Scout and Jem soon realize who those men really are because in some ways they are going through what they went through. In the end Scout realizes that…

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the two characters that influence the plot the most are Walter and Mama. They influence the plot because they are both trying to help the Younger family but in different ways. Walter is trying to make things better for the family but he is doing that in a selfish way. Mama is also trying to help the family but she is doing what is best for everyone. Walter’s character plays an important role in the story because his personality is very selfish and…

To life’s most interesting questions, there are many times no definite answers. In short, the best answer, sometimes, to yes or no problems is, in truth, sometimes. [[In texts that I read in my #1 New York Times Bestseller Springboard textbook (ten fidget spinners out of eight) conjoin to formulate the idea that individualism and personality, when combined with aspects of culture, influence a one’s perception of his/her surrounding environment.]] In “Where World’s Collide”, by Pico Iyer,…

Open on a preschool classroom. The hour for napping has arrived, and all is at peace. That is, until a young boy, full of ambition and potential, sees an opportunity for mischief. Behold, on the opposite side of the room is a cookie jar, full of delicious, baked temptation. The small lad, rising from his slumber, makes the journey towards sweet indulgence, only to find that several of his classmates have also congregated around the jar in their own attempts at dessert thievery. Even one of his…

In a scene from “Saving Private Ryan”, a film directed by Steven Spielberg, Captain John Miller and other GIs approach Omaha beach in a landing craft. The scene begins with the soldiers all tightly cramped in the landing craft awaiting the landing on the beach. There is then a close-up of Captain Miller’s hand shaking and the camera then pans up towards his face and then slowly moves backwards to show the faces of the other soldiers in the landing craft. It shows some men throwing up and then…