Tom Ripley

In the short story “The Giving Tree,” you will find many meaningful quotes, so much so that scholars have long debated the true meaning behind the story. As a reader, this book becomes open to the individual reader’s own interpretation. Someone once said, “Running away from your problems is a race you will never win.” I believe this quote is true to this story and to life in general. About halfway through the story, the boy is old and has been beat up by life and just wants to run from his…

Huckleberry Finn, is best friends with Tom Sawyer, another young boy living in the same town as Huck. These two adventurous boys have many indubitably things in common, but they also have their differences on how they perceive each other, their outlook on life, and in their lifestyle. Tom is different from Huck because he’s been living in a restrained family. Tom hates going to church, and Sunday school. He plays hooky from regular school, and avoids doing chores. However, Tom, who long for…

hundred and forty minutes. This simple-minded man lives a life of wandering filled with action and adventure. This is a movie one could watch on repeat and find themselves on the edge of their seat each time. Forrest Gump follows the life of Gump (Tom Hanks) as he touches the life of Jenny, Bubba, and Lt. Dan as well as its audience. The plot is as dynamic as the relationships Gump forms in his life. The reel switches from a feather floating to whizzing bullets keeping the viewers entertained…

to speak words of wisdom to the townspeople, highlighting the “monkey see monkey do” nature of all humans. Furthermore, the tendency to give into the ways of society finds its place within the children who partake in Tom Sawyer's band of robbers. Modeling the books he has read, Tom begins a band of future thieves who will pillage, fight, and kidnap innocent people, one kid going so far to match what they’ve read or seen ““[one child suggests] it would be good to kill the families of the boys…

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…