… Grendel and Beowulf are two characters that resemble good and evil in the book. Grendel, a descendant of Cain, is portrayed as a malevolent monster which causes malice throughout the city of Herot. Beowulf is a character that exemplifies great courage…

… they take a walk in their shoes. This along with many other life lessons are taught in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, where some characters achieve the ability to walk in each other’s shoes. The novel takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama,…

… the young men were to the culture of Glen Ridge.” (Lefkowitz: 9) Description Leslie Faber, her real name concealed for privacy, was a seventeen year old mentally challenged female who was coerced into the basement of the Scherzer house where…

… ways than each other. One is a very humorous writer that brings up many issues most people would never bring up. He fills his works with social satire and makes fun of all different types of writing from almost every era before his time. Mark…

… the heart of “The Big Sleesp” is not the solution of the murders--the whodunit--but rather the world the story depicts and the movement of Marlowe within that world. Chandler's characters repeatedly comment on the corruption of Los Angeles and the…

… or the Mafia would not only be scary but also dangerous. In John Grisham’s novel, The Client, he portrays an eleven-year-old Mark to be tough and persuasive as he faces both of these daunting adversaries. John Grisham uses the David-Goliath effect…

… is walking down a dirt road on her way back home from the grocery store. Two white males in a pick up truck drive up slowly behind her and aggressively pick up the girl and rape her. They drop her from a bridge, almost killing her. She is found almost…

… in a mental ward. At the start of the novel, he is mopping the floors early in the morning. The only other people on the ward who are awake are three black orderlies. They taunt and mock Bromden, because they think he is deaf and dumb. The Big Nurse…

… show different aspects of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbols in his most famous book, The Great Gatsby. There is a green light that represents Jay Gatsby’s hope for a future with Daisy Buchanan. He sees the light from across the bay and believes…

… one needs, what one usually desires; that mind-set that is really more of an entity that sits on ones shoulder, and relentlessly screams “further, further,” that asset that makes those who are zealous, jealous…….This is ambition. Ambition has been…