.... The life living with people who spoke same language as her resulted in her English was "deserting" (p 128) her. Moreover, she had soon realized that she was a "prisoner doing unreal time." (p. 132) By meeting Taylor, he gave her the freedom to explore more America life instead just limited in one place. Her first experience with ordinary American family was with Taylor, Wylie and Duff. "I became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College Dormitory¡KDuff was my child; Taylor and Wylie were my parents, my teache .....

.... this time the reader begins to feel pity for the two sisters. They have lost their father and their two brothers all at the same time. Later in the conversation the reader learns that Antigone has a plan to bury here brother Polynices and that she wants Ismene to help her. Ismene is scared to do this because the new king, Creon, has issued a decree that says that any person that attempts to bury the body will be sentenced to death. The fact that Antigone is going to attempt to bury the body creates fear in the reader. They are fearful as to what will happen t .....

.... played with Pip's feelings, who has strong feelings for her eventhough he also cannot stand her. She tells Pip "Come here! You may kiss me if you like." [102]. Although the kiss may have meant a lot to Pip, it did not mean anything to Estella as she was just playing with Pip's emotions. The character of Magwitch represents the symbols of isolation and the tragic hero. In this case, he was physically isolated from society because he was a convict and was looked upon with disgust. When Magwitch confesses and apologizes to Joe for stealing the food, Joe replies "p .....

.... big danger in war. The author shows with bullets how close you are to death in a war. In the event where lights his cigarette, he is twice almost killed with the “enemy” sniper’s bullets! ’s own bullets are quite dangerous, too, as seen when he easily kills the tank commander and citizen woman informer. After shooting them, the “enemy” sniper sees him, and “His forearm [is] dead.” This is considered lucky as far as war goes, though, for instead of just having a broken arm he could be dead! brushes with death again when he throws his revolver down witho .....

.... exhibit of the flaws of a robotic, self-destructive society (Allen 107). In Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prefabricated, unfeeling society and an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy. The issue of society's flaws is a major concern of Breakfast of Champions. Such problems arise and are dealt with as failure to communicate, ecological destruction, a contempt for art, and the government's inattention to important problems (Merrill 157). The experiences and trials of Kilgore Trout, an unknown science fiction writer fr .....

.... of the adulteress. Throughout the story Pearl is shown looking at or playing with the scarlet letter on her mother's bosom so as to mock her. "... Pearl took some eelgrass and imitated, as best she could, on her own bosom, the decoration with which she was so familiar on her mother's - a letter - the letter "A"... (Hawthorne 174) Later in the story Pearl refuses to acknowledge her mother because of the fact that she is not wearing the scarlet letter. "Seen in the brook, once more, was the shadowy wrath of Pearl's image, crowned and girdled with flowers, but st .....

.... reality. Lives are at stake in perspective of the boys and survival must occur in any form. Our society is much like this as today's society is also about survival and what choices we make to survive. The mini-society started off peaceful. The purpose was to set a signal fire and live off fruit until help came. The conflict came when the fire and hunting could not be committed to at the same time. As the fire was a 24 hour task and hunting needed the whole party, the party started to take sides. Ralph's fire would be the sensible thing to do to get rescued .....

.... in the way he compliments his father. Sarty admires his father very much and wishes that things could change for the better throughout the story. At the beginning of the story he speaks of how his fathers "...wolflike independence..."(145) causes his family to depend on almost no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to clean a rug with force "...though never raising his voice..."(148), it shows how he sees his father as strict, but not overly deman .....