.... stone by stone. The last line in the opening paragraph, " But after that it was easy and soon she was standing on ." (358), makes the reader aware that she is still a very able lady at her age. When the woman crosses the river she begins her jaunt to the house she once lived in. There are a few lines in the story that clue the reader in that it has been a very long time since she has been back here. She explains, " The road was much wider than it used to be but the work had been done carelessly (358)." She also says as she approaches the house, " It was s .....

.... can not see the faults within themselves. Puritan society is seen as a place where “iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people.” (pg. 58) The Puritans pride themselves on the uniform goodness of their town and their ways of dealing with sinful dissenters. Hester’s public appearance is seen as a blessing on the “righteous Colony of Massachusetts.” (pg. 50) The Puritans see their society as picturesque and proper. To them it is in essence the light shining bright in the darkness. An accurate comp .....

.... a primate and slowly over millions of years. This has been proven because numerous amounts of fossils were found in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Skulls, teeth, and bones of the earliest form of a human being, apes, and modern humans have been compared. It is that over millions of years the skull for example has more then tripled in size. The earliest tracing back of a human fossil is called austalopithecines; it dates back to about 5 million years ago. Evolution is a slow process and one could learn a lot from it. Evolution is connectable with creationism. Creationi .....

.... it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?” (pg.143). The evil of the pig’s head was inside them all and this evil was reflected in the way in which they ran their society. The masks were the final step in the transition from civilized boys to savages. It can be said that these masks allowed the boys to barbarically kill, hunt and live without any type of remorse. Ralph and Piggy were two of the few who did not wear masks, and they retained as much of their civilized lives as they possibly could. Those who did wear masks had almost lost their entire iden .....

.... cries out in joy. He believes the pearl will make him rich and enable him to provide security for his family. But Kino discovers otherwise. The pearl stirs envy in the villagers, and that night Kino is attacked in his hut by a thief. The following day, he tries to sell the pearl to buyers in town, but he is offered only a small amount of money for it. The buyers all work for the same man. They know the pearl is worth a fortune but hope to buy it cheaply by pretending that it is worth little. Kino says he will sell his pearl in the capital city, where he believ .....

.... ill were incompetent to make a contract" (Wyatt 1). This law exhibits the attitude toward women in this time period. The code also goes on to state that women are the possessions of their husbands, and the male is in complete control over the family. Chopin hints at the idea of women as a possession in the first chapter. After coming in from the beach, Léonce Pontellier remarks to his wife, Edna, that she looks extremely sunburned in a way that "one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered from some damage" (Chopin 7). His comment has a .....

.... winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers. (Lee, p.67) Although Scout may not have realized the connection of the gifts, she later realized they must have came from Boo. This was the start of her acceptance of Boo as a "nice" person. When Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, Boo surprised Scout. Atticus stated, "Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket arou .....

.... conditions and endures many hardships merely to keep her happy. When he lost his job, he earned mony immoraly. He does not do this for himself, but for the welfare of Ona and the family. Eventhough he inevidably fails, he does everything in his power to be an ideal husband. Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the evil powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford. He could settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as well, but he doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into buying it .....