.... the perfect foil to the typical Nova Scotian’s laziness, lack of enterprise and obsession with colonial politics. What made Slick so highly popular was that the stories were written in an episodic format as a series of homilies that could stand on their own. More important even than that is that the lesser characters never overshadow the central theme of the episode; there is no personality (other than Slick) that outweighs the message or that is not easily recognizable within any community. The word satire derives from the Latin satira, meaning "medley." A .....

.... of contemporary governmental practices, and what they where threatening to bring about. Perhaps the book seems so bleak because the events in the book are a somewhat logical projection from current conditions and historical environment that Orwell observed in 1948. Perhaps people would be more comftorble with the book if they could rule out in their minds the possibility of the profecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four “A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rests on a fiction and can not b .....

.... return as well. While she waits, Naomi discovers a package left by another aunt, a political activist and teacher, full of papers, news clippings, photographs, documents, letters... and memories. is a thoroughly gut-wrenching story of a Japanese family's efforts to survive the trauma of separation from home and each other. Forced to live in squalid conditions, sharing quarters with complete strangers, without enough food or supplies to adequately live, what happens to the Japanese is very similar to what happened to the Jews when they were gathered, collected, .....

.... began badgering him to help him with the affair. The badgering and erratic behaviour became more violent towards More as he perpetually declined to comment on the divorce. Despite that King Henry promised again to More, “There, you have my word – I’ll leave you out of it” (56), he hired Cromwell to pressure More into making a statement. King Henry became so obsessed with trying to achieve More’s acceptance that it was said he “Wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed” (119). King .....

.... Starletta, and her dying mother. Ellen's parents die, and her grandmother dies, but this isn’t really a great loss for Ellen. Her mother was a frail and sick woman whom Ellen was constantly protecting from her drunken father. For a time, Ellen’s Art teacher, Julia, and her husband move Ellen into their home. She feels, for the first time, that she is apart of a loving family. She describes, in the book, “ the three of us could pass for a family on the street.” {P. 55} Unfortunately, the juvenile courts system must always intervene, and her mean old Grandmother .....

.... Loman was a simple man driven to ruin by greed. However, this was not by his own greed, but by that of others. The developers’ greed took away the sun and left him with only shadows. Willy’s boss reduced him to commission and even his sons reduced him to a failure. All of this greed around him led him to ruin. The next largest flaw in society is a lack of compassion. This could be as a result of overwhelming greed. The main culprit or cause of this flaw is big business. “I’m always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it’s on it las .....

.... Ralph had just been friends, there would never have been an opportunity for Jack to show this darkness which lurked beneath the surface. Golding also uses the dead pilot conveniently against the boys - the way in which he is caught in the trees just in the right position to be caught by the wind and look like the beast and the way the wind picks up after Simon has let him down from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. The author uses the boy's fear against them, and although this could possibly happen in .....

.... piece of cane. “Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she's out now, making it a baker's dozen” “Is she?” “Yes Pip,” said Joe; “and what's worse, she's got a Tickler with her.” At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. (Chapter II) Pip is brought up by his sister “by hand”, and that has become a perfect reason for his sister to abuse him. When he starts to see Miss Havisham, he is looked down by Estell .....