.... to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson. Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays "to perfection the role of the grief-stricken widower" (Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking only of getting another wife and false teeth in Jefferson. When it becomes necessary to drive the wagon across the river, he proves hi .....

.... Juana and the rest of the natives are all under the oppression of the Spanish people who took over their land. These Spanish people have no concern for the lowly Indians because they think of them as merely animals. This is shown in the novel when Kino goes to the Spanish doctor for help with Coyotito’s scorpion bite and the doctor, selfish as he is, rejects them. The Spaniards are also turning the Indians own people against them because the doctor’s Native servants which have joined in on the oppression of his own people. Even the Spanish priest only becomes .....

.... he would never have attempted to return food, but because of the hunger experiences it seemed uncalled for for him not to. Vladek is also depicted as very tight with his money. No doubt this is because of the poverty he lived with for so long. In the book, he was said to have reused tea bags, kept his burner on all day to save matches, make sure to put his storm windows on in early september tp save on the cost of heating his home, and refusing to buy his wife's personal supplies because they were her expenses. It never clearly says, but prior to the Hol .....

.... of my hopeful philosophy. If man was good, then Dachau could never have happened." (p.10) The second imprint on Pat's life came after Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. Pat noticed that the white students reacted passively to the event. "Since the faculty was all white, the black students walked the halls in silence, tears of frustration rolling down their cheeks and unspoken bitterness written on their faces in their inability to communicate their feelings to their white teachers." (p. 11) This reaction .....

.... even though there was one at that time. Since was crowned Thane of Cawdor, Banquo and think that the three withches adre able to correctly tell them their fate. now having higher-ranking authority begins to have his ambition act up on him and crave more power. Lady organizes King Duncans murder, which increases 's ambition and enables to rise up to the ultimate height. The murder is carried out but not as planned and is driven to kill the king himself. states after everyone found the dead king," Loyal and neutral, in a moment? no man. The expedition o .....

.... inescapable result of her own nature, not a violation of it. Her sin has only affected the way that people look at Hester. Hester feels that the only sin that she committed is that she had not told the community who the father of Pearl is. It was her choice not to tell whom the father was and she regretted every moment of it. She was suffering because she was not strong enough to come out and tell the town that Dimmesdale was the father. It is stated in the novel that she “was patient, -a martyr, indeed, -but she forbore to pray for her enemies; lest, in .....

.... She has also become a finacial burden on Ethan because of her almost monthy commutes to Bettsbridge, where she sees a doctor about her failing health. In Ethan Frome, Zeena seems to be the one that is always oppressing Ethan. Zeena never lets Ethan do what he wants, when he wants. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie is basically oppressed by society and the laws of society. She is oppressed mainly because she is black, but also because she is a woman. In each of her three marriages, Janie is oppressed by her husbands. All of them expect her to .....

.... and has a very sensible, and logical personality. At first, the boys create duties to follow, and they live amicably in peace. Soon however, differences arise as to their priorities. The smaller children (know as littl'uns) lose interest in their tasks; the older boys want to spend more time hunting than carrying out more routine duties, such as keeping the signal fire on the top of the mountain going, and building shelters. A rumor spreads that a "beast" of some sort is lurking in the forest, and the children have nightmares. Jack, (A ruthless, power .....