.... towns people. When Goodman encounters Goody Cloyse in the woods he is shocked that he sees her out there “A marvel, truly, that Goody Cloyse should be so far in the wilderness at night fall.”(Hawthorne 98) When he learns of her travels and of how she is acquainted with the old man he is in disbelieve that a women that taught him religion is evil. When Goody asks the old man for a hand to take her to a communion he offers her cane and throws it down when it hits the ground it turns alive and Goody Close disappears. Leading you to believe that she i .....

.... and kind as she had imagined. She is now able to see the nasty side of him. When she cries out she seems to be almost afraid of the hand meaning she is actually afraid of him. When the hand is moved she is calmed again, but only until the morning when she sees it again. I still do not understand why she kisses it. She gives in and accepts the fact that she will see the hand every day and constantly be reminded of the fact that this man is a stranger. I feel bad for the woman, but on the other hand she was foolish to get involved so heavily with a man she .....

.... on him. The cougar dose not strike yet because it is waiting for Gordon to move. Gordon knows better and stayed in the same position for what seemed like hours. Suddenly, the porcupine returns to look for more food and this disrupts the cougar. The climax is when Gordon quickly reaches for his gun and shoots the cougar. The resolution is when Gordon "cries the final tears of his boyhood" and he is finally a man. This writer used suspense in his story many times. For instance, "his eyes held the boy unwinkingly as he waited in the fiendish way of c .....

.... together were forgotten. Family heritages were lost. Bonds between mothers and daughters could not be formed. In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, Morrison exhibits a pattern of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery through the mother daughter relationships between Sethe and her mother, Ma’am, and Sethe and her daughter, Beloved. The mother-daughter relationship between Sethe and her mother starts the cycle of perceived abandonment, betrayal and recovery inherent in the novel. Sethe is the daughter of a slave woman that suffered through the Middle Pas .....

.... invisible, and has several opportunities to use it to rescue the dwarves from danger and imprisonment. They become quite impressed by him, and even rely on him, just as Gandalf foretold. Bilbo and the dwarves finally reach Lonely Mountain, the home of Smaug the dragon. The dwarves send Bilbo down a secret passage to the dragon's lair. Bilbo has more confidence in himself now and not only steals a cup, but manages to hold his own in a conversation with the wily Smaug (not an easy thing to do).Furious that someone has dared steal a piece of his treasure, Smaug at .....

.... his innocence. Even the prosecution's two witnesses' stories contradicted each other. The jury did not give a guilty verdict it gave a racist verdict. Not a verdict based on fact, but a verdict based on the color of a man's skin. This is important because the author was not making this racism up; it was what it was like in those times. She is trying to show how ignorant and blind people can be just because of differences between them, as well as how society treats racial minorities. During the book Scout and Jem are at an age were people around them g .....

.... child per generation is born with a special mark on his hand. Those with the mark prove to be gifted in the use of the orb. For thousands of years Torak is kept at bay because the orb is protected by the Chereks, but somehow, a man known as the Apostate takes the orb hoping to deliver it to Torak. Belgarath, his daughter Polgara, a Cherek named Barak, a Drasnian named Silk, a Sendar named Durnik and a young boy named Garion venture out into the world to try and recover the orb. Garion is of the Cherek line and has the mark of the orb. The book is onl .....

.... status during the 1930’s. Racism was also very present in the society of the 1930’s and Blacks were still seen as inferior by white people Blacks were segregated in schools, stores, transport and were unable to vote. Blacks were also given the menial jobs such as servants and stable bucks and not given a decent wages and credit they deserved. Ageism was also present in the 1930’s society. Old people were not treated with respect and were also often given menial low pay jobs. Steinbeck explored the social issues of the time ( such as ageism, .....