In what chapter of "To Kill a Mockingbird" does Dill leave Scout and Jem's town?

After first meeting Dill in the first chapter, Dill leaves in the beginning of Chapter 2.  As soon as school starts, Dill has to return home to Meridian.  Then after the scene in chapter 6 where Jem lost his pants in Radley's fence, Dill left again for home.  Chapter 14 is where he comes back and hides under Scout's bed (he had run away).  He appears in most of the chapters from that point on until chapter 25.  In chapter 26, Scout is in 3rd grade, and Dill always goes home when school begins.  It didn't always say when we would leave, but it was always when school began.  Using the following link, choose the coordinating chapters to back up this info.

In Of Mice and Men, how is the initial description of Lennie and George fitting when we find out more about each man?

The first bit of description we get is that George was the leader, even after they had left the narrow trail. This certainly captures an essential part of their relationship.

We also learn that they are dressed identically. Often in the story we are told that Lennie tried to do things exactly as George did them.

George is described as small, quick, sharp, well-defined. In contrast, Lennie is described as huge, shapeless, loose. George's eyes are restless, whereas Lennie's are large and pale. All these details suggest intelligence and personality in George, as opposed to a duller wit and malleable personality in Lennie.

Lastly, we learn that George stops and wipes the sweat from his brow, whereas Lennie throws himself headlong towards the water and drinks with abandon. In life, George is cautious and thoughtful; Lennie is controlled by his impulses.

By the way, I object to kevinli123's characterization of Lennie as a slob. He has low intelligence and carries himself heavily, but there is nothing in the book that suggests he was a slob.

In The Odyssey how does Odysseus gain access to the underworld?It's in Chapter 11

Circe instructs Odysseus to do the following. He must travel to the land of the Cimmerians. He must dig a trench once he arrives and pour into it a drink-offering to all the dead, first with honey and milk, then with wine, and finally with water, and then he should sprinkle with white barley meal. After proper prayers, next he must sacrifice two sheep (one black ram just for Teiresias) and let the blood flow into the trench before burning the animals. The shades (ghosts) in the Underworld will be attracted to the pit to drink the blood, but Odysseus must hold them off to allow Teiresias to drink first. From Teiresias, the blind prophet, Odysseus will learn what he must do to return to Ithaca and to make peace with Poseidon.

What were the 1940s fashion fads?

I can tell you from personal experience, because I wore my mother’s wedding dress! The dress – from the early ‘40s – had padded shoulders. Since I have broad shoulders, I had the pads removed!  :-)

Of course, fashion was greatly affected by the fact that we were in the middle of World War II and many fabrics and accessories were either scarce or completely unavailable. For example, silk and nylon were scarce because they were used to make parachutes. As a result, many women drew lines up the backs of their legs since they couldn’t get the seamed nylons of the day.

Read this site for lots and lots of details!

Was Titanic destined to sink? What might Greek Mythology(gods) have to do with this tragic event?Based on values and concepts illustrated in the...

lynn30k is correct: "hubris" was a key way to invoke the anger of various Gods, and there are numerous examples of foolish mortals who boasted too much and were punished as a result. The story of Archne is a case in point. This simple peasant girl claimed that her weaving was superior to Minerva's weaving. Minerva challenged Arachne to a contest which Arachne accepted and Arachne produced a work equal (if not slightly better) than the goddesses' piece of weaving. She split Arachne's weaving and beat her, and Arachne killed herself. As a sign of remorse, Minerva changed her into a spider and her skill of weaving was left to her.

Therefore, to the Greeks, such a quote "Not even God himself could sink this ship" was just asking for a tragedy to occur by placing man's arrogance and belief in their own skill before the strength and might of the Gods. Even calling the ship "Titanic" alludes to the Titans or the Elder Gods in Greek Mythology, who were supreme in the universe and were of enormous size and incredible strength. Atlas is one of the most famous of these.  

Thus we can see that the Titanic was in a very real fashion thought to be a monument to the skill and accomplishments of mankind in Victorian times, and the oft repeated remark that the Titanic was "unsinkable" represents a sureness in the power of mankind's progress, based on scientific advances and ever-more-wonderful discoveries. With such a confidence, you can kind of understand why it was not equipped with enough lifeboats.

Where can I listen to the book "Let the Circle Be Unbroken" online?

You can purchase either a CD or a download of the audio version of this book at most major booksellers' web sites, such as amazon.com or bn.com (Barnes and Noble). Other web sites that provide audio downloads for purchase or audible.com and shopwiki.com. You are not likely to find a free version to listen to.

Describe the procession of British troops as they approached Redding in My Brother Sam Is Dead. Why did Tim think the British officers met with...

The actual details for this question can be found on pages 136-138 of "My Brother Sam Is Dead."  Tim's mother tells him to hide the pewter in the barn and when he finishes that chore he stops outside to observe.  Tim says he first sees the vanguard and a drummer boy.  He then sees the flag-bearer and some officers on horseback.  Following them are the marching soldiers. He says, "it was a frightening thing to see."

After arriving in town the British officers go in to Mr. Heron's house and Tim assumes that he knew they were going to arrive.  He imagines all of them sitting around eating and doesn't feel right about Mr. Heron feeding and meeting with the British.

Tim also believes the British officers are visiting with Mr. Heron so that he can tell them who the Tories are and who the Colonialist sympathizers are.  He believes that Heron is selling information about the rebels and anyone who is not loyal to the King of England.

Do you have a summary/analysis of the poem "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant?

I have provided a useful link below that gives a detailed summary, plus some background information that should help a lot. But in general, the poem is a commentary on the unity that exists between human beings and nature, and has a detailed commentary on how we should not fear death, because we will just become one with nature, which is the best of fates. It starts off with talking about how nature can increase a person's joy or sorrow, and if one was feeling down, they should walk in nature to lift their spirits. Nature becomes the narrator for the duration of the poem, and tells humans to not fear death, but instead to be comforted that when we die we become one with nature, the most noble of creations, and become one with everyone else that has passed on also.

I hope that helps, and make sure to check out the links below, as they are very helpful also.

What type of charcter is Bassino in "The Merchant of Venice"?

I agree with Anzio, Bassanio is wooing Portia to get her money to be able to live an easy life and to pay back the money he borrowed (with precious little hope of repaying) from Antonio.

Bassanio is a foppish bankrupt aristocrat. The only thing he owns of value is his family name. He obviously thinks he deserves a rich and comfortable life and, because he can't afford one, he lives in off others, stacking debt.

Is he poncing off Antonio? Is he knowingly using his youth and good looks to get money out of a sad, rich, lonely, old homosexual? I think you can certainly read it that way.

So he is not a very moral person, but he's not a deliberately bad person. He's not malicious or wicked. I think he's just a weak, careless character who likes parties and palaces but doesn't want to work for them or think about consequences or responsibilty. I don't think he intends to hurt anyone. BUT, in the end, he drags Antonio into a very dangerous, serious situation.

Basically, he gets very very lucky and 'wins' a vast fortune belonging to his new wife. If Bassanio hadn't won Portia, he'd have probably ended up in court for debts and bankrupty at some point. He'd probably have ended up old and homeless or locked in debtor's prison.

I think I like Bassanio, but I don't in any way admire him. He's a nice guy, but he's not a good one. 

What are the themes of the novel "To Sir With Love" by E.R. Braithwaite? Can you all also include some critical thinking about the themes.

In the novel “To Sir, with Love,” by E. R. Braithwaite (Edward Ricardo) there are several themes which interweave within the story.  One of the main themes I prejudice in this post war England setting.  Braithwaite is a college graduate and an ex military man.  His desire is to work as an engineer, but there isn’t anyone that will hire him to supervise a job because he is black.  The idea of prejudice is not new to any black man alive but what strengthens this theme is that Braithwaite also is guilty of reverse prejudice toward some of his students.   Another important theme in this novel is the theme of human relations and the always complicated teacher-student relations.  As a teacher myself I can identify with the daily struggle of trying to meet the student’s needs, but at the same time, not crossing the line between the student- teacher relationships.  The setting is London in 1947 and the country is still recovering from the war.  Braithwaite’s 8 month autobiographical novel is very relevant and still makes the reader look within to examine where he/she stands on these themes. 

In "The Lady, or the Tiger", how does the princess discover which of the two doors will hold the lady?

While the posting above does not offer an answer according to the posted quote from the text, another quote from "The Lady or the Tiger?" offers a very different view.

In the following quotes from the story, one can see that the Princess did, indeed, know about the doors and what they held.

And not only did she know in which room stood the lady ready to emerge, all blushing and radiant, should her door be opened, but she knew who the lady was.

All it took on the part of the Princess to gain this knowledge was gold and a little womanly intuition.

But gold, and the power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess.

In The Metamorphosis, how does Gregor feel about his job and how do you know?

Gregor dislikes his job with an intensity that appears nearly obsessive. He reflects on his feelings about his job, his boss and his co-workers early in the story when he awakes in bed. 

Gregor's first thoughts about the hassles presented by the travel required in his job end with the phrase, "To the devil with it all!" Indeed, Gregor's transformation now makes working impossible. However, Gregor's whole sense of self and sense of normalcy is wrapped up in his bitter position at work. Despite his new condition, he tries to go to work, worrying over the prospect of missing a day. 

The breach between Gregor's fantasies of quitting and his attachment to his normal work-life is never explicitly articulated, but the ineffectual and self-pitying Gregor certainly dreams of resigning and telling off his boss. 

"If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I'd have quit ages ago. I would go to the boss and state my opinion out loud from the bottom of my heart. He would've fallen right off his desk!"

Consoling himself with thoughts of a future where he will no longer work as a traveling salesman, Gregor uses the consolation as a way to convince himself to get up and go to work and face another day.

The debt that his family owes provides one formal reason that Gregor feels he cannot quit the job he dislikes so much, but his reflections also suggest that Gregor fears his boss as much as he despises him. Again, this dynamic is only implied in the text, although Gregor's passive fantasizing should be familiar to readers as a common mode of powerless and internal resistance to economic pressures on the lower and middle classes. Gregor and his fantasy, in other words, fit neatly into a typical category of class-based resentment as rendered in literature. 

This information, both that which is overtly stated and that which is implied, in delivered via Gregor's quoted thought and un-quoted material intended to represent his thinking. The narration utilizes a degree of omnipotence in this regard. Situated as a narrative voice outside of the character, the narrative voice nonetheless has full access to Gregor's thoughts and feelings. 

Name the cullens in order of how they entered the family.

Carlisle: Carlisle was change around the 1600's. He can be seen as the head of the family since he-- with Esme-- brought the family together and presented a father and mother figure to them in a time of need.

Edward: Carlisle changed Edward since he was on the brink of dying from Influenza and as wish from his mother. He was the first one Carlisle has changed

Esme: Was changed by Carlisle as well after her attempt to commit suicide over a mountain after she had a miscarriage.

Rosalie: Rosalie was also changed by Carlisle after being beaten and abused then left on the streets to die.

Emmett: Although Rosalie saved Emmett from being mauled by a bear he was Changed by Carlisle.

Alice and Jasper came into the family at the same time, there's confusion on who was created first. 

Bella- Then there's Bella who was changed by Edward after giving fatal birth to Renesmee.

In The Awakening, what kind of mother is Edna?

Being a mother didn't come naturally to Edna.  Though she cared both for an about her children, she was not a particularly loving mother--and she knew it.  Our narrator describes her this way:

In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

The obvious conclusion to draw is that Edna was none of those things, and we discover she rarely regretted it.

The foil (opposite, antithesis) of Edna's rather distant mothering was Adèle Ratignolle.  They became friends, and  Adèle assumed that more mothering role with Edna's children.

Even when they weren't vacationing, Edna was not a particularly good mother.

She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.

When the house was being redone, she did not keep her kids with her.  In short, perhaps Edna was a good mother at one time; at the time we meet her, though, she was a mother who became more self-absorbed and selfish as the novel progressed. The Awakening is Edna's story, and her children seem to be nothing but hindrances which get in her way.

What is the real purpose of Shakespeare of writing this play?

Perhaps one of the reasons to write the Henry VI plays, plus the other plays in the group of history plays concerning the Plantagenets was that the Tudors replaced the Plantagenets on the English throne.  What better way to curry favor from Queen Elizabeth than to show the previous kings to be constantly involved with wars, whether against France or civil wars within England itself.  Under the Tudors there was peace especially after the defeat of the Armada.

The part of recent English history that Shakespeare tells with the story of Henry VI is the horror of war both at home and abroad.  The peace with France forged by his father (Henry V), is broken and the Hundred Years War erupts anew.  England had no great hero once Henry V died and France's army was being lead by Joan of Arc.

Henry VI is nothing like his warrior father.  What Henry V won, his son lost.  On the home front, Henry had to fight the War of the Roses which ended only shortly before Shakespeare was born.

Shakespeare abhorred war.  He can and does glorify it to an extent in Henry V but particularly in the Henry VI plays he gives us a grim picture.

The affects of war on human beings doesn't change whether it is the War of the Roses or a contemporary war.  People die.  Soldiers as well as civilians die.  Families suffer and are torn apart by war.  Shakespeare knew this.  Just like we know men and women who fought in Viet Nam, Shakespeare knew men who fought in the War of the Roses.

What, in your opinion, is Helen Keller's state of mind before Anne Sullivan arrived to help her in The Story of My Life? To what does she compare...

Helen Keller was understandably frustrated, angry, and depressed before Anne Sullivan arrived to help her.  Unable to communicate with those in the world around her, she felt imprisoned.  Her mood was especially dark and desperate in the days leading up to her teacher's arrival.  Helen says,

"Anger and bitterness had preyed upon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passionate struggle".

Helen compares herself and her situation to a boat stuck in a thick fog.  She describes her feelings by asking the reader,

"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbor was".

Helen was not quite seven when Anne Sullivan came into her life.  She describes the contrast between her life before and after Anne's arrival as "immeasurable" (Chapter 4 - "The Most Important Day").

What is Rochester's attitude toward his own guilt in "Jane Eyre"? How does he deal with it?

Mr. Rochester sardonically accepts that, as a youth, he was a victim of "a cruel hoax".  He was duped into marrying the beautiful Bertha Mason, whose relatives hid from him the fact that "she came of a mad family; idiots and maniacs through three generations" (Chapter 14).  Although he acknowledges that he was a victim of circumstance, he is tormented by guilt for his own behavior as a result of his wife's madness.  He rushes through life in a haze of smoldering rage and bitter deceit; while he refuses to abandon Bertha outright and provides custodial care for her at Thornfield Hall, he keeps her existence hidden from the world.

Mr. Rochester is "prone to bouts of depression and to seemingly irrationally behavior".  He spent years "wandering" in Europe, and had a succession of mistresses; his existence has been aimless and his relationships empty because they have been based on a lie.  Mr. Rochester recalls the halcyon years when he was as young as Jane, and recognizes that "nature meant (him) to be, on the whole, a good man...one of the better kind".  Instead, steeped in bitterness and haunted by guilt, he cynically refers to himself as nothing more than "a trite, commonplace sinner" (Chapter 14).

Danforth gives the premise for judging a witch. Summarize his guidelines.I'm confused on this.The Crucible - Act III

I believe you are referring to Danforth's speech when he is speaking to Reverend Hale and others.  In this speech, Danforth uses the legal term ipso factoin describing witchcraft.  This latin phrase means by the fact itself.  He also states that witchcraft is an invisible crime; therefore, judging a witch is a direct consequence of witchcraft itself.  He sparates withcraft from ordinary crimes because in ordinary crimes you will have other witnesses to help prove the innocence or guilt of a person, but with witchcraft, because the crime is invisible, it is ipso facto.  By the fact itself, witchcraft, can only be witnessed by the witch and the victim.  Let's not forget that the irony in this statement is that witchcraft is an invisible crime so when Danforth says, "I have been thirty-two year at the bar, sir, and I should be confounded were I called upon to defend these people," he is saying that these people do not need lawyers to defend them because no one can see the crime but the witch and victim.  Therefore, judgment on a witch is inevitable and  will result from the direct actions of the witch.   

What effect does Scout have on the mob in chapter 15 of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?Also, why did so many people dislike Dolphus Raymond?

1) Scout sees the gang, and notices Mr. Cunningham is part of it.  She talks to him about his son, Walter Jr., who is in her class and has been to their house at lunch time.  When she speaks to Mr. Cunningham, it reminds him that he is threatening someone who is a father, just like he is.  It also reminds him that he has ties in the community, and it wouldn't be right to break those ties violently.  After this, the rest of the mob begins to feel badly about their purpose at the jail, too, because they are not quite sure of it enough to be violent in front of a child.

2) People dislike Dolphus Raymond because he came from a respectable, white family and ended up with a black mistress.  Most white people could not understand why he would prefer the company of black people; to help them with this, he pretended to be the town drunk.  That way, if people thought he was drunk, they would assume he was acting strangely because of the liquor and not because it was his choice to do so.

Summarize the main events in the plot of this narrative poem. What moment marks its climax? What is important about lines 71-72?

This poem is helpfully structured into four parts, so I will use those parts to answer your question.

Part one establishes the character of the Lady of Shallot and also her setting. Throughout the poem, Camelot, which represents life and reality, is separated and opposed to the isle of Shallot, where the lady is embowered. Shallot could be said to represent illusion, art, or shadows. The life of Camelot is described, with the normal hustle and bustle associated with a big city. Likewise the mystery surrounding the Lady of Shallot is described, with only reapers working early in the morning hearing the song of "the fairy / lady of Shallot".

Part Two continues this opposition and the description of the real life of Camelot and how it is mediated to the Lady of Shallot through the mirror. It explains the curse that she is under if she looks at Camelot without using the mirror. Significantly, lines 71 -72 state: '"I am half sick of shadows," said / The Lady of Shallot.' This comes after the description of the sight of "two young lovers lately wed" - and foreshadows what will happen in Part Three with the arrival of Sir Launcelot and the Lady's decision to no longer dwell in her land of shadows.

Part Three abruptly begins with a picture full of life, movement, grace and beauty. Sir Launcelot appears, and is a sight so compelling and attractive (interestingly, critics have argues that the image of "his helmet and the helmet feather / burned like one burning flame together" is rather phallic) that the Lady leaves her realm of shadows to look down upon Camelot. As a response her weaving rips in two and the mirror "cracked from side to side", bringing the curse down upon her. This final stanza represents the climax of the poem, emphasised by the repetition of "She left...".

A nice bit of pathetic fallacy opens Part Four - a storm accompanies the Lady's exit as she find a boat and writes her name on its prow. She then gets in the boat and "like some bold seer in a trance" lets herself be taken by the river's current and sees all the sights that she has only seen before in the mirror. As she goes, she sings her last song. Finally, the boat arrives at Camelot with the Lady dead inside of it. It causes quite a stir, and the initial reaction is one of fear. It is only Sir Launcelot who is not afraid and asks God's blessing upon her.

Who is Belle and why was she important to Scrooge?

In the section of A Christmas Carol with the ghost of Christmas past, we learn that Belle was once Scrooge's girlfriend. She rejected him because he changed too much. She tells him:

"Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.”

“What Idol has displaced you?” he rejoined.

“A golden one.”

In other words, the love of gold or money has replaced Scrooge's love for her and so she breaks off their relationship. Scrooge later sees a vision of Belle who has married someone else and is surrounded by loving, happy children.

Describe each of the characters' relationship with each other in "The Outsiders". Who are the Socs? Who are the greasers?

The Greasers are the group of teens (some a little older) from the poor, east side of town.  The are usually blamed for any trouble that occurs and have an overall bad name in town.  The rich, west side kids are known as the Socs, which is short for "Socials".  Although these teenagers are as much to blame for bad doing in the town as the Greasers, they are put on a pedestal because they are the rich kids from "upstanding" families unlike the Greasers who are from less reputable families.  These two groups of teens do not get along at all and their disagreements are often the cause of their rumbles. 

The major event that takes place in Chapter 4 is the murder of Bob (a Soc) by Johnny (a Greaser) after Bob tries to drown Johnny's best friend, Ponyboy.   

In "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", what are two of Mitty's daydreams?

Mitty also fantasizes about being the captain of an ice-breaker, a defendant on trial for murder, and then a war pilot.  In this last daydream, he imagines that he has been captured by the enemy and is facing with dignity, even distain, a firing squad. As he flicks away his cigarette and refuses the blindfold, he pictures himself a a hero, "Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last."

The alter-ego of the henpecked husband in overdrive!

What is the main idea of Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights?" What figurative devices does she employ?

Her main message, or meaning in the poem is just simply one of longing.  She expresses a romatic desire to be with someone, free to love and be loved, and do what they want.  She feels that her heart is in port, just sitting there, waiting, useless.  She longs to set sail, to be "Rowing in Eden" on "the sea!" with the object of her desire.  It is a romantic longing that she expresses, and longs for the "luxury" of "wild nights" moored with her love.

As for figurative techniques, she employs a metaphor (comparing two things that have similar qualities). She compares her rather boring, stagnant life to "a heart in port" and she expands that metaphor when she says a heart in port doesn't need a compass or chart because it isn't going anywhere.  This helps to emphasize her frustration with her situation; she feels stuck, powerless, and useless.  Another technique that she uses is allusion (referring to other sources); she refers to Eden, which is from the Bible.  This symbolizes what she feels being out, free, and with her love would be like, which is ultimate paradise.

As always, Emily Dickinson is short, but sweet, and uses her style and concise figurative techniques to relay the message and mood of her poems.

What does Part I of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" mean?

Coleridge's poem is an example of a frame tale, a story within a story. As it begins, the ancient mariner stops one of three wedding guests on their way to the ceremony. He begins to tell the stranger his story. The old man's appearance and bearing are so compelling that the Wedding Guest [sic] cannot turn away. He sits down to listen.

The remainder of Part I consists of an introduction to the mariner's fantastic tale. As he speaks, the Wedding Guest grows restless but cannot stop listening, even though the wedding he was attending has now begun. This detail emphasizes the compelling nature of the story in progress.

The mariner's story relates details of the terrors the ship encounters as it is driven toward the South Pole and trapped in the ice, which "cracked and growled, and roared and howled." At this point, the albatross enters the story to save the ship and accompany the sailors on their way. The bird comes to their call, "for food or play." It remains faithful to them as the ship enjoys "a good south wind." The albatross has brought them good luck and companionship.

At this point, the Wedding Guest breaks in when he notices the mariner's sudden anguished expression: "God save thee, ancient Mariner! / From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--Why look'st thou so?" Part I concludes with the mariner's shocking confession: He had shot the albatross with his crossbow. With this admission, it becomes clear that the remainder of his story will be very dramatic.

In "The Outsiders", what did Dally say about helping people after Johnny died?

After the rumble Ponyboy and Dally go to the hospital to see Johnny. Dally was in a hurry to tell Johnny that the "Greasers" had beat the "Socs.'  When they got to the hospital Dally said, "We won,"  "We beat the Socs."  A few minutes later Johnny died.  "Dally swallowed and reached over to push Johnny's hair back. "Never could keep that hair back... that's what you get for tryin' to help people, you little punk, that's what you get...." You can find this at the very end of chapter 9 in "The Outsiders."

Why is Ponyboy an outsider?

Ponyboy tells us in the novel "The Outsiders," that he is a member of the gang called "Greasers"  These guys are outsiders because they don't fit in with the group called the Socs.  The Greasers are from broken homes, poor economic situations and little education.  The Socs have the best of everything, which makes them more popular.  As Cherry tells Ponyboy,

"You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated—cool to the point of not feeling anything ... Rat race is a perfect name for [our life]." This leads Pony to wonder if perhaps it is just natural for the two classes to be separate and unequal—a fact that haunts Johnny's decision to turn himself in. He knows that the courts stereotype all greasers as juvenile delinquents."

Pony is also somewhat of an "outsider" in his own group.  He is younger than most of the other boys.  He is still in school and he is really pretty bright.  This causes a feeling of isolation for Ponyboy sometimes and he really doesn't understand the distance he feels. 

How does the third-person limited narrator of Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" affect the story?

One thing that it does is add suspense.  Because we only get things through Montag's point of view, we don't know what really happened to Clarisse.  We have to rely on information from other characters.  Mildred claims she was hit by a car; Beatty alludes to the fact that she had died, but we really don't know for sure.  So there is that suspense.  Also, Beatty becomes a much more suspenseful character; we have to take him at his word for things, and it is a bit tense.  He is  more enigmatic and dangerous character because we don't know his entire story; we're not entirely sure how he is going to react to things.  Also, we don't know Mildred's mind; for all we know, she could overdose at any minute.  Not knowing leaves that situation quite tense.  So, the limited 3rd person narrator adds more suspense.

It is also a great way to tell the story more realistically.  We don't walk around every day knowing everything.  We don't know the entire background and thoughts of everyone we meet.  Bradbury's novel is more realistic because we only get one person's point of view-this is just like our every day lives.  And as a result, it is more human, emotional, dynamic, unsure, and dramatic-more like real life than a huge, all-knowing omniscient perspective might have been.

Those are just a couple ideas to get you started.  Good luck!

How do Scout and Jem help reveal that Boo Radley is not evil?

When the children taunt Boo by Jem's running and rapping on the side of the house and when they play their game of "Boo Radley," cruelly enacting Boo's life, and when they peep in the window, he does not retaliate although Mr. Radley fires off a shotgun blast.  Instead, he gives the children valuable gifts in the knothole of the tree until someone cements it closed and later, after the shotgun is fired and Jem catches his pants and has to remove them in order to flee, the pants are mended and folded neatly on the fence with the same caring affection as when Boo places the blanket on Scout's shoulders.

Clearly, Boo Radley feels kindly toward the children and lives vicariously through them as a sort of passive parent. Through his small interactions, his kindness comes through.  Then, when Jem is threatened by Bob Ewell, Boo realizes the danger.  Forsaking his own safety, Boo risks personal injury to save Jem and Scout.  His goodness and love for the children overcomes his personal fears of his father and of going out of the house.  Thus, like a parent, Boo comes to their rescue:  "Boo's children needed him."

Please explain the characters in Homeless Bird.

I think that the characters in the novel represent different aspects that seek to define and redefine modern and traditional notions of the good in India.  Koly is the central character in the novel and represents more than a mere girl getting married.  She represents the "traditional" notions of Indian girls and their predicament.  She also represents the "modern" conception of women in India, who are straddling the world of traditional notion of responsibilities with the modern opportunities for freedom and self definition.  Certainly, Koly represents the very best and most challenging of each world and experiencing both with her in the book highlights the complexity of each world. 

Raji, the rickshaw driver, also represents a similar reconfiguration of traditional and modern roles.  As a man in India, there is much that tradition gives him which would benefit him in his relationships with women, specifically Koly.  Yet, he embraces the modern conception of being a man in attempting to win over the heart of Koly through the content of his character and his love for her.  Again, this is a modern transformation of traditional roles. 

Finally, Koly's in-laws also represent this duality of modern and tradition.  The father in law embodies a new sense of a father in law as he cares for her genuinely and teaches her how to read.  The empowerment through literacy and authentic love that he shows her is different by the traditional standards of in laws.  However, the balance is established with the mother-in-law, whose abrasive and mean spirited ways with her daughter-in-law are praciticed in accordance to traditional notions, where daughter in laws are accompanied by dowry payments and are viewed as "second best daughters."  Such treatment is highlighted when Koly is left in Vrindavan, a holy city for its traditional devotee worship, yet serves to be the home for Koly's modern redefinition of self and love.

What are some ways in which Amanda tries to relive her past in "The Glass Menagerie"?

1. Amanda is always telling the story about how she entertained 17 gentleman callers one afternoon when she was a girl in Blue Mountain.

2. During Jim's visit, Amanda puts on a dress that she wore to the cotillion in Blue Mountain when she was a girl.

3. Amanda tells Jim that she "had so many servants" when she was a girl.

4. Amanda expects Laura to find "gentlemen callers" when it is clear she is emotionally incapable of doing that.

5. Just before Jim's visit, Amanda tells Laura all about the summer she moved to Blue Mountain, gathered jonquils, and met her husband

In "Fahrenheit 451" did Beatty want Montag to kill him in the third part?

That is what the book says.  Montag, thinking back, realizes, "Beatty had wanted to die.  He had just stood there, not really trying to save himself,...joking, needling, ...yelling at people and making fun of them."  Montag feels that Beatty was egging him on, oddly wanting him to throw the flames at him and end his life.

It seems odd though; Beatty, such an intense character who avidly promoted his society's ideals, had been miserable?  It is only after we learn that Beatty had wanted to die that we can look back and see some of the hints and clues that he left.  He told Montag that he had read, suffered an identity crisis, wanted to blow up the world or stage revolutions.  He was highly read, highly informed, and had returned to being a fire chief.  So he had the background of a potential revolutionary, but instead turned his hatred on others who had been like him; perhaps this hypocrisy, and the true knowledge of the emptiness of their society had gotten to him in the end.

In To Kill a Mockinbird, what are the different views of reading potrayed by Scout, Jem, and Atticus?

Atticus never had schooling, so reading to him was vital to his education.  That was what prepared him to go off to college to become a lawyer.  So reading was a way of life for his generation.  In order to become a professional, it was something he had to be able to do at a higher level.  Once he had his family, reading was for enjoyment only.  It was a time for him to relax and even spend quality time with his children.

Jem never really discusses reading, but it's important to him as well.  He is the first to brag about his younger sister's ability to read.  In chapter 1 he says to Dill, "Scout yonder's been readin' ever since she was born, and she ain't even started to school yet."  He uses her ability to show how smart she is, so Jem uses it to show a person's level of intelligence.

Scout, on the other hand, sees reading as fun until she meets Miss Caroline.  Because she's a good reader and is being taught the "wrong way" to read by her father, she has a negative reaction to reading in school.  Her views on reading at home is very different.  It's personal and fun with her father.  As busy as he is, it's a time that they can share together while she sits on his lap.  Reading to her (outside of school) is a treasured time.  In school she feels caged in.

In "The Monkey's Paw," how does Herbert behave in the last two paragraphs?This question is about the end of the story when the parents wish for...

We are to infer, of course, that it is Herbert, out of his grave,  who stands on the other side of the closed and bolted door. Since he is "wished away" by Mr. White's final wish on the monkey's paw, we never actually see him. When the door is flung open, no one stands on the porch and the road is "quiet and deserted."

However, before Mrs. White can open the door, we hear Herbert, even though we can't see him. What had begun as a few knocks, became "[a] perfect fusillade of knocks that reverberated through the house." The implication is that Herbert is pounding on the door, intent upon coming inside. When Mr. White finally finds the monkey's paw and makes his final wish, the knocking stops: "The knocking ceased suddenly, although the echoes of it were still in the house." Herbert has been sent back to his grave.

How do cells get energy?

In cells, energy is stored in the form of ATP.   ATP = Adenosine Triphosphate

How does ATP give cells energy?

ATP breaks apart and releases its energy.

When ATP breaks apart, it releases energy and loses a phosphate group. That means that it is now ADP.

Plant cells get energy by a process called photosynthesis. Plants use energy from sunlight to grow and make their own energy. So when a plant combines the energy from sunlight with water and carbon dioxide from the air, it gets energy. A chemical reaction must occur everytime. The equation is as followed: 6H2O + 6CO2 (+ light energy (the sun)  = C6H12O6 + 6O2 Inside each plant cell is an organelle called chloroplast. Chloroplast is where the photosynthesis reaction takes place.

Cellular respiration is a chemical process in which glucose molecules are broken down to release energy (ATP) for cellular functions.

Animals get energy by eating food. When humans eat food the following happens:

1. We break our food down into small molecules

2. We use the energy stored in the bonds in our food to make ATP

3. A small amount of the food becomes waste

Like photosynthesis, cellular respiration has a specific chemical reaction that happens every time.

The cellular respiration equation is as followed: O2 + C6H12O6 = CO2 + H2O + Energy (ATP)

Cellular respiration can be divided into 2main parts.

1.Anaerobic respiration -

Does NOT need oxygen!

Happens in the cytoplasm of a cell

2.Aerobic respiration 

Requires oxygen

Happens in the mitochondria of a cell

STEPS OF CELLULAR RESPIRATION

1. Glycolysis (anaerobic respiration process)

2. Depends on the conditions of the cell

During aerobic respiration, 2 processes take place in the mitochondria.

1.Kreb’s Cycle

2.Electron Transport Chain

Anarobic Respiration- Releasing energy from food molecules by producing ATP WITHOUT oxygen

What moment is Marlow referring to and what does he mean by complete knowledge?When Marlow asks if Kurtz lived his life again in every detail of...

Marlow here refers to the moment just before Kurtz' death. At this moment, Marlow reports a "change that came over [Kurtz'] features" that he had "never seen before." What exactly Kurtz saw at that moment is ambiguous. All that we know for certain is that Kurtz' vision caused him to spontaneously cry out: "The horror! The horror!" The context leads us to believe that Marlow thinks that Kurtz' life was flashing before his eyes, and that he finally came to terms with his terrible deeds. Therefore, his last words could be read as "a judgment upon the adventures of his soul on this earth." This is the "complete knowledge" with which (Marlow feels) Kurtz must come to terms.

What is the speakers approach to life in the poem "Lucinda Matlock"?

The speaker is a married woman who has had what some might call a difficult life.  She had a 70 year marriage, and had 12 children, but 8 of them died before she was 60.  She did a great deal of work, spinning, weaving, nursing the sick, and the man other activities all listed in the poem.  Finally, at the age of 96, she "had lived enough, that is all" and "passed on to a sweet repose.

Given the disappointments and hard work of her life, you might expect some whinning --- but there is NONE.  To her, this was life, and there was nothing to whine about.  In fact, she is surprised to hear of "anger, discontent and drooping hopes" and can't imagine where they come from.  She call the younger people "degenerate" and ends with the famous lines:  "Life is too strong for you./It takes life to love life."

If I could directly answer your initial question, I'd say that her approach to life is take it as it comes, do what you have to do, don't expect that it owes you anything, enjoy all the little things that it has to offer, and you will "pass to a sweet repose."  Sounds good to me ...

How did Jethro compare his father to Abe Lincoln in "Across Five Aprils"?

In the beginning of the book, frustrated with the caution and restraint exercised by both men, Jethro compares his father to Abe Lincoln.  Jethro's sister Mary has recently died as a result of the negligence of Travis Burdow, and when an angry mob organizes to hunt down the young man and hang him for his crime, Jethro's father Matt Creighton intervenes, begging the men "to keep their hands free of further bloodshed".  Even though the victim of Burdow's drunken actions is his own daughter, Matt Creighton is a law-abiding, compassionate man, and he is able to overcome his own anger and grief to uphold the peace as it concerns Mary's killer.

Jethro, fired up by the rhetoric of his brothers and a large number of the townspeople, does not understand his father's stance.  He compares Matt Creighton to Abraham Lincoln, at whom many, in the fervor of the pre-war years, are also frustrated because of his reluctance to involve the country in a civil war.  War, at this point, is a glorious, honorable endeavor which should be quickly undertaken and will be easily won in the minds of Jethro and these others, who are wondering why the President doesn't just "start the great explosion which (some) wanted to get started and have finished before the year was well into the summer".  As time goes on and the reality of war and bloodshed hit home, the wisdom of peace-loving men like Matt Creighton and Abraham Lincoln becomes heartbreakingly evident, but at this point in the novel and in history, they only evoke feelings of anger and impatience (Chapter 1).

What is hybridisation? Please give an example.

Hybridization is changing of  pure atomic orbitals; their changing is in orbitals with the same spatial distribution and the same energy.There are 3 types of orbitals hybridization
dehibridizare the s and p: , sp2, sp.
Hybridization does not occur in elements with higher order numbers.

H20, NH3, CH4, have sp3 hybrids.

Orbital hybrids sp2 exist in the Eten molecule. They are located in plane, at angles of 120 º. P orbital left, by overlapping with the orbital p of the other atom C is forming the link pi. In the link C=C, C=O, the atoms are hybridized sp2.

Orbital  hybrids sp exist in the acetylene molecule, where the 2 orbitals sp are situated at an angle of 180 º.

There are hybridizations with the participation of d orbitals , found in compounds of transitional elements and halogenated compounds of elements in a state of high oxidation (PCl5, SF6). So, P has sp3d hybridization and S has sp3d2 hybridization.

In Book 22 of The Odyssey, why does Odysseus kill the servants?

Odysseus punishes the disloyal servants with death. Of the fifty maidservants in the palace, twelve have been unfaithful--such as Melantho, who has been sleeping with Eurymachus. These women are made to clean the great hall, which is splattered with blood, and then they are hanged. Melanthius is the only male servant who is killed; he betrayed Odysseus by obtaining weapons for the suitors from the storeroom where Telemachus had placed them, supposedly to protect them from smoke and to keep the drunken suitors from using them against each other, he had said. Recall as well that when Odysseus, disguised as the beggar, accompanied Eumaios the swineherd on a journey to the palace, Melanthius the goatherd had belittled the beggar and tried to kick him. After the battle Melanthius' body is mutilated horribly before he dies.

In "A Rose for Emily", did the death of Emily's father contribute to her despair?

Certainly Emily is defined by her autocratic father who represents the autocratic Old South.  In the second paragraph, the reader learns that

Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked...gaves of...[those] who fell at the battle of Jefferson. 

After her father's death, Emily is unable to adjust to the New South and lives in the past:  "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition,...a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town...."  She refuses to pay taxes believing that the arrangement made long ago by her father continues.  She "vanquishes" the town authorities when they call upon her, just as she vanquishes the ladies who call upon her as well as her relatives.  However, Miss Emily is left alone. 

Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized.  Now she too would know...the old despair of a penny more or less....

Still suffering from the loss of her father and his world, Emily "clings to that which had robbed her" and becomes ill--both signs of despair and depression.  Out of her despairing loneliness she takes on a lover, Homer Barron, a man who is a the center of "a lot of laughing," but he is not the type of man that the town expects Miss Emily to court:  "...there were others...who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige."

It is an act of feverish despair that causes Emily to poison Homer again in an effort to "cling to that which had robbed her."

In "Of Mice and Men", how does George distract Lennie’s attention so that he can carry out his grim task?

He has Lennie imagine the farm that they are going to get together.  That farm has become a symbol of all that is good in life, and George adds one additional part to this familiar story.  He tells Lennie that this farm is going to be a place where no one will ever be mean to anyone else... ever.  The farm has become their personal heaven.  If you look at the last chapter, there are several images that are very reminiscent of Psalm 23:4.

What is the theme of this quote, " I was a pathfinder, an original settler," which Nick says in the beginning of the story?how would this quote be...

If you examine the themes one by one using this quote, you can interpret it in various ways.  "Culture Clash" is one theme.  The quote, spoken after a man asked Nick directions to West Egg Village, not realizing that Nick was new also, made Nick feel like he was the "old pro" who knew his way around and that gave Nick a feeling of self-confidence.  He felt more a part of the new culture in which he now lived.  He would find out though, that he ultimately, could not incorporate the values of this new culture into his own life and he moved back to the midwest.  Another theme is "the American Dream".  Nick felt he was chasing his American Dream by moving to West Egg.  He felt like a pioneer setting out in the New World and when the man asked him directions, he now felt like an experienced pioneer; one who had staked a claim. "Appearances and Reality" is yet another theme in the book.  It appeared to the man who stopped Nick and asked for directions that Nick was a long-time resident of the area when the reality was that he had been a resident for only a day.  Finally, the theme of "Moral Corruption" can be found in the quote.  West Egg and East Egg both came to represent moral corruption to Nick by the end of the story. When Nick headed to New York at the beginning of the book, he was full of wide-eyed optimism and a sense of adventure. By the time Jay Gatsby was killed though, he'd lost all of that optimism and he was no longer naive.  He saw that people took advantage of others and used other people with no remorse or sense of responsibility.  He left West Egg with disgust at the lack of morality he saw there.

In the poem To the Diaspora by Gwendolyn Brooks, what is "Afrika?"

Gwendolyn Brooks writes poetry from her heart and as she sees it. She admits that her upbringing and experiences dictate the type of poet that she is and she embraces and challenges conditions in which Black people, specifically for this poem, often find themselves. In To The Diaspora, Brooks draws attention to an age old problem of identity as people strive to identify with their roots in order to enrich their lives. She is determined to leave a legacy. 

Diaspora is a word often associated with the Jewish people who historically, in exile settled in countries and continents far removed from their origins and which gave the word its negative connotations because of the harsh conditions which often accompanied such forced separation and relocation. More recently diaspora has become more of a consciousness and a recognition that no matter where in the world a person may find themselves, they will always have a special connection to their roots.

Brooks wants to make African-Americans aware that the subject of diaspora is important because, in terms of identity people often do not know what they are searching for and, as she says, "You did not know you were going." Being aware of diaspora, according to Brooks ensures that common bonds are formed and social and geographic boundaries become less significant in terms of a collective identity and those who "did not know you were Afrika" discover a part of themselves which otherwise would remain unknown. Brooks knows that African-Americans are skeptical and "very little believed me" thinking that they will not discover anything special. 

Discovering that "you were Afrika" associates the people with the continent of Africa but without restricting them to any part of it specifically. Africa is a vast diverse, cosmopolitan and culturally rich continent and this allows those African-Americans whom she addresses not to be restricted or compartmentalized as that would defy the definition. Brooks uses the word "Afrika" to mean a broad base of people who have a unique connection to their heritage but also a shared identity with a connection so strong that being "the Black continent that had to be reached" creates an inner feeling of solidarity with a community that has no physical boundaries. "Afrika" is that place in every African-American.

In Act 3, Scene 1, what is the effect of Claudius' soliloquy?

First point - and the most important - is that Claudius admits that he is guilty of Old Hamlet's murder. Though we are now fairly sure (just like Hamlet) that the ghost was telling the truth, Claudius confirms that his conscience is suffering. He feels guilty, he says: Polonius suggests that we can even sugar over the Devil himself, and Claudius responds

O, 'tis too true!
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!

Then, Claudius goes on to foreshadow something which Hamlet will say later in the same scene to Ophelia:

The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.

If you a compare a prostitute's naked cheek, to the cheek when it is covered in make-up, the naked one looks a lot worse. But it isn't more ugly than what Claudius has done, when you compare it to the way he sugars over it with false words. He's comparing words to deeds by virtue of made-up-women against made-up-women.

And he finishes with another reminder that Claudius is a real character, that he too feels guilty. He isn't just a baddie: he's a man with a conscience who is suffering real guilt:

O heavy burden!

Summarize "Circle of Steel", "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "The Park". ...

The first poem, actually song lyric, describes a run-down mother and child, in a desparate situation.  The first stanza is a chorus, and then describes a baby being born into poverty, into a slum filled with rats, and the doctor hastily coming and leaving on his rounds.  The second stanza describes the noisy neighbors, and how the mother is getting drunk on gin, and how they will take her baby away because "they know all about her bad habits".  Next, it describes the mother telling the child why her father is in prison for three years:  "pride".  It wraps up with the chorus again, which describes steel prisons and the circle of life going on and on.

The second poem, by Emily Dickinson, describes her figurative meeting with the character of death.  In the first stanza she says that death stopped for her in a carriage, and they rode on, with immortality. Next she describes how they drove slowly, which was fine, because she had "put away my labor, and my leisure too".  Next, they pass children playing, the sunset, the fields growing (all signs of life).  Then the day grew cold because she was only wearing her gossamer gown.  In the next stanza they stop before a "house", which is really a grave, and the last stanza indicates that there she has rested for centuries.

I am out of room so can't do the last poem.  I suggest submitting it separately, and it will probably get explained.

Does "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" take place in a modern period?

The novel is based on a real event that took place in Sucre, Columbia in 1951. The real story occured "on January 22, 1951. Cayetano Gentile, a handsome medical student of Italian parents, was murdered by the brothers of Margarita Chica Salas. Her husband, Miguel Reyes Palencia, had earlier returned her to the home of her parents."
Garcia later wrote that:
"When the event took place in 1951, I was interested in it not as material for a novel but as a newspaper article. .. I started thinking about the case in literary terms several years later, but I always had to bear in mind how upset my mother would be at the very thought of seeing so many of her friends and relatives in a book written by her son.. .after I’d chewed it over for many years, I discovered the vital ingredient–that the two murderers didn't want to commit the crime and had tried their utmost to get somebody to prevent it, without success. "

Garcia took the events of the real incident and combined them with his own imagination to tell explain his perception, motivation and consequences of the crime.

In Lord of the Flies, why does the scene when Simon addresses the pig's head foreshadow his later death?

Simon's death comes at the hands of the other boys, who think they are killing a beast. Of course, the Lord of the Flies is the beast, personified in Simon's mind: it is the "darkness in man's heart". So Simon is arguing with the beast, which, figuratively, is going to be the cause of his death. Of course, you could also argue that it is the fear of the beast he is arguing with - which is the more precise way of explaining why the boys end up killing him.

The beast threatens Simon, who is about to reveal the truth of its non-existence:

“I’m warning you. I’m going to get angry. D’you see? You’re not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand?
We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it on, my
poor misguided boy, or else—”
Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.

The blackness within is the "darkness of man's heart", it is the evil within all humans. Simon feels it spreading, and feel himself unable to gain control (he is epileptic, and having one of his turns) - symbolically - he is going to be beaten by the spread of the darkness.

“—Or else,” said the Lord of the Flies, “we shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See?”
Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness.

And these last sentences are exactly what happens. The boys do do Simon. He is killed. ANd he does fall victim to the beast, and lose consciousness - only that time, for good.

What thought provoking questions does Clarisse ask Montag and what is his answer?

Clarisse refuses to accept that fact that Montag is some kind of "guardian of her life". As a fireman, he has been happy burning books because he thinks he is protecting society. However, Clarisse makes him question that belief. In addition, Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy? Montag doesn't have an immediate reply because he has never really allowed himself to think about that question, although he has been feeling uphappy about his life for quite some time. When Montag enter his house after talking to Clarisse, he finds his wife has just tried to commit suicide. This incident serves to reinforce Montag's feeling that something is wrong in his life and his search begins to find answers that will give him some kind of satisfaction.

What is the theme of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy"?

The theme of the poem "Sympathy" is racism, and the imprisoning effect it has on the soul.

In the poem, the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar compares himself to a caged bird.  He can empathize with how the bird feels; just as the bird looks with longing at the beautiful world just beyond the bars that cage him in, so the poet, as a black man in America in the early 1900s, feels about his situation as a victim of a racism and discrimination in his society. 

The poet goes beyond the empathy he feels for the caged bird in the second stanza of the poem, when he develops his theme further, describing the helpless rage both he and the bird feel as they look out from behind the bars that confine them at opportunities and freedoms others can enjoy but which they are denied.  Like the bird, he "beats (his) wings" ferociously against the cage's cruel bars, but to no avail.

Finally, in the last stanza, exhausted and in pain from his futile attempts to escape his prison, the poet identifies the song of the caged bird.  It is not "a carol of joy or glee", but a desperate prayer for deliverance, for the bird and for himself, that one day both "would be free".

The use of blank verse in Doctor Faustus?

The unrhymed decasyllabic line is known as blank verse, Marlowe was the real creator of the most versatile of English measures. Sackville, Norton and Surrey experimented with this metre more than twenty years before Marlowe. They failed because they worked on wrong principles and the results which they produced were of an intolerable tedious monotony.

Marlowe's achievement in developing blank verse can be illustrated by the study of "Doctor Faustus". In the chorus passage for example, the verse seems more consistently regular in its beat.

"Not marching now in fields of Thrasymene....................................... Intends our muse to vaunt his heavenly verse" (Line 1-6 I, chorus line)

Marlowe's "middle style" is illustrated in Faustus's first soliloquy in Act I scene 'i'

"Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin.................................................................... Then read no more: Thou hast attained that end."(I, i lines 1-10)

The final monologue is the most striking specimen of blank verse. It is emotional passages which illustrate Marlowe's highest achievement as a writer of blank verse.

"O, I'll leap up to my God!- who pulls meme down?-..................stretches out his arms" (Act, V, scene iii, lines 78-84)

What is my wife's medical problem? (TOXOPLASMOSIS)my wife had mised aportion in thelast 45 day 4weeks gestion age no D&C don for her and this is...

Toxoplasmosis is the 3rd leading cause of death in foodborne illnesses according to the CDD.

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection that travels from rodents to cats and to humans. It can go undetected because most infected persons do not show symptoms as their immune systems supress the parasite. Toxoplasmosis, which is transmitted via cat faeces (found on unwashed vegetables) and raw or undercooked infected meat, is relatively common, with 10-20% of the UK population and 22% of the US population estimated to carry the parasite as cysts.

Toxoplasmosis can cause blindness and brain damage in infants and young children. Most people with the parasite are healthy, but for those who are immune-suppressed -- and particularly for pregnant women -- there are significant health risks that can occasionally be fatal.

A recent study has shown a link between toxoplasmosis infection and schizophrenia.

Dr Glenn McConkey, lead researcher on the project, says: “Toxoplasmosis changes some of the chemical messages in the brain, and these changes can have an enormous effect on behaviour. Studies have shown there is a direct statistical link between incidences of schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis infection and our study is the first step in discovering why there is this link.” (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311085151.htm)

Treatment is available for pregnant women. You should consult your wife's physician for follow-up medical care.

In Chapter 5, what do we learn of the character of Maudie Atkinson?

Above all, we find that Miss Maudie is a good friend of Jem and Scout, one who allows them "free run" of her yard and always shares her special talent:

She made the best cakes in the neighborhood.

She always findw time to spend with Scout, and Scout must have felt quite comfortable with her since they "would often sit silently on the porch." She refuses to gossip about Boo Radley and discourages Scout from doing so. She has an excellent sense of humor, as related by Scout's story of her long relationship with Jack Finch. And she thinks even more highly of Atticus, who she claims is the "same in his house as he is on the public streets."

She hates her house and prefers the outdoors, where she tends to her flowers and lawn.

She loved everything that grew in God's earth, even the weeds.

... except for nut grass, whose appearance she treats like "the Second Battle of the Marne."

She knows the Gospel but is not highly religious. She always seems to speak what is on her mind--"crisp for a Maycomb County inhabitant." She has "an acid tongue in her head," but she never directs it toward Scout or Jem--only on those whose actions truly warrant it.

Why do you think Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hopewell are introduced before Hulga?

By introducing the two older women first in the story, the author allows us an opportunity to understand Mrs. Hopewell's desire for her daughter Joy/Hulga to have a normal happy life.  Mrs. Freeman's daughters, Glynese has many admirers, Carramae got pregnant at 15 and is married.  Both her daughters are on the path to the future that both these women want for their daughters, husband, children, home of their own.

Mrs. Hopewell must listen to Mrs. Freeman talk about her daughters knowing that her daughter is bitter, distant, and alone.  So it gives the reader an understanding of why she is so eager to invite Manley Pointer into her home.

When she sees the Bible salesman, she believes that maybe he could be a suitor for Hulga. Mrs. Hopewell, so named for her eternal hope in life and its prospects, that she looks at this man with her eternal hope and thinks maybe she can get the desired happiness from Hulga afterall.  She longs to be like Mrs. Freeman, also so named for her ability to be free from the worry of having to marry off her daughters, they are both either set or nearly there.

The elements in the Periodic Table are arranged from left to right and top bottom based upon what value?

There are several aspects to the organization of the periodic table of the elements. 

First, all the elements are ordered, going left to right, by atomic number – which is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of that element.  So, the first is hydrogen, with atomic number 1, then next is Helium with atomic number 2, etc.

Next, there are rows which relate to the quantum mechanical theory of electron shells.  A new row starts in the table when the previous shell has been filled. 

The vertical organization is usually considered the most important, since the blocks formed by columns reveal many of the chemical properties of the elements in that group.  Specifically, elements are grouped in s, g, f, p, and d blocks according to the subshell in which the ‘last’ electron resides. 

How does Orwell warn us about the abuse of power in Nineteen Eighty -Four?

The entire book is a warning about the abuse of power.  The inner party controls almost all aspect of everyone's life.  They do this in many ways.  The "Thought Police" are always there, to catch you if you do or say anything against the existing powers.  They control reality by providing you with whatever information they want you to have.  If they promise you'll have 25 grams of chocolate this year and they can't deliver, they just destroy any references to the earlier prediction, rewrite it and predict 15 grams, and then announce 20 grams which is a big improvement over what they "had predicted."  They do this with people who disappear, people whose loyalties are "compromised" --- anything to support what they need you to believe. (This is also one way that reality as we know it is destroyed.)

The creation of false enemies is another way the state abuses its power to keep you under control.  There is always someone to be afraid of, someone you need protection from, some crisis that needs to be dealth with.  In some ways this is reminiscent of some of the arguments about giving up freedom for safety after 911 and also part of the discussion of what is happening today as we are told over and over again how bad things are and how many crises we face with the aim of our giving over more and more power to the administration that will save us.

And the greatest abuse of power --- they use it not for any purpose, not as a tool, but for its own sake.  They use it so effectively that they actually wipe out "reality" when they get Winston to admit and BELIEVE that 2 + 2 = 5.  We see the ultimate abuse of power when the state has this much ability to create/control "reality" (if we can call it that because it no longer really exists).

What is the summary for Volume 3, Chapter 5 of The Monk?

Ambrosio and Matilda are brought before the Inquisition. Both proclaim their innocence, which means they must submit to the tortures. Matilda then confesses her guilt and is condemned to be burned at the Auto de Fe.

Ambrosio insists upon his innocence and is tortured. When returned to his cell to regain his strength for a second "questioning", he is visited by a vision of Matilda, who tries to convince him to completely yield his soul to Satan as she has. She leaves him the volume by which the rite is performed.

Ambrosio faces the Inquisition again. He again proclaims his innocence, but when faced with the instruments of torture once again, he admits to his sins of rape, murder, and sorcery. He too is condemned to burn. In despair, he calls up the image of Lucifer. Ambrosio requests Lucifer to save his life, who tells him it will be at the cost of his soul. Yet still Ambrosio resists, hoping eventually for God’s pardon. Lucifer informs him that there is none, and Ambrosio, after much resistance, signs the contract. He is rescued from the cell by Lucifer and brought to a wilderness.

Lucifer informs him that Elvira was his sister, making Antonia his niece, adding to his crimes the sin of incest. Lucifer reveals that it has long been his plan to gain Ambrosio’s soul, and Matilda was his servant in the process. Lucifer then carries Ambrosio up and drops him on the rocks below. Ambrosio suffers for six days, dying alone and damned for eternity.

What happens before and after Tess states, "Once victim, always victim—that's the law!" in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

Tess cries out to Alec Stokes-d'Urberville "Once victim, always victim—that's the law!" while at the bleak and inhospitable farm in Flintcomb-Ash. Alec has tracked Tess down and sought her out and come to her while she is at the grueling work demanded by the "red thresher" leased to thresh Farmer Groby's corn harvest.

Alec, because of Vicar Clare's intervention in his life, had turned to religion and was preaching as an evangelist. When fate intervened through the coincidental accident of putting Tess outside the tent he was preaching in, Alec gave up all evangelical impulses to pursue the passion that Tess continued to inspire in him:

[Alec] "I trouble you? I think I may ask, why do you trouble me?"

[Tess] "Sure, I don't trouble you any-when!"

[Alec] "You say you don't? But you do! You haunt me. Those very eyes that you turned upon me ... The religious channel is left dry forthwith; and it is you who have done it!"  

At this meeting, umwanted by Tess, at the corn ricks in Groby's field beside the resting threshing machine and near the lunching fieldworkers, Alec blatantly says to Tess that he, as her first husband, though in action only, had the right to claim her as his own and to thereby save her from the life of drudgery she had constrained herself to in her shame after Clare's rejection (though Clare's estrangement did not include total denunciation as she felt it did). Alec's final remark was an insult to Clare:

"You have been the cause of my backsliding, ... you should be willing to share it, and leave that mule you call husband for ever."

Tess is outraged by Alec's request and final words and in anger throws her heavy leather worker's glove at his face. After both springing to their feet in reaction to Tess's sudden defensive violence, Tess expresses her opinion of a renewed situation with Alec by crying, "Once victim, always victim--that's the law!" This clearly illustrates her conviction that she was always Alec's victim and--one way or the other--would always continue to be Alec's victim. Alec responds by declaring that as surely as he once asked her to be his wife and as surely as she had refused, he was master of her then and would be master of her again.

One importance of this passage is that we see the true inner being of both Alec and Tess. He may have good and kindly impulses in desiring to take her away from her life of hardship, yet at heart he is and always will be the villainous dictatorial manipulator. Tess may yield to violent impulses directed against a persecutor and villain, yet at heart she is virtuous, pure and loyal (though we can see from her angry reaction that the grueling physical labor and overwrought worry are wearing her down presaging her ultimate emotional collapse that then leads to her final misery).

She had not spoken again, remaining as if stunned. ... Tess resumed her position by the buzzing drum [of the thresher] as one in a dream, untying sheaf after sheaf in endless succession.  

I have to make a 20 minute presentation about the setting in "The Great Gatsby". Unfortunately.....My speech would take around 3 minutes. I’m...

There are three main settings you can focus on in your presentation.  First there is the West Egg.  This represents all of the old money that was either earned long ago or passed down from generation to generation.  You could make this applicable to today.  Who (in the area where you live) would fit this description?  Maybe give an example of "old money" from Hollywood.  Any of those examples would fit that setting.

Another setting is the East Egg.  This is the new money where people waste, they lie, and they have no disregard for anyone but themselves.  Think again of where you live and who would fit that description.  (if that's possible--don't name names!) Usually all communities have relatively "new money" in their areas. Perhaps you could use an example for Hollywood (or professional athletes) who make mistakes with their new-found wealth and fame and try to get away with it.

A third setting is the Valley of Ashes.  This is where all of the rich dump their waste.  All that they do and discard ends up there with those in the Valley of Ashes.  (mostly ashes--since they burned coal in the novel's era) But you could talk about the people who live in such situations today--even on movies--you could even explain how they got to that point.  Loss of job?  Illness?  Laziness?  Single parents who barely make ends meet, etc.  Good luck!  You can easily fill that time with comparisons!

What does the soldier in Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" symbolize?

"A girl and a soldier went by. The street light shone on the brass number on his collar.  The girl wore no head covering and hurried beside him."

In Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," an old man, a heroic drunk who neatly replaces his cup without spilling his drink, quietly sits in the clean, well-lit cafe that chases away his loneliness, if only for a time.  Fresh and clean and bright like an early part of the day, this cafe does not resemble the night of loneliness that the man must face when he goes home.  It is with the soldier's passing by the old man who sits in the shadows that the reader surmises that this soldier represents order and the dictates of time and Death with the numbers on his collar, for after he passes, the younger waiter comments, "The guard will pick him up" because the man has stayed at the cafe too long and become inebriated.

In The Merchant of Venice, how does Shakespeare portray the relationship between Shylock and Jessica, who are father and daughter?

The relationship between Shylock and his daughter Jessica is one that is never clearly spelled out in The Merchant of Venice. We know that Jessica says to Launcelot that their house is "hell." We know that Jessica says she is not a daughter to Shylock's "manners" and the she wants to "end this strife." But "strife" is not defined; most people think it refers to discord between Shylock and Jessica.

As to Shylock, we know that he speaks decently to Jessica. When he comes home and is out of sorts because he had a trying day with Antonio at the marketplace; he is losing his servant; he has to go out to dinner; and there is a Christian celebration in the street, he speaks calmly with her without showing any kind of temper toward her. Granted, he calls to her because she isn't immediately present, but this cannot constitute ill-natured yelling. He is snappish with his defecting servant, though.

A reasonable conclusion is that "this strife" is not strife between Jessica and Shylock but the strife any Jew is subjected to: given unequal status, restricted movement in society and continual disparagement and persecution. By this reading, "his manners" would refer to Shylock's devoted adherence to his ethnicity and his religion, both of which make him a Jew.

Their relationship is complicated even more because Jessica runs off with a Christian to begin living with the freedom of a Christian life-style, like spending 80 ducats in one spot in one night, and fashions herself a dowry. Recall that dowries were an integral part of a marriage contract until recent history; women were not welcomed in a marriage unless they could add something to the financial prospects of the couple. So Jessica steals what she believes her just dowry would be.

In summary, the father-daughter relationship between Shylock and Jessica seems to be sound on the person-to-person level but they part ways on the ideological level. Jessica doesn't want to remain a Jewish outcast whose life options are restricted and constrained, whereas Shylock clings devotedly to his religion and ethnicity and, therefore, to his position as an outcast. In fact, Shylock turns the tables and casts out the Christians. this is illustrated when he tells Jessica to protect his house and keep the sounds of the Christian celebration out of his house.

In "Act 5" of "Macbeth", what does Malcolm say about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?

Malcolm, making the final speech of the whole play, says that tyranny produced

... the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as ’tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life...

Macbeth's murdering ways make him a "butcher", though - as many critics have pointed out - the power of his soliloquys and poetic imagination make this a deeply reductive verdict which reminds us what Macbeth looks like if you don't hear his soliloquys.

And Lady Macbeth, of course, in this verdict has become what she asked the "spirits" in her first scene to make her become: a devil, a fiend, and one without remorse. This is, incidentally, also the first time we learn that Lady M has actually killed herself: we knew that she was dead, but not the how.

Hope it helps!

In Macbeth, who dances and chants while making evil brew?

The three witches -- also known as the weird sisters -- danced and chanted while making evil brew. They appear in four scenes in the play.

They open the play (Act I, scene 1), when they predict that they will encounter Macbeth after the battle's done.

In Act I, scene 3, they give prophesies to Macbeth and Banquo that set the action of the play in motion. In Macbeth's case, they predict that he will become Thane of Cawdor (which happens almost immediately) and King (which happens only because his ambition leads him to commit murder). They also predict that Banquo will be lower ranked that Macbeth but happier, and that his sons will reach the throne.

In Act III, scene 5, Hecate (the goddess of witchcraft) tells the three witches that they shouldn't have acted without her, that Macbeth cares only for his own ends, and that they will prepare a spell to confuse and mislead Macbeth.

Finally, in Act IV, scene 1, they make their famous brew. One of the most famous lines from Shakespeare is found in this scene:

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Then then proceed to conjure up three apparitions that fortell Macbeth's future -- confusingly, but in truth.

What pattern was established by admitting Vermont (1791) and Kentucky (1792) into the Union as the first two states?How would this pattern cause...

In the wake of the Constitutional Convention and the ratification process, the contentious nature of slavery as an issue in American politics came to the fore.  When it came time to admit new states into the Union only two years later, both those in the government who feared the spread of slavery and those who feared the government placing a restriction on the spread of slavery as an institution desperately sought a resolution for the issue.  To ensure that neither side would receive a representational advantage in government, it was agreed that for each slave state admitted to the Union, one free state would also be admittted.

This policy did not become the official stance until the 1820 Missouri Compromise, which declared that states would be admitted on a staggered basis - one free, one slave.  In addition, the Missouri Compromise dictated that slavery could not be practiced north of the 36 30' line, thereby limiting its ability to expand.

While the balance remained uneasy for approximately 35 years, by the 1850s, the Sectional Crisis which had literally divided the nation had become too difficult to navigate.  The Sectional Crisis culminated in the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.  When Kansas and Nebraska were being considered for formal admission into the Union, the same question arose:  which one would be a slave state and which one would be free?  Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator, devised a plan whereby the inhabitants of the territories themselves would resolve the situation and which provided a loophole to the geographical limitation established by the Missouri Compromise.  Declaring popular sovereignty in Kansas, thousands of pro-slavery settlers moved into Kansas in an effort to sway the vote.  Ultimately, Kansas was admitted as a slave state, and the episode illustrates the nature of the problem relating to the pattern established with the admission of Vermont and Kentucky in 1791 and 1792 respectively.

How were the relationships of Britain's and American's colonists with American Indians and African-Americans during a colonial period?

This is an interesting question!  The relations of white colonists in the British colonies was very different to these two groups.  The Native Americans were totally new to the colonists, and they were generally regarded as handsome people and intelligent.  They were definitely "different", but not quite so exotic in some ways as Africans.  One would think that white Europeans would have been somewhat more used to blacks, since Africans had been seen in Europe often for hundreds of years.  But a great many had been Muslims during the invasion by Islam of Spain and France.  The African slaves brought to the New World (first by the Dutch and then the Spanish) were largely from more primitive cultures of eastern Africa, not Muslims.

The blacks brought to America were from stone age cultures, and so were viewed as unsophisticated and, inevitably, inferior.  As time went by and blacks in the New World became "civilized", this did change, but Europeans had a nearly inassailable sense of themselves as superior to other peoples.  They viewed everyone else as human, but somehow inferior.  In general, there was a sense that the "dusky races" were less intelligent.

Native Americans were viewed somewhat differently.  Despite the fact that the Massachusetts colony would have perished if not for the help of the native people, they were viewed by the Puritans as not quite human, and as not having souls.  Whites who were unusually friendly or who had serious social interaction with the natives were considered corrupted.  In the Southern colonies, as a colonist named Byrd wrote, "the best ambassador is a sprightly lover."  Marriages (legal and otherwise) became relatively common quickly in Virginia, although marriage between a black and a white remained frowned upon North and South through most of American history.  Viewing the Native American as a relative equal in humanity, however, did not in any way keep the whites from despoiling them of their land and culture.

Which Russian Czar encouraged the pogroms against Jews?

There were several czars who instituted pogroms (or mob violence) against the Jews. The two czars most associated with these attacks were Czar Alexander III and his son, the last czar, Nicolas II. However, Czar Nicolas I, who headed Russia from 1825 to 1855, first instituted the Cantonist Decrees. They called for forced military service in the Russian army from boys from 12 to 18. Boys were supposed to serve for 25 years but most did not survive the brutal military service. During their service, many efforts were made to convert them to Christianity. Czar Alexander II followed Nicolas I and treated Jews relatively well. But he was assassinated in 1881 and the next czar, Alexander III tried to blame his assassination on the Jews. He decreed a series of laws called "The Mary Laws", which said among other things,

1. "It is henceforth forbidden for Jews to settle outside the cities and townships."


2. "The registration of property and mortgages in the names of Jews is to be halted temporarily. Jews are also prohibited from administering such properties."


3. "It is forbidden for Jews to engage in commerce on Sundays and Christian holidays."

Alexander III was succeeded by his son, Nicolas II. Under his reign, one of the most famous pogroms took place Kishinev on Easter Sunday in 1903. Ironically, this event received a lot of negative press and eventually helped lead to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

What happens at night while the boys are asleep (1st page of chapter 6) that has a big effect on them throughout the chapter?

"Beast from the Air," is the title of  chapter six of "Lord of The Flies," and foreshadows what this chapter is about.  The boys have finally settled everyone down and they all go to sleep. There is some crying from the "littuns," but the boys don't hear the planes fighting "10 miles above their heads."  There is a huge explosion and "a corkscrew trail across the sky;"

"There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.  The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would."

This dead body of the pilot eventually lands in the rocks of the mountain and will indeed become a terror the boys have to deal with later in the chapter.

In The Great Gatsby, what does Gatsby's car represent?

Gatsby's car is very much a symbol of the man himself.  Nick, indeed, first describes it as "gorgeous," just like Gatsby appears to others: well-dressed, well-spoken, well-educated.  He appears to be perfect, just like his car.

However, Nick goes on to describe it as

[...] swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.  Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town.

Words like "swollen" and "monstrous" have quite negative connotations, especially to describe such a "gorgeous" vehicle, alerting us to the fact that something more is going on here.  "Swollen" is often used in connection to some kind of infection or illness, and "monstrous" connotes something grotesque, deformed.  This might lead us to imagine someone who is puffed up, someone who has made something of themselves that is completely different from who they really are.  Gatsby himself has become larger and stranger by his acquisition of all the material goods that seem to swell his car and draw attention to his giant size.  

However, the labyrinthine, multi-layered glass seems like so many beautiful ways to distract from something or hide it altogether.  Instead of clearly revealing the person within, they mirror "a dozen suns," protecting the identity within the labyrinth.  Just as the car's windshields hide its driver, so does Gatsby's elaborate persona hide the person he really is.

What is the main conflict in "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

This is an interesting question, as there really isn't a "character" to experience conflict in the story.  However, if I had to guess, I'd consider the conflict to be the house's inability to sustain itself without human oversight.  While things go on normally for a certain amount of time, such as the preparation and serving of meals, daily cleaning and maintenance, and even the reading of poetry in the evenings (hence the title of the short story), it is unable to stop the fire. 

Once the fire starts, the sprinklers and "robot mice" attempt to put it out, but without any outside assistance, the house can only hold out so long before it succumbs to the flames.  It's a difficult story to understand at some points, but at the same time, it shows that things not built by human hands (nature itself, wildlife, etc.) are able to survive just fine without our protection and intervention.  This is seen most notably in the poem by Sara Tisdale, included in the short story.

How does the weather echo the tone of "The Lady of Shallot"?

In the beginning of the poem, when the Lady is content to remain in her tower, alone, cursed, and isolated, but happy, the weather is calm,

"Little breezes dusk and shiver" (Tennyson)

But once she gets a glimpse of Sir Lancelot, she becomes determined to leave her prison.  The weather reflects how she looks at Lancelot, he is a knight in shining armor, the poem uses the shining sun as a symbol of what he represents to her.

"The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves,
And flamed upon the brazen greaves
Of bold Sir Lancelot." (Tennyson)

After she decides to leave the tower and seek out Lancelot, the weather reflects the tone, it is stormy, and disturbed by the Lady leaving the tower and activating the curse, she will die.

"In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining.
Heavily the low sky raining." (Tennyson)

The weather becomes mournful, sullen, as the Lady steps into the boat.  It becomes very cold, symbolizing the slow death of the Lady as she floats to Camelot.

"Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right --
The leaves upon her falling light --" (Tennyson)

"Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,

Revolution and rotation of the earth and their differences.Although often confused there is a distinct and important difference in the concepts of...

Earth, the third planet of our solar system revolves around the Sun once every 365 1/4 days. The elliptical orbit of the earth varies from 91.5 million miles on January 3 called "perihelion", to 94.5 million miles on July 4 called "aphelion" for an average earth-sun distance of 93 million miles. The elliptical path causes only small variations in the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth.

The Earth rotates at a uniform rate on its axis once every 24 hours.  Turning in an eastward direction the Sun "rises" in the east and seemingly "travels" toward the west during the day. The Sun isn't actually moving, it's the eastward rotation towards the morning Sun that makes it appear that way. The Earth then rotates in the opposite direction to the apparent path of the Sun. Looking down from the North Pole yields a counterclockwise direction. From over the South Pole a clockwise direction of rotation occurs. You can demonstrate this by looking down at the North Pole of a counterclockwise rotating globe. Lift the globe while keeping it spinning in a counterclockwise direction and look at it from below.

Why does Esperanza not want to dance in "House on Mango Street"?Esperanza

Esperanza does not want to dance because she is embarrassed about her shoes.  Her Mama had gone out and bought her new clothes - "socks and a new slip with a little rose on it and a pink-and-white striped dress" - for her to wear to her cousin's baptism, but she forgot to buy new shoes to go with them.  Since Mama "has bought everything except the shoes", Esperanza must attend the celebration wearing "the old saddle shoes (she) wear(s) to school, brown and white, the kind (she) get(s) every September because they last long".  She feels stupid with her "feet scuffed and round, and the heels all crooked that look dumb with (her new) dress", so she "just sits".  When her cousin comes by and asks her to dance, she refuses, feeling her feet "growing bigger and bigger".

Then Esperanza's Uncle Nacho comes and pulls her onto the dance floor, telling her "you are the prettiest girl here".  She doesn't believe him at first, but has no choice but to drag her feet, which in her mind "swell big and heavy like plungers" across the linoleum dance floor where Uncle "wants to show off the new dance (they) learned".  As Uncle spins Esperanza, everyone watches and claps, and Esperanza is aware that her Mama is proud, and that her cousin, "the boy who is a man", was watching too ("Chanclas").

How do the townspeople feel about Chillingworth in Chapter 9 of The Scarlet Letter?

The townspeople’s opinions about Chillingworth change greatly within Chapter 9 of The Scarlet Letter.  First, all of the townspeople seem to be thrilled with Chillingworth’s appearance because they know that he is known as a great doctor.  “He was now know to be a man of skill; . . . like one acquainted with hidden virtues to common eyes” (120).  Further, the townspeople’s feelings for their pastor (Dimmesdale) supersede their own needs as they begin to see God’s “Providence” in sending the physician to their ailing pastor’s side. “Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, . . . were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth’s so opportune arrival” in order for him to attend to their ailing clergyman, Dimmesdale (120).  It isn’t long before Chillingworth arranges to live in Dimmesdale’s very home “so that every ebb and flow of the minister’s life-tide might pass under the eye of his anxious and attached physician” (123).  “There was much joy throughout the town when this greatly desirable object was attained” (123).

However, “another portion of the community” soon began to take a different view because they “affirmed that Roger Chillingworth’s aspect had undergone a remarkable change while he had dwelt in town, and especially since his abode with Mr. Dimmesdale.  At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like.  Now, there was something ugly and evil in his face which they had not previously noticed” (125-126).  Many said that Dimmesdale “was haunted either by Satan, himself, or Satan’s emissary, in the guise of old Roger Chillingworth.”  Therefore, by the end of the chapter, Chillingworth has gone from angel to devil in the eyes of the townspeople.

In Julius Caesar, how does the appearance of Caesar's ghost foreshadow Brutus' death?

I'm not sure it foreshadows Brutus' death, as such, but it is certainly associated with it: at least, in Brutus' mind. Shortly before Brutus' suicide, he openly admits that it is partly to do with the fact that he has seen Caesar's ghost.

BRUTUS:
Why, this, Volumnius:
The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me
Two several times by night; at Sardis once,
And this last night here in Philippi fields.
I know my hour is come.

Brutus clearly feels somewhere that the murder of Caesar needs to be revenged with his own death, as he suggests in his funeral speech. And, when the ghost does appear, Brutus asks it directly

Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil
That makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare?
Speak to me what thou art.

Is it a figment of Brutus' guilty imagination? Is it a real ghost come to revenge Brutus? Who knows. But it certainly becomes associated in Brutus' own mind with his death.

Hope it helps!

In The Great Gatsby, how is Gatsby's funeral scene a contrast to the party scenes presented earlier in the novel?

Hundreds of people had flocked to join Gatsby's parties, whether they were invited or not. However, when Nick starts making calls to people about Gatsby's funeral, he finds no one wants to attend. Tom and Daisy have left town, Meyer Wolfsheim gives his regrets, and no one that Nick calls agrees to come to the funeral. Only Gatsby's father sends a telegram asking that the funeral be postponed so that he can get there. The only people who finally attend are Nick, Mr. Gatz, the minister, a few servants and the postman from West Egg. Daisy never even sends flowers. Owl Eyes sums it up when he drives up to and then leaves the cemetery, —“The poor son-of-a-bitch”— the only eulogy Gatsby receives.

What is the explanation of the warning that Abigail pointed to Mercy and Mary in Act 1?If you could please include the word by word meaning of this...

Abigail's threat to Mary and Mercy in Act I is very blunt in its meaning.  If either of them tells the truth about the charade that she is engaged in, pretending to see spirits, identifying witches, she will seek them out in the dark of night and kill them, a pointy reckoning is the knife that Abigail will use to kill Mary and Mercy.

Abigail Williams is a cold, calculating individual who is on a mission to be reunited with John Proctor, her former lover.  She is determined to get rid of his wife, Elizabeth, so her threat to Mary and Mercy is serious and deadly and meant to intimidate them into following her lead and not stepping out of line. To not get any ideas to tell the truth about what really happened in the woods. Abigail doesn't care if innocent people are put to death for witchcraft: her goal is to protect herself from being punished for her actions and in the process get rid of Proctor's wife.  

How did Romeo and Juliet die?

After Romeo hears that Juliet has died (she has faked her death by taking a sleeping potion) he gets poison from the apothecary and goes to Juliet's tomb. He encounters Paris at the tomb, and kills him in a fight. In the tomb, he takes Juliet's body in his arms and tells her goodbye. He takes the poison and dies beside her. When she awakens, she discovers his body and in her terrible grief, stabs herself with his dagger. The star crossed lovers have died, their bodies lying in the tomb together. The Friar arrives at the tomb but it is too late, and he recounts the story to the others, ending the feud between the two families. It has taken the death of their beloved children to stop the fighting.

What is the theme of "The Jewelry" and when does the climax occur?

The theme that I would say is most relevant is the idea that things are not always what they seem, second, reality is perception.  M. Lantin believes that the jewels are fake, his wife never tells him that they are real, she can't he did not buy them for her, and she could not afford to buy them herself. 

He believes that she loves him and is a faithful wife.  When in fact, she must have had an affair with a wealthy man during their marriage, the person who bought the gems.

The turning point in the story, or the climax comes when M. Lantin discovers that the gems are real.  His life is dramatically changed once he sells the jewels.  He becomes very wealthy.

The irony in this story is verbal irony, because M. Lantin's wife knows that the jewels are real. She tells him:

"What can I do? I am so fond of jewelry. It is my only weakness. We cannot change our natures." Then she would roll the pearl necklaces around her fingers, and hold up the bright gems for her husband's admiration, gently coaxing him:"Look! are they not lovely? One would swear they were real." (de Maupassant)

The other form of irony is situational irony.  When the outcome is different than expected.  M. Lantin believes that the gems are false, and then discovers to his surprise that they are real. 

When he marries his second wife, he expects that she will make him happy because of her virtue, the opposite happens, he is miserable.

In what way is Dally different from Ponyboy and Johnny?Please list as many differnt ways as possible.

In "The Outsiders," Dally, Dallas Winston,  is one of the older boys and a friend to Johnny Cade.  He is also part of the same gang as  Ponyboy,the "greasers gang."  Dally is very different than the two boys.  First Dally is older. Ponyboy talks about how strong and hard Dally is.  He is an ex-con because he has been arrested several times. The local police had a long rap sheet on Dally.  Ponyboy and Johnny had never been arrested.   He doesn't seem to have any hope of ever getting a better life where Ponyboy is still in school and trying to better himself.  Johnny is not as hard as Dally.  Late in the story Dally says he made a mistake by not teaching Johnny to be "hard" like he was.  Johnny and Ponyboy both seem to care more about other people.  They talk about sunsets, poetry, and family.  Dally has no family and he is portrayed as an angry, violent, punk.  Dally cared about horses and Johnny and that was all.  He had spent time in New York and the two boys had never been away from home.  Ponyboy has a family, he is good at schoolwork.  Ponyboy is an athlete, likes to read, and lives in a home with his brothers while Dally lives from one house to another.

There is very little these three boys have in common except for the "greasers" and their loyalty to each other.