William Faulkner's is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse's laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book. As the critic Andre Bleikasten agrees, "there is sca...
There was a man who dreamed as a child of being well known and respected throughout his village and neighboring villages. This man, Okonko, worked hard at his goal, and he achieved it. Okonko, a man with great strength and personality, had achieved his goal to become rich and famous, a privilege that was unseen before in his fami...
Hard Times Essay #6 - Character Analysis: Louisa In the novel Hard Times, Dickens presents a character by the name of Louisa Gradgrind Bounderby who had suffered from her father?s education system. Mr.Gradgrind?s philosophy forced Louisa to ?discard the word fancy altogether? (11) causing her to base experiences on facts and not from emotion...
?When I turned back to the house, my father called after me and asked me did I figure I was finished. ?I figure so,? I said, and then my father said, in that way he has of saying something that cuts you down to half of your size or less: ?Slow to start and quick to finish.? So went the character Adam about his life, and so went th...
Lord of the Flies-symbolic interpretation The Lord of the Flies The world had witnessed the atrocities of World War II and began to examine the defects of their social ethics. Man?s purity and innocence was gone. Man?s ability to remain civilized was faltering. This change of attitude was extremely evident in the literature of the...