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• Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

  These quotations are different types of characterization. What Alexandra says about Scout in #1 shows Alexandra's ideas about being a...

• Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

  Scout is a child, and therefore she is naive, and she is an unbiased narrator. She does not judge, and she is not at all concerned...

• Answered a Question in The Crucible

  "Vengeance is walking in Salem" because one of the long-standing reasons that the citizens are accusing each other of witchcraft is...

• Answered a Question in The Crucible

  Abigail has an affair with John Proctor which leads to her being kicked out of the Proctor household. She has sex with John Proctor...

• Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

  The friar is shocked by Romeo's news that he is going to marry Juliet. The friar states, "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run...

• Answered a Question in The Crucible

  One theme is hysteria - people experiencing unmanageable fear and/or emotional excess. The Crucible shows us that when a...

• Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies

  The most important thing to be conveyed is that man, ultimately, is evil. Given the chance and the circumstances, man will devolve...

• Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

  Calpurnia has taught her son to read and write. In today's world nobody would bat an eye at her son reading and writing, but at the...

• Answered a Question in Social Sciences

  I would be sure to have the kids in uniforms, so that issues of being able to fit in would be slightly less. If the kids don't have...

• Answered a Question in The Crucible

  I assume you mean witchcraft. In that case, the threat of witchcraft terrifies the villagers because witchcraft is satanic. The...