LuAnn Williams
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I live in Ohio where I've lived most of my life. I have a husband, a son, a daughter, a dog, a cat, and three birds. I teach Adv. Eng. 11 and Adv. Comp./Brit. Lit. to seniors.
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Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Owl Eyes, or, the man with the owl-eyed glasses whom Nick only refers to by the nickname Nick gives him, plays two roles in the story. When Nick first encounters him in chapter 3 at the first of... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
One social issue highlighted in Ch. 7 is infidelity among spouses. We see Daisy boldly kiss Jay in front of Nick and Jordan. We see a sick George Wilson tell Tom he finally realized... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Nick is referring back to the end of chapter 1, when he sees Gatsby standing at the end of his dock staring across the bay to the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. The green light... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Lady Macbeth's fainting spell intended to make the men think that she was so upset by the news of Duncan's death, that it caused her to faint. She wants to be seen as typical woman would have... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The knocking at the gate of Macbeth's castle is effective because it occurs just after the murder of Duncan when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both in a highly anxious state of mind. The two,... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Of the principle characters, there are only three who die: Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and George Wilson. Dan Cody, a character only mentioned by Gatsby and briefly described, died years... -
Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant
Orwell, at first, did not want to shoot the elephant. It was just eating and not showing a mad disposition at the moment despite the fact it had, just shortly before this, killed a man. ... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
This scene, at the start of Act 5, shows Lady Macbeth's guilt and how her conscience has finally driven her mad. This serves as an opposition to Act 1, sc. 5, when Lady Macbeth asks for the... -
Answered a Question in Walden
Thoreau believed, and said, that people do not own possessions, the possessions own them. He means that when people own things, they become so concerned about protecting and maintaining those... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Since you did not put Macbeth in quotation marks, I assume you are asking about the character and not the play. Your question begs the other side of that equation which asks if Macbeth is... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Abigail should be indicted for a crime because her actions were instrumental in stirring the ashes of chaos into a conflagration. Using pathos, or emotional pursuits, to explain why Abigail should... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Jay says this in chapter 7 as he, Nick, Jordan, Daisy, and Tom are preparing to drive into the city the day that Daisy, later, hits and kills Myrtle. From his early days, as shown by the... -
Answered a Question in 1984
The mutability of the past is one of the key ideas brought out in "1984". This means that the past can be changed to reflect the ideas of whomever is in control. The controlling powers... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
You have not included a question with this quote from "Hamlet". I will make a leap of judgement and guess that you want to know a little about the quotation. It is from Act 1, sc. 5 and... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Miss Maudie jealously guards her recipe for Lane Cake (chapter 5 and chapter 8). Maudie Atkinson is shown to be a broad-minded woman in a mostly narrow-minded town. She is the female... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald uses figurative language like personification to help readers visualize descriptions and actions. Fitzgerald's style is to use long, rhythmic descriptions. For example, in... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Mayella Ewell did not realize that her actions led to the death of Tom Robinson and the destruction of his family. Mayella, in her ignorance, thought that if she committed any wrongful act it... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Your question is a little vague as to what you specifically want to know, but I guess that you want three points of comparison between Montag and Beatty, so that is what I will give you. You... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The first scene of Act 5 takes place in the graveyard and while the beginning of the scene has some comic relief in the converstations between the two gravediggers and then the 1st Gravedigger and... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Ralph asks Jack, "Why do you hate me?" Ralph realizes that Piggy was right; Jack would hurt him (Piggy) if it weren't for Ralph because Jack hates anyone who challenges his authority. ... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
The only quality of the society that I see as good is the quality dealing with the immediate actions of the emergency crew that Montag called to his house. Early in part one, Montag comes... -
Answered a Question in General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
To get absolution from the friar, money had to change hands. In the Nevill Coghill translation, the General Prologue's description of the friar includes the lines: He was an easy man in... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
When addressed by Rev. Hale regarding the need for lawyers to present the cases against those accused of witchcraft, rather than Danforth and his fellow judges hearing the cases alone,... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The moral judgment that Nick makes regarding Tom and Daisy is that they are self-centered people who do not care whose lives they hurt as long they continue to have their luxurious lives. ... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
The white clowns are part of a TV show. They are cartoon characters who do silly and violent things to one another, such as chop off one anothers' limbs. The show is filled with one... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
In this chapter, Ralph and Jack are working together, for the most part. They are both in the hunting party that is looking for a pig. This is one of the few times since the earliest... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
This scene occurs after Nick has met Gatsby finally. The meeting was brief and did nothing to put Nick's curiosity about Gatsby to rest. Nick is more curious than ever after... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Polonius is telling Reynaldo in this scene to spy on Laertes. Polonius tells him to ask people in Paris about what Danes are there, how much money each has, where each lives, how each one... -
Answered a Question in Dulce et Decorum Est
Words with a negative connotation in the poem are: beggars, knock-kneed, coughing, hags, sludge, haunting, trudge, limped, blod-shod, drunk, fatigue - and those are just in the first stanza of the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
In chapter 6, Jack and Ralph and a few others discover Castle Rock, the coral and rock island on which Jack and his followers decide to make their fortress. Castle Rock is high and... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
One way in which Nick and Gatsby are alike in chapter 3 is that neither one is careless. Jordan says to Nick, toward the end of the chapter, "I hate careless people. That's why I like... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Mary Warren is primarily motivated by the same factors that motivated so many of the others at that time in Salem, Massachusetts - fear and ignorance. Mary was afraid of Abby and of being... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The answer to this question varies with the one who answers. In the real world of today, the smartest course would be to try to find concrete evidence and go to the police, or at least,... -
Answered a Question in Harrison Bergeron
George Bergeron, Harrison's father, wears a device that makes noises in George's ears. The purpose of the device is to prevent George from being able to maintain thought for an extended... -
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
In Book 2 of "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver lands in the land of the Brobdingnags. The Brobs are 12 times larger than Gulliver (conversely, the Lilliputians of Book 1 were 12 times... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Wiglaf helps Beowulf slay the dragon. During the battle with the dragon, all of Beowulf's men, except for Wiglaf, run away. Wiglaf sees that Beowulf is being overcome by the dragon, and... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
Most of the relationships in the novel are superficial; that is, they lack depth of feeling and are based on surface qualities only. Daisy and Tom are married because it was expected of both... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Yes, there is evidence. In Act 1, sc. 3, after the witches have told Macbeth their prophecies and immediately after Angus and Ross's announcement that Macbeth has been named the new Thane of... -
Answered a Question in The Nun's Priest's Tale
The main point, or moral, of this beast fable is to beware of empty flattery. Chanticleer, to please his wife, goes into the barnyard and listens to the fox's flattering words. The fox... -
Answered a Question in Because I could not stop for Death—
In the second line, the word, "kindly", has a positive connotation giving the impression that the poem is not going to look at death in a negative manner. In the next four-line stanza, the... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
A key passage that grasps more than one theme of the book is near the end when Granger and Montag are speaking. The passage begins, "Granger stood looking back with Montag." It ends... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Late into the first part of the book, Montag witnesses a life-altering event when the old woman refuses to walk away from her books when her house and her books are about to be burned. She... -
Answered a Question in General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
The social classes represented in the General Prologue are, for the most part, the aristocracy (the Knight and his son, the Squire), the clergy (Prioress, Monk, Friar, Parson, and a few nuns and... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
At the end of Act 2, Hermia has awakened to find Lysander missing. She does not know he woke earlier and saw Helena with whom he instantly fell in love because Puck accidentally put the juice... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
In response to the first question, there are a few reasons that Beowulf helps Hrothgar and the Danes. When Beowulf arrives in the land of the Danes and is questioned he replies that Hrothgar... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
There is no indication in the play that Claudius knows of Hamlet's presence when Claudius is in the chapel praying. More evidence points to a lack of awareness on the part of Claudius than an... -
Answered a Question in The Outcasts of Poker Flat
In this story by Bret Harte, there are definitely heroes and heroines. The main character, John Oakhurst, is a hero. He had once won $40 from Tom Simson and then returned it because Simson... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
"Revelation" is to uncover, display, or bring into the open. In the book, "Fahrenheit 451", Bradbury displays what might happen to a society that no longer reads and thinks. Through the... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
In the first chapter, when Ralph, the newly appointed chief says they need to see if they are indeed, on an island, and therefore they need to explore, Piggy says he wants to go with Ralph, Jack,... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Golding's point, in the novel, is that within each person there is an inherent evilness, or savagery, that only stays hidden due to the constraints of society. He felt that if and when...
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