What are the tones in "The Open Window" by Saki?

The
overall tone is playful and humorous. It is clear quite early on that the author does not have
much regard for poor old Framton Nuttal. 's point of view is reflected in the character of Vera.
She is a very bright, perceptive, young lady, and she is rather mischievous. When she meets
Framton, all nervous and fidgety, she immediately senses an irresistible opportunity for a good
old-fashioned leg-pull. Somehow, she manages to keep up the pretense of her ghost story, even
affecting a look of pure horror as the three men approach the house in the enveloping twilight.
It would seem that she is something of an expert at this. We are vindicated in this assessment
by the elaborate story she concocts on the spot regarding the recently vanished
Framton:

He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on
the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and had to spend the night in a newly dug
grave with the creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him. Enough to make anyone
lose their nerve.

If Vera represents Saki, then we are
placed in the same invidious position as the hapless Framton Nuttal. Vera appears to engage in
seemingly banal pleasantries with Framton, but in reality, she is carefully feeling him out,
trying to see whether or not he is likely to fall for her joke. As readers, we are also suckered
into playing along with Vera's little parlor game, fooled as we are by her demure
gentility.

Romance at short notice was her
speciality.

Yes, and much the same could be said for the
author of "." We may not suddenly run away like poor old Framton Nuttal, but, like
him, we have been well and truly duped by the mischievous Vera.

How does Shirley Jackson set the tone in her narrative, "Charles?"

Jackson wrote the story "" in a
light and humorous, yet somewhat reflective, tone. The very first paragraph includes phrases
describing the mother of the story reflecting on the way that she watched her little boy, no
longer a toddler, walk off to school without so much as a glance back to her. The tone is light,
even in this slightly sad, reflective sentence. The author does not allow the main character to
reflect about this incident in a sad way but only as a reflection of life passing by. The author
allows the main character Laurie to bring out the humor in the story with short, funny phrasing
in the voice of Laurie, jokes and childishly rude behaviors that the family does not take too
seriously. This allows Laurie's actions to remain humorous and set the main story tone as a
humorous one.

The story would not have been as effective as a humorous,
reflective story if written in the third person because written as it is, the reader lives the
story through the point of view of Laurie's mom. It is by having her voice be the narration of
the story in first person, that we can experience the humorous side to Laurie's actions. His
actions are funny because we see them as a parent would. Had the story been written in third
person through the eyes of an anonymous narrator, then the story would lose some of the humor
and would not draw the reader into the experience as much.

What similarities can be drawn between Never Let Me Go and The Stranger by Albert Camus?

One
similarity between The Stranger by Albert Camus and
byis that both books explore morality in relation to human lives.

In the
first chapter of The Stranger, theMeursault is dealing with the death of
his late mother. He is apathetic to her death overall, which draws concern from others related
to his morality. When he later kills another man and is sentenced to death, this seems to
confirm the suspicion that his inability to grieve for his mother was linked to an overall
apathy towards human life and ultimately homicide.

In Never Let Me
Go, Kathy and her friends at her boarding school are clones who were created to
involuntarily donate their organs for medical procedures.The book follows Kathy and other clones
to reveal their inherent humanity and the cruelty of ending their lives, even if it might mean
saving another. In this way, it explores whether scientific and medical progress is worth
pursuing if it means we lose respect for human lives.

What is the contradictory element in the story "Hills Like White Elephants?"

In this
story, a man, the American, has a conversation with his girlfriend Jig, who is pregnant. He
wants her to have an abortion. She does not, seeing the possibility inherent having a baby. The
contradiction is that he thinks it is freeing to get out of having the child, but she realizes
that they can't have everything. Every choice is in fact a choice. In the dialogue below, she
points out the contradiction in his "have-it-all" thinking. Hemingway's writing is
notably spare, and he leaves it to the reader to supply the he-said/she-said information, so I
have taken the liberty, for the sake of clarity, to supply the he said/she said below. When she
says "we could have everything," one interpretation is that she is mocking him,
because she then turns around and contradicts her (really his) words, saying that, in fact, no
they can't:

"And we could have all this," she
said. "And we could have everything and every day we make it more
impossible."

"What did you say?" [he said]

"I...

What is the conflict that happens between Meg and Calvin O' Keefe about?

The
conflict between Meg and Calvin is mainly a clash of personalities. Though incredibly bright,
Meg doesn't do well at school; she just doesn't fit in. Calvin, on the other hand, is a very
popular student and seems in his element both in class and on the basketball court.

Calvin also...

What is unusual about Tock in The Phantom Tollbooth?

The most
unusual thing about Tock the bio-mechanical watchdog is that he can only make a ticking
sound.

This is not how things were supposed to turn out. When Tock's parents
gave birth to him, they already had a clock puppy called Tick....

How is the theme of power expressed in the novel?

Power
is expressed in some fashion by nearly all the characters in , although
some characters have more and others have less. However, perhaps the most fruitful example is
the power differential that is displayed betweenand .

George's power comes
from his intelligence and ability to read social situations. George is, of course, of sound mind
and is really Lennie's caretaker as much as he is his friend.

Lennie, on the
other hand, is mentally disabled but has extreme physical strength, a trait that ultimately gets
him in trouble when he accidentally kills Curly's wife. (Women, by the way, are given no power
in the novel, a fact that is made obvious by Curly's wife not being given her own
name.)

Seemingly, Steinbeck sets George and Lennie up as foils for one
another; they are two people who demonstrate different types of power. Ultimately, it is
George's power of the intellect that wins out, as he is the one who ends Lennie's
life.

Could someone help me analyze the poem "A London Thoroughfare 2 AM" by Amy Lowell? I am writing an essay on this poem but I am a bit unsure what to...

In this
poem, Lowell contrasts the city of London, which makes her feel unhappy and alienated, to the
moon, which gives her a sense of comfort and familiarity. Therefore, one of the themes of the
poem you could explore would be that of civilization versus nature. What are some reasons the
narrator gives for disliking the city (civilization)? What are some reasons she gives for
preferring the moon (nature)?

Lowell uses poetic devices to reinforce the
aspects of the city she doesn't like. For example, she ends line four by suddenly breaking off
at the word "lies" and continuing the sentence on the next line. This is called
enjambment, and initially leads us to believe the city doesn't "lie" like a slow
moving river but tells falsehoods. This indicates that she dislikes the city because it is a
place...

What are the sociological reasons for racial discrimination in the United States?

Your question
asks about the sociological reasons for racial discrimination, which,
before answering, I want to expand upon by distinguishing them from the psychological
reasons for discrimination. While psychological reasons for
discrimination can be generalized and applied to understanding discrimination of all kinds and
against all racial groups, the sociological reasons for discrimination are
dependent on context and history, and differ for each racial group.

Psychological reasons for discrimination come from built-in human
biases. For example, humans tend to perceive people within their own racial (or other!) group
more favorably than those outside of their racial group,...

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Describe and analyze the most important historical moments in the transformation of the English colonies from a collection of loyal colonists to...

Colonial
relations with London deteriorated steadily between 1763 and 1775. After the defeat of France in
1763, the British sought to tax and control the thirteen colonies to a greater degree. The Stamp
Act (1765) and the Townshend Acts (1767) were tax-raising measures, and both incensed the
colonists.

The Boston Massacre (1770) was important. It was the first time
there had been bloodshed in the dispute with London. British troops, who had been sent to
enforce the Townshend Acts, killed five men.

The Boston Tea Party (1773) and
the Intolerable Acts (1774) helped set the stage for armed conflict by aggravating
tensions.

In 1775, war broke out with battles at Lexington and Concord.
Fighting continued into 1776. In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense,
which argued strongly for independence. Then the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) made
the break with London complete.

Many colonists remained loyal to Britain,
however. Perhaps as many as one-third became known as Loyalists. Many of them eventually moved
to Canada.

How did the Civil War affect the Native Americans?

The Civil
War caused a lot of rightful bitterness on the part of the Native Americans toward the US
government for a variety of reasons. Because of the land grabbing acts of the federal
government, the Native Americans had been growing increasingly displeased with the nation, and
therefore many found themselves fighting alongside Confederate soldiers in an attempt to weaken
the federal government. When the South lost, these Native Americans were further
downtrodden.

Additionally, because of the resources used during the Civil
War, the government forestalled many payments...

Who is the speaker of the poem "Richard Cory"?

The
speaker in this poem identifies himself in the second line as being one of "we people on
the pavement." The speaker's observations ofmake clear the differences between the
"gentleman" and the group to which the speaker himself belongs.

The
speaker is impressed by Richard Cory's attire, his graceful manners, and his wealthhe describes
him as being "richer than a king." The speaker himself is a working man, who sometimes
does not even have the money to spare for meat, which he has to go without. Richard Cory
represents everything that the working people wish they could be and could have. Theis that,
while he is wealthy, Richard Cory evidently is not happy. At the end of the poem, the speaker
describes how he returned home and "put a bullet through his head" on a summer night
with apparently no warning.

What are some quotes from chapters 1€“8 that show that Atticus is honest?

is one of those classicthat will go down in
history for his integrity, and with that virtue comes honesty. Atticus is the type of character
that, no matter what, will always do and say the right thing, even when no one is
watching.

One thing that stands out is the way he speaks to his kids. He
doesn't hide them from the horrors of the world, but he doesn't attack that world either. When
Scout comes home upset from her first day of school, she mentions the Ewells and how they don't
have to attend. Atticus is honest with her about their lot in life but explains that she is not
exempt from an education.

He said that some Christmas,
when he was getting rid of the tree, he would take me with him and show me how they lived. They
were people, but they lived like animals. "They can go to school any time they want
to...You, Miss , are one of the common folk. You must obey the law."

While this quote may seem a bit harsh, it shows that Atticus
doesn't hide the ways of Maycomb from Scout. He speaks to her honestly, as if he were speaking
to an adult. He does the same when explaining the Cunninghams' socioeconomic status.

Another moment that shows Atticus's honesty is when Nathan Radley plugs up the hole in
the tree. Atticus agrees that the tree isn't dying, but he lets it alone because it isn't his
business.

"Mr. Nathan Radley said it was
dyin'."

"Well maybe it is. I'm sure Mr. Radley knows more about his
trees than we do."

Here, Atticus is not like the
other townsfolk. He doesn't gossip, and he says things like they are. He doesn't speculate,
teaching the kids that they should mind their own business and take what people say as truth
enough.

One last example of Atticus's honesty can be found during the snow
day. The kids use what little snow hits the ground to build a snowman, but the snowman more
resembles a dirtman. When the kids ask Atticus what he thinks, his response avoids the negative,
but he doesn't lie.

"I didn't know how you were going
to do it," he said to , "but son, you'll always have an idea."

Atticus never lies. He may shape the truth in a way a child can
understand, but he refuses to hide his kids from the world or from
himself.

Explain the rise of the novel in the 18th century and say if Robinson Crusoe is a novel in theme and structure.

The genre of
novel superceded the Romances, Chants, and the Epic stories of the 17th century by replacing the
themes from historical realistic , historical non-fiction, and chivalry romances with more
fictional story lines that had not been seen before in English literacy.

The
first novel accepted by theme and form would definitely beas you stated. Previous to Crusoe, two
more novels had been published but it was Crusoe which obtain the attention and the girth of
importance that would be characteristic of the modernistic novel: One that comes with a
fictional thematic narrative, detached from historical non-fiction, and categorized by ease of
use.

I am studying the Scarlet Letter. What is the difference between identifying the motifs in the novel and identifying its conflict(s)?

Motifs
are a recurring theme, subject or idea in a literary work that help to develop or convey the
work's overall theme or message.

• Weeds are seen throughout
  . In "The Prison Door" we see reference to ugly weeds taking root
  in the "congenial soil" surrounding the prison.  These weeds are seen throughout the
  novel, evenis compared to a weed.

When we study a work's
conflict, we are looking at the overall struggle in...

Who was the founder of Jainism?

Jainism is
an ancient religion that originated in India whose followers attempt to attain ultimate
liberation by escaping the continuous cycle of reincarnation. They believe that the way to
achieve this is to eliminate karma, the principle of cause and effect that makes actions lead to
suffering, from their souls. Their practices include strict vegetarianism, nonviolence, not
stealing, not lying, non-attachment to possessions, sexual restraint, and respect for all
animals and plants as containing living souls.

Jainism does not have a single
person who would be called the founder of the religion. Instead, Jains recognize great teachers
called tirthankaras. The Biblical equivalent of the term would be prophets. In what is
considered the present age, there have been twenty-four tirthankaras, and in cosmic ages before
this one there have been many more. The first tirthankara of this age, Adinatha, also known as
Rishabhanatha, supposedly lived millions of years ago. The exact birthdate of the twenty-fourth
and most recent tirthankara, Mahavira, is not known. Some scholars estimate it around 540 B.C.,
while others say it was in 599 B.C.

Mahavira is often
credited as the founder of Jainism in its present form. However, it would be more correct to say
that Mahavira was a reformer who made the ancient practice of Jainism popular and applicable to
the time in which he lived. According to tradition, after he achieved enlightenment, Mahavira
became a teacher and established a community of tens of thousands of monks and nuns, and in the
centuries that followed, Jainism spread throughout western and central
India.

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What is the climax of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens?

byis the story of the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge from a
cold, selfish miser to a person involved in his community. Scrooge is a bachelor who has no real
social ties and whose life is entirely focused on making money. 

The story
begins on Christmas Eve when Scrooge is invited to Christmas dinner by his brother Fred and
declines with an anti-Christmas rant. In this scene, we are also introduced to Bob Cratchit,
Scrooge's badly paid clerk who is the opposite of Scrooge, lacking money but having a loving
family. This sets up two conflicts in the story, that of Scrooge to find some sort of happiness
or goal in life (as his present is quite miserable) and Cratchit to find the money he needs for
the care of his disabled...

What does the narrative reveal about the boy's feelings toward the girl in "Araby"?

In the narrative, the
speaker reveals that he cares very deeply about Mangan's sister. She seems to be his first
experience with love, or with emotions that feel very much like love. He describes how he would
lie on the floor as he watched her front door, waiting for her to emerge so that he could grab
his books and run outside to follow her on the walk to school. He says that "her name was
like a summons to all [his] foolish blood." Even hearing her name, then, would make his
heart beat faster and his blood seem to pump harder within his veins. The narrator imagines that
he is like a hero that "bore [his] chalice safely through a throng of foes."

His heart is so full of her that he is untouched by other sounds and sights in the
city, and they mean nothing to him; they all come together in a "single sensation of
life." He would often cry while thinking of her and he would utter her name during his
prayers. Having only ever spoken a few words to her in his life, he had no idea how he could
ever express to her his "confused adoration" of her.

He feels like
a musical instrument, and all of her movements and speech seemed to play upon him. When he
thought of her, he murmured, "'O love! O love!'" over and over. After they finally
speak, he becomes obsessed with getting her a gift from thebazaar, and this is all he can think
of.

What reason does Iago give for his hatred of Othello?

The
question of why Iago hatesso much is one that has occupied scholars for centuries, for although
Iago certainly does offer his own reasons in the play, they do not seem to tell the whole story.
From his own mouth, however, Iago's reasons are, he tells Roderigo, "hearted," just as
Roderigo's "cause" isRoderigo being driven by his desire for Desdemona. In the opening
scene of the play, we discover that Iago has professed his hatred for Othello several times to
Roderigo, his supposed confidant; it is questionable, however, as to how far we can believe Iago
tells Roderigo the whole truth, as he later seems to have little regard for Roderigo's
life.

Iago tells Roderigo that his chief issue with Othello, at this point in
time, is that Othello has rejected the suit of "three great ones of the city" who had
urged him to make Iago his lieutenant, instead choosing "a great arithmetician,"
Michael Cassio, who "never set a squadron in the field." Iago believes that he himself
is far worthier an officer than Cassio and is furious that he has been passed over for promotion
in favor of this lesser soldier. This seems a sound enough reason, and indeed Iago uses Cassio
in his scheme to bring down Othello, as if to punish them both. Iago also mentions that he
believes Othello "hath leap'd into my seat," or that "twixt my sheets / He hath
done my office"that is, that Othello has slept with Iago's wife, Emilia. However, there
seems no justification for this suspicion, and even Iago himself says he doesn't know whether it
is true. The idea is simply posited by Iago as if to further justify his
actions.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", how did Calpurnia teach her eldest son, Zeebo, to read?

In ,
Calpurnia takes the children to her church, and Lee gives the audience a signficant view of
Cal's culture and background. andare in awe after their experience and ask Calpurnia about
Zeebo's ability to read (since only 4 people in the church can read).  Calpurnia tells
them,

"I made [Zeebo] get a page of the Bible every
day, and there was a book Miss Buford taught em out of" (Lee 125).

The other book is Blackstone's Commentaries, a
book about law (not too ironic since Calpurnia got it from the Finches).

What were the hair styles of 1947?

Hair
styles in 1947 America were a reflection of the major social transformations occurring in the
United States in the wake of World War II and the return home of hundreds of thousands of
military veterans.  The United States had emerged from the war a major world power for the first
time and, combined with the post-war euphoria that swept the country.  War-era cultural
restrictions on glamour €“ except in film €“ due to the rationing and austerity associated with
the war-time economy gave way to what was called the New Look, introduced by designer
Christian Dior, in which more opulent looks began to emerge.  Changes in hair styles reflected
this trend.  While hair length remained somewhat constant, it was curled or rolled into styles
distinct from those earlier in the decade.  Hair continued to be done up, but with stylistic
differences, including the way in which curls were incorporated into the hair style.  A
carry-over from the war years, when women had to be careful about containing their hair and
preventing it from getting tangled in factory equipment, was the use of scarves to cover the
hair, as well as the continued use of hats. 

The dominant, defining feature
of 1947 hair styles for women, though, was the use of waves, curls and rolls.  Many women of
that era wore their hair with prominent rolls front and center as well as in the back.  One
popular style was referred to as the victory roll, in homage to the wars outcome and Americas
emergence on the world stage.  Others were copied from the glamour Hollywood actresses of the
time, including Veronica Lake and Rita Hayworth.  Another feature of the period in question was
the use of braids, usually rolled and set atop the head.

Hairstyles for men
were, unsurprisingly, a little more subdued.  While mens haircuts would evolve away from the
military-style haircuts of the war years, the changes would mainly involve length €“ the buzz
cuts required of military service no longer necessary €“ and the beginning of the incorporation
of ducktails and thicker, slicked-back styles, although major changes in mens hair styles would
not become particularly noteworthy until the early 1950s, with the introduction of influences by
entertainers and actors like Elvis Presley and James Dean.

In the poem "I Have Visited Again", by Alexander Pushkin, how do the types of images relate to the poem's theme?

Alexander
Pushkin's "I Have Visited Again" uses sentimental and warm images to support his theme
of "coming home." The poem begins with the following
lines:

€¦I have visited again

That
corner of the earth where I spent two

Unnoticed, exiled years.

The word "exiled" may be misleadingusually negative, it
does not have that effect here since it is afor time spent with his Nurse (perhaps to nurse her
in her old age) but his "exile" was unnoticedhe
greatly enjoyed this place for two years.

Instead of
writing with sadness (inferred by "exile"), the speaker describes
memories that he holds dear. His "old nurse" is gonewe assume she is dead. We can
infer that she cared for him even though it was hard:

No
more behind the wall

Do I hear her heavy footsteps as she moved

Slowly, painstakingly about her tasks.

His
memories recall the age that hung on herhow she took care of him, despite her pain. We can also
infer that he remembers her fondlyfor the sacrifices she made; after all,
his "exile" was hers as well, and perhaps it was especially
difficult for her out in the country.

Because of his "unnoticed
exile," there is no pain in his recollections, but a fondness that he now revisits. He
knew the land: it was a regular companion

Here are the wooded slopes where often I

Sat motionless, and looked
down at the lake,

Recalling other shores and other waves...

He spent time before looking off and remembering where he used to
live. He describes the beauty of the water and the land that surrounds it in the
present:

It gleams between golden
cornfields and green meadows...

The speaker on this day
sees a fisherman with an "ancient net," and the sails of the windmill that struggle to
turn because the mill has grown "crooked" over time. There is the sense here
of timelessnesswhere things move much the way they have for many, many years, even before
he arrived twelve years before.

This land belonged to
his family (and still might); he refers to it as his "ancestral acres." This continues
the sense of time: for the land has been in his family for generations. We can safely assume
that the satisfaction he found here is tied most closely with the trees at the top of the
road.

There are three trees, which he rode under beneath the moonlight. The
trees "spoke" to him in a welcoming way. When he rode on horseback with the trees
above him, he would hear:

The friendly rustling murmur of
their crowns...

And the sound of the moving leaves
"welcomed" him. There can be no doubt now that he found pleasure in this spot.
Seemingly, he was allowed to move freely, especially evident if he was on his horse at night.
Around the base of the two of the trees, where nothing used to grow, there are now "young
pines," sprouting "like green children." The third tree stands some distance
away, "morose, / Like some old bachelor," and nothing grows around
it. It has no "children." 

The speaker's
greeting of the trees excludes the solitary tree. And the speaker notes that while he will not
be returning to this place again, his grandson might. And when coming home
one night from perhaps a party, in a happy mood, he will hear the trees and think of the
speaker.

The initial image of "exile" and the
old single tree may title="symbolism">symbolize what someone had
intended for him when he was sent there years beforea solitary lonely
existence. However, what he found was beauty and family seen in images of
naturedear memories that he hopes his grandson will one day
enjoy.

How striking is the ending of the poem "Ulysses"?

I think the
ending of this poem is really quite striking and moving.

The major theme of
the poem is that people must never stop looking for new experiences.  Tennyson is saying that if
we stop moving (in an intellectual sense), if we stop caring about...

What is summary for Chapters 23 and 24 in The Shakespeare Stealer?I would just like to know the very important events that happened in the chapters....

In Chapter
23, witht the kind help of Julia, Widge works feverishly to learn the lines of the character
Ophelia. The Company goes before the queen's master of revels to rehearse, and the rehearsal
goes terribly. Widge is horrified, but no one else seems to be worried. The day of the Company's
scheduled performance before the Queen herself arrives, and despite Widge's nervousness, he
does very well. Widge meets the Queen after the performance, and is shocked to see that,
despite the fact that she always appears to be regal and beautiful in pictures, she is very old,
and her beauty is a facade. The queen compliments Widge on his...

Silvio's gross earnings for last week were $328.54. His remuneration consists of a base salary of $280 plus a commission of 6% on net sales exceeding...

To determine
Silvio's gross sales, first subtract his base salary from his gross earnings to determine the
amount of earnings Silvio made on commission alone:

`328.54-200=128.54`

Silvio's earnings from commission was $128.54.
This represents 6% of Silvio's sales beyond $5,000. To determine 100% of Silvio's sales beyond
$5,000, set up a proportion,

`128/.06` `=x/1`

cross-multiply,

`128=.06x`

and, finally,
divide,

`128/.06=x`

`2133.33=x`

We have
rounded the answer to two decimal points because we are dealing with dollar amounts. Silvio's
net sales beyond $5,000 was $2,133.33. Add these two numbers together to determine Silvio's
total net sales.

`2133.33+5000=7133.33`

Silvio's total net
sales are $7,133.33. To figure out Silvio's total gross sales, add this number to his sales
returns and allowances. This number represents the amount of money Silvio made that was later
returned to customers, so it counts towards his gross sales, but not towards his net sales, and
he does not make commission on it.

`7133.33+136=7269.33`

Silvio's total gross sales were $7,289.33.

In Romeo and Juliet, how can you compare the love Romeo feels for Juliet as appose to the love he felt for Rosalind?

Very good question!
When thinking aboutand his infatuation with Rosalind, it is important to consider Act II scene
4, when Romeo tells the Friar about his new-found love forand how it has superseded his former
love for Juliet. What is interesting is how the Friar talks about his former relationship with
Rosalind. Note how the Friar says to Romeo that he had chided him for "doting, not for
loving, pupil...

In The Scarlet Letter, what does Pearl represent? What is her role or contribution?

's role in
the novel is subject to much interpretation. Most obviously, to the Puritans she represented
sin, the physical proof of human sinfulness and moral frailty. Her presence brandedas much as
the scarlet letter she wore. However, Pearl (as well as her mother) were not considered to be
beyond spiritual redemption. Pearl's remaining with her mother was contingent upon Hester's
instilling in her the tenets of the church.

Hester's view of Pearl was
complex. Pearl was a reminder of Hester's spiritual downfall, but she was also a reminder of
Hester's love and passion for . Hester takes a secret pride in Pearl, defiantly dressing her in
bright colors. When alone in the forest with Dimmesdale, Hester expresses her love and joy in
their child. 

On another level, Pearl represents salvation for Hester, both
physically and spiritually. It is Pearl who keeps Hester "in life," and it is she who
keeps Hester from further moral downfall. This idea is expressed when Hester explains why she
should be allowed to keep her daughter.

Finally, Pearl represents the triumph
of love and goodness over hatred and evil. Through her mother's love and devotion, Pearl grows
into a strong young woman who moves on to live a good life in England. She inherits all of 's
estate, his acknowledgment that she had suffered as the result of his obsessive pursuit of
revenge against Pearl's father. Of the novel's four major , only Pearl was innocent, and
innocence is rewarded in the novel's conclusion.

Explain "Realism" in drama as introduced by Ibsen in A Doll's House.

Ibsen's play
stands as an example of modernbecause portrays truthfully theand the conflicts. The play lacks
sentimentality and romance of any kind. Nothing is glorified. There is no "happy
ending." The ending instead is rather shocking, given the society in whichlives, but it is
consistent with the way in which her character has been developed throughout the
drama.

The marriage between Nora andis presented realistically for what it
is: a sham. Nora points this out to her husband in the play's conclusion, explaining that they
have been "playing" at marriage rather than living in an authentic partnership of
mutual caring and sharing. Their home has been only "a doll's house." Ibsen shines a
strong light on the Torvalds' relationship, softening none of its aspects.

Torvald's character is treated realistically, as well, revealing his arrogance,
authoritarianism, and selfishness. His "concern" for his wife is not romanticized.
Torvald does not "take care" of Nora because he loves her; he "takes care"
of her only because he treats her as his inferior. In truth, he does not take care of her at
all. He only controls her, exercising his power over every detail of her daily life.

The play's conclusion is also realistic. As a genre, realism does not specifically
demand an "unhappy" conclusion, but it does demand a concusion that is consistent and
reasonable, given the circumstances. Nora's leaving Torvald is consistent with her character as
she has grown in self-awareness. The play does not offer a sudden "happy ending" with
Nora and Torvald falling into each other's arms. Even when Torvald swears he will change and
begs Nora to stay, she looks truth in the face and rejects his promises, placing no faith in his
integrity.

Ibsen does not glorify or romanticize Nora's leaving. She will be
separated from the children she loves, and she will have to make her way in the world alone.
Nothing in her life has prepared her for what lies ahead. Her future will not be an easy one.
There is no glory or sentimentality in A Doll's
House," only painful choices.

What is the lasting significance of progressivism to American history? What is the lasting significance of progressivism to American history?

There are many legacies
of Progressivism. While the ideas of reformers did not always become a reality when they were
first proposed, many became a reality over time after they were supported by the federal
government. For example, President Teddy Roosevelt began to use the power of the federal
government to regulate monopolies, which had been one of the rallying cries of the Progressive
movement. Later, under Woodrow Wilson's administration, the government took an even more active
stance in busting trusts and monopolies.

Ideas proposed by Progressive
reformers (including Populists and advocates of Temperance) and feminists became reality with
the 16th Amendment (the income tax); the 17th Amendment (the direct election of senators); the
18th Amendment (Prohibition, which involved disallowing the transport and sale of alcohol and
which was later repealed by the 21st Amendment); and the 19th Amendment (the right to vote for
women). Several of these ideas had been first advocated by...

Where can I find quotes about finding one's identity in James McBride's The Color of Water?

The idea
of learning how to find one's identity is quite personal, as every person travels a different
journey.in his book searches for his identity both in heritage and faith.
His father was black and his mother is white; his father is a gentile, and his mother spends
most of her life hiding (and trying to forget) that she is Jewish. That is not a typical journey
of discovery.

Because identity is so personal, the best way to find
meaningful and applicable quotes for yourself is to read and discover what resonates. There are
a few general life-application things which might be helpful.

In chapter 14,
James is spending his days loitering (and getting high) with a bunch of older black men, and one
of them--known as "Chicken Man"--tells James that he has to go make something of
himself because the world is not going to care enough to seek him out to discover his value.
Though Chicken Man does not follow his own advice, it makes James think about what unique gifts
and talents he has to offer the world; eventually he does move forward to showcase
those.

In chapter 25, James shares his concluding thoughts about the journey
of discovery he has been on, realizing he took the path of least resistance (in this case,
claiming only his black heritage and ignoring his white). He also understands that what seemed
to be a better world, in this case the white world, also had problems and issues which made life
difficult. He concludes by saying he did not know who he was for so long because he chose not to
look.

Finally, chapter 6 is the chapter in which the title "color of
water" is explained. Ruth tells her inquisitive son that God does not pay attention to
color because he is not a color--because He is spirit, He is the color of water. This is an
important concept regarding identity in terms of faith and race.

As you read,
you will undoubtedly find more specific quotes which are applicable to your life; however, these
are good general concepts for a discussion about identity.

 

What do the sailors do with the bag of winds in The Oydssey? What happens as a result?

At the beginning of Book X of the
Odyssey, Aeolus, keeper of the winds, gives Odysseus a bag of winds. Aeolus
treats this bag very carefully, coming down to the ship himself and tying it up with a silver
cord, so that not the slightest breeze can escape.

After nine days' sailing,
Odysseus goes to sleep, leaving the care of the ship to his men. They are now so close to Ithaca
that they can see the men tending the beacon fires on the shore. At this point, a rumor
circulates that the bag is full of gold and silver ,and the men complain that Odysseus is
keeping all this treasure to himself instead of sharing it with them.

The men
open the bag of winds. All the winds instantly escape and the storm-wind seizes the ship and
bears it away from Ithaca all the way back to the isle of Aeolus. When he hears what has
happened, Aeolus sends Odysseus away with angry curses, since it appears that he is hated by the
gods. Odysseus departs from the isle and the men are punished for their folly by having to row
the ship, since this time there are no winds to help them on their way.

What does The Ghost of Christmas Past answer when Scrooge asks him what business brought him here?

Scrooge has
been informed by Marley's ghost that he will be visited by spirits. When the Ghost of Christmas
Past arrives, Scrooge asks him if he is one of the spirits Marley told him would come. The ghost
says he is, and Scrooge then asks him why he is there. Rather than give him a specific answer,
the ghost simply says he has arrived for Scrooge's "reclamation."

Though Scrooge would rather not have had to deal with this ghost, he is also strangely
drawn to him and finds he can't resist when the spirit takes hold of his arm and tells him to
come with him.

Scrooge, at this point, has little idea of what is about to
happen to him or what his reclamation will consist of. Nevertheless, he travels with the ghost
to visit scenes from his past that will start to melt his long-frozen
heart.

Describe the speaker in the Adrienne Rich poems "Storm Warning," "Living in Sin," and "History." How does the characterization of the speaker help us...

In
"Storm Warning," the speaker is reflective, philosophical and, arguably, fatalistic.
For example, she declares, in stanza three, that "the wind will rise, / We can only close
the shutters." This fatalistic, perhaps pessimistic observation helps us to understand the
theme of the weather in the poem. The weather is relentless and unstoppable and has, as such,
produced this fatalistic outlook in the speaker.

In "Living In
Sin," the speaker is an objective observer, commenting on the life of the woman who is
"jeered by minor demons." The speaker's tone, for the most part, is matter-of-fact and
nonjudgmental. This comes across, for example, when she lists the objects in the woman's studio:
"A plate of pears, / a piano with a Persian shawl, a cat / stalking." This objective,
matter-of-fact tone helps us to understand the main theme of the poem, which is the woman's
restlessness with her life. She is restless because everything seems so mundane.

In "History," the speaker seems angry and defiant, as indicated by the first
line: "Should I simplify my life for you?" The speaker's tone later becomes nostalgic
as she reflects on the days of her youth. She remembers fondly "the slowdance numbers /
(and) the small sex-filled gas-rationed Chevrolet." The angry and defiant tone, as well as
the nostalgic tone, both link to the them of love. The speaker is angry that she has to justify
and explain the choices she has made in her love life, and at the same time she is proud of and
nostalgic for those choices.

What is an example of ethos that Jonathan Edwards used for persuasion in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

As a highly
regarded theologian and preacher, a sermonwould deliver would have automatic ethos to his
audience in colonial New England."Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God" is no
exception.

In employing ethos in his argument, Edwards makes the point that
"the greatest earthly potentates...are but feeble despicable Worms of the Dust, in
Comparison of the great and almighty Creator and King of Heaven and Earth" to convince his
audience that no mortal man, however powerful, is a match for the omnipotence of God.He goes on
to quote the gospel of Luke in asserting "But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear; fear
him, which after he hath killed, hath Power to cast into Hell; yea I say unto you, fear
him."The preacher enhances the credibility of his point by invoking the Bible, held to be
the sacred text of the people to whom he was delivering the sermon.Edwards's argument in the
sermon is that God harbors catastrophic wrath toward sinners.He urges the audience
to...

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In Lord of the Flies, how do the boys react when Jack paints his face?

In
chapter 4,uses the natural elements of the island to develop a camouflage for his face to
improve his hunting efforts. He gathers white and red clay and a stick of charcoal from the fire
and uses them to develop patterns of disguise, carefully evaluating his work as he
proceeds.stands close, providing general feedback about his progress, and Jack shoos the twins
away so that he can better concentrate, showing his seriousness toward these efforts and toward
his general attitude about hunting. When he finishes, even Jack considers his new face that of
an "awesome stranger" and begins laughing excitedly.

With his
design complete, he turns to present his new face to the group. To the boys, his work looks like
a mask atop a "sinewy body" and they are captivated by the design. Appalled by his
painted face, they cannot take their eyes from Jack's work. Jack begins to feel more secure
behind his new mask, and his laughter turns from a lighthearted approval to a "bloodthirsty
snarling."

No longer self-conscious about himself, Jack emerges as a
more powerful leader with his new mask, and the boys follow his lead as "the mask compel[s]
them."

Thus, the mask provides Jack with a new confidence by allowing
him to hide his true self, and his newfound confidence draws the boys closer and beings to align
them under Jack's goals.

As a result of what event did the British start to impose new taxes on the American colonists? Why?

The end of
the French and Indian War brought about the end of the salutary neglect relationship between
Britain and the American colonies. Between 1660 and 1763, Britain passed laws governing the
colonies but did little to enforce them. During the war, British military officials observed
that American merchants openly flouted tax laws and navigation...

In "The Fight" the focus is on Alice and Isaac. Describe their predicament.

Alice
Greenwood and Isaac Jackson are a married couple. They play important roles in Danas time-travel
quest to intervene for her ancestors; she meets Alice in more than one time period, as a child
and as an adult. In the portion of The Fight when Dana enters the action,...

In Pollock's Walsh, what is the symbolic significance of the fake Native attacks & Mountie rescues that Walsh stages for the entertainment of the...

In
Pollock's play Walsh, the staged attack and rescue Walsh has planned for
the Easterners is both sad and ironic. And it is important that he plans it out using
toy soldiers. It speaks to the difference between what is believed about
the Northwest Territory and the Indians (as they are referred to in the play) and the
truth.

One of Walsh's greatest frustrations became his
inability to help Sitting Bull and his people, and his sense of betrayal by his own government.
In one of his letters to his wife, Mary, Walsh notes:

An
able and brilliant people have been crushed, held down, moved from place to place, cheated and
lied to...And now, they hold on here in Canada, the remnants of a proud race, and they ask for
some sort of justice...which is what I thought I swore an oath to serve!

In the scene in question, Sitting Bull has been forced to return
to the States so his people can be fedor so have promised the U.S. government officials. After a
leave of absence, Walsh returns and is planning a...

Poverty In A Christmas Carol

Dickens was
inspired to writeafter reading about the plight of poor children in the industrial towns of
Northern England. As a result, we find many descriptions of poverty in the text.

In the first stave, for example, two gentlemen call on Scrooge and request that he
makes a charitable donation to their collection for the poor. In the conversation which follows,
we hear of the poor in workhouse and prisons, forced to live in squalor and to go without the
necessities and comforts of life. 

Next, in the third stave, we find a
description of Scrooge's employee, Bob Cratchit, and his family. Though they enjoy the Christmas
season and are full of cheer and good-will, they are still classed as paupers:

"They were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being
water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the
inside of a pawnbroker's."

From here, the Ghost of
Christmas Present takes Scrooge to see a family of miners. Here, in the "bowels of  the
earth," the miner lives in a cottage made of stone and mud but his family are happy, all
gathered around a small fire in the main room. 

Towards the end of the stave,
we find another description of poverty. This time, it is two children who represent Ignorance
and Want, and they are described as being "wretched, abject, frightful, hideous,
miserable." They have been taken from the world in the prime of their lives and have been
physically scarred and aged by their deprivation and poverty. 

Finally, in
the fourth stave, we see another, quite different, description of poverty. It is the
neighbourhood of Old Joe's shop, where Scrooge's belongings are taken and sold after his
imagined death. Dickens' description here is embellished, yet powerful:

"The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched;
the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools,
disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the
whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery."

What we find, then, is quite a variety in the character of Dickens' descriptions of
poverty. They show all facets of life, from the types of streets and houses that the poor
inhabited to the physical effects of experiencing poverty. But, what is most striking here, is
that Dickens does not vilify the poor or blame them for their situation. He is a sympathetic
observer who seeks to highlight their plight to the reader. 

What geographic advantage/disadvantage does Greece have?

I'm
not sure if the question is asking about modern day Greece or ancient Greece.  Obviously the
geography between the two time periods won't be different, but geographic difficulties that
ancient Greeks suffered are not as drastic with modern day tools.  The question is categorized
in the history section of so I am going to assume an ancient Greek time period is
preferred.  

Greece is a peninsula.  The huge advantage to that is access to
water.  In addition to simply being a peninsula, Greece's coastline has many accessible harbor
locations.  Having good harbors and water access is good for trade, and trade brings economic
stability.  Additionally, the water access provides a stable fishing ground to provide food to
people.  

Greece is also quite mountainous.  That makes it a difficult
country for attackers to invade.  It's not easy terrain.  However, that mountainous terrain is
also a disadvantage.  It is tough terrain for attackers, and it's also tough terrain for the
Greeks.  The mountains make trade within Greece's borders difficult.  The mountains also make
communication from city to city slow.  Lastly, because so much of Greece is rocky, mountainous
terrain, there isn't a lot of fertile soil.  This forces Greece to be very dependent on trade.
 

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How can a leader build or promote a culture that supports accountability?

The best
leaders lead by example. The leader should set clear expectations for himself/herself and be
able to point to both qualitative and quantitative data to prove whether or not the expectations
are being met. The leader of a group should also operate openly and ethically so as not to hide
shortcomings. While no one is perfect, the leader should take responsibility for his or her
mistakes and provide ways to remedy these mistakes for future reference.

In a
group, a business leader promotes a culture of accountability by having clear expectations and
consequences for when those expectations are not being met. For many organizations, the
consequences are also tied to ways to remedy the situation rather than punish the employee. By
demonstrating ways that the expectation can be met, the leader can hold everyone accountable to
the same standard. Not only does this improve efficiency, it also improves group morale as it
does not appear as though the leader has favorites.

How would the reserve demand curve move? Suppose the Federal Reserve did not pay interest on excess reserves. How would the reserve demand curve? A....

As
pohnpei and say, the demand curve is downward sloping as
the relationship between Price and Quantity of a good (in this case bank reserves) at various
prices is measured. When factors other than price (in this case interest rate charged for
borrowing) affect the demand curve, the affecting influence is seen in a
shift of the position of the curve on the graph. Favorable
influences shift the curve to the right, while unfavorable
influences shift it to the left. Since the withdrawal of interest
paid on reserves would be an unfavorable influence (from the point of view of the bankers), the
downward sloping demand curve would shift to the
left, as pohnpei said, but the demand would not be flat. 

http://www.netmba.com/econ/micro/demand/curve/

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Would you paraphrase the poem of "Desert Places" by Robert Frost stanza by stanza?

In the
poem 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost we have a lovely description in the first stanza.

It is not only the snow falling, but the night too, and speed is referenced - it is
happening quickly. The poet looks into a fiied to see it covered in snow - he makes special
mention that the weeds and last years cereal stubble are the last to get covered by the
smoothness.

He sees the woods as owning the snow which has smothered all
animals which may get hemmed in it because of the nature of their homes 'lairs.'

Next he makes mention of emotions 'loneliness' and 'absent-spirited' - he has
unwittingly become part of the scene. He envisages that loneliness becoming deeper as time
passes - so deep perhaps as it touches on the more serious nature of the blankness of feeling
associated with depression. The loneliness is exacerbated by the inability to communicate
thoughts and feelings.

Frost sees the lonely spaces including skies as
presenting a threat posed by someone else. Outer space is the extreme of alone-ness as there ,
there is not even another human soul.

The power to excommunicate, to isolate
oneself, is stronger Frost feels, inside his own personality. Possibly alluding to depressing
feelings, he sees these inner issues as having greater power to isolate than nature itself. The
word 'desert' here is used in terms of 'desolate' rather than 'hot.' Frost himself had succumbed
to the refuge of 'running away' during his lifetime - a link referencing that is included
here:

In Candide, do you think Voltaire agrees completely with Martin's philosophy?

Martin
is presented byas the foil to Pangloss. He's as much an incorrigible pessimist as Pangloss is an
optimist. In fact, Martin is so pessimistic that he doesn't believe there's any good in the
world at all. Such an attitude is not one that Voltaire himself shared. On the contrary, he
believed, in common with many of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, that people were
innately good but corrupted by the artificial institutions of human society. In particular,
Voltaire singled out the...

What is the people's initial reaction to Mr. Hooper's veil in "The Minister's Black Veil"?

Before he
donned the black veil, the Reverend Mr. Hooper had been known as a pleasant and popular
clergyman but not a particularly effective one. His previous preaching was mild and inoffensive
but did not make a major impression on his parishioners. In other words, although he was
well-liked, he really had not been accomplishing his major task of saving souls.

When he dons the black veil, even though the rest of his appearance is unchanged, he
makes a quite different, almost uncanny impression on his parishioners. The parishioners are
"wonder-struck" at his transformation and the sexton wonders if it is really Hopper
under the veil. The members of his congregation react with fear, awe, and puzzlement to the
veil. Even more significantly, they find his sermon more powerful than any he has given
before. 

What is the theme or lesson of Santiago carrying around his jacket and how does the jacket embody or symbolize that theme?

Coelho's
is a symbolically rich tale. Most of the symbols are explained in one way
or another. The jacket doesn't seem to be one of the many Christian or Arabic symbols, though.
It seems merely to be an item of clothing. The jacket first appears on the first page of the
book as Santiago uses it not to get warm, but to sweep up his resting spot under the broken roof
of the abandoned chapel. This opening scene is set in summer when the boy is annoyed that he has
to carry his jacket. But then he...

How does Tennyson convey Ulysses' optimism? Ulysses' optimism about setting sail once again that is. Particularly his optimism in the last few lines...

It seems
to me that the subtext of the question helps to answer the original question.  'is not one that
is rendered of fear.  After enduring his harrowing journey, Ulysses is not shown to have been
scarred or scared from his experience.  Rather, he is one who is active, ready to get back to
what it is he loved to do.  Tennyson constructs his version of the Greek hero with...

How do you change a fraction into a decimal? e.g 1/3=_.___

Method 1 : Use
the base 10, 100, 1000 system to find the decimal.Make sure you mark 0.3with a repeating 3.

Methond 2: Divide the numerator of the fraction by the denominator (e.g.4/9
= 4 · 9=0.44444) Round the answer to the desired precision.

Method 3: 3/8
you would find by what factor you multiply 8 to get a multiple of 10, and then use the same
factor to multiply 3.

Thus 8*125 = 1000and 3*125 = 375so we get 375/1000 =
0.375. So1 divide by 3 will give you 0.3 with a repeating 3.round it off and the answer is
0.3

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How does Orwell use Squealer to explore ideas about manipulation?

is the
smooth talking pig who always has an answer when the other animals are rightly disturbed about
something that has happened:

The others said of Squealer
that he could turn black into white.

For example, when
the pigs commandeer the milk and windfall apples for themselves, the other animals
"murmur" and are upset. Squealer, however, explains that the pigs don't really like
milk and apples but are taking them for the welfare of everyone: if the pigs are not well fed
and healthy, they can't use their brains and then Jones will come back. Squealer says:

surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come
back?

Squealer twists all the selfish and evil actions of
the pigs into somehow being for the good of the larger community. He confuses the other animals
with lies that somehow sound plausible for the moment. He is willing to say anything or tell any
lie in order for the pigs to keep their grip on power. All of this is manipulative behavior: it
bends the other animals to the pigs' wills withoutcaring at all for the other animals
themselves. It is typical of the kind of propaganda used in totalitarian regimes in places such
as Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.

What is the meaning of the Misfits comment that the grandma would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute...

Towards
the end of the story, just before she's shot by The Misfit, the grandmother experiences a moment
of grace (a recurring theme in the work of). She recognizes that The Misfit is a human being,
like one of her own children. Prior to this moment, she's lived a life marred by moral hypocrisy
and a chronically judgmental attitude towards others, including her family. But now she shows
true...

Which of the following statements tells why Andrew Jackson disliked the Bank of the United States? a. he was from the West and because it was too...

The best
answer from these choices is A.

First, as a test-taking tip, you should be
able to eliminate D as a possible answer.  This is because A and B contradict one another. 
There is no way that Jackson...

What are the advantages of having a centralized staffing function as opposed to letting each manager be totally responsible for all staffing activities...

One major
advantage of centralizing staffing is specialization. Although unit managers may know the
business of their units (e.g. manufacturing, web design, etc.) they are unlikely to be up to
speed on human resource issues such as regulatory compliance, detecting fraudulent applications,
attracting an ideal applicant pool, disability accommodation, managing diversity, etc.


Another issue is efficiency. If unit managers are being trained in and
handling HR issues, that is time they are not devoting to their actual jobs of managing their
units.

Optimal staff development may requiring grooming people for
managerial or executive positions by moving them from unit to unit, something a unit manager
would not be in a position to do.

Finally, in a large corporation, strategic
HR goals might include rotating people through positions in several countries to forge a
globalized corporate culture and filling high level positions through intra-company transfer
when possible, issues that a unit manager is not placed to address.

What do the three witches predict for Macbeth and Banquo?

And to add to
the above, of course there are the later predictions given to onlyin Act 4, scene 1. They show
him three apparitions and a vision. They promise him things as they did before, but this time
the promises are not all as direct. They are riddles or half truths and not so easy to figure
out by the literal minded :

FIRST APPARITION:

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware

;

Beware the
Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.

SECOND APPARITION:

Be
bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to

scorn

The power of
man, for none of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth.

THIRD APPARITION:

Be lion-mettled, proud, and
take no care

Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:

Macbeth shall never vanquishd be until

Great Birnam Wood to high
Dunsinane Hill

Shall come against him.

The first prediction, told to him by a head in armor, is literally true: Macbeth should
beware of Macduff (he will kill Macbeth in the end).

Second: a bloody baby
tells Macbeth that he cannot be killed by anyone who was born of a woman. This is the riddle of
the Caesarian child (Macduff). It's a trick meant to mislead Macbeth.

The
third apparition is a young King with a branch in his hand who tells Macbeth he can't be
defeated unless the forest that surrounds his castle comes up to the castle. This is another
riddle, for the branches of the trees of the forest are used as camouflage, and the men are led
on by the future king, . Macbeth understands this one only when it's too late.

One final vision is "A show of eight Kings, andlast with a glass in his
hand." This suggests to Macbeth that generations of Banquo's offspring will all be
kings.

Each of these visions, literally or figuratively as they may have been
presented, will come true.

What literary elements are in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"?

In his
essay, "," Poe states that he starts not with a plot but with a mood or "an
effect" he wants to impress on the reader. Poe wishes to convey a mood of growing
foreboding and horror in this story of a man walled up to die in a catacomb as revenge for
undefined insults.

One way Poe creates this mood is through the use of the
literary device of , which is description using the fives senses of sight, sound, touch, taste,
and smell.The visual description of the catacombs is one of increasing claustrophobia and dark
horror that contrasts with sepulchral whiteness. Corridors are lit by a flaming torch Montresor
carries that shows

the white webwork which gleams from
these cavern walls

The two men pass piles of human bones
and pass under a "low arch" into a "deep crypt." Montresor wears a black
mask that hides his face.

But Poe does not only use visual effects. Sound
was important to him, and he adds to the growing sense of terror through the use of
screams...

In Act 3 of Pygmalion, describe the relationship between Mrs. Higgins and her son.

We
understand that Higgins is both a bully and a rather crusty bachelor.  He doesn't believe that
about himself at all, but his mother sides with us.  In fact, when he shows up at her house in
this scene, the first words she says to him are:

"What are you doing here to-day? It is my at-home day: you promised not to
come.... Go home at once.... I'm serious, Henry. You offend all my friends: they stop coming
whenever they meet you."

She's right, of course.  He
has none of the social graces his mother has--and which he's presumably trying to teach Eliza. 
She really does want him to leave, though she is more distressed than angry. 

It turns out Henry would like to use his mother's at-home day as a practice session for
his pupil.  When he tells her he's bringing over a girl, Mrs. Higgins is thrilled--that perhaps
someone else will have a positive influence on her son's hopeless behaviors.  Alas.  It's only a
kerbstone flowergirl. The event is a moderate success, and Mrs. Higgins is charmed enough by
Eliza to forgive Henry's lapses in social courtesy. 

Their relationship is
humorous and good-hearted, as they banter about all manner of things (nointended).  Each of them
is serious about their issues, but together theirs is a good-natured give-and-take which the
audience generally finds amusing. 

Why does Bob Cratchit not hate Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

The
reader learns about Bob Cratchit in stave 1, "Marley's Ghost," of 's novella
:

The door of Scrooges counting-house
was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort
of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerks fire was so very
much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldnt replenish it, for Scrooge kept the
coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master
predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white
comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong
imagination, he failed.

Scrooge's nephew, Fred, found
Cratchit to be a cordial fellow who appreciates and applauds his sentiments about
Christmas:

His nephew left the room without an angry word,
notwithstanding. He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the
clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially.

Cratchit is certainly cowed and bullied by Scrooge, but he doesn't
seem at all resentful of Scrooge. Cratchit is happy to have employment when so many others
don't, and it wouldn't serve any good purpose for himself or his family for Cratchit to
antagonize Scrooge to the point where he was in any danger of losing his job.

Throughout the novella, Cratchit is shown to be a friendly, optimistic, and fun-loving
man who is happy and grateful for what he has. He is shown to be a caring husband and father:
someone who always has a kind word for everyoneeven Scrooge.

When Scrooge
visited the Cratchit home with the Ghost of Christmas Present in stave 3, "The Second Of
Three Spirits," Cratchit offered a heartfelt toast to Scrooge, in the spirit of the
season:

Mr. Scrooge! said Bob; Ill give you Mr.
Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!

The Founder of the Feast indeed! cried
Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. I wish I had him here. Id give him a piece of my mind to feast upon,
and I hope hed have a good appetite for it.

My dear, said Bob, the
children! Christmas Day.

It should be Christmas Day, I am sure, said she,
on which one drinks the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge.
You know he is, Robert! Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow!

My
dear, was Bobs mild answer, Christmas Day.

Even in the
depths of grief at the death of his son Tiny Tim in stave 4, "The Last Of The
Spirits," Cratchit was nevertheless pleasant and cheerful with every member of his family
and holds no animosity towards anyone.

Quite simply, it isn't in Bob
Cratchit's nature to hate anyone, even Ebenezer Scrooge.

What are Howard Zinn's criticisms of traditional interpretations (like Samuel Eliot Morison's) of this period?

Zinn
claims that traditional interpretations of Columbus's encounters in the "New World" do
not sufficiently grapple with the horrific consequences of these encounters, which were the
result of deliberate policy. Writing specifically about Morison's book Christopher
Columbus, Mariner, Zinn observes that Morison hardly lies about the past. In fact,
Morison uses the word "genocide" to describe the effects of Columbus's actions on the
Arawaks and other Indigenous Americans. But this admission, Zinn argues, is "buried . . .
[in] the telling of a grand romance." Overall, Morison characterizes Columbus as a
"Christ-bearer," a brilliant and intrepid sailor whose exploits led to the creation of
a new world.

Zinn's contention is that Morison ultimately argues that the
genocide of the Native peoples was an unfortunate consequence of Columbus's actions. In doing
so, Morison, to...

How does Jack Kerouac use diction and literary devices in On the Road?

(that is,
word choice) and literary devices are especially important elements in s narrative titled
. The style of Kerouacs narrative seems almost as significant as its plot,
and in fact it may be even more significant. Consider, for example, the following passage from
very early in the narrative, when the narrator realizes that his travels have taken him away
from the city where he hopes to meet his friends:

I
cursed, I cried for Chicago. "Even now they're all having a big time, they're doing this,
I'm not there, when will I get there!"-and so on. Finally a car stopped at the empty
filling station; the man and the two women in it wanted to study a map. I stepped right up and
gestured in the rain; they consulted; I looked like a maniac, of course, with my hair all wet,
my shoes sopping. My shoes, damn fool that I am, were Mexican huaraches, plantlike sieves not
fit for the rainy night of America and the raw road night.

In this passage, Kerouac adds to...

What are human vocations with respect to life in God's spirit, and what is a Bible verse that relates to vocations?

The word
vocation comes from the Latin
verb vocare, meaning to
call. Hence, what Christians often consider to be their calling is
also their vocation. Prior to the days of Luther, the  Roman Catholic Church only considered a
vocation to be within the church itself, a holy vocation, such as being a priest, nun, or monk.
It was Luther who began applying the word vocation to
even secular vocations. In his view, even "'secular' work [was] just as
valuable in God's sight as 'religious' work" ("Lutheran Church of Australia").
According to Luther, "All Christians have a calling to serve others wherever they are
placed in life"; hence, whether you are a nurse, a professor, a carpenter, or a clergymen,
that profession is your calling and is your
vocation ("Lutheran Church"). What's more, Luther related
all vocations to the "masks of our Lord God," saying that
He hides behind these masks as we do His works so that through us He can "do all
things" (as cited in Veith, "The Doctrine of Vocation"). This concept of God
doing all things is best expressed all throughout Psalms 147, such
as in the passage:

He strengthens the bars of your
gates
and blesses your people within you.
He grants peace to your
borders
and satisfies you with the finest of wheat. (13-15, NIV)

Since this passage describes God as strengthening the "bars of
your gates," the passage is actually indirectly describing God
as either a blacksmith or a carpenter; hence, the passage is
actually describing God as fixing the iron gates of the city, not through His own means, but
through the vocations of His people, making this a perfect passage
explaining exactly what vocations are and how God
uses them. The same can be said of the verse describing His granting
"peace" to the borders of the city, which can be likened to the military vocation, and
the verse describing how He "satisfies" with "finest wheat," which can be
likened to the vocation of farming or harvesting.

`int_-1^2(1-x)dx`

To
interpret the integral in terms of area , graph the integrand.

The integrand
is the function `f(x)=1-x`

Graph the function in the interval (-1,2). Refer
the attached graph.

The bounded region forms two triangles, one triangle
below the x-axis and second triangle above the x-axis.

Area of triangle above
the x-axis `A_2=1/2b_2h_2`

`A_2=1/2*2*2=2`

Area of
triangle below the x-axis `A_1=1/2b_1h_1`

`A_1=1/2*1*1=1/2`

So,`int_-1^2(1-x)dx=A_2-A_1`

`=2-1/2`

`=3/2`

 

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In Our Town, in Act I, what does Rebecca's quotation of the address on Jane Crofut's letter from the minister mean? REBECCA: I never told you about...

In
Act I of by , George and Rebecca, brother and sister, are introduced.
George is a prominent character who marries Emily, Mr. Webb's daughter. George and Emily want a
marriage that epitomizes "happily ever after," and in a way they succeed.

In Act I, Wilder introduces an ingenious literary device that works asand as the
adhesive that thematically holds a seemingly random series of events together. Rebecca and
George are in conversation, however the audience only hears a small, seemingly meaningless,
snippet of it. Rebecca says,

"I never told you about
that letter Jane Crofut got from her minister when she was sick€¦on the envelope the address was
like this: Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grovers Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United
States of America....Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar
System; the Universe; the Mind of Godthats what it said on the envelope€¦And the postman brought
it just the same."

George replies: "What do you
know!...What do you know!" Act I ends. Act II opens with the Stage Manager introducing the
morning of George's marriage to Emily.

In Act III, George throws himself down
in tears on Emily's grave and here we finally learn the reason for and the meaning of Rebecca's
seemingly nonsensical contribution in Act I. The address on the letter is two things. It is the
foreshadowing of the early death of Emily in the reference to the "Mind of God." It is
also the vehicle for one of Wilder's themes: the transcendence of the soul of humankind over the
trivialities  and mundane activities of daily life on Earth.

So, what it
means literally is that working from the smallest unit--Jane Crofut--outward to the greatest
unit--the Mind of God--the individual person is a component of something very big and very
important, making the individual important and big, too. What it means as a literary device is
that there will be within the play a merging of at least one character--and one related to
George, the hearer of the lines--with the Mind of God, which occurs through death for the
character. What it means thematically is that which has already been said, each individual
transcends the mundane and trivial because each is part of a greater whole that has similarly
great and significant parts--the Mind of God.

Discuss allegory and satire relevant to the character of Chaucer's poem The Parliament of Fowls.

, or Parliament of Fowls,has been much
debated over time. No consensus has ever been reached.Some see it ason courtly love. Some see it
asfor loveand marriage. Some see it as social and political satire with varioussocial classes
represented by different fowl. It is a dream vision poemthat is framed as a dream the narrator
has. As such, the story in thepoem can reasonably take on any level of strange
particulars.

Sincethe story, in brief, is about whom an eagle should choose
to wed, thebickering and quarreling amongst the assemblage of...

Find the lower sum for the region bounded by f(x) = 9 - x^2 and the x-axis between x=0 and x=3.

The lower sum
is found by finding the sum of the areas of the rectangles of minimum height on each interval.
Since f(x) is decreasing on the given interval, we use the right endpoint of each
interval.

`s_n=lim_(n->oo)sum_(i=1)^nf(c_i)Delta x_i`

We can use a partition with rectangles of equal width. So the width of each rectangle
will be `Deltax=3/n` . Then `c_i=a_1+iDeltax=0+(3i)/n=(3i)/n` .So:

`s_n=lim_(n->oo)sum_(i=1)^n(9-((3i)/n)^2)(3/n)`

`=lim_(n->oo)sum_(i=1)^n (9-(9i^2)/n^2)(3/n)`

`=lim_(n->oo)sum_(i=1)^n [27/n-(27i^2)/n^3]`

`=lim_(n->oo)[27/n sum_(i=1)^n1-27/n^3sum_(i=1)^ni^2]`

`=lim_(n->oo)[27/n*n-27/n^3(n^3/3+n^2/2+n/6)]`

`=lim_(n->oo)[27-9-27/(2n)-27/(6n^2)]`

`=27-9`

`=18`

What were the lasting effects of the Treaty of Versailles?

The Treaty
of Versailles was essentially an attempt to weaken German's industrial and military machine
following their attempted conquest in World War 1. The harsh sanctions and impositions put in
place by the Treaty enraged the nation of Germany and eventually led to Hitler's uprising.
Hitler used what he and the majority of Germany considered the harsh and unfair penalties levied
against Germany to galvanize the nation and direct their ire towards the Allied nations and the
Jewish people.

The Treaty eventually led to World War 2, but that was in
large part due to inaction on the part of the Allies. The lackadaisical attitude towards
Germany's efforts to repair and rebuild their navy, as well as their industrial complex, allowed
them to get a significant head start on creating a new military, and they eventually invaded and
captured Poland before the Allies did anything to seriously prevent their expansion. By that
time it was too late, and World War 2 broke out.

In what way (O'Brien) is the domination desired by the "Party" different than the world domination desired by the Nazi's and the early communists?

's domination
is the perfection of what the Nazi's and early Communists sought.  In his world, O'Brien is able
to control people ( , eg.) to such an extent that external reality ceases to exist and is
replaced by whatever the powers in control wish to put in there.  This is symbolized by the 2 +
2 = 5 that Winston finally agrees to.  O'Brien didn't settle for Winston's agreeing...

How does the plot develop in Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison?

The action in Ellison's
is framed by references to the boy's grandfather, who early on is quoted
as telling his own son to infiltrate the white world and to defeat it with agreement,
appeasement and grins. 

"Live with your head in the
lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to
death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open."

The boy worries that he is unwittingly and unintentionally already
carrying out a program of acquiescence and the action of Battle Royal
demonstrates some of the ways in which the boy allows himself to be co-opted by the powerful
white men of the town, adopting their own views (of him) in ways that contradict the
grandfather's exhortation. 

After giving a popular speech at his graduation,
the narrator is invited to give the speech in front of "the town's big shots" and upon
accepting the invitation is told that he will be included in a battle royal with other African
American boys at the event. The other boys resent the narrator for several reasons but they all
share in his shame, outrage and embarrassment when they are made to watch a woman dance nude in
front of the crowd of men. 

The boys are then blindfolded and fight an
ineffective but prolonged fight against one another, each boy for himself. At the end of the
group fight, the narrator is not quick enough in his thinking to escape the ring and so is
forced to fight the biggest boy, Tatlock.

Denying the narrator's offers of
money if he were to throw the fight, Tatlock knocks the narrator down and wins the fight. Next
the boys are tricked into scratching and scraping for money on a electrified rug in a moment of
crude debasement. (While the previous actions of the men at the event have been quite cruel and
crude, this may be the most humiliating and debasing part of the evening as the boys are
sometimes pushed onto the mat and shocked.)

When the boys are paid, the
narrator is finally asked to give his speech, which the men appear not to pay any attention to.
He is ridiculed whenever he uses multi-syllabic terms, which leads him at one point to blurt out
the phrase "social equality" instead of "social responsibility." This
mis-speech silences the men for a while, but is soon remedied when one of the men makes sure
that the narrator had not intended to say "social equality." 

"Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand.
We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times."

This statement of position resonates with the final scene in the
story wherein the narrator dreams of his grandfather mocking the prize given to the narrator for
his speech. Imagining his grandfather telling him to open his new briefcase just as the white
men had done, the narrator finds envelope after envelope and is told to keep opening
them. 

The grandfather then bursts out laughing after he tells his grandson
to read a final note that suggests the whole purpose of the accolades given to the boy are meant
to keep him running his whole life. 

By opening and closing the story with
references to the grandfather who has advocated a high degree of self-consciousness in relation
to Caucasians, Ellison presents a narrative that featuresat its core as the narrator is only
vaguely capable of understanding his grandfather's message and is only fleetingly aware of how
his own identity is being defined by the views of the men at the event who see him as an
inferior being.  

Which technological breakthrough of the Middle Ages has had the most lasting impact on human society? What is the legacy of the Middle Ages in the...

The
development of gunpowder was arguably the greatest development of the Middle Ages. The Chinese
had already developed gunpowder, but they primarily used it in fireworks and mining. Europeans
used gunpowder in warfirst through the use of bombard cannons that made the castles of that era
obsolete and greatly reduced the time needed for siege warfare. Eventually, Europeans would use
smaller gunpowder-powered weapons in order to create the first firearms. Other cultures, such as
the Ottomans and the Safavids, would gain this technology through trading in China as well as
Europe. They would use gunpowder to conquer their rivals. Massive cannons were instrumental in
the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.

Gunpowder technology allowed for
greater armies to be put into the field. This led to a branch of study, military science, that
created an officer corps and a chain of command that still exists in nearly every army in the
world. Gunpowder was also quite expensive to make initially; this led to states creating more
efficient taxation systems, and smaller kingdoms, such as Gonzaga, disappearing, as they could
not afford the new technology. Gunpowder would also be influential in the European conquests of
the Americas and Africa. Even though the early firearms were slow and unreliable, they still
created an element of fear with their noise, smoke, and range.

The Middle
Ages are generally seen as a backward time today, though they represent a period between the
fall of Rome and the Renaissance. The kingdoms and the papacy of this period maintained order.
The Crusades represented Europeans' first foray into the Middle East. Through contact with other
Asian and Arabic cultures, Europeans were exposed to science such as pharmaceuticals and paper.
The period was a very violent time, which helps to explain why people were hungry for the
knowledge acquired during the Renaissance.

Christians believe in one God, so how exactly does each part of the Trinity contribute to God? Christians believe in one God, so how exactly does each...

The
first post does a good job in explaining the general concept of the Trinity.  Being Roman
Catholic, I just thought I would throw out Saint Patrick's awesome (and easy to understand)
explanation as well.

The Trinity is comprised of God the Father, God the Son
(Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit (or the Holy Ghost).  Three persons, ... one God.  Saint
Patrick told the people of Ireland that the best way to understand this Triune God was to look
at their very own shamrock.  A shamrock, being a little plant that grows all over Ireland, has
three leaves protruding from its one stem.  Of course, it is still only...

Explain the effects of the French Revolution.

I would
say that one of the effects of the French Revolution was to display the intense amount of
violence that can accompany revolutions.  Intellectually speaking, one of the strongest effects
f the Revolution was to show how the revolutionary spirit, one that Wordsworth would call
"pure bliss," can morph so very quickly into something awful and horrendous.  The
Reign of Terror that started a year or so after the Revolution was a reflection of this.  The
energy and spirit that led to the overthrow of the monarchy had a very unsightly facade to it
during Robespierre's time.  The use of the government to suppress individual factions and to do
so without any checks or limitations created a state where personal vendettas were carried out
through executive power.  The use of the guillotine in public executions on such a large scale
proved that the French Revolution had strayed far from its American counterpart.  Tribunals who
"determined" guilt started to kill those that the revolution had actually sought to
protect.  Over 70% of those killed were poor peasants who were sentenced for crimes such as
larceny and disturbing the public peace.  At this point, I would say that the effect of the
Revolution was two fold.  The first is that it showed that authority can represent corrupt ends
at any time, and all authority has to be questioned.  At the same time, this effect brought out
the idea that individuals in the position of power might not have the public interest at the
forefront of their concerns.  In the end, this abuse of power in my mind becomes one of the
significant effects of the French Revolution.

The US Federal Reserve is independent from the government. Does this independence exacerbates or helps the mitigation of the budgetary problems of the...

Even though
the Federal Reserve Bank is independent, it works together with the Treasury Department when the
government needs money.

To make this explanation simpler, you should know
that the Federal Reserve Bank is the government's banker. All the revenues collected by the US
Treasury are stored at the Federal Reserve.

Take this example, can your bank
leave you if you need money for a project? The answer is "no," especially if you have
a good credit score. Your bank will extend a loan to you to help you complete the project. The
same is true with the relationship between the Federal Reserve and the government or
Treasury.

However, unlike the relationship that you have with your bank, the
Federal Reserve Bank doesn't give direct loans to the government. Instead, they help coordinate
the issuance of a Treasury bond. When treasury wants to borrow money, they issue a bond, which
is a debt instrument. Whoever buys the bond is promised repayment after a certain period known
as the maturity date. In addition, the lender is paid interest after every six months until the
bond matures.

After the government receives the loan from investors, it
deposits it in the Federal Reserve. Since the money is borrowed for a particular purpose, it is
kept in a different account and used for that purpose.

What do we know about the main character Jody Tiflin in The Red Pony?

Jody is young  and obedient, but he is also sensitive and thoughtful.
 The story describes his coming of age from a naive boy to a hardened young
man.

When the story starts, we learn that Joy is only a
little boy about ten years old.  He is obedient, jumping up as soon as he hears the
triangle.

[He has] hair like dusty yellow grass and with
shy polite grey eyes, and with a mouth that worked when he thought. (Ch. 1, p. 2) 

It never occurs to Jody to disobey the triangle.  He says that no
one he knows ever has.  Jody gets up quickly, and dresses quickly.  Both of his parents seem
strict, and Jody is shy around them.

His father was a
disciplinarian. Jody obeyed him in everything without questions of any kind. (Ch. 1, p.
4)

How do Lorraine and John change throughout The Pigman?

John
and Lorraine are similar in a lot of ways. They both have horrible home lives. Lorraine's mother
is emotionally abusive and is always telling Lorraine how ugly she is, and John's dad is as
equally horrendous as a parent. Both John and Lorraine are excellent liars and do not really
have a heart for the feelings of anybody else; however, all of that changes after they meet the
Pigman.

At the start of the story, readers are introduced to John, and he is
a troublemaker of a kid. He has huge problems with authority, and this is probably why he sets
off firecrackers in the bathroom and antagonizes substitute teachers. He simply doesn't believe
that adults care about him, and that's true until the Pigman enters his life. Through that
relationship, John learns what it is like to be loved and cared for by an adult.

John also has to learn the hard way what it feels like to disappoint that same adult.
John feels horrible for hosting the party that caused Mr. Pignati so much sadness.
Unfortunately, the book ends far too quickly for readers to really see deep and meaningful
changes in John, but we do feel confident that John is now ready to start taking responsibility
for his actions as well as take into account how his actions will impact people around
him.

Lorraine learns a lot of the same lessons as John; however, her changes
are distinct from John's changes. Despite having the world's most pessimistic mother, Lorraine
has hopes and dreams. What Lorraine lacks is the confidence to pursue those dreams, but that
changes by the book's conclusion. She learns from John how to be a little more confident in
herself, and readers are left with the sense that she will pursue her dream of one day becoming
a writer. We can feel confident about Lorraine achieving her goal, as she and John are the
people that are "writing" .

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A lot of information online suggests that Laurie (Charles) is both the protagonist and the antagonist. How could this be the case? Discuss using the...

The reason
we see Laurie interpreted as bothandis due to the role both play in terms of plot. The
protagonist is largely the main character who drives the action in the story; as such, every
decision or action the protagonist makes elicits a reaction from the other characters in the
story. The antagonist, of course, contends with the protagonist; this tug of war  drives the
plot forward.

In the story, Laurie is the protagonist; like all little boys,
he has a little of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in him. Interestingly, Dr. Jekyll is often viewed as
the protagonist in Louis Stevenson's story, while Mr. Hyde is definitely the antagonist.
Similarly, in 's story, it is Laurie who drives the action of the plot: it is he who has created
his alter ego, . Therefore, every infraction Charles commits is also, by relationship, Laurie's.
However, a part of Laurie also wants to feel good about himself, so he allows his alter ego to
take the fall for his less than admirable predilections. Through Charles, Laurie can indulge in
the kind of behavior his parents or teachers might find offensive. In the meantime, Laurie still
gets to be known as the good kid.

This is similar to the plot in Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde. While Dr. Jekyll goes about as a respectable doctor, engaging in philanthropic
work and attending to his religious duties, he can freely indulge in his cruel vices through his
alter ego, Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde gets the blame for everything, while Dr. Jekyll gets off
scot-free. Eventually, however, Dr. Jekyll finds himself unable to control even his
transformations into Mr. Hyde; in essence, Mr. Hyde comes to take over the transformation
process, and eventually, he 'kills' off Dr. Jekyll. Now, Mr. Hyde is the clear
antagonist.

You can see this process in Shirley Jackson's story as well. As
the story begins, we see how smug Laurie is: he's the good boy, while Charles is the bad apple
in class. He even begins to enjoy linking Charles' name to any negative incident at home; the
fact that his parents join him in his game accords him great satisfaction. It becomes an
empowering experience for Laurie. However, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you can see Laurie
struggles to 'control' Charles. This is why Charles alternates between being a helpful boy as
well as being a disruptive student in class. So, in essence, Laurie is both protagonist and
antagonist: the dual conflict between the good and the bad in Laurie drive the action of the
story.

Ominous hints of Charles' future, reminiscent of Mr. Hyde's, is
reflected in the incident when Charles gets a little girl to say a bad word twice in class. In
telling the story to his mother, Laurie happily asserts that nothing happens to Charles as a
consequence, while the little girl gets her mouth washed out with soap. However, Charles
eventually earns a similar punishment when he is himself caught saying the bad word three or
four times. Like Dr. Jekyll at the end of Stevenson's story, we are left wondering if Charles
will eventually succeed in appropriating Laurie's character for himself.

Laurie's parents, meanwhile, are supporting characters or href="https://literarydevices.net/foil/">character foils. Usually, a
character foil provides a contrast to the protagonist; the character foil's role is to highlight
the importance of the major character. Laurie's parents play the role to perfection, as their
sole and overwhelming concern in the story centers on Laurie/Charles. They react to
Laurie/Charles rather than indulge in actions which drive the story.

I hope
this is helpful!

What is the tone of "The Minister's Black Veil"?

In addition to the dark
and gloomy tone pointed out by other commenters, this story is also characterized by an immense
sadness. Hawthorne validates Mr. Hooper's belief that each of us hides a secret sinfulness that
we want, at all costs, to prevent others from suspecting; Mr. Hooper believes that we not only
hide our true selves, then, from others, but we also try to hide from ourselves and even God.
When Mr. Hooper gives his first sermon wearing the veil, his congregation seems to acquire some
inkling of its meaning, and this causes them to distance themselves from him. It is too painful
for them to think that he might have an accurate understanding of their souls. Further, when
Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper's fiancee, figures out what the veil symbolizes, she blanches and runs
from him, never to return again. These responses seem to show that Mr. Hooper is correct. And if
he is correct, then this means that none of us ever truly knows or is known by any other human
being, including, perhaps, ourselves, and this is an incredibly sad and isolating notion. In his
final moments, the parson says,

"When the friend
shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly
shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem
me a monster; for the symbol beneath which I have lived and die!  I look around me, and, lo! on
every visage a Black Veil!"

Therefore, since
Hawthorne validates Mr. Hooper's behavior, it means that Hawthorne must, on some level, relate
to Mr. Hooper's terrible sadness as well. The idea that we are all trying
to hide our true selves means that we are all, voluntarily, alienating ourselves from everyone
else for the entirety of our lives. Our need to hide the very thing we all have in common means
that we can never really know anyone else or be known by them. This terribleis tragic and helps
to produce the story's sad tone.