… instead are the result of the situation and of necessity. Literary figures through the ages have been confronted with situations that require precise decisions to be made, and regardless of their choice, the characters have to live with the consequences…

… fact that it is so hard to live. The world is full of dangerous things and misleading people. When a person is mentally challenged it can be a lot harder to face the same problems that normal people face. A man that is mentally challenged faces a lot…

… to do with Santiago against nature and the sea. In this part of the story, he goes out and fights nature in the form of terrible forces and dangerous creatures, among them, a marlin, sharks and hunger. He starts the story in a small skiff and moves…

… 24, 2000 Biblical Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway's novels were adventurous, colorful, and romantic, as was his personal life. In fact, many critics have concluded that his dramatic life was Ernest Hemingway's…

… attractive to many people. Often in old age people often become less optimistic and more pessimistic. In the novel “The Old Man in the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago can be seen as wise optimistic older man. Santiago is surprisingly happy throughout…

… take an extremely serious situation and transform it into one that seems less significant. In his book, “On the Beach”, he lures us into the story with his unique and informative ways which keep us interested. Nevil Shute criticizes society’s proliferat…

… Dickens novel, Oliver Twist, centers itself around the life of the young, orphan Oliver, but he is not a deeply developed character. He stays the same throughout the entire novel. He has a desire to be protected, he wants to be in a safe…

… Slammed Door in A Doll House Nora Helmer’s decision to leave her family in Henrik Helmers’s 1879 play A Doll House reflects the dilemma faced by many nineteenth-century women who were forced either to conform to highly restrictive gender roles…

… book. I will summarize the events in this book in the next few paragraphs. I will explain Uncle Cleve’s personality and the author. I will also explain the prejudice in this book. This book begins as the author begins to explain in the first person…

… of time, man has clung to the notion that there exists some external force that determines his destiny. In Grecian times, the epic poet Hesoid wrote of a triumvirate of mythological Fates that supposedly gave "to men at birth evil and good to…