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… evil. Even though Oliver is the main character in this novel, three other secondary but significant characters in the novel, Nancy, Fagin, and Mr. Brownlow, express good vs. evil and are important to how the story progresses. Throughout the story…

… takes place in New York. It is about a man named Willy Loman. He has been traveling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He has a wife named Linda, and two sons named Biff and Happy.…

… told through an observer, about a man’s trials and tribulations who tries to regain what he had in the past. The whole focus of the story is on Gatsby’s dream, his desire to rekindle the flames of a previous fire. Daisy, the fire, is along for the…

… conflict is how Pentheus goes against the nature and ways of Dionysus and his followers. Pentheus is an ignorant king who believes that he is the all-powerful and that Dionysus is not a god. Pentheus actually states to his father that Dionysus…

… is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing but make music for us to enjoy." This was quoted from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a creative novelist. To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl named Jean-Louise Finch, her brother…

… with Roy, an aspiring baseball player on a train with his scout, Sam. Roy is still in his younger years, while Sam is an old scout who has slowed down over the years. On the train Sam notices that a well-known sportswriter, Max Mercy, is aboard, along…

… more than he does with the youth of his own time. Hamlet is immature, sarcastic, and takes action during the heat of passion which is very much like the behavior of the youth in the 1990’s. Love, control over action, and the ability to overcome depr…

… it, Clear and Present Danger takes liberties with its source material. Whether this is "good" or not will be left to Clancy-o-philes to mull over. With all the hype attendant to it, however, this particular Jack Ryan adventure is somewhat disappointing.…

… there is one in particular. It is growing up. Most children want to grow up in a hurry so that they can take part in the adult aspect of having fun. Except adulthood is not at all about fun and games. And when children venture into adulthood they lose…

… 1812 Charles Dickens grew up in a small town in London. Dickens grew up in a poor family. His family, sent to debtors’ jail before he became old enough to fend for himself, convinced him to find work and stay out of the jail. Dickens worked…