… by introducing the active role of church in John’s and his family’s life. Various activities occur on Sunday in church, such as school, hymns, and preaching. On the morning of his birthday, he wakes up to lay in bed, pondering on his past birthdays…

… with the choice of opposing evil or submitting to it. Throughout the novel, Mark sides with a group called the N.I.C.E., an example of an evil democracy trying to take over the world. The N.I.C.E. is countered by a group of Christians from St. Anne's…

… of eternal innocence and the sufficiency of beauty throughout this poem. The Grecian urn, passed down through countless centuries to the time of the speaker's viewing of it, exists outside of time in the human sense - it does not age, it does not die,…

… human qualities. For example, a bird defending its nest from predators could be observed as an act of love towards the chicks, or a bear protecting its cubs as a feeling of obligation towards the safety of the new generation of bears. In Grendel this…

… Conrad didn't set out to become one of the great English novelists. He didn't set out to be a novelist at all, but a sailor, and besides, he wasn't English. English was his third language and he didn't begin learning it until after he was 20 years…

… The author placed the novel's setting on a stream boat on a river near London. "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest" (1). Then the narrator tells his story in a flash back which he…

… seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally. …

… My Name by Margaret Craven is a book about the life of a man named Mark Brian. Mark pays Mark has a deadly disease, but has no knowledge of it. The Bishop decides to send him to a place called Kingcome village knowing that he has the deadly disease.…

… shocking and inspirational autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and has amazed many with her provocative and eccentric life style. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis to Mr. Bailey and Mrs. Vivian Baxter…

… the Wind, was a book of changes. The largest change probably between the two main characters, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond, who are lawyers who square off in a match of Faith against Science. There are many similarities between the…