How is the perception of reality portrayed in readings by Don Quijote and Sancho?

The perception of reality is actually the mockery that
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra intended to emphasize in the story of Don Quixote. This is
a quite tri-dimensional story, almost magical, which has led to countless of thesis and
dissertations on how the reader becomes "quixotized" by ending up trusting Don Quijote
more than his former self.

The perception of reality is
portrayed in two very important ways. The first, is through Don Quixote's eyes. He has
read countless of chivalry medieval novels and has become absorbed with them to the
point that he had stopped eating and sleeping and his brain "dried out". However, that
is not a counterargument that what he felt and re-created in his mind was NOT true.
After all, the stories were real to him. And to Sancho. So, why not accept that he had a
point?

He attacked the mills thinking they were giants. He
donned upon himself a rusty old armor shield. He declared Dulcinea del Toboso as his
damsel in distress. He even declared sancho and his burro as his steeds. He made all
that happen! True. His perception may have been outdated...but didn't it fulfull a
purpose which he very well trusted?

One thing to remember
is that Cervantes based his mockery upon chivarly on the writings of El Cid Campeador.
El Cid is quite cheesy for the modern reader and reflects the mentalities and feelings
of the early Middle Ages reader. Cervantes was literally doing the same thing as
futurists as Jules Verne did which was to challenge the traditional ideas and satirize
them.

For this reason you will see that ,in El Quijote,
there is a lot of satire, sarcasm, irony, mockery and comedy that can be fished out of
the delicious baroque vocabulary.

Hope this
helps!

According to Atticus, what was the difference between the Cunninghams and the Ewells? (Chapters 19-22)Why did Atticus select a Cunningham for the...

I don't believe Atticus makes any personal comments about
the Cunninghams or Ewells during Chapters 19-22. However, he talks with Jem and
Alexandra about Ewell in Chapter 23. He explains to Jem that
he

"destroyed
his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to
have some kind of a comeback; his kind always
does."

Atticus reassures Jem
that Bob "got it all out of his system that morning" when he spit in the attorney's
face.

Concerning the Cunninghams, Atticus only hints that
one of them was on the jury. He did go on to say that

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... the Cunninghams hadn't taken anything from
or off anybody since they migrated to the New World... once you earned their respect,
they were for you tooth and nail. Atticus said he had a feeling... that they left the
jail that night with considerable respect for the Finches... it took a thunderbolt plus
another Cunningham to make one of them change his mind. "If we'd had two of that crowd,
we'd've had a hung
jury."

Atticus says that "On
a hunch, I didn't strike him" (the Cunningham "connection") from the jury
selection.

Earlier in the novel, Atticus claims that "the
Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations." As for Walter Cunningham
Sr., Atticus knows he would eventually be paid for his legal services. "... before the
year's out, I'll have been paid. You watch," he told Scout.

What kinds of literary devices are represented in "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury?

The opening paragraphs of Bradbury's short story give a
good sampling of the kinds of literary devices that are represented in "A Sound of
Thunder." He opens right at the start with sensory imagery, which uses language evoking
images of sights, sounds, feelings, textures (touch) and smells. In the first line, the
protagonist swallows and we are told about the "muscles around his mouth" and he waves a
hand, while in the background is a "sound like a gigantic bonfire." A few lines later,
there is also "A touch of a hand."

The opening paragraphs
also present the literary devices of flashback and foreshadowing. These are time
manipulation devices that allow the author to weave in and out of past present and
future at will to fulfill her/is intentions for plot and story structure. The opening
lines also show that metaphor is represented in Bradbury's story. A metaphor compares
unlike things. Bradbury compares death to three very unlikely things: freshness, seeds
and greeness: "fresh death, the seed death, the green
death."

Flashbacks step back to a time preceding the
present moment in the narrative. In the present time within the context of "A Sound of
Thunder," the protagonist is at a time travel agency booking passage on a safari. While
there, he recollects an earlier time. This recollection of the past provides a flashback
to previous events. Specifically, in this flashback he tells about the company's
advertisement and, in so doing, provides background information about time travel, the
time travel company and his own interest and
motivation.

Foreshadowing works two ways. The first, often
used in short stories, is the provision of subtle hints about what is to come so that
the surprise endings of short stories are not unprepared shocks. The second is the
provision of what may or will happen in the future. It is this second type that Bradbury
employs in "A Sound of Thunder."

The safari sales agent
tells the protagonist directly that if he violates any instructions, he will face
"possible government action" upon his return. This use of foreshadowing does two things.
First, it indirectly tells what kind of world the protagonist lives in (e.g.,
"government action"). Second, it opens the readers eyes to what kind of adventure he is
going on, which also sheds light on his character traits and
motivations.

What factors/people contributed to the tragic death of Bob in The Outsiders?

We aren't told that much about Bob, except that he is a
leader of the Socs and is clearly rich and handsome. He is also the gangleader who beat
up Johnny so badly before the novel began, leaving him haunted by his experience. He
wears rings to cause more damage when he is fighting.

It is
in Chapter Four when Bob is killed by Johnny. However, any attentive reader will be able
to identify a whole series of factors that caused his death. To merely focus on Johnny
as the cause is to ignore many other different issues. Firstly, the chapter makes it
clear that it was the Socs that picked this fight. Also, Johnny only stabbed Bob to help
Ponyboy who was being dunked in the water. In addition, Johnny would not have been so
nervous and on edge had he not been beaten up by Bob and his gang in the first place.
Equally, if Bob hadn't been drunk, he might not have been so pungnacious. So, even on
face level, we can see that there are a number of different factors to
consider.

However, alongside these issues, we have wider
and deeper societal issues. If there was not such a divide between the rich and the
poor, such conflicts would not occur. If parents were more involved in their children's
lives, perhaps they would not let them go out and get into these dangerous situations.
The novel presents us with many different factors that resulted in Bob's death, leaving
it impossible to point the finger at any one individual or
group.

Why does Daisy hope that her daughter will be a 'fool' in The Great Gatsby?

This is going to be an interpretation, because she doesn't
really state it directly. Daisy specifically reports after this moment
that

"that's
the best thing a girl can be in this world... you see, I think everything's terrible
now... Everybody thinks so - the most advanced people. And I know.
I've been everywhere and seen everything and done
everything."

I find this to
be the most indicative quotes of the book about the era. Daisy has this hope for her
little girl that's rather hopeless. Daisy feels as if she already knows so much about
the world, that it is almost better to not know, than to know the terrible truths about
man that actually exist. You have to think of what was going on in the 20s and how the
extravagance and waste and inhumane treatment of people led to a great downfall. She
would rather her daughter just enjoy life (that's so like a flapper) than know of the
corruption and evil that exists. We come to find Daisy a character with little moral
fortitude herself throughout the book, and hope that she would have wanted more for her
daughter.

I need a debateable thesis about how growing old and deterioration is apparent in "A Rose For Emily."

You might want to think about how, throughout this
excellent and rather chilling short story, Miss Emily is presented as something of an
anachronism in her society. It is clear that she is shown to be some form of remnant of
an earlier, now obsolete age, and there is a great quote in the first section of this
short story that you can use to suggest this idea:

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It was a big, squarish frame house that had once
been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily
lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But
garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that
neighbourhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish
decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores. And now
Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in
the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and
Confederate solders who fell at the battle of
Jefferson.

Note how this
quote links the character of Miss Emily with her house. Both are relics of an age that
has long been passed by and overtaken by more modern equivalents. The decay of the house
can find its parallel with the increasing old age and decrepitude in the appearance of
Miss Emily as she is viewed later on in the story. Lastly, the vision of Miss Emily
joining the graves of those soldiers in the Civil War seem to consolidate the story's
focus on death and decay.

Of course, this is just one
instance in the story. You need to read through the tale again now to identify other
quotes that support this idea. Good luck!

In Book 17 of Homer's The Odyssey, how do the suitors continue to seal their doom?

In Homer's Book 17 of The Odyssey,
Odysseus disguises himself as a beggar, and enters his home. Telemachus instructs
Odysseus to go into the banquet hall where the suitor's for Penelope's hand (much to her
chagrin) remain gathered, eating her food and infringing on her
privacy.

This has been going on for some time. After all,
Odysseus has been gone for twenty years, as the gods have detained him, and most of
these men believe that Odysseus has died, and his great wealth and beautiful wife are
available for the taking.

When Odysseus enters the hall,
many of the suitors take pity on the beggar, but Antinoös and Eurymachus are rude and
disdainful. Antinoös even throws a footstool at Odysseus, in no way suspecting that the
seemingly pitiful creature before them is really the great hero,
Odysseus.