What are three impressions of Lieutenent Kotler that the reader derives from the narrative of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?

Lieutenant Kotler is the stereotype of the Nazi soldier: He is totally devoted to Fascism, having forsaken his family. He has cut himself from all but those connected to his military position and his ideology. Kotler is also cruel and sadistic and unprincipled.

• Cruelty and Sadism

While he is talking to Gretel, the daughter of the commandant who is only twelve, speaks to Kavel in Chapter 7, Kotler is very cruel and calls him a pejorative name for Jew. Later, in Chapter 13 when Kavel accidentally spills wine on the lieutenant when he dines with Bruno's family, Kotler severely beats Kavel in front of everyone.

• Unprincipled

Besides flirting with Gretel, Kotler also is seen early in the morning when Bruno comes from his bedroom at times when his father is gone, a presence suggestive of unethical, unprincipled behavior, especially when Bruno's mother is overheard calling Kotler by his first name with terms of endearment. In Chapter 16, he is sent away and there "was a lot of shouting between Mother and Father late at night," suggesting that Mother has had an affair with the lieutenant.

• Strong adherent of Fascism

When asked about his parents at the dinner in Chapter 13, Kotler replies that he does not have any contact with them; his father, a professor of literature has moved to Switzerland, he reveals. This move of the father suggests that he does not accept the ideology of Nazism and disapproves so greatly that he leaves Germany, cutting ties with his son Kurt.

`tan(2x) - cot(x) = 0` Find the exact solutions of the equation in the interval [0, 2pi).

`tan(2x)-cot(x)=0`

express in terms of sin and cos,

`sin(2x)/cos(2x)-cos(x)/sin(x)=0`

`(sin(x)sin(2x)-cos(x)cos(2x))/(cos(2x)sin(x))=0`

`sin(x)sin(2x)-cos(x)cos(2x)=0`

`-(cos(x)cos(2x)-sin(x)sin(2x))=0`

using the identity `cosAcosB-sinAsinB=cos(A+B)`

`rArr-cos(x+2x)=0`

`rArrcos(3x)=0`

General solutions for cos(3x)=0 are,

`3x=pi/2+2pin, x=(3pi)/2+2pin`

`x=(4pin+pi)/6 , x=(4pin+3pi)/6`

Solutions for the range `0<=x<=2pi`  are,

`x=pi/6,pi/2,(5pi)/6,(7pi)/6,(3pi)/2,(11pi)/6`

What happens in a cell during interphase?

Interphase is a step in the cell cycle and cells tend to spend most of their lifetime in this step. Cells enter the interphase after completing the M-phase. Interphase is divided into a number of phases: G1, S-phase and G2. G1 or Gap 1 is the phase during which the cell produces a number of proteins that are required for replication. As a result of this protein production, the cell bulks up and increases in volume. In the S-phase, this bulked up cell produces copies of the chromosomes, thus effectively doubling the DNA content of the cell. After S-phase, the cell enters the G2 or Gap 2 phase, during which the cell prepares for division by producing a number of proteins and dividing the mitochondria. 

The cells that do not divide enter G0 or Gap 0 phase, immediately after G1 phase.

Hope this helps. 

What does it mean for a planet to have "67" moons?

Among the known planets, only one has so many moons (also known as natural satellites). Jupiter has 67 moons, in total. Of these 67 moons, 50 are confirmed moons, while the remaining 17 moons are designated 'provisional moons'. The confirmed moons include Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, etc. The provisional moons are named S/2000 J11, S/2011 J1, etc.

Jupiter's moons were first discovered by famous astronomer Galileo Galilee and in fact, the four largest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) are known as Galilean satellites. In comparison to these large moons, some of the provisional moons are extremely small (about 1- 3 km in diameter). 

Earth has only one natural satellite and we know it as Moon. Some of the other planets in our solar system also have moons, but none have as many as Jupiter.

Hope this helps. 

How did the Middle Atlantic colonies live?

The Middle Atlantic colonies, called the Middle Colonies, had a variety of activities in the colonies. Because these colonies were between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies, the jobs were a combination of those that existed in New England and those that existed in the South.

There were a variety of jobs in these colonies. In New York and in New Jersey, there was more industry done than farming. The climate was cooler and the soil was rockier. Therefore, more manufacturing was done in the Middle Colonies closest to New England. In Pennsylvania and Delaware, there was more farming. These colonies were closer to the South. The soil was more fertile and the climate was mild. Wheat was one crop that was grown in the Middle Colonies.

In some of the Middle Colonies, there was more diversity. Pennsylvania was known for its religious freedom, so people of many different faiths settled here. The Middle Colonies were known as the melting pot because people of so many different nationalities settled here.

The people of the Middle Colonies lived just like the people of the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies lived. They adjusted to their environment and lived in a way that best suited their needs and circumstances.

Does Lady Macbeth shatter or support Renaissance stereotypes of femininity?

First, let’s look at what the Renaissance stereotype of femininity was. Women were definitely second-class citizens. Even though Queen Elizabeth was a strong ruler, women in general were expected to defer to men. Men ruled the households. Women were to look as beautiful as possible and submit fully to their husbands. A Renaissance-era woman was expected to care for the house and see that her husband’s needs were met. She was to be patient, kind, gentle, modest, humble, and pious.

Lady Macbeth pretended to be this kind of woman, but as she said to Macbeth, “Look like th' innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ’t.” She was definitely the serpent pretending to be innocent! She welcomed Duncan graciously and prepared a feast in his honor.

The first stereotype which Lady Macbeth breaks involves her relationship with her husband. He addressed her as ‘my partner in greatness,’ which was surprising for that time. But it is clear from the first moment we meet her that she is in control of Macbeth, not the other way around. She devises the plan to kill Duncan and she goads Macbeth into it by attacking his manhood and courage: “When you durst do it, then you were a man.”

She also negates her own femininity in her famous soliloquy:

“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!... Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers…”

Interestingly, however, Lady Macbeth loses her power over her husband once he becomes more evil and ambitious than she does; once he murders Banquo without her knowledge or consent, her hold over him is broken and they begin to grow apart.

I need a couple quotes for Cherry Valance in the outsiders. Here is the question: Cherry loved Bob and helped Ponyboy's group. Why?

One of the reasons that Cherry tried to help the greasers was that she felt like her flirting with Ponyboy and Johnny led to the death of Bob in the first place. When she came to tell the greasers what was going on, Dally said that "she felt that the whole mess was her fault." She worried about what would happen in the rumble and was sad about what happened to Johnny. 

But she also still loved Bob, or the memory of him. She talked about him when she was trying to tell Ponyboy why she can't go see Johnny in the hospital. She said "Bob was something special. He wasn't just any boy. He had something that made people follow him, something that marked him different, maybe a little better, than the crowd. Do you know what I mean?"

She knew that he was trouble and she talked about how bad he was when he got drunk. But she also saw the side of him that the greasers never did so it was understandable why she was mad at Johnny for killing him. She liked Ponyboy and wanted to try to avoid any further trouble which is why she spied for them in the first place.

How can I start writing a 1200 word analytical essay about the character of Phoenix Jackson?

One of the things you need to analyze first is why Eudora Welty named Phoenix Jackson "Phoenix."  A phoenix is a mythological bird that every 100 years builds a nest out of spices, sets itself on fire, and out of the ashes is reborn again.  If you notice in the story, Phoenix goes through many trials.  There are a lot of actions in the story where Phoenix physically goes up and down.  For example, she falls down in a ditch, yet picks herself up again.  She has to climb a staircase to get to the doctor’s office, and then she has to descend it to go home.  The path she takes to the doctor’s office is symbolic of her journey of life.  It has been full of hardships and obstacles, and you can see those obstacles played out in the story in the journey she takes.  In addition, Phoenix was once a slave, a huge difficulty in her symbolic journey of life. 

My advice is to analyze the name Phoenix, and Welty’s purpose in naming her main character that, and then look for how Welty shows that she is a phoenix who has to keep going despite the difficulties she has endured in life.  Also, take note of the people and things she encounters on her journey.  They may give you some clues as to what Phoenix has had to overcome to survive. 

Note: Notice that Phoenix’s grandson is described as a little bird.

Describe any four characteristics of Jerome K. Jerome.

Jerome K. Jerome, the author of Three Men in a Boat, had a number of interesting characteristics, including having been a loyal life-long friend to Carl Hentschel and George Wingrave, with the latter of whom he shared lodgings before he'd made a name for himself. They all shared a love of the theater. His four youthful ambitions, as confided to George, were to be an editor, to be a playwright, to be a novelist and to be a Member of England's Parliament. He was never elected to Parliament but succeeded in the other three. Jerome K. Jerome also had these characteristics:

• He left school at age 14 to help the family earn a living.


• He worked as a clerk, a journalist, and an actor, having played every role in Hamlet except Ophelia.


• He traveled to Russia and America more than once.


• He was always most well known for Three Men in a Boat although he was a prolific author.


• He did not own a dog when writing Three Men in a Boat.


• His two life-long friends, united with him by mutual love of the theater and adventure, were Carl Hentschel (rechristened by Jerome as William Samuel Harris) and George Wingrave.


• Jerome and his two friends were active and adventurous, bicycling through Germany's Black Forest, skiing in the Alps, boating down the Thames.

The character of J., created by Jerome, has some character traits that match Jerome's because, just as Jerome used George and Carl ("Harris") as models for the characters of George and Harris, he used himself as a model for the character of J. Some of J.s characteristics are these:

• He imagines himself a hypochondriac though in reality he is really only suffering the boredom of ennui.


• He is a staunch friend of George and Harris (just as in real life Jerome was the staunch friend of George and Carl ("Harris")).


• He was very fond of drinking, knowing all the pubs in several neighborhoods.


• He was philosophical and lyrical in his thinking (when not struggling with packing), as shown when he is musing about the "boat of life."

[O]h, heaviest, maddest lumber of all!—... luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show .... It is lumber, man—all lumber!
   Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink....

In The Merchant of Venice, why is fortune treated as blind?

Fortune in this period was often portrayed as a woman, the "Lady Fortuna" spinning a wheel. This iconography indicates the random and unpredictable nature of Fortune or luck and its lack of connection to intrinsic merit or skill. The Prince of Morocco points this out in his statement:

If Hercules and Lichas play at dice

Which is the better man, the greater throw

May turn by fortune from the weaker hand ...

On the most simple level, this means that many things depend on chance and cannot be foreseen. Because we cannot understand why certain people get rewards and others not, we could imagine Fortune as a blind woman spinning a wheel to choose whether we get good or bad luck. Fortune is not earned, but seems entirely random. As the Preacher says in Ecclesiastes:

 ...the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all ...

This resulted in a religious problem of how one could reconcile a benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent God with the apparent randomness of Fortune. In Shakespeare's time, the widely accepted solution was Boethius' distinction between Providence, the ordering of the world as God sees it from an eternal perspective, and Fortune, our limited understanding of the world. According to Boethius, because mortal minds cannot perceive Providence, we see as random and irrational Fortune things that are actually part of a divine plan we cannot grasp. 

In The Kite Runner, what is the relevance of the issues dealt with by the author to today's world?

The list of issues that Hosseini deals with in The Kite Runner is a long one. And I would say that everyone of them is relevant in today's world.  Let's look at a few. 

First, the novel grapples with ethnic and religious discrimination, as it deals with the treatment of the Hazara, Hassan and Ali's people, who are Shia, by the Pashtun, Amir and Baba's people, who are Sunni.   Ethnic and religious discrimination are a profound problem in today's world, all over the world, with wars being waged every day on the basis of both, and with individual instances of hatred as well, such as the burning down of mosques and Muslims being beaten for simply being Muslim.   

Second, the novel deals with the problem of sibling rivalry, in the form of the rivalry that Amir senses between himself and Hassan, even when he does not yet know that Hassan is in fact his brother. Sibling rivalry is a universal theme in literature, from Cain and Abel to A River Runs Through It, and in life, as anyone who has a sibling can tell you.

Third, the novel deals with the tragedy of the upheaval of a nation that sustains repeated invasions and internal strife, as Afghanistan has. The novel stops well before the most recent invasion by the United States, of course, but the devastation shown in the novel, when Amir returns, is a problem today, in many war-torn countries, not just in Afghanistan.

Fourth, the novel shows the immigrant experience of Amir and Baba, strangers in a new land, trying to navigate in a new culture, with the humiliations that this often entails for immigrants, certainly in the United States and probably in many other countries.  Right now, the world is trying to deal with massive migrations of immigrants, and this novel gives, in my opinion, a great deal of insight into the pain and difficulty of the immigrant experience.

Fifth, and perhaps most universal, the novel is about guilt, atonement, and redemption, which are universal themes that we can all identify with. Who amongst us has not felt guilt? Who amongst us has not tried to atone for a wrongdoing? That is the road to redemption, a long journey for Amir, literally and figuratively, as he admits to himself his wrongdoing and finds his way "to be good again" (2).  

This novel is packed with important themes that reflect universality and timelessness. All matter in today's world. As long as we are human, we need to be reminded of our flaws, hatred and bias, cruelty and envy, the horror of war, our unkindness to strangers, and how we can redeem ourselves from our wrongs. 

How do you do an MLA in-text citation for an online source?

There are numerous resources available online that you can utilize in order to help you learn how to create in-text citations in both MLA and APA format. 
 
One such example is Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Purdue OWL is a great website that can teach you how to create citations on your own, regardless of what kind of source you're using. Citation Machine, on the other hand, is a website that allows you to "plug-in" the required information and then generates the citation for you. 
 
When it comes to creating in-text citations in MLA format, you're going to want to open with quotation marks, add the text you've chosen (verbatim) while omitting ending punctuation, close with quotation marks, cite the author's last name and the page number (if applicable) inside parentheses, and then place the period at the end. 
 
Here's a made up example: 
 
About his childhood, William Burroughs said, "I had my ups and downs but, overall, my life was good" (Burroughs 27). 

What type of nuclear decay results in the atomic number increasing by one with no change in mass?

There are a variety of nuclear decay reactions, including alpha decay, beta decay and gamma decay reactions. In alpha decay, an alpha particle (Helium atom, with a mass number of 4 and atomic number of 2) is released. In beta decay reaction, an electron is released. An electron is considered a particle with negligible mass and a charge of -1. When the electron is released, the charge of the atom increases by 1 and hence its mass number stays the same, but the atomic number increases by 1. Here is an example,

`C^14 _6 -> N^14 _7 + e^0 _-1`

Here, Carbon-14 undergoes beta decay and nitrogen is generated. 

In gamma decay reactions, a gamma particle (does not contain mass or charge) is released and hence there is no change in atomic number or mass number of the atom.

Hope this helps. 

Martin Luther King, Jr. describes life one hundred years after the signing the Emancipation Proclamation in his "I Have a Dream" speech. What...

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. At the beginning of his speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. brings up the fact that he is speaking one hundred years after the signing of the proclamation, and he describes how life is for African Americans one hundred years later. The examples show that life is not better for African Americans.

Martin Luther King, Jr. says that African Americans are still not free in America. African Americans are still held down by segregation and discrimination in America. African Americans live in poverty while everyone else in the country prospers. African Americans are pushed to the outside of society and it feels like African Americans are exiled in their own lands. 

Below is the paragraph you are referring to:

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

According to the book Blink, what is priming?

Priming is a way of implanting a suggestion in someone's brain in a way such that the person's mind will be primed in a particular direction.  As I recall in Blink (Gladwell), people were given some sort of task in which they were meant to reorder sentences with jumbled words.  When they completed that task, they were observed afterward, not realizing it was the observation after that mattered, not the jumbled word test.  The jumbled words included words that we associate with aging, words like "old" or "gray" or "slow."  The people's minds were primed subconsciously with these "old" ideas, and they were observed walking more slowly and more bent over after the priming.  Essentially, priming is a deliberate effort at activating one's mind and/or emotions to accomplish a particular state or action thereafter. It is a little frightening to realize how easy it is to prime people, for example, for political or commercial purposes. 

When does the climax of "The Lottery" occur?

The story builds very gradually to a climax as the number of people in jeopardy is narrowed down from about three hundred to a single family of five and finally to a single member of that family, Tessie Hutchinson. She has been protesting against the conduct of this year's lottery ever since her husband drew the slip with the black spot in the first round. Bill and his three kids all draw blank slips in the second round and show them to the crowd. But Tessie keeps her slip tightly folded and clutched in her hand. 

"It's Tessie," Mr. Summers said, and his voice was hushed. "Show us her paper. Bill."

Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.

"All right, folks." Mr. Summers said. "Let's finish quickly."

These words of Mr. Summers seem to represent the climax. The reader has been waiting to see who will get the black spot. By this time the reader knows that the black spot signifies death. The rest of the story finishes quickly, just as Mr. Summers requests. After the emotional high point of a story has been reached, a good fiction writer will bring it to a close with the fewest possible words. The villagers make short work of their long-time friend and neighbor, completely ignoring her pleas and protests. There is still no explanation of what this terrible lottery means or why people keep holding it year after year. Those questions are left for the reader to contemplate. 

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Why was Artemisia important?

Painter Artemisia Gentileschi was important as the first female to join the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence. More generally, she is now considered one of the significant artists of the first half of the seventeenth century. Feminist revision has led to a new appreciation of her work for featuring strong women, especially Biblical figures such as Jael and Judith, who showed agency by defeating powerful males foes with their own hands. In one of her most famous works, "Judith Slaying Holofernes," Artemisia shows in close-up Judith cutting Holofernes' throat to save her people from him. Artemisia gained notoriety in her lifetime for being raped and critics have sometimes seen in her images of female violence against men a manifestation of that trauma. 

Why were woman not allowed to act during Shakespeare's time?

I assume that you are asking this question in reference to a Shakespearean play such as Romeo and Juliet.  In Shakespeare's time, acting was considered a low profession, not far above prostitution.  For a woman to be an actress was asking for her reputation to be wrecked by society's standards.  Therefore, women were not allowed to act as they would voluntarily be lowering the standards for all women of the time. In their place, young boys with high voices played the parts of women.  Also, acting in this time period was not for the faint of heart.  If the audience did not feel entertained, they threw things like rotten tomatoes or small rocks to express their displeasure.  It would not be considered seemly or proper for women to have things thrown at them as part of the cast of a play. 

What might be the reasons for Mayella crying in court in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Mayella is of course in a very emotional, difficult situation. She has been called to testify in front of the entire town about a very traumatic event. The fact that Atticus, who is cross-examining her when she begins to cry, is well-educated and articulate, and she is not, would only add to her stress. She makes it clear throughout that she has what might be called an inferiority complex. However, the main reason she begins crying is because she is almost certainly lying about her alleged rape by Tom Robinson. As Atticus shows, it is very unlikely that events could have happened the way that she says they did. Perhaps Mayella feels remorse for lying, knowing that her lies may well send Tom to the electric chair. Or maybe she is afraid of what her father will do to her (he is known to be abusive) if she admits the truth. Either way, this is almost certainly the source of her tears, as she begins to cry on page 248 when Atticus asks her if she remembers Tom hitting her face. She changes her story a couple of times before reiterating that Tom did, in fact, hit her. At the end of her testimony, under relentless questioning from Atticus, who asks her directly if it was in fact her father that beat her, she bursts into tears after saying again that Tom raped her. 

What were the New Deal's three major goals?

There were three major goals of the New Deal. They were to provide relief  to our people, to help the economy recover from the depression, and to create reforms to prevent another depression from happening.

The New Deal tried to provide relief to the American people. At the height of the Great Depression, about 25% of the American people were unemployed. There were various laws passed to create jobs to get the American people working again. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration gave funds to state and local governments to provide help for those who weren’t working. The Public Works Administration and the Civil Works Administration created construction jobs. Schools, airports, roads, and bridges were some of the jobs that were created. The Civil Conservation Corps created jobs for young, unemployed men who worked on conservation projects. These job programs helped provide relief to unemployed workers.

Another goal of the New Deal was to help the American economy recover from the effects of the Great Depression. The National Industry Recovery Act encouraged businesses, workers, and the government to work together. This law created a series of codes of fair competition where wages, prices, and hours of work were established. The Home Owners Loan Corporation helped working people refinance their loans. The Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers not to grow crops. The Tennessee Valley Authority helped to provide electricity to the South. These programs were designed to help the economy recover.

The New Deal also tried to provide reforms to prevent another Great Depression from occurring. The Securities Act required companies to provide truthful information to investors. It also created the Security and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock market. The Glass-Steagall Act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This provided insurance for saving accounts. It also prevented commercial banks from speculating in the stock market.

The New Deal had goals that fell into the categories of relief, recovery, and reform.

In Katherine Paterson's Lyddie, which ethnic group is receiving most employment at the Concord Corporation?

More and more Irish immigrants are coming to work at the Concord Corporation. The factory likes being able to hire the Irish because they don't room in the company boarding houses, so the company saves money by employing them. Even very young children from Irish families work at the Concord Corporation; children as young as seven or eight years old work as doffers.

The Irish families live in a very poor part of town called the Acre, where their homes are nothing more than shacks, despite the fact that the immigrants tend to have large families with up to a dozen children. The Irish are looked down upon because of their poverty, their poor dress, their body odor, their language, and their religion. Lyddie thinks of them as "papists"--meaning that they are Catholic rather than Protestant--a derogatory term Lyddie uses even though she herself is not particularly religious.

Lyddie at first has very little patience for training Brigid, her Irish coworker, not only because she doesn't want to decrease her own production at the factory, but also because she harbors prejudices against her ethnicity. She doesn't like the thought of placing her mouth over the hole of the quill where Brigid has put her mouth. In fact, Lyddie does end up getting sick, presumably from Brigid, whose mother is very ill. This shows how the immigrant population was more prone to illness because of the relative squalor in which they lived. When Lyddie visits Brigid's home after Lyddie gets dismissed, she finds the home to be messy and smelly with only beds to sit on. 

The novel reflects the historical reality of the influx of Irish immigrants during the potato famine from 1845 to 1855. The immigrants lived in slum-like areas of cities, especially in the manufacturing towns of the Northeast. Although they faced extreme discrimination at first, they soon assimilated into American society and became valued members in the same way Brigid shows herself to be a valuable friend to Lyddie. Education helped the Irish families rise out of poverty, and in 1960 the great-grandson of an Irish immigrant who had fled the potato famine, John F. Kennedy, became President of the United States.

Zaroff especially welcomes rainford because the general-

Zaroff especially welcomes Rainsford because the general looks forward to the challenge that hunting Rainsford will pose. 

Zaroff is aware of Rainsford's reputation as a hunter. When Rainsford arrives at Zaroff's chateau, Zaroff tells him:

"Perhaps," said General Zaroff, "you were surprised that I recognized your name. You see, I read all books on hunting published in English, French, and Russian. I have but one passion in my life, Mr. Rainsford, and it is the hunt."

He is aware that Rainsford is a talented hunter and will be a challenge for him. To this point, Zaroff has been hunting sailors that become shipwrecked on his island (by his own design). He complains to Rainsford that they do not challenge him.  He is able to kill them too easily, and as a result, he is suffering from boredom.  Being bored by the activity that was once his passion is greatly unsettling.  Hunting Rainsford, who will be difficult to kill because he knows all the strategies and tools of a skilled hunter,  gives him hope that he will restore his passion for the hunt.

In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, how does she use syntax to create an effect?

Syntax is the study of the rules used to form accepted language. It includes the study and use of clauses, phrases, sentences structure, and the arrangement of words.

In “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid the reader experiences one long run-on sentence mostly spoken by a mother giving her daughter directions on how to live her life. The daughter is only allowed to interject or provide an answer a few times. Kincaid does this to make it clear that the mother is the authority figure in the situation and the daughter is subordinate.Most of the sentence is written in the imperative, explicitly tell the girl what to do and what not to do. The mother covers subjects from personal care, to home care, to growing food. Kincaid also makes use of repetition in the phrases that make up the instructions to her daughter. Again, these repetitions provide points of emphasis. When the daughter does answer a question her comments are over-ridden by the mother. Only at the very end, when the daughter questions if the baker will allow her to squeeze the bread, does the mother answer her with a question of her own. The question that she throws back at her daughter seems to say, “Have you been listening to what I have been saying?”

Kincaid breaks the accepted rules of syntax in the English language with the run-on sentence that gives the piece its lyrical quality that is found in the language of the West Indies.

What main elements of "The Way To Rainy Mountain" by N. Scott Momaday could focus on if I were to make a presentation about it?

My suggestion would be that you do your presentation on the organization of The Way to Rainy Mountain so that your fellow students can better understand it. Of course, organization also has to do with language (which is Momaday's true subject matter here). 

For example, you could begin by discussing the three major parts of the work, how they are important, and how they are in themselves examples of parallelism: "The Setting Out," "The Going On," and "The Closing In." Each of the major parts in The Way to Rainy Mountain is further divided further into twenty-four numbered sections. Each of those sections is further divided into three voices: one about myth, one about history, and one about personal experience.

It is through these voices that Momaday tells the Kiowa story through language. You can connect language with the Kiowa tribe with this quotation:

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.

If you choose to go further into the story than the organization and its importance to language and the Kiowa tribe, you could talk a lot about Momaday's own grandmother, Aho, who experienced many of the tribal rituals. A dramatic interpretation of one of these rituals might be an interesting way to begin or to end your presentation.

In The Sign Of The Beaver, how did Matt feel about the loss of the rifle?

When a stranger requests to spend the night at the cabin alone with Matt, he is justifiably uneasy. The thought crosses his mind to stay awake to protect the cabin and the family heirloom gun that his father left with him. However, Matt ends up falling asleep.

In the morning he feels horrified to find that his father's gun has disappeared along with the stranger. Matt's horror, coupled with guilt that the gun his father cherished has disappeared under his care, consume him. Not only is the gun irreplaceable and belonged to his ancestor, it was one of Matt's main tools for procuring food and staying safe. Without it, Matt feels vulnerable to the dangerous animals or humans that might appear and to the need to find food to sustain him.

What is the significance of the narrator decorating her room with "fancy" things and attempting to separate her space from her brothers

The story Boys and Girls is about a young girl who refuses to accept that boys have a certain role in life and girls have a very different role. She refuses to do kitchen work and would rather feed the animals and do work around the farm that society deemed "men's work" at the time. She fought against the gender roles society forced on her until she finally gives in and accepts her role in society.

When she changes the room, this signifies that she has given up fighting and accepted the role society thrust upon women of those times. She adds the "fancy" items in her room and wants to be away from her brother, because she has accepted that they are different and she doesn't want to feel like he is watching her in her room anymore. Even her dreams change from being the hero to being the princess who needs to be saved. So the changes to her room signify the fact that she has officially fallen into the role her mother and grandmother wanted for her.

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How do Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio trick Benedick into loving Beatrice?

In Act II, Scene 3, of Much Ado About Nothing, Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato successfully “trick” Benedick into falling in love with Beatrice. Benedick has “railed so long against marriage,” including marriage to Beatrice. However, his three friends quite easily make him fall for Beatrice by pretending that Beatrice is in love with him. They make sure that Benedick is around to hear their staged conversation, which they pretend to speak in secret.

The men claim that Beatrice pines for Benedick but will never show her affection for him because he is so critical of women and marriage. They insist on keeping the secret because Benedick would “make but a sport of it and torment the poor lady worse,” further convincing Benedick that this is a clandestine conversation. Don Pedro expresses his admiration for Beatrice, likely inspiring jealousy in Benedick. The men also attempt to explain why Beatrice treats Benedick so harshly:

… she says she will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness.

Benedick very quickly decides to fall in love with Beatrice. Of course, there are some hints at an affection between the two. They are very familiar with each other, for Beatrice says to Benedick, “I know you of old.” He also randomly protests against marrying her when no one suggests it to him, indicating that it is somehow on his mind, and he finds her much more beautiful than Hero, the object of Claudio’s love. Therefore, the three men perhaps do not so much as trick Benedick into loving Beatrice as force him to admit his feelings for her.

Why would Mildred and her friends turn Montag into the police in the novel Fahrenheit 451?

After Montag leaves Faber's house, he is determined to scare the hell out of Mildred and her superficial friends by making them confront reality. Mrs. Bowles is opposed to Montag reading poetry and says, "We can't do that!" (Bradbury 95). Mildred explains that once a year firemen can take home one book to show their family how silly literature is. She asks Montag to read a poem, and Montag reads "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold. After he reads the poem, Mrs. Phelps breaks down and begins to cry. Mrs. Bowles reacts out of anger and yells at Montag for reading the "silly awful hurting words" (Bradbury 97). Montag proceeds to insult the women about their superficial, wasted lives, and threatens to kick them out of the door. When the women leave, Mildred is silent and refuses to respond when Montag calls her.

Mildred and her friends would turn Montag into the police for several reasons. The first being that Montag has a book of poetry in his possession which is illegal in Bradbury's dystopian society. The second being that he is attempting to express intellectual views to emotionally assault Mildred and her friends. One of the main reasons why the government chose to censor books is because the populace was upset at authors for criticizing society and their immoral life decisions. Montag is essentially criticizing the women for their worthless lifestyle which would be another reason they would call the police on him.

What thoughts did the postmaster have when he left? How were his emotions different from those of Ratan?

“The grief-stricken face” of Ratan began to haunt the postmaster when he left for his home. The boat had already left the shore when he felt a powerful impulse to take Ratan along with him. But by then, it was too late:

…the boat had got well into the middle of the turbulent current, and already the village was left behind.

The author comments on the postmaster's feelings—“then he felt a pain at heart…” The pain being referred to could be described as the pain arising out of his sympathy for the “lonesome waif,” or it could also be interpreted as the pain caused by his guilty conscience. He knew very well that if he had taken Ratan along with him, all her worries and sorrows would have ended. Still, he didn't do so.

The postmaster, however, began to console himself with philosophical thoughts:

So the traveller... consoled himself with philosophical reflections on the numberless meetings and partings going on in the world—on death, the great parting, from which none returns.

In this way, he tried to disburden himself of the pang of guilt that tormented him.

On the other hand, Ratan was a parentless girl. She had grown much attached to the postmaster, keeping herself busy doing “odd jobs for him” and looking after him. Moreover, the postmaster had begun teaching her how to read. She enjoyed these lessons, and within a short span of time she had made remarkable progress. Since his posting in the village, she had been happy, as she had found a close companion in him. She didn't feel that lonely anymore.

Therefore, despite her request to the postmaster when he left without her, she was heartbroken.

She was wandering about the post office in a flood of tears.

Unlike the postmaster, “Ratan had no philosophy” to support herself with. Her source of consolation was her hope that he would return to take her along with him.

Ratan’s grief was much deeper and stronger than that of the postmaster’s for several reasons. First, unlike him, she had no family to which she could go and seek the warmth of human affection. Second, she was a young, illiterate girl, without a learned man’s philosophical thoughts to console herself with in this time of acute crisis.

So we see that the postmaster had begun to come to terms with the fate of Ratan, finding himself helpless to alleviate her pain, while Ratan “could not tear herself away” despite her deep grief because “she had still a lurking hope in some corner of her heart that her Dada [the postmaster] would return.”

What is Ponyboy's opinion of Johnny in the beginning of The Outsiders?

At the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy views Johnny as the "gang's pet." He mentions that Johnny was a smaller boy who had a nervous look in his eyes. Pony describes Johnny as a dark, lost puppy that had been kicked too many times. Ponyboy feels sympathy for Johnny because of his rough home life, and the vicious beating he received from a group of Socs four months earlier. Ponyboy relates to Johnny because they share similar interests and ideas, such as movies and the greaser "lifestyle." They share a close friendship with each other because they are nearly the same age and are the smallest members of the gang. Ponyboy is happy to run away with Johnny because he is intelligent and sensitive.

In "The Devil and Tom Walker", what would you expect to find in the forest as the story begins? Why?

What one "should expect" is, of course, a matter of opinion, and we should take caution with questions and interpretations such as these that we do not develop an overly strong imperative that a reader "must" feel or think a certain way when experiencing a piece of literature. However, we can develop several reasonable expectations and inferences based on the content of this particular story, and the consistent elements of the genre it is written in.

While the exact genre of "The Devil and Tom Walker" is alternately described as Gothic, Romantic, or a simple parable, it does seem fairly consistent throughout the story that appearances are not deceiving; things are as they appear, and that which seems evil, ominous or foreboding, shall be so.

Thus, considering that the forest is described as dark, imposing, and generally not the sort of place you'd want to spend a lot of time around, we can conclude that it is probably an evil place as well, and we should expect to find evil there, or at least things which are consistent with traditional Western depictions and symbols of evil. This manifests in things besides the Devil, such as the appearance of the vulture later in the story, or the black mold which covers part of the ruined Indian fort.

In "The Open Window," how does Mrs. Sappleton's comments about the hunters coming back contribute to the plot complications in the rising action?

Vera has set Framton Nuttel up to believe that Mrs. Sappleton's husband and her two brothers were killed exactly three years ago when they were sucked into a bog while hunting on the moor. The cunning girl has also made Framton believe that her aunt lost her mind as a result of the tragedy and for the past two years has been leaving the big French window open and waiting for the three men to return for tea. Not only that, but Saki, the author, has convinced the reader that Vera has told Framton the absolute truth.

Then when Vera's rather silly, dithering aunt appears in order to take over the hostess role from her fifteen-year-old niece, Framton naturally assumes that Mrs. Sappleton is insane. She only confirms Vera's assessment of her when:

"I hope you don't mind the open window," said Mrs. Sappleton briskly; "my husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way. They've been out for snipe in the marshes today, so they'll make a fine mess over my poor carpets. So like you menfolk, isn't it?"

Framton Nuttel, as has been well established, is suffering from a "nervous condition" and is only staying in this region as part of his "nerve cure." Vera's story about the three men being killed in a horrible manner (similar to the way the villainous Mr. Stapleton is killed in Grimpen Mire at the end of "The Hound of the Baskervilles") has already upset the nervous visitor, and Mrs. Sappleton's apparent insanity upsets him even further. Mrs. Sappleton is so positive that the three presumably dead men will be returning imminently that she plants that gruesome image indelibly in Framton's mind. Then:

"Here they are at last!" she cried. "Just in time for tea, and don't they look as if they were muddy up to the eyes!"

"Up to the eyes" is good because it makes them seem as if they have been buried in the bog for all these years. This is all told through Framton's point of view. He is seated in such a way that he cannot see the open window. He is looking at Mrs. Sappleton. Then he turns to look at Vera, expecting her to be showing by her facial expression that she shares Framton's pity and tolerance for the demented woman. But Vera is staring at the window with a totally unexpected expression.

Framton shivered slightly and turned towards the niece with a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension. The child was staring out through the open window with a dazed horror in her eyes. 

The reader still isn't in on the joke. He thinks Vera's look of "dazed horror" is genuine. This expression on the face of the formerly "self-possessed" and apparently innocent young girl, makes Framton turn to look at the open window. And he sees what Vera expected him to see. Surely these men walking toward the open window are the dead hunters returned from the bog that killed them three years earlier!

Three ghosts would be bad enough, but three ghosts carrying guns are too much for poor Framton. He flees from the house without a word and is last seen running up the country road for his life. The reader does not realize Vera has played a trick on the visitor until Mrs. Sappleton's husband and two brothers enter through the open window and show that they are only ordinary mortals.

"Here we are, my dear," said the bearer of the white mackintosh, coming in through the window, "fairly muddy, but most of it's dry. Who was that who bolted out as we came up?"

"A most extraordinary man, a Mr. Nuttel," said Mrs. Sappleton; "could only talk about his illnesses, and dashed off without a word of goodby or apology when you arrived. One would think he had seen a ghost."

Why is race important in How it Feels to Be Colored Me?

Race is extremely important in Zora Neale Hurston’s essay, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” because the essay deals with the social construct of race, racism, and maintaining one’s cultural identity.

She begins the essay with, “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.” Immediately, Hurston jokes about one of the ways she sees African Americans classify themselves, referring to the cultural joke that African Americans like to include being Indian as part of their cultural identity. Unlike most African Americans, Hurston suggests she is 100% black (colored), a fact she did not realize until she was thirteen.

She states, “I remember the very day that I became colored.” Hurston then begins a series of incidents that help to form her awareness as a black person. “Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going to or coming from Orlando.” Huston explains that because she grew up in an all-black town, her race was never an issue. It was when she moved to the white town of Jacksonville that the concept of race, more particularity, her race became clear. “It seemed that I had suffered a sea change. I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as in the mirror, I became a fast brown--warranted not to rub nor run.” Her first encounters with racism after moving to Jacksonville made her aware of her race.

The essay recounts the various situations in which her race is more apparent to her because of the racism she experienced simply because of the color of her skin. She writes of her experience at Bernard College, “I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” She highlights again that it is others who are more concerned about her race, something she rarely thinks about. She writes, “The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.” Huston’s identity and confidence is less about her race and more about who she is a person.

Throughout the essay, Hurston exerts her identity as an American who just happens to be black. It is society, not her, that seeks to place her in a certain category (black). She ends the essay by illustrating that people are all the same. She states, “But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless.” Because “How it Feels to Be a Colored Me,” deals with Huston’s cultural identity and the way society forces her to classify herself because of her skin color, race is an important element of the essay.

In CLOSET SPACE, Melinda tries to enhance her environment. How does she do this? What does she use the space for?

The first thing Melinda does to feel more comfortable in her new space is to remove the mirror from the wall. This is significant, as avoiding mirrors is a motif that comes up time and again in the novel. Melinda does not want to face what happened to her and that is represented in an almost literal way by her reluctance to face herself in a mirror. 

Since she can't unscrew the mirror from the wall, she covers it with a poster of Maya Angelou. This is important too, as Angelou becomes an encouraging force for Melinda. Her presence in the novel is also an allusion to Angelou's own past: raped at a young age, Angelou stopped speaking for a period of time herself and, like Melinda, found her voice again through art.

Melinda also does a bit of house-keeping in her closet, saying, "I sweep and mop the floor, [...] scrub the shelves, [...] chase the spiders out of the corners" (pg 49). Melinda compares the work she is doing on her closet to building a fort, which is a telling comparison. The closet acts as a safe retreat from the world, a place where Melinda can hide and nap and read and escape the responsibilities of her young adult life. It provides her with a place to be a little girl again. 

When we are calculating the resistance of a circuit in parallel, why do we take the formula as reciprocal of 1/R1+1/R2, and for the...

These are the formulas for equivalent resistance: the equivalent resistance of the series circuit with the resistors `R_1` and `R_2` is `R_(eq) = R_1 + R_2` , and the equivalent resistance of the parallel circuit is determined by the formula

`1/R_(eq) = 1/R_1 + 1/R_2`

These formulas come from the way the current flows through the circuits, and are easy to derive:

For the series circuit, the same current must flow through both resistors as the current that flows through the battery. This comes from the law of conservation of charge (current is the rate of the flow of charge.) So, the potential difference supplied by the battery will be split between the two resistors. According to the Ohm's Law, each potential difference is proportional to the resistance:

`U = IR_(eq)` (potential difference supplied by the battery)

`U_1 = IR_1` (potential difference on the first resistor)

`U_2 = IR_2` (potential difference on the second resistor)

`U = U_1 + U_2`

`IR_(eq) = IR_1 + IR_2`

Canceling out the current results in the formula for equivalent resistance of the series circuit: `R_(eq) = R_1 + R_2` .

In the parallel circuit, the current flowing in the circuit will split between the two resistors: `I = I_1 + I_2` . The potential difference, however, must be the same on each resistor and equal to the potential difference supplied by the battery, because the potential difference between the two points does not depend on the path between the two points. Again, the potential difference can be determined from the Ohm's Law:

`U = IR_(eq) = I_1R_1 = I_2R_2`

Expressing currents from here and plugging them in `I = I_1 + I_2` , we find

`U/R_(eq) = U/R_1 + U/R_2`

Canceling out U results in the formula for the equivalent resistance of the parallel circuit:

`1/R_(eq) = 1/R_1 + 1/R_2`.

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What is the theme of the poem "Five Ways To Kill A Man" by Edwin Brock?

There are five stanzas to this poem; the main themes of the poem appear to center on the inhumanity of man through succeeding generations and the new threats to life in modern civilization.

Stanza One describes the crucifixion of Christ. The poet describes the sandal-wearing Jewish crowd. The crowing "cock" refers to Peter betraying Christ three times before the rooster crows. Also, Roman soldiers divide the garments of Jesus between themselves (into four shares). However, on the day of his Crucifixion, Jesus is also wearing a seamless tunic/cloak; the soldiers cast lots for this valuable garment because they do not want to divide it. Refer to John 19:23.

To do this properly you require a crowd of people wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one man to hammer the nails home.

Stanza Two refers to the medieval era when men still fought with "bows and arrows." The "length of steel" refers to a sword which can pierce through chain-mail hauberks. However, in the later medieval period, armor was often entirely made of steel plates and was much harder to penetrate.

Stanzas Three and Four describe World Wars One and Two. The reference to "gas" signifies chemical warfare, and the "ditches" may be an allusion to trench warfare. Rat infestation in trenches was a greatly feared phenomenon in World War One. The millions of rats which invaded trenches often feasted on rotting corpses and invariably brought disease to already beleaguered troops.

Stanza Four focuses on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

All you then require is an ocean to separate you, two systems of government, a nation's scientists, several factories, a psychopath and land that no-one needs for several years.

The scientists refer to the men who invented and worked on the atomic bomb. As for the psychopath, some experts maintain that it is a reference to President Truman, although others maintain that it is a reference to Hideki Tojo, the imperialistic dictator of Japan, who along with his allies, Germany and Italy, intended to rule the world. The wonderful thing about poetry is that there are often different interpretations based on unique viewpoints.

Stanza Five is the last stanza. After centuries of killing each other, the poet maintains cheekily that he has just been describing "cumbersome ways to kill a man." He argues that a more direct way to kill would be to put someone in the "middle of the twentieth century" and to leave him to the machinations of modern civilization. Thus, the theme of the poem reinforces that the inhumanity of man and the myriad threats to life continue into modernity; danger is not circumscribed by circumstance or time.

What would be dramatically interesting to explore in Lysistrata by Aristophanes? How would one make comedy/tension/impact accessible for the...

Lysistrata is one of the most famous classical Greek comedies, written by Aristophanes and originally performed in 411 BC in Athens. Lysistrata is often performed, as it provides many roles for women and is regarded as a hilarious battle between the sexes. In the plot, Lysistrata famously persuades the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until the men negotiate a peace deal. 

There are a few dramatic elements that can be helpful to focus on while in a rehearsal room with actors. First, the physicality of the play is a big question in a rehearsal room. How do these women move? How do they attract their husbands, but also reject their sexual advances? This conundrum is a fun, open-ended dramatic element that a creative cast must tackle when performing this play. Secondly, can you pull elements from commedia dell'arte? While commedia dell'arte, an Italian art form, was created long after this play was originally performed, many theater companies tackle Lysistrata through Italian clowning. This practice is extremely physical and often funny, and so the acting technique lends itself to modern interpretations of Lysistrata. Finally, how should you tackle the divided Chorus? This Old Comedy technique is exciting and tricky in Lysistrata. A creative team will need to figure out how they portray the divided Chorus. Will men play the Old Men and will women play the Old Women? Will the cast be divided in gender? Will the cast use masks? These are all questions a team can ask themselves and each other. 

What was the first good event in Julie of the Wolves?

The first "good" event in Julie of the Wolves is most definitely when Julie comes upon the wolf pack.  Before this, Julie is in a desperate situation because she has run away from her arranged marriage and has lost her way on the Alaskan tundra.  As soon as Julie spies the wolf pack, she remembers what her father told her about wolves being our "gentle brothers":

Wolves are brotherly. ... They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.

Remembering her father's wise advice, Julie begins to observe the wolves and try to figure out how she can get them to "love" her.  First, Julie names the wolves.  The leader is Amaroq.  His mate is Silver.  The leader of the wolf pups is Kapu (named after Julie's father, Kapugen).  The sullen outcast is Jello.  

By observing the wolves, Julie learns their behaviors.  A nip on the top of the muzzle means dominance.  Laying belly-up means submission.  Flattened ears are friendly.  Ears pointed forward mean aggression.  Julie uses this knowledge to eventually become part of the pack.

What is the purpose of cellular respiration?

Cellular respiration is the process by which cells consume glucose and oxygen, and break it down into carbon dioxide and water. The process also generates ATP or adenosine triphosphate molecules. These are energy molecules and provide energy for various cellular operations (or functions). Chemically, the process can be written as:

`C_6H_12O_6 + 6O_2 -> 6 CO_2 + 6H_2O + ATP`

The main purpose of this process is to produce energy for maintaining life and other cellular functions. The carbon dioxide produced during the process helps in the greenhouse effect and keeps the planet warm enough for life.

Cellular respiration is complementary to the process of photosynthesis (by which green plants produce glucose molecules and oxygen). Photosynthesis is the process of food production and cellular respiration is the process of food breakdown. Both the processes are necessary for sustenance and propagation of life.  

Hope this helps. 

How much do our individual votes during a presidential election really count?

Our vote, the popular vote, is important during a presidential election. In our political system, each state has a certain number of electoral votes. The number of a state’s electoral votes equals the number of members the state has in both houses of Congress. When we vote for the President and the Vice President, we are voting for electors who will vote for a given candidate in the Electoral College. In most states, the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote gets that state’s entire electoral vote. In order to become President and Vice President, a candidate must get at least 270 electoral votes.

There are other reasons why our vote, the popular vote, is important. In almost every election, the candidate who won the vote in the Electoral College also won the popular vote. While there have been four times when the candidate who won the popular vote didn’t win the election, in the vast majority of elections, the result of the popular vote did determine the winner. Additionally, the percentage of the popular vote a candidate gets can determine if the candidate has a received a mandate from the people to lead the country.

The vote of the people is very important in the election for the President and the Vice President.

What happened to Dave in The Call of the Wild?

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a short novel published in 1903 set in the Klondike Gold Rush. The story is told from the point of view of a dog, Buck, a domestic St. Bernard and Scottish shepherd mix, who is dognapped at the start of the novel to serve as a sled dog. The story is narrated in the third person, with Buck as the point of view character and the main theme of the story being how both men and animals revert to their primitive natures under duress. 

We are introduced to Dave in Chapter 2. He is part of the nine-dog team run by French Canadians, Perrault and Francois. We are introduced to the team through the eyes of Buck, who observes how the dogs of the team need to behave to survive and who gradually comes to understand the social and power relationships among the dogs. The dog Dave is described as older, hardworking and somewhat of a loner but acts as a mentor to Buck. Buck is normally harnessed just in front of Dave and Dave teaches him about life as a sled dog. In Chapter 3, one of the dogs, Dolly, goes mad and Buck wins a fight with the lead dog Spitz. When Spitz loses, he is killed by the other dogs and Buck becomes the team leader.

In Chapter 4, the team is sold and begins working on the mail run from Dawson to Skagway for an unnamed Scottish half-breed man. Given no rest between mail runs and heavy loads, the dogs begin to weaken and Dave begins whimpering to himself even though nothing is is obviously wrong. At  Cassiar Bar, Dave begins to sicken obviously, and has difficulty walking. The half-breed allows Dave to rest by letting him run beside the sled instead of being harnessed with the other dogs. After a brief rest, Dave catches up with the sled and insists on being let back into his harness despite his weakness:

[Dave] pleaded with his eyes to remain there...[the men] talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut out of the traces. Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content.

Dave struggles to keep up, but despite his efforts cannot really manage the pace. The team finishes its day's run and goes to sleep. The next morning, Dave is too weak to walk. The driver harnesses the other dogs and moves them and the sled a short distance ahead, leaving Dave behind to howl mournfully. Realizing that Dave will only die a lingering and painful death if abandoned, the driver walks backs and shoots Dave.