To kill a mockingbird chapter 20
mayella has committed crimes against tom and against the state (false accusation, lying under oath, even "murder" of an innocent man) because she is ashamed of breaking a "code" and "tempting a negro." what's the difference between a law and a code? in your opinion, which is more powerful?

What is the speaker telling the grecian urn in these lines from “ode on a grecian urn”? he wishes the urn could talk so he could hear its stories. he knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead. he fears that when he gets old, the urn will suffer because nobody else will take care of it. he wishes the people frozen on the urn could warm up and come to life.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man

What important naturalist theme is reflected in this excerpt from stephen crane's the open boat