Please name some of the Romantic elements of "The Tell Tale Heart".According to the school of Dark Romanticism

Romanticism is movement in literature that celebrates the expression of emotion and internal conflict.  It sought to idealize the human spirit and the human soul.  Dark Romanticism, like it sounds, focused on the darker side of that human spirit, and often dealt with emotions like grief and depression.  It also dealt with mental instability.

In this story, the mental instability of the character is clear.  He has no purpose for killing his master, except that the master's eye particularly bothers him.  The narration of the story provides readers with an in-depth examination of the narrator's emotions and his murderous thoughts.  The careful description allows readers to probe into the elements of human nature that lead someone to commit murder.  Also, the pounding of the heart that the narrator hears depicts the effects of the negative emotion of grief on an individual.  The first person point of view strengthens the character analysis and better portrays these emotions.

Can anyone tell me what happens in The Devils Arithmetic chapters 5-15? thanks

Chapter 5- Hannah wakes up to find that she is still in
the strange place in the past.  They tell her she has been sick so she is having thought
problems.  Shmuel discusses his upcoming wedding. She tells him that she is from New
Rochelle and her Hebrew name is Chaya. Yitzchak, the butcher, comes
by with his children to help prepare for the wedding.  Gitl is irritated with him for
leaving the children in the wagon.

Chapter 6- Hannah is
given a green dress to wear to the wedding.  She learns that she had spent ten weeks in
the hospital.  She is greeted by other relatives.  Hannah tells them about her life. 
The others think that they are stories to entertain.  She tells them about the movie
Yentil.

Chapter 7- On the way to the
wedding Hannah tells more stories about movies.

Chapter 8-
People emerge out of the woods to head for the wedding.  Hannah meets the bride to be. 
As they draw nearer to the synagogue they see automobiles and German soldiers.  Hannah
realizes that the soldiers are Nazis and she panics trying to tell the others.  The
Rabbi tells her that there are not 6 million Jews to be
killed.

Chapter 9-  Hannah is aware of their fate.  The
Nazis do not let the wedding party enter the synagogue.  Instead, the wedding party is
placed on trucks.  The bride still has on her wedding dress.  Hannah tries to tell the
others about the Nazis and what they will do.

Chapter 10- 
They have all been taken to the train station.  They are loaded onto trains after their
possessions have been taken.  Hannah keeps talking about the information that she
recalls about the Jews in Nazi occupied Europe.

Chapter 11-
They are unloaded at the work camp.  Men and women are separated. A dead baby is torn
form her mother's hands and tossed aside.  They are forced to undress and their hair is
shaved off of their heads.  They are sent to the showers.  Hannah is scared because she
knows the showers could man death.

Chapter12- They sit on a
bench naked for a long time.  Then they are given clothing. They are ragged and worn.  
She learns that she is wearing a dress that belonged to another Jewish man's daughter. 
Everyone is tattooed with a number on their arm.  They are shown the smoke that comes
from the ovens and told that it is Jew
smoke.

Chapter 13- The women are lied up and
inspected in order to be assigned their duties.  They are given some soup and bread. 
They have been starved for a longtime so even the little bit of soup feels good. 
However, they try to remain strong.

Chapter 14- Hannah
meets Rivka and learns that the girl’s parents have been killed.  Rivka has been in the
camp for over a year and learned tricks to survive.  She gives them their
everything bowls. She meets with the girls ad tells them her
secrets for surviving.   Rivka discusses that living in the camps is the Devil’s
game.

Chapter 15- Hannah learns that when a certain officer
comes to inspect the camp, the children run into the trash pile and hide so they won’t
be chosen to be put to death.  The rabbi is hospitalized and his son has been badly
beaten.

What are three of the most important events in the book The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Three most important events of Witch Blackbird Pond.  Kit’s arrival in New England would the first, and this even would include her reactions to the place, meeting her new family, trying to share her clothes, and Matthew’s stern reaction to that.  This is significant because it provides crucial information about character and setting and establishes the conflicts that follow.  The second important event would be meeting Hannah, the “witch,” for she changes Kit’s outlook on life, connecting her to the sensuous natural beauty of her home in Barbados and in this way giving her a “home away from home.” This event introduces Hannah as the main symbol of the novel, a kind woman misunderstood and branded as “witch” because of being different, an “brand” which increases her outsiderness. Even though she remains on the margins of that community, however, she remains good and kind and teaches Kit how to be the same. The third event would be Kit risking her own life and reputation to save Hannah, doing what is wrong in the eyes of the community but what, in her heart, she knows is right. This results in the community naming her as witch, too, and propels the resolution of the novel.

At the end of the book Wiesel describes himself as a corpse. In what way did he die during the holocaust? night by elie wisel

Elie Wiesel, like many of the other survivors of the
concentration camps, were physically starved.  Their figures were nothing more than a
skeletal frame with skin on it when the camps were liberated.  In this sense Eli
physically resembled a corpse.

Mentally more things than
just Elie's body died.  His faith in God died away as he watched over and over the
horrors around him, experienced the inhumane treatment at the hands of the Nazi's, and
found no comfort from God.  He had been very spiritual before and longed to study more
and more about God, but after watching the young innocent boy hang, he stopped believing
in God because he could find no answers.

Elie's role as a
son also died away.  He had two parents and relatives when he went into the camps.  When
he came out his family had all been murdered.  In addition, he felt he had lost himself
as a son to his father because he had not stood up and helped his father and at times
wished he were not there to burden him.

Elie also died
because he was no longer the person he had been before he went into the camp.  His
experiences had changed him so dramatically and the changes of no longer having his
family or a place in his homeland left him with the need to rebuild his life and self as
a concentration camp survivor.

In chapter 9, why do Ralph and Piggy join the dance?

Ralph and Piggy join the dance because they are succumbing to their own weakness, exhaustion, and loneliness. A storm is coming, they are alone , and are tired of trying to keep the others from siding with Jack's tribe.

The fire and roasting pig are strong incentives for the pair, and weakness takes over, and they go. They are tired and hungry, and for a time , just want to quit resisting , and let someone else take care of them.

As the storm builds, the boys are ordered to dance. The excitement even affects Ralph and Piggy , so they dance until Simon makes his appearance.

The novel Wide Sargasso Sea is an answer or a reply to another novel. What was that novel, and what is the importance of this reply?

Wide Sargasso Sea is a response to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.  It is important because it presents a completely different perspective of the character of Edward Rochester's first wife. It also explores issues of postcolonialism and specifically the relationship between the West Indians and the English in the post-emancipation Caribbean, exposing the attitudes which allow the domination of one race over another. 

In Jane Eyre, Rochester's wife Bertha is depicted solely as a madwoman, subhuman, a dangerous and promiscuous monster locked away in the attic, and Rochester as the innocent and unhappy victim of an arranged marriage.  In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is called Antoinette, a real person with needs and motivations for the things she does.  A child of mixed race, Antoinette has been an outcast all her life.  Although her marriage with Rochester is indeed arranged by others, it is his rejection and revulsion to her sensuality and mixed heritage which drives her to the brink of insanity. 

what is thoreau's opinion of life?

Thoreau believes that nature, humans, and God are united and that God is found in everything in nature and in people. He believed that in order for humans to experience God within themselves, they needed to go and spend time in nature. There he finds solitude and peace, away from the people in the cities who want to own things and be rich. Thoreau feels the activity in the cities deprives us of our spirituality, and one must go back to the solitude of nature to get it back. Thoreau also believed that people don't need buildings and priests and books to know God since God is within each person. He wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."