Besides the mule story, what are some other examples in Their Eyes Were Watching God where speaking is important?

The importance of talking can be seen throughout Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God. The best example can be seen in a
comparison of the three men in Janie's life. Her first husband, Logan, does not have
much to say to Janie. He silently treats her like a rather fragile princess for awhile;
later he begins to disrespect her and basically orders her to do manual labor. Janie
leaves, at least in part, because Logan is such a poor communicator. Conversely, Janie
leaves with Jody (Joe) Starks because he is a smooth talker. He "sweet-talks" her into
running away with him. Soon, though, Joe does not stop talking. He talks
for Janie, treating her as a second-class citizen; and he
continually boasts about his own worth, which eventually alienates him from his wife.
Finally, Tea Cake finds Janie and speaks words of love which are like balm to Janie's
wounded soul. After they leave together, Tea Cake is able to talk his way out of several
questionable incidents, mollifying Janie with words.

Each
of these men keeps or loses Janie based, at least in part, on how he speaks to
her.

How does the first scence in Act 1 of Macbeth capture audiences' attention?This is in the scottish play/ Macbeth

The opening scene of Macbeth not only
captures our attention but it also seems to strike the key-note of the
play.

1) The scene captures our attention because it is
laid in "a desert place", barren and eerie-looking, away from human
habitation;

2) The three witches appear in adverse weather,
amidst thunder and lightning, the adversity of weather presumably born of their
incantation, an adversity which is more supernaturally conjured up, rather than
natural;

3) The "weird sisters" look alien and intent on
some evil mission, and they speak of a future meeting with Macbeth on a
"heath";

4) The witches converse in a strangely stylized
manner and in an enigmatic, paradoxical language;

5) The
most captivating aspect of the scene is, however, the anarchical formula that they chant
in chorus: "fair is foul, and foul is fair", a formula that strikes
the key-note to the whole play.

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, discuss one of Bromden's metaphors.

I would say that the song Bromden sings that gives the
title to the book might be one significant metaphorical interpretation.  The singsong
chant of Bromden's grandmother gives insight to the novel's title and its
themes:

one
flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest . . . O-U-T spells out . . .
goose swoops down and plucks you
out.

The idea of
resistance is a dominant idea in the novel. McMurphy, and then Bromden himself, both
seek to represent resistance against the authority structure of Nurse Ratched.  The idea
of fighting through the "goose" who "swoops down" is something that both characters seem
to embody.  In a larger sense, Bromden's grandmother's chant is something that applies
to all individuals who do struggle.  Consciousness and being in the world is a form of
resistance, fighting against authority structures that seek to control and dominate,
battling against the "goose" that has a tendency to "swoop down" against all human
beings.  In this light, Bromden's metaphor carries a large
significance.

Discuss the drama conveyed through Shirley Jackson's point of view in "The Lottery."

I think that Jackson is able to enhance the drama of the
story with her detached third person form.  The narrator, in a way, is like the reader. 
Both of them understand and grasp what is happening in the narrative.  However, both are
helpless to stop the savage cruelty in the village.  The detached narration helps to
increase the drama in several points.  When the Hutchinsons' name is first pulled, and
Tessie begins to voice discontent, the narration reports it and depicts it as an event
where there is drama.  However, the drama is felt by the reader, as it is the first
moment where conflict arises and the reader understands the dramatic tension that
emerges in setting Tessie apart from the rest of the community.  In this light, the
point of view of a detached narrator helps to increase the dramatic tension, as the
narrator's eyes help the reader's own to both make sense of what is happening and what
is being felt as a result.  This style continues throughout the short story, and is
heightened when the narrator reveals Mrs. Delacroix running to find the biggest stone
that can be lifted with two hands.  In this light, the drama is evident as the reader
understands, through the narration, of the terror that is going to result and while the
reader cannot do anything about it, like the narrator, the reader closes the story with
a reflection element about how such similar practices are evident in the reader's own
world.

Give two of Atticus' sayings that Scout considers important in To Kill a Mockingbird?

There are two memorable quotations that remain essential
to the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. Both are "Atticusisms." One
deals with his advice to Scout concerning the judging of people without a thorough
understanding of the situation. It particularly deals with the character of Boo
Radley.

"You
never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until
you climb into his skin and walk around in
it."

The other focuses on the
theme of innocence that is directly reflected in the title. It was a warning from
Atticus to Jem that was later repeated by Miss Maudie to Scout. Scout understood
Atticus' meaning later in the novel when she compared Boo to a
mockingbird.

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if
you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a
mockingbird."

Discuss the significance of Elizabeth's quote about John in The Crucible: "He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"

Not only is this the closing line of the drama, but it
represents one of the strongest statements that can be uttered from one spouse to
another.  The meaning of the quote is that Elizabeth has fully understood her husband's
need to represent goodness.  Throughout the play, John has struggled with the need to do
the right thing, and has aspired to be stronger than he actually is.  At the end of the
drama, when he falsely admits to being a witch, a confession that he immediately regrets
when Rebecca Nurse looks at him with disappointment, he recognizes that there is a need
to transcend the morality of Salem and seek to achieve something better. He recognizes
that while he has sinned, he can rectify his mistake of adultery with being able to
accept death as a punishment.  When he says, "Leave me my name," it is a statement that
one's reputation and one's name is the only permanent capital in a world of fleeting
mutability.  For her part, Elizabeth has not voiced her own opinion about what John
should do, but she does recognize that there is an inner strength and revitalized
commitment to him when he decides to accept death as a consequence.  This revitalization
is something that had been lacking in John throughout the play, starting with his
flirtations with Abigail, his inabilty to fully commit to his marriage, his ambivalence
about taking action, and his frustration at the lack of justice in Salem. It is at this
moment that Elizabeth recognizes her husband's qualities of goodness and she cannot
"take" it from him.  When Hale begs her to plead with him, she cannot.  She understands
that throughout the entire drama, John had sought to have "goodness."  The last moments
of the play is when he achieves it.  Should she take it from him, his entire state of
being would be called into question.  It is for this reason she refuses to stop him from
what he feels he must do.

According to George Wilson, what do the large, piercing eyes of Dr. Eckleburg represent?As mentioned in the earlier chapters of The Great Gatsby,...

In Chapter Eight of The Great Gatsby,
after the accident in which his wife is killed by Gatsby's car, Wilson and his Greek
friend Michaelis stay up all night talking.  Wilson reveals to his friend that he has
found a dog leash and confronted Myrtle about having a lover, telling her that she could
not hide her sins from the eyes of God.  When the eyes of Dr. Eckleburg are illuminated
by the rising sun, Wilson believes them to be the eyes of God.  For, he asserts that
Eckleburg's eyes see all that happens:  "God sees everything."  Then, Wilson concludes
that God exacts revenge for the killing of Myrtle and he leaves in search of the owner
of the yellow car, the "death car."

It is symbolic of the
moral corruption of the Jazz Age that Dr. Eckleburg, as God, looks down upon a
wastleland, a world devoid of any worth, meaning, or beauty.  And, although Gatsby's
world appears prettier than Wilson's, his case is "the service of a vast, vulgar, and
meretricious beauty" that is a gross parallel of the Valley of
Ashes.