In Chapter 8 of "The Great Gatsby", what does Jordan do the morning following the accident?How is gatsby's body discoverd? why does no one find...

The day after the accident, Jordan Baker calls Nick at work and tells him that she has left Daisy's house and gone to Hempstead.  She tells him that she is heading to South Hampton.  The conversation ends with Nick, more or less, that any relationship that might have existed between Nick and Jordan was now over.

Nick was preoccuped with thoughts of Gatsby, having spoken to him before he left to go to work.  Nick tried calling Gatsby several times but the line was constantly busy.

Nick rushes home to West Egg and finds Gatsby dead, floating in the pool, having been shot and killed by George Wilson, who is also dead by his own hand.

With no servants in the house, just the bunch from Meyer Wolfsheim, Nick suggests that the chauffeur, butler and gardener knew that something happened to Gatsby, they must have heard the shots, but apparently disregarded them.

"The chauffeur, he was one of Wolshiem's proteges, heard the shots, afterward he could only say that he hadn't thought anything much about them." (Fitzgerald)

Wolfsheim's men are trained to mind their business, as members of his mob of goons, they don't get involved in the boss's business, they mind their own business, ignore sounds like shots, because they were probably taught to to so.  If someone is being eliminated, you don't ask questions, you just follow orders.

Compare and contrast Okonkwo and his father in Things Fall Apart.

Okonkwo and his father Unoka have very little in common.  Although both are tall men, Unoka walks with a stoop, burdened by the scorn of his tribe.  The Igbo people value power and ferocity in their men, and Unoka is not like that.  Sensitive by nature, he appreciates music, children, and the beauty of nature.  Unoka is happiest when he is playing his flute and drinking palm wine, enjoying the company of his neighbors.  He abhors warfare and is sickened by violence, and is totally lacking in ambition.  Preferring to spend his days fellowshipping and making music, he neglects his crops and must borrow to feed his family.  Unoka is considered weak by his tribe, and is scorned for his lack of perceived "manly" qualities.

Okonkwo is the opposite of his father.  His very appearance communicates a sense of ferocity and barely contained fury.  He is tightly wound and has a fiery temper, and rules his family with an iron hand.  Okonkwo has distinguished himself on the field of battle, and is considered by his tribe to be the "greatest warrior alive".  An extremely proud man, he constantly strives to demonstrate his power and manhood, both in tests of strength among his own people and against his enemies in combat.

Ironically, despite his dominant demeanor, Okonkwo is more emotionaly fragile than his father.  The younger man lives in perpetual fear that he has somewhere within himself the traits he so hates in his progenitor, and his lust for manly achievement reflects his inner terror that he might, in reality, have inherited his father's weaknesses.  Thus, Okonkwo overcompensates to the point that he becomes less than complete.  Hating idleness and sensitivity of any sort, he never allows himself to show love or compassion towards anyone, not even to those family members closest to him, and he cannot tolerate these traits in others either.

What hidden function does Madame Defarge's constant knitting serve and how does it affect Charles Darnay's lfe?

When we are first presented with Madame Defarge, she is knitting quietly in the wine shop. However, this knitting hides the bloodthirst that we see later on in the novel as we discover that behind this mask of passivity lies a real desire for vengeance, for she is secretly knitting with her stitches a register of the names intended for slaughter as part of the revolution. In particular, Darnay's association with the Evremonde family and Mdame Defarge's special link with this family means that she takes a particular relish in condemning both Charles Darnay and his wife to death. We see her committing the faces of Lucie and her family to memory, and then invades the house of the Darnay's to try and catch Lucie before she leaves.

What is the comparison between Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 & Sonnet 116?

The themes of both sonnets XVIII and CXVI are the same:  The immortal quality of true love.  For instance, in Sonnet XVIII, the speaker declares,

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,/Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;/Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,/When in eternal lines to time thou growest;/So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Likewise, in Sonnet CXVI, the speaker affirms this immortality of love in the final quatrain and ending couplet:

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending sickle's compass come;/Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/But bears it out even to the edge of doom./If this be error, and upon me prov'ed,/I never write, nor no man ever lov'd

Notwithstanding these declarations of the immortality of Love, it is apparent that the assertions of the speaker in both sonnets are emotional equations rather than logical deductions. In Sonnet XVIII, for instance, there is no way of proving the conclusion made in the last quatrain that poetry has the transformative power of giving life to its subject.  And, in Sonnet CXVI the first lines establish a conditional state, requiring the reader to cast aside the possibility of "impediments to the marriage of true minds," obstacles in the path of the union of two people.  But, if the reader rejects this condition, then the conclusion of the poet that love does not change over time is not necessarily self-evident as the poet asserts.