Similarly to Fences, "Mending Wall" identifies its main theme through the building of the fence (or wall.)  ... This character development occurs within the act of building the fence when Rose, Troy's wife, assigns Troy and Cory to build a fence around the house. ... This is reflected by the incomplete fence (Cory the subservient boy), and toward the end of the novel, the symbolism of the fence being completed, completes the cycle of life and death. ... Within Fences, each character puts up their own fence to protect themselves, whether it is a fence to protect themselves from...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main topic of the novel was that little was being done to protect the Kalahari habitat and its inhabitants, Mark and Delia make several suggestions to help conserve this ecosystem, but if something isn't done soon the ecosystem could be at risk, . ... Also veterinary cordon fences (to be gone into further detail in paragraph 6) are killing of many antelope that would have been a lasting food source for Kalahari lions. ... In addition, veterinary cordon fences (to be gone into further detail in the next paragraph) are killing of many antelope that would have been a lasting food so...

• Word Count: 893
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," has been deemed one of the most controversial, yet influential autobiographical novels of all time. ... The novel will leave a long lasting impression of Angelou that will evermore be embedded into the readers mind. ... Anyone can have the cars, the big house with the white picket fence but all of that means nothing if you are not at good terms with yourself. ...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gemmy is considered by the Europeans to be a black-white hybrid, and he, along with several other prominent characters, struggle with the symbolic fence that rests between the settlers and the Aborigines. While the novel addresses several prominent topics, it is clear that Malouf and his characters most clearly identify with the theme of renewal, a concept which is demonstrated through both rebirth and hybridization, but is most importantly portrayed through the motif of fire, which has been married with the theme of knowledge and understanding. This motif can be seen constantly throughout the...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... In The Great Gatsby, the longing for the real American Dream---a simple white picket fence, a perfect family, a true love, and security---is not uncommon, but the corruption is characterized by greed and overpowered by money and material wealth. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway quotes, "Its ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel, "Brokeback Mountain," by E. ... Annie Proulx's story was first published in The New Yorker in 1997, a year before gay college student Matthew Sheppard was brutally tortured and murdered on a fence post-in Wyoming. ... Throughout the novel we see the terrible destructiveness of homophobia, not only just on Ennis and Jack, but on their wives, their children, and almost everyone, and why we'll all benefit when our culture finally outgrows it's childish terror of same-sex love....

• Word Count: 1108
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate