-Toni Morrison, Beloved (270) In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, we learn how hurtful memories and the past can be. ... The fact that Beloved has no past influences her wants, needs, and behaviors. ... Beloved is also a constant reminder of the past. ... Beloved is in the past but hovers over Sethe everyday. ... Facing the past is a theme of Beloved in which Toni Morrison develops her characters. ...
The Mitch Albom Experience Being the smart, intellectual being that I am, I decided to further my educational experience. To do this, I decided to absorb information from an outside source, known to some as Mitch Albom. This event took place Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 7:00 pm in the E.A. D...
"I love you, only you, no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! you have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh! I have suffered, suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else...
William Faulkner in his novel, Absalom, Absalom!, uses all of his customary themes and literary devices in his telling of the story. This story, like all his others, takes a look at the south just after the Civil War, which is the which is the Faulkner lived. Faulkner uses a Southern family, the Su...
In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. Frankenstein's family is critical because the reason why the monster was created lies within the family. Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional. Frankenstei...
So you're the lady whose book started this great war. Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. This quote shows the great influence the novel had on the minds of its readers and on a nation in turmoil. At the height of racial tension in nineteenth century America,...
John about his beloved. (152) For a character so self-professedly cold and unfeeling, Lucy is quite able to take pleasure in the gullibility of others, as when she lies to Ginevra Fanshawe and likes the reaction (237), and is also liable to fits of romanticism, as evidenced by her over-reaction upon receiving a single, friendly letter from Dr. ...
Sacrifice between Raskolnikov and Sonia. After a long exasperating reading through an insanely complex novel, Crime and Punishment, One will find themselves mentally anguished and disassociated with vocabulary understanding. Fyodor Dostoevsky style of writing was one of articulate detail c...
Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy: "This is a novel about love in all its forms." What does Paul learn from his various relationships in the novel? In the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy, the protagonist Paul is educated about love in all its forms from the various relationships he encounters. Duri...
After much turmoil and tribulation, sorrow and pain, and sweat and tears, the final fates of the characters in Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the d"Urbervilles were dealt their final fate. But the question still remains: were the fates of Alec, Angel and Tess justified at the end of the novel?...
Misunderstandings in Chapter 49 In Jane Austen's Emma, the title character is an unlikely heroine. In fact, the reader dislikes Emma so much that when she makes mistakes we laugh at her instead of feel sorry for her. Mr. George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for w...
Silas Marner: What do you think George Eliot wanted to illustrate through the pattern of Silas' moral journey in Silas Marner'? At the start of the novel, Silas Marner is a valuable member of the community in a village called Lantern Yard. He is a kind, honest man who has a great faith in God. S...
He has had a long writing career, spanning four decades and taking him from a mechanical typewriter balanced on his knees in the laundry room of a caravan to a summerhouse on a lake in his beloved Maine (similar to "Sara Laughs" in "Bag of Bones"). ...
"I do not know, - the story-teller interferes with "objective-epic" narration, destroying illusion of the all-knowing author, - whom she could become in our century, but is sure, that a lot of centuries back she would become a saint or a beloved of an emperor. ...
