Ross is portrayed as an adamant woman in the beginning of The Wars, yet as the story progresses, her firmness is broken by various tragedies. ... Well I'm here to tell you, Robert no on belongs to anyone. ... Her words, you can go to hell, in reality, show her true love and care for Robert, yet in a vulgar way. ... Robert constantly wrote to his parents to tell them how things were going. ... Timothy Findley could be trying to show the reader how the war not only ruined the lives of the men that fought in the war but how it also destroyed families as well. ...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

I feel that this is especially true with regard to my grandfather, who recently passed away. Papa's passing has made me realize how much he has done for me, and how much of a loving man he was. ... Papa used to tell me stories about his struggles as a naval officer during World War II. ... His stories have taught me that there is a reason behind every struggle, and what really matters is how a person learns to overcome adversity. ... After his passing, I realized how much my grandpa meant to me. ...

• Word Count: 530
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Each subsequent story draws us deeper into the fascinating history of the painting. ... In another story a couple must sell the painting to feed an abandoned child recovered during a debilitating flood. ... The painting that is a true Vermeer is a representation of something missing in all the characters lives. ... In A Night Different From All Other Nights, a Jewish family owns the painting during World War II. ... Saskia does not want to sell the painting because she believes that it tells the story of the abandoned baby's mother, and does not want the child to grow up without any herit...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She then asks how you are doing. ... My grandmother then asks me well, how, I can help. I said well tell me about grandma Easter which is her mother who is deceased. ... But according my mother and grandmother's information and reading the history on how the Willis family arrived in American it could all match up and be true. ... He plays a big role in the latter part of my life story. ...

• Word Count: 1828
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Dorris, a contemporary author of anthropological studies, poetry and short stories, best known for his work in prose. ... She is nave by not believing anything will happen to him in the war because of her sheltered life on the reservation. ... She truly feels devastated and responsible for Lee's entrance and death in the war, and as she hits rock bottom, Elgin becomes conveniently present. ... When Ida begins her story, we see her mother passing. ... After becoming pregnant, Ida finds out Willard's true self and never tells him she is with child. ...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. ... My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. ... Amy can tell you about other relatives I never knew about. ... She said her family wanted her to marry him because he was a man of means, and she would always own a home, which was true. ... Some in the family may say it's not true. ...

• Word Count: 5522
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... During the war the factory manufactured cylinder heads for the Air Force planes (P40s). ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ... She then told him that could not be true because if Larry was dead, then his father was a murdered! ... He is a very practical man who knows how the world goes on. ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator tries to explain to the reader the huge influence his father has on him and how his father's attributes of modesty increases his respect and perspective of him. ... His psychological state and his behaviour revolves around his wife throughout this novel, which is quite easy to notice as the story progresses. ... The protagonist cannot believe that his wife is capable of such a terrifying act and seizes to believe it was her who commit the crime, but further evidence causes his trust to perish as opposite stories collide. ... The character is aware that he is no longer who he...

• Word Count: 2550
• Approx Pages: 10