Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born."" (Wilson) While growing up, London never knew true happiness and because of this, he often turned to nature. ... In example, being an oyster pirate probably taught him how to survive on the lowest circumstances. During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. After hearing their stories, he would collaborate a selected few and produce his own. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This is why one must read and reread him to enjoy the true flavor of his writing. ... Moreover, the story is also about a conflicted mother-son relationship. ... Descriptions of Krebs' lack of involvement with the local girls occupy one fourth of the story. ... Another key inference by Hemingway to the building of Harold Kreb's character during the war is one of the photographs discussed in the story's opening paragraphs that suggest an unsatisfactory experience with German girls. ... As Tim O"Brian writes in his "How to tell a war story": "A true war story is never moral. ...

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Set in Paris and the Spanish city of Pamplona, this novel is a story of a World War I veteran and writer, Jake Barnes, and his group of expatriates as they try to find meaning to their lives in the 1920's. ... Jake was left physically disabled because of an injury he suffered during the war. ... Brett has lost her real true love, also her first true love, which, in my opinion, is one factor that prevents her from commitment. ... Jake comforts Brett as she tells him she has let Pedro Romero go and has decided to go back to Mike Campbell, the man to whom she was engaged. ... It is pretty a...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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

This play is just full of excessive and true love. Delpeche3 Othello and Desdemona's story starts out when Roderigo who is in love with Desdemona, hears that she Desdemona and Othello ran away to get married. ... Othello speaks, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story. ... Juliet so in love with Romeo that she tells him she is willing to denounce her name, and no longer be a Capulet. ... A cup closed in my true love's hand? ...

• Word Count: 1402
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this following quote, we can tell she is distraught from the yearning of her husband's return: "How I long for my husband -alive in memory, always, that great man whose fame resounds through Hellas right to the depths of Argos (Odyssey i.395-397)!" This demonstrates how the thought of Penelope losing her husband as he sailed off to fight in the war has led her to break down in tears. ... He explains the fine details of Odysseus' whereabouts in order to ensure his story is true. ... For years, she has been waiting for him and now that he is finally here, she is unsure how to beh...

• Word Count: 1806
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He mentions her complexion and how it is "boold and fair, and reed of hewe" which insinuates itself through the Wife's energetic manner of speaking. ... This is true though of the Wife because she fights her husbands, maybe not physically, to gain "maisterie". ... It tells us of her warlike tendencies and why this should be so in medieval times... Venus was the god of love and indicated a passionate nature; Mars was the god of war and explains her tendency to fighting her husbands. ... She then married Jankin whom she knew was after her money but she loved him and was true to him. ...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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