In fact, the plot, setting and characters in the novel combine to generate the whole process of historical revisionism. ... In Lus words "What matters therefore in the historical novel is not the retelling of great historical events, but the poetic awakening of the people who figured in those events" (42). This poetic awakening in "Crabwalk" is achieved through revisiting history in order to rewrite and revise it. ... The plot of the novel revolves around the sinking of the German refugee ship, Wilhelm Gustloff, in January 1945 on the Baltic ocean by a Soviet submarine. ...

• Word Count: 2961
• Approx Pages: 12

Synopsis of the plot: The three bears decide to go for a walk in the woods while their porridge cools down. ... Synopsis of the plot: There are three billy goats that are all brothers; each one is older than the next. ... The troll waits for the oldest brother and when the oldest brother comes across the bridge he gives the troll a rude awakening, and bucks him off the bridge! ... Synopsis of the plot: The three little pigs are working very hard to build themselves a place to live. ...

• Word Count: 4915
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

Why the English Came to America? 1. Economic Reasons: - Inflation- The Spanish drove prices up because of their wasteful spending. - Unemployment- There were not enough jobs in England and debtor prisoner were becoming overcrowded...

• Word Count: 3431
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

"The Awakening-, another popular story written by her, was published in 1899, and by then she was well known as a writer, and had published over one hundred stories, essays, and sketches in literary magazines. ... "After the public uproar over The Awakening-, Kate wrote only seven short stories between 1900 and 1904. ...

• Word Count: 4614
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

A proem is a short introduction, in verse, to the matter and meaning of the rest of the poem. Some published editions of the poem do not make a division between The Proem and The Dream. The Proem is lines 1 through 290, and The Dream is lines 291 through 1334, the end of the poem. In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. He has difficulty getting to sleep and has not slept, he says, for eight years. ...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

In other words, the play's title and plot recall English traditions in a way that suggests a combination of Halloween (Puck and the fairies) and a big rave (with love-juice instead of Ecstasy). ... Not only would Elizabeth avoid Cupid's arrow her entire life (she died proudly unmarried and without children), but she also managed to escape a plotted assassination in 1594. ... The character of Theseus appears in Greek myth (he was a friend of Hercules and a giant-killer), but Shakespeare more likely got the idea for his character from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which refers t...

• Word Count: 10864
• Approx Pages: 43
• Grade Level: High School

Renaissance in England was a period of pomp, show and glitter, marked with growing sense of beauty and an increasing enrichment of life made through adventures, bravery and excess. The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit o...

• Word Count: 4242
• Approx Pages: 17

Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the...

• Word Count: 13391
• Approx Pages: 54
• Grade Level: High School

The removal of the mechanicals resulted in a plot line that involved Puck turning herself (the role was cast against the gender norm) into an ass who is sleeping with Titania, the wife of her boss (Oberon). ... Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the plot as written comes across as extremely tame. ...

• Word Count: 10314
• Approx Pages: 41
• Grade Level: Undergraduate