Rebecca is a bittersweet novel. ... First, Rebecca contains awesome characterization. ... Secondly, Rebecca has strong foreshadowing. ... In the first chapter, she uses three pages to describe the outside of Manderley and the driveway that leads to it. ... In conclusion, Rebecca is a typical, romantic suspense novel. ...
In his novel Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott first introduces the reader to his wild character Ulrica the Hag in chapter 24, where she is known as Urfried. She is spinning in the turret of de BÅ"uf's castle where the captured Jewess Rebecca is led by two guardsmen. ... Urfried tells Rebecca how her youthful beauty was twice as great as the looks of the Jewess herself. ... Urfried shows Rebecca little pity or mercy because the hag was shown no mercy as a young women. ... Though Ulrica is dead only seven chapters after first being mentioned, a great deal of her character is revealed t...
His first love, Rebecca Burwell, ditched him for a fellow student. ... Some final chapters make especially neat work of the big historians who tried hard to ignore and dispute the Sally Hemings embarrassment, but Halliday makes the relationship understandable and very much of a piece with the rest of this great man's life. ...
