Throughout the novel, and because of her environment, Esperanza is placed in situations where she is forced to grow up as the people and life of Mango Street take her innocence away from her. ... The short, almost choppy sentences that Cisneros writes with are very straight forward and to the point, without the fluff. ... The sentences seem more real, more pressing and personal without the quotation marks. The bum man talks very simply and with short sentences, but is very entrancing to Rachel, who is captivated by the attention and feeling that she gets. ... The people Esperanza starts meeti...

• Word Count: 1067
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A quote from his last deployment reads, "Just because war is hell and beyond, doesn't mean you can't have a little tough fun to break the repetitive damage on your mind" His attitude has changed drastically, altering his discovery in quite a harmful way. ... As the novel progresses, sentences become more fractured and truncated. ... In seeing this, Kyle starts to contact home more often. ... The technique of fractured sentences is demonstrated in a call from Chris to his wife Taya. ... I'm on op, but I wanted to let you know that I've accepted something" &q...

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Roddy Doyle presents Paddy's childhood, as being fun because of what he gets up to with his friends, but he also shows it is a life with difficulties mainly caused by his family. ... Paddy's friends seem important to him because in every extract he seems to be with them or thinking about them. ... The novel starts with Paddy talking to his friends as a young boy. He doesn't start the novel with Paddy looking back on his life from the day he was born as Charles Dickens does in David Copperfield. ... This is because Doyle uses simplistic language and short sentences helping to cr...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Right from the start I did not like him because he was portrayed as a mindless drone . ... This sentence refers to when the narrator finds one of the large fighting machines motionless in field running idle. I found that this was the climax because all of a sudden you realize that the Martian inside the machine must be dead. ... The novel ended with what I think was a fair end logical ending. ... With us it would be as with them , to lurk and watch, to run and hide; fear and empire of man had passed away." ...

• Word Count: 1249
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Part two starts with Meursault being interrogated by a police official. ... It is important to note that the focus of the trial was on Meursault's character rather than the crime committed, and he is sentenced to death because he does not "play the game,"" or, in other words, not conform to society's beliefs. ... The novel ends with Meursault's great epiphany. After reflecting upon the situation that he is in, he accepts his death sentence. ... He lives his life for the moment, and he accepts the moment of his death, because during his life, he lived his live by his own valu...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Each person in life faces different adversities they must struggle to overcome, from these obstacles the person and those around will, ideally, take with them a lesson and learn from the experience. ... One can see this portrayed throughout the rest of the novel; Moll is shown something that looks better than her current situation and she automatically goes for it, because after all, anything could be better than what she was currently going through. ... (Defoe 56) Moll found herself in no better a position than what she started in, sans the payment that the older Brother gave to assure her c...

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This shift came about because of the many talented African-American writers, actors, speakers and activists who worked so hard to gain respect for themselves and their culture. ... These themes had to be dealt with tenderly in an intolerant, white-culture society. ... Janie realized that her strength was in herself and her pride, with or without Tea Cake. And Invisible Man realized that "My problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own" (pg. 573), and so took to hibernation, to "shake off the old skin" and start living a life he could be proud o...

• Word Count: 835
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After the death of her child she does not become pessimistic but she wants to start her new life with optimism as if the death of the child meant the end of her sorrow. ... In the hope of starting her new life she sets out and she gets to Talbothays where she meets her second love Angel Clare. ... He helps them and Tess agrees to live with him. ... She is arrested here by the police and sentenced to death. Tess has a tragic end because she accepts her fate. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A single subject- catching fish is dealt with. ... It is obvious that the opening sentence here is terse and direct. ... To him, a new day is a new start. ... He returns home exhausted, bloody, stripped of gear, and even poorer than when he started out. ... In his opinion, he loses the game because of violating the limit of nature. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Hinton started her writing career at the early age of sixteen. ... This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. ... The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. ... I agree with the last sentence. ... However, I do not agree with the statement that the story was written with self-indulgence. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

At the start of the novel, Silas Marner is a valuable member of the community in a village called Lantern Yard. ... He uses long sentences and descriptive language such as far away among the lanes' or deep in the bosom of the hills', to create a relaxed scene and a slow pace for the reader. ... In this way the author creates a sense of pity which draws the reader into the novel as they begin to empathise with Silas because he is so hurt and lost. ... In his distress, Silas is crazed by the loss of his gold and this changes the attitudes of the villagers as they react with caring co...

• Word Count: 2184
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

is not just another stab at children's literature, but rather an introspective piece written by an avant garde trying to deal with all the issues he sees on his plate. ... Salman Rushdie was so privileged as to receive a fatwa from the fundamentalist Islamic world because of his writing just a few years before the publication of Haroun and the Sea of Stories. The infamous Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran announced "[to] the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet and the Koran, and all involved in its publication who were a...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, "Needful Things" starts and ends by us, the readers being addressed by an elderly man, "You've been her before. ... While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... but it is also an acknowledgment by King of his fans, because we have been there before. ... To alter that sentence and its meaning slightly, most people who read do so to escape. ... Reading a King novel, we know we are on the "right" side, because we are on the side of the author. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". ... We are joined, we are one, with a huma...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because of his looks he was given the nickname frogeyes. ... He did not like James because of his ugliness and physical weakness. ... Baldwin started writing as one of the many ways that he could be loved. ... After they arrive in Giovanni's room, Giovanni pulls David down on the bed and their sexual relationship starts. ... He starts to feel trapped in the room. ...

• Word Count: 2515
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

It is then that she changed her name to Toni because people at Howard often had trouble pronouncing the name Chloe. ... Frequently using childhood memories to help start writing, Morrison's real-life world is often included in her novels. ... Morrison moves the different aspects of the culture in a pattern that can be compared with traditional blues lyrics, starting with an initial emphasis on loss and concluding with a resolution of grief through motion. ... We even understand that her acceptance of poverty and suffering is reflected in her belief that "it don't make no differ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ... Is it because Multiculturalism is fashionable?" ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details along with the ritualistic. ... I would defend Mistry, because I have been to Bombay a couple of times and find his descriptions on target, just as Anita Desai's were in Bau...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... Mistry as a writer has enjoyed an exceptional start. ... Is it because Multiculturalism is fashionable?" ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details along with the ritualistic. ... I would defend Mistry, because I have been to Bombay a couple of times and find his descriptions on target, just as Anita Desai's were in Bau...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate