Staci Sabarsky gave Stellas' character the innocence and hopefulness the character needed. ... Robyne Parrish made sure the costumes fit the era and style of the time. ... The downcast lighting played well with Blanches desire to hide her real age and play to her sense of never being truly seen in the spotlight. ... Everything from the costumes, hair styles, props and decorations felt like it belonged. ...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This national book award winner is an epic tale and the launch of a new style for the author focusing on a matured young man with a passion for horses joining with his friends to overcome loss and betrayal. ... "All The Pretty Horses details a journey that is both literal and, at least to some extent, a bildungsroman, a movement from innocence to experience, from purity to knowledge, from the known world into the unknown world--and the unknown world in this novel is Mexico-(Blair 1). ... John Grady at the age of 16 is already quite mature for his age and because of his maturity he does no...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This age gap between James and Liu creates an important difference in their characters. ... Liu reveals his innocence when he asks Minnie if she loves him, questioning, "Do you have for me the love feeling-(75). ... - Therefore, this scene serves to further contrast Liu's innocence with James' experience, implying that Liu's masculinity results from being an outsider to society. ...

• Word Count: 2224
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate