Throughout the book, we learn about how Ada is alone on a farm, waiting for Inman to return from the war. ... Swanger tells her that Ada needs help with farm. Ruby is very skillful in farming, and right away she and Ada agree that she"ll stay on the farm and help Ada with all the work to do. Ruby is like a distraction that the author, Charles Frazer put in the book, to help keep Ada's mind off of Inman. ... Ruby and Ada would be perfectly fine without Inman they"d go about working on the farm like always. ...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The author suggests that in order to live, men must be free to make their own choices. ... The two people who change the most (lose their romanticism) are Ada and Ruby. Ada's development is even more profound than Inman's. Although critical of the self-interest displayed by Charleston society, Ada concludes that her education has sheltered her from the real world. ... However, by the novel's close, Ada has embraced both joy and pain. ...

• Word Count: 347
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. The plot of Cold Mountain is to reunite Inman and Ada. ... In the novel Cold Mountain the author Charles Frazier portraits two characters Ada and Inman, that have both differences and similarities which enhances their relationship in to a balance more interesting one. ... In the other hand the only knowledge given by the author of Inman in school is when he drop out of it because he was afraid for a punishment his teacher was going to enforce upon him, because he threw his hat out the window (pg5). ... Ada comes form city life. ...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Lyman goes into the Adult ego state once again when he thinking about Ada's version of Shelly's marital situation. He is trying to describe to himself what is correct and not correct and avoid the motherly biases that Ada has. ... His daily routines or ruts, as he sometimes called them, show that Lyman has manipulated Ada and Shelly to perform their duties the way that he would like them done. ... When authoring his novel, he is in his Adult ego state. When the author is intermingling with his nurse and aides he ranges from the child to the parent ego state. ...

• Word Count: 475
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Today's average reader does not usually stop to ponder the gender of an author and what impact a male or female hand may have on a body of literature. However, if analyzed closely, any given text may expose a distinct structural element associated with the author's gender. ... In her composition "Ada"", Gertrude Stein uses a specific structure to symbolize a virgin thought or stream of consciousness. ...

• Word Count: 723
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

And I know they"ll all come now To praise and persuade But all I wish for is that you be That you be Here -Ada Aharoni- This poem is translated from Hebrew and mainly it's a poem about war. ... Through this poem, the author speaks out the effects of violence and the necessity to stop it. ...

• Word Count: 862
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School