They were no longer living a life that would become progressively easier as they aged. ... Through out the entire novel they are constantly traveling in efforts to attain their respective goals, Huck to escape Widow Douglas" attempt to "civilize" him and Jim in search of his family and his freedom. ... What really attracts the reader's attention in this work is the concepts behind these two traveling men--their energy, their resilience, their superior wit over the townsfolk and the way they satirically present it--these qualities construct the idea that life on the road brings out the h...

• Word Count: 3770
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

Tolkien lost both his parent at a young age, his father died when he was four years old and his mother when he was twelve. ... Tolkien, at an age around thirteen was already ahead of his peers. At an age where children should be having fun with one another, instead, Tolkien found entertainment by creating his own languages. ... These novels allow for any age to experience the thrill and excitement of an adventure and from a reader's viewpoint, the thrill of wondering what comes next after reading a new chapter is astonishing. ... In these novels, Tolkien is able to express his own persona...

• Word Count: 4597
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This idea occurs throughout Achebe's novel. ... Once again, he finds ways to repress the characteristics of his father. ... Author and critic, Biodun Jeyifo, voices her concerns about the sexism in Achebe's novel. ... In Umuofio, age is respected and representative of wisdom. ... One of the climactic points in the novel arises at the funeral of the tribal leader, Ezeudu. ...

• Word Count: 2677
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

" Here, Ralph has taken on a responsibility well above his age, plus with a very unlikely outcome. ... As each of the boys symbolize certain characteristics, "the beast" embodies the unknown. ... The assumptions made from Ralph that Jack and his group were coming to retrieve the conch, were false. ... In this novel, good and evil is represented in two different groups as the Neanderthals and the new people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Both novels were written at times of major change in human history. ... The characters in both novels have resemblances to each other, in LOTF they are all children, while in Frankenstein they are all adults, again except the odd one. In both they are all the same age group. ... Victor, in a similar way shares some of the characteristics that Jack does, but not in the same vane, less extreme, you could say. ...

• Word Count: 2582
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

At the opening of the Lord of the Flies, a plane, transporting a group of boys from England is attacked and crashes in the jungle. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy, meet and make their way to the beach. Upon their arrival, they discover a conch shell near the water. Using the shell as a trumpet, Ralph s...

• Word Count: 7266
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although Nick, the narrator of the novel, is of less importance in Gatsby's play, he performs the function of the chorus, who gives us readers or the audiences of Gatsby's play the direction to the appreciation of the playing. ... He is so nervous as to the coming reunion. ...

• Word Count: 2711
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

81 But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 82 Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 83 I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; 84 I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, 85 And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 86 And in short, I was afraid. 87 And would it have been worth it, after all, 88 After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, 89 Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, 90 Would it have been worth while, 91 To have bitten off the matter with a smile, 92...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

He's worked various jobs, and tried to keep up work on his Dresden novel all this time. ... He hears noises and suffers from insomnia forever afterward, and at night he writes grotesque novels. ... He gives us the first line and the last, and the central story of the novel is ready to begin. ... This characteristic is brought even more to the forefront later in the novel. ... He jumps forward to 1965, when he is a middle-aged man visiting his mother in a nursing home. ...

• Word Count: 7795
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• Grade Level: High School

Marilyn Monroe also embodied the characteristics of the anti-heroine with her flippant ideas and scandalous clothing choices. ... Desensitized and disillusioned from WWI, writers such as Herbert Huncke, Carl Solomon, and Neal Cassidy created controversial poetry and novels that challenged society's beliefs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God knows he was; and that if he'd been my father I would have run away from home at the age of eight instead of waiting until I was ten...I pointed out that King Lear's opening speech was the height of idiocy. ... Far from coming across as a pathetic old man, Lear projects a commanding presence in his first appearance, dominating the action and, for all his errors, towering over the other figures on the stage. ... What is precisely characteristic of Lear in act 3 is that he cannot hold together the two images of hum...

• Word Count: 8939
• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

Romeo and Juliet - The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet becausethey are unable to understand her. Juliet's parents, Capulet and LadyCapulet, fail to understands Juliet's decision not to marry Paris. TheNurse fails Juliet by not supporti...

• Word Count: 11808
• Approx Pages: 47
• Grade Level: High School