This event greatly influences the novel's plot development but also how the characters evolve throughout the rest of the novel. ... Arthur is affected by his father's death because he feels that Henry would have wanted him to keep running the farm. ... Some examples of this are not making Jake do farm work and not making him do as many chores as Arthur does. ... Arthur is the most affected by his father's death because he believes he has to live up to Henry's expectations of him running the farm, while Jake is more concerned about not having gained his father's respect...

• Word Count: 666
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Everyday Hala woke up early and worked on his farm. He was very proud of his small plot of land and modest house. ... He too was of the vaishya class and worked a plot of land adjacent to the garden Reva worked in (Altekar 67). ... It was a rainy and dark morning when Jains prepared to work on his farm. ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Instead, he intended to maximize his farm size to make the most money and farm as efficiently as he could, which seems a respectable goal. ... Ty dreams of owning this farm to which he feels entitled. He has finally achieved this goal when Larry gives up the farm. ... After the possible loss of the farm, he states, "I was working around your father! ... (303) Ginny develops such a desire for revenge that she plots her sister's death. ...

• Word Count: 2950
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Plot Synopsis In the beginning, Sostratos sends one of his slaves to conduct business on the farm of Knemon and soon after this business, Sostratos sees Knemon's daughter and assists her in bringing water back to the father. ... However, with the advice of the girl's half brother, Sostratos decides to act as a worker on the farm of Knemon in order to become closer to him. ... Sostratos, in the end, got the girl even though he was a King and she was the daughter of an owner of a farm. ...

• Word Count: 1947
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Plot: In the beginning of the "The Grapes of Wrath," Tom Joad gets released from prison after four years for killing another man. ... Tom explains that he is going back to his Father's farm. ... When Tom and Jim ask Muley if they can sleep at his farm for the night, he tells them that he's been evicted too and he is on his way to California. ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

At the cotton farm, Tom realized he could not stay out of other peoples" business, and he started to help form workers" unions and better the lives of others. ... Plot: The plot begins when we first meet Tom. ...

• Word Count: 2457
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

However, as the plot develops, many complicated themes of lust, deceit, corruption, envy, anger and control unfold. ... Even his sexual thoughts were for adults, Marie and Aunt Gloria, not young "farm girls" as other boys his age chased. ...

• Word Count: 1693
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

I went into The Joy Luck Club expecting a formulaic story, with old characters and plots I know by heart, what I got was a very fresh, honest perspective on an old theme. ... To make a story intended for women interesting and compelling to a 25 year-old farm kid from Wisconsin, is quite a feat. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The narrators begins with the story with details of the daily chores and dedication needed to help on the fox farm and it isn't until shortly later that it is realized that the narrator is a girl. ... She felt her mother was plotting to get her to stay in the house more and keep her from working with her father. ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedip...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School