The settings have a pivotal role in helping the reader understand identifications of the narrator, and helps show the passage of time. ... The passage of time, or so it seems to the narrator, occurs between the settings, and are due to the settings such as the airplane ride, the bus ride and the canoe trip into the jungle. ... The setting is a key tool that Carpentier uses in this novel and is central to everything that occurs in it....

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Emma also does this and shows so during a passage of conversation between her and Rodolphe: " Do you love me?' ... This passage explains the extent that Charles was affected with her death. ... Anna also committed suicide in the same fashion. " There, she said to herself, looking into the shadow of the carriage, at the sand and coal dust which covered the sleepers " there, in the very middle, and I will punish him (Vronsky) and escape from everyone and from myself.- It is in the passage that Anna admits her reason for killing herself is to ensure that Vronsky suffers. ... Thei...

• Word Count: 1461
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School