Each story is composed of parallel moral lessons, which becomes the theme of the stories. ... Conrad and Joyce portray a moral lesson in a very similar way. ... At the beginning of "The Tale" the women (who is never given a name) requests he tell a tale like he used to before the war. She states, "You used to tell- your- your simple and professional- tales very well at one time you had sort of art- in the days- the days before the war" (Conrad 2). ... He eventually comes to a realization or epiphany that if he had never separated himself from her she would not have died. ...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Even after she died, the neighbors wanted to pry her house. ... She died before she was born. As illustrated in the story, time was consuming Emily faster than she could die. ... Eventually, he died and left Emily with nothing "no love from anyone. ... Much later in the story, Emily tries to become one with the town again when she offers painting lessons to the children of the town. ...

• Word Count: 718
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The chief of the Bashkirs warns Pakhom that he must return before sundown, or he will involuntarily give up the land that he walked and the money he gave for the land. ... Tolstoy used symbolism in his stories to teach lessons and to convey messages. ... Pahom finally makes it to the place where he began, to claim his land, by the time that the sun sets, but as the reader comes to discover; Pahom dies upon his arrival. ... He hasn't the social graces, the intelligence, the money, or the influence that could charm Alison with whom he has worked for four years--though Alison cannot even rec...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Discovering brings further memories not thought on before. ... When I finally did it was just after my little girl died, he wrote me back a letter which made me feel like a bastard. " This statement showed he had remorse and regret for not being there, supporting Sonny when his brother needed him the most. ... I saw the moon-lit road where my father's brother died. ... "He didn't seem to notice it, but just before they started playing again, he sipped from it and looked toward me, and nodded. ...

• Word Count: 1177
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling in the bed before he could muster enough vitality to stumble into the pantry for a drink." ( p. 388 ) Gloria and Anthony Patch are seen as glamorous, an...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

When people in the town came by to visit the day after he died, "Miss. ... Before long, "a foreman named Homer Barron," enters the town of Jefferson, working with a construction company (243). ... These facts that Faulkner shares with his readers teach us part of what was going on in Emily Grierson's life along with lessons that the readers can learn about their own lives. ...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He died in August 2, 1988 at the age of fifty (Kennedy, X. ... In one summer, she met Robert in Seattle before she got married to a man preparing to be an officer in the Navy. ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... Beulah then died out of cancer. ... She leaves the room to get on a robe, and Robert and the narrator share marijuana who has never smoked before. ...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School