This was a common theme of Norther European writers of the time and it parallels Mann's life to the letter. ... Mann's choice to have Aschenbach fall in love with a male's beauty is not by itself homosexual. Had Mann chosen for Aschenbach to fall in love with a young woman, then the obsession would have had sexual connotations from the outset. ... About this time Aschenbach notices that the number of hotel guests is dwindling even though it is the height of the tourist season. ... The strawberries are indeed contaminated with cholera and will lead to Aschenbach's death....

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Plot Summary The novel is written as an historical account of the last days of Símon Bolívar, although he is only mentioned by name one time at the end of the first chapter. ... At about the same time he learns his pension granted by the Congress was confirmed. ... The thread of time is continuously doubles back on itself through a series of flashbacks. ... In direct contrast to Márquez's earlier novel, Love in a Time of Cholera (1985) with its recurrent theme of love over despair, health over sickness, and life over death. The General in His Labyrinth instead centers on sicknes...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At this time in Ireland, there were not many jobs available; however, steel mills were bombing all over this area. ... During this time a blight of the potato crop left acres of Irish farmland covered with black rot. Peasants ate the rotten produce and got sick, while entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. ... Irish songs are usually about the subjects of love and betrayal, everyday country life and historical or newsworthy events ("Traditional Music in Ireland ""). ... He returned some time later to find the innkeeper overflowing all the glasses, and found...

• Word Count: 1407
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During these first years of his life as he laid in his bed he listened to stories his mother told him of the cholera epidemic of 1832; people buried alive, and entire families dying in a matter of days. ... A figure full of dash and fine irony, and whose ridicule seemed to bite; buoyant with the joy of life; self-conscious; an offensive egoist envy in his love-making; of supreme and unsurpassable insolence, veiled and shrouded in his fine quality of manner." ... Stoker saw Irving in Hamlet two more time hoping to find some flaw in the performance. ... By the time the theater finally opened the...

• Word Count: 2122
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

His father, a graduate from Dartmouth College and a member of Congress, died of cholera during the epidemic in 1832, leaving his wife with five children to educate (McCullough 191). ... He started to look at other contemporary artists at that time, especially Barbizon artists. ... Hunt believed that "while Couture was art all the time, Millet began with Nature and ended with art" (Shannon 40). ... There was even a time when Hunt was "criticized as close imitations of Millet" (Griffin 27). Hunt loved the works of Millet so much that he decided to buy as many paintings of ...

• Word Count: 1809
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Work for other classes was neglected, and sloppily done at best - time and thought were consumed with pursuing mathematical interests. ... He spent much time doing independent work with quintic equations, and was able to submit two papers to the Academy of Sciences by the age of eighteen. ... And instead of getting away this time, he was detained for three months, then jailed for nine in Sainte-Pelagie prison. ... Six weeks before he was due to be released, a cholera epidemic in Paris caused the prisoners of Sainte-Pelagie to be dispersed to various places, and Evariste Galois was sent to a n...

• Word Count: 2489
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School