The only people she communicated with were the children she taught and the old gentleman who pays for her company. ... Everyone is all grown up now and sadly, her mother has passed. ... Eveline loves her father and regrets the idea of leaving him, but she does not want to become like her mother, who sacrificed so much for her family, either. ... As for Eveline, because of the brutal control of her father and the death of her mother, she feels desperate and terrified to escape her reality. ... She lacks the courage and strength to make a leap towards being free from her oppressive situation. ...

• Word Count: 1122
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

An example of a theme in Mother Sauvage. ... In Mother Sauvage he shows her great physical bravery and moral courage, however much to be "deformed" by the hard work she does, but yet tells of her murder of the soldiers. ... He also does this in The Adopted Son, when at first Madame d"Hubieres says: "Oh, look at all those children, Henri! ... In Mother Sauvage she reads a letter about the death of her son and "little by little the tears came to her eyes and the sorrow filled her heart," gives me the impression of sympathy to her, but then she murders the soldiers in the cottages and tells ...

• Word Count: 1076
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The story itself is both well written and interesting, using the incident of the snake to suggest that the life of the drover's wife is a hard, lonely one, livened up from time to time by episodes which only serve to heighten our sense of the woman's courage and endurance. ... She is a representative figure, one of the "gaunt and haggard women who live alone and work like men" - alone, that is, except for their children and the livestock they have to care for. ... The young boy, Tommy, seeing how drained and distressed his mother is, with a burst of insight exclaims "Mother, I won&#...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Macomber is attacked by a lion and looses all his self esteem and courage by running away from the lion. ... Ernest Hemingway born July 21st, 1899 the second of six children. Over his childhood he was very attached to his mother, Grace Hemingway. ... She also tried to include all of the children in the arts and music, Ernest played the cello and attended operas. ... All through his childhood Hemingway despised his mother and saw her as "that bitch", (Kert 21) he blames her as the reason of his father's suicide. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School