Your right in one part, it is about a bird, but there's more about just a bird in this novel. If you like the novels were they show you the importance of live and doing what you like; you"ll like to read this novel. This novel shows a story about a seagull looking for other things in live rather than an ordinary live. ... What's interesting of this novel is that he never gives up and continues trying until he got it right. ... When you finish reading this novel you"ll learn that we should all fight for our goals even if they are difficult. ...

• Word Count: 296
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• Grade Level: High School

A common theme shared in these two novels, is the theme of how memories affect the present. ... Another common theme in both novels is the theme of being alone. ... Another theme that is comparable in both novels is the theme of senility. ... She has lost her memory, and this is how the novel ultimately ends. In both novels, memories and forgetfulness shape the character's lives. ...

• Word Count: 658
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• Grade Level: High School

Characterization There are 8 methods through which most authors characterize the people in a novel. ... Essay Project For this project, you will write a complete character sketch on a character from the novel you are studying in class. ... You make your own inferences and conclusions about a character but these assumptions have to be supported with proof fro m your novel. You should also provide proof that you have read and have an understanding of the ENTIRE novel! ... Paragraph 5: Reveal the outcome of the novel and your character's part in it. ...

• Word Count: 1061
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• Grade Level: High School

In John Knowles's novel, "A Separate Peace", characters undergo dramatic transformations. ... In the novel, these three personality components are critical. ... In the novel, a separate peace, Gene lives a structured life. ... However, Leper is the only one in the novel who enlists himself in a war. ... In the novel, a separate peace, different characters prove these behaviors. ...

• Word Count: 1288
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Steppenwolf Jung's personality of an individual is split into different elements, like the shadow, the anima, the conscious, and the unconscious. Throughout the novel, Harry is searching for a way to deal with his negative side, which he calls the Steppenwolf; it makes him live fearful and without peace Jung called Harry's dark side of his personality The Shadow. ... There are psychological Elements throughout the novel and they all have a different meaning to them. ...

• Word Count: 355
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel deals with tragic and provocative scenes of terror and an ongoing timeline of events to follow a pack of boys on an incredible journey while a nuclear war continues on back home. ... Through the entrance of the first few characters in the novel we believe many friendships are going to be formed. The novel dives right into a quickly formed friendship through the rivalry for leadership between Ralph and Jack. ... At the conclusion of the novel we know that this group of strong willed boys ends up going home. ...

• Word Count: 623
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• Grade Level: High School

-Toni Morrison, Beloved (270) In Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, we learn how hurtful memories and the past can be. ... Over the course of the novel, facing the past is shown through Morrison's thorough development of the characters. ... We learn in the very beginning of the novel that Sethe, our main character who is broken because of her murder of her third child and the repetitive aching memories of her slave years at Sweet Home. ... Over the course of the novel, she realizes that the past is painful, but it shapes who she is. ...

• Word Count: 562
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• Grade Level: High School

This attitude destroys Willy's life through the course of the novel. ... The falsity of the American Dream plays a big part in the novel. ... The lens, "Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good" is supported in the novel Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. ...

• Word Count: 375
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• Grade Level: High School

The ending of the novel ends with a gut-wrenching showdown between the two. ... Probably the people who could enjoy this book the most would be the faithful followers of Science Fiction and Adventure novels that might enjoy the stranger aspects of life. ... It was such a good novel it has ended up in my personal library. ... Lord of the Flies was a great novel and I know when ever I think about this book, the scene I see is one of a young boy talking to a bloody pig's head on a stick in the middle of a beautiful, sunny little field, scattered with bright flowers....

• Word Count: 882
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, Jack displays his unwillingness to cooperate with Ralph or Piggy, and his innate desire to hunt, dance, and generally to satisfy himself. ... Another role the Ego plays is balancing the Id with the Superego, and in the novel, he receives moral advice from Piggy while supporting Jack's desire to hunt. ... From the beginning of the novel, it is seen that Piggy is more mature that the others. ... It would be wrong to say that Golding did not use the Freudian mind structure as a basis for this novel, as the similarities among the 3 parts and Jack, Ralph, and Piggy ar...

• Word Count: 736
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• Grade Level: High School

His relation to the total meaning of the novel makes a necessary character as he progresses through stages of change and learning as well as acting as an essential element to the outcome of the conflict. ... Later on in the novel, Roger learns that by being a bully he can control the group of boys led by Jack. ... At the very end of the novel, Roger hunts Ralph with a "stake sharpened at both ends" (199) with the sole purpose of giving Ralph a drawn out and agonizing death. ... Throughout the novel it is evident that Roger is a necessary character. ...

• Word Count: 830
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, Ethan Frome, there are two women named Zeena and Mattie. ... Edith Wharton (author of the novel) represents the character of Zeena as a cold-hearted, manipulative, self-absorbed woman who manipulates Ethan by using her "sickness." ... In the novel, Zeen is portrayed as the bad person because she is always so demanding and high-tempered. ...

• Word Count: 565
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• Grade Level: High School

William Golding's novel Lord Of The Flies is an attempt to trace the defects in society back to the defects in human nature. ... In the novel, the boys were stranded on an island with no social structure. ... At the very end of the novel, when the British officer found the boys, it is shown that Ralph has become aware of the internal evil humans possess. ... In the novel, as Ralph begins to loose his reign over the boys, it is noted that they become fanatical and blood thirsty. ... Towards the end of the novel, when tensions are at their highest between Jack's tri...

• Word Count: 1356
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• Grade Level: High School

The techniques an author employs, and the way in which they are manipulated, often determine the reader's response towards a novel's themes. ... The entire novel, therefore, is written in first person point of view. ... The first part, narrated by Clegg, is written in first person point of view, which adds realism and immediacy to the novel. ... Through this structure of the novel, several symbolic meanings are presented. ... As Clegg's two narratives enclose Miranda's, the novel emphasizes the physical power Clegg has over her. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

(Magill Book Review) One of the most important main characters in the novel was Addie, who is the mother and central character in As I Lay Dying. ... (Turner, pp. 5-11) Acting as one of the most significant characters in the novel, Jewel is perceived as the mysterious, overpowering, and dynamic character. ... He even specifies truths and visions throughout the novel, such as when he vividly sets the aspects of the path around the farm: ...it turns and circles the cotton-house at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision. ......

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Of Mice and Men Thesis Statement: The character Lennie in John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men suffers from the mental disorder labeled Attention Defecate Disorder. ... Steinbeck's story "Of Mice and Men" was set around the town of Soledad, and was produced as a novel and then turned into a play. ...

• Word Count: 335
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• Grade Level: High School

Another example of this is Jack from the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding. ... At the very beginning of the novel, Jack cooperates with the other boys and does not have any hatred towards them. ...

• Word Count: 427
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• Grade Level: High School

If women in Shakespeare's time had been given the same opportunities as men, they would have been good writers. The first and the most important reason, as Woolf says in her essay, they had no chance to get an education at that time. Parents preferred to educate the boys, not the girls, because they...

• Word Count: 426
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, George has openly complained that Lennie is a real pain who prevent him from working toward his dream. ... Setting loneliness as the main theme of the novel, the composer created the conversation between George and his co-worker Slim to reveal George's feeling - his inner conflict, concerning the issue of keeping Lennie in his care. if I was alone I could live so easy', on one side George desperate to live a normal life, but at the same time George can't get rid of him' because without friends people would suffer from loneliness and George don't w...

• Word Count: 796
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "The Dead," by James Joyce, Gabriel Conroy is Joyce in character form. James Joyce was an outcast to society and in this novel it is understood that he is because of the way Gabriel Conroy acts. ... Joyce put in characters throughout this novel that reminded him of his family, but Gabriel was him all along and it allowed the reader to feel what he felt during this time in his life....

• Word Count: 732
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Man's Search for Meaning is a relatively short but powerful novel about an experience through a concentration camp from the eyes of psychologist and author, Victor E. ... In this novel, he illustrates the relevance of psychology through his experience at a concentration camp during World War II. With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. During this novel, he states that, "What was really needed was a fundamental change in our atti...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Man's Search for Meaning is a relatively short but powerful novel about an experience through a concentration camp from the eyes of psychologist and author, Victor E. ... In this novel, he illustrates the relevance of psychology through his experience at a concentration camp during World War II. With psychology interwoven through the passages of his novel, he makes a clear picture of the minds of the prisoners, what they, the prisoners, including himself, suffered through and how they survived. During this novel, he states that, "What was really needed was a fundamental change in our atti...

• Word Count: 1540
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Andrzej Diniejko stated in his article The New Woman Fiction that "The New Woman novels represented female heroines who fought against the traditional Victorian male perception of woman as 'angel in the house' and challenged the old codes of conduct and morality.... We see this in the novel Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier, where Madeleine, the heroine of the story, pretended to be a man in order to understand them better, "I wanted to study men in depth, dissecting them fibre by fibre with my relentless scalpel and holding them down alive and kicking on ...

• Word Count: 1170
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, Edna undergoes a process of serious self-examination into her life as a mother, wife, and a woman stuck under the pressures of high society. ... The idea of the soul plays a very important part in the novel. ... Early on in the novel Edna recognizes that she has lived "a small life all within herself- (Chopin, 35). ... At the very end of the novel, Edna speaks to Dr. ...

• Word Count: 915
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• Grade Level: High School

In the acclaimed novel Madame Bovary by Gaustave Flaubert, the main character Emma, was brought up in a convent with nuns which had very strict rules. ... She would keep a romance novel in her apron pocket and would lend it to Emma. The novel was filled with everything that the nuns did not approve of thus making it even more taboo. "They(the novels)were all about love and lovers, damsels in distress swooning in lonely lodges, postllions slaughtered all along the road, horses ridden to death on every page, gloomy forests, troubles of the heart, vows, sobs, tears, kis...

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School