In each story Jody learns an important moral lesson. ... There are many symbols for life and death present throughout the novel. The buzzards, (p 35), the old cypress tree, and the bird he kills with his slingshot. ... Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature: sometimes, through death, comes life. ... By the end of the novel, Jody has grown into a young man, able to learn from the older generation in order to be prepared for life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This message is a very good life lesson as people have to realize that everything is not going to be handed to them. If everything was perfect life would be boring and people would not have to deal with things that actually require action and thinking. ... Although one is a novel and the other is an eight line poem they both carry a very deep and important life lesson that not everything will role someone or something's way all of the time. Both works also prove the same message with very different topics. the novel has a complex plot of two boys which includes jealousy, and many oth...

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• Grade Level: High School

Literature is a faithful reproduction of life executed in an artistic pattern. ... Novel A long work of prose fiction. ... Biography A written account of another person's life. 8. Autobiography A history of a person's life written or told by that person. 9. ... Parables A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jim is depicted as a slave in the south during a period when slavery was common and widely accepted as the way of life. ... We as a modern society should maintain an open mind when dealing with literary works such as Huckleberry Finn and bare in our mind that novels such as these are written during socially diverse and sometimes opposite ways of thinking. ... As a result Huck Finn, one of the greatest American novels is noteworthy. ... If this book is taught, the novel can open student's eyes to the racial tension that ignorance causes. ... They will not be deprived of a lesson in their p...

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For instance, in Novel Study we would read a chapter, then stop and thoroughly analyze that section of the book. I could not sustain interest in the novel with this kind of approach. ... Years later, a passage/book will make sense once we have had the right life experiences. ... I compare myself with my peers in a struggle for popularity and I compete with other girls on my image in an attempt to impress "the guys". ... I am passionate about anything equine, from the studies conducted by Monty Roberts, to the physical act of weekly riding lessons. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The boys are said to browse through sites about executions, animal abuse, pornography, assisted suicides, and sites that documented every hour of a person's life. ... Children in this world are raised being taught that they will get nowhere in their life if they are not good with numbers. ... In the world today children are taught that they will not get anywhere with liberal studies. ... Towards the end of this novel Jimmy comes upon the Crakers "sitting in a semi-circle " with a "scarecrowlike effigy " chanting something at the image (360). ... The emphasis Atwood places on English and a...

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By definition realism is, "understanding of nature of real life: a practical understanding and acceptance of the actual nature of the world, rather than an idealized or romantic view of it-. ... And with it all he made attempts to cry out. ... The dictionary refers to naturalism as, "a movement or school advocating factual or realistic description of life including its less pleasant aspects."" ... Each time nature appears in the novel it displays an attitude of indifference to anything to do with human affairs. ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history les...

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• Grade Level: High School

Poetry is why paintings, films, novels, and musical compositions are poetic. Poets say that poetry is a way to look at the individual and collective experience of life. They may serve a purpose as in teaching a lesson, describing a mood, sharing an emotion, or conveying an idea that the author wishes. ... Perhaps the dream brings you down like a heavy load, never letting a person accept their duties of life. ... Poetry is a literary composition written in verse with meaning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School