The main character within the book is Eugene Debs Hartke, also known as the narrator of the book. ... Tarkington was unable to get the machines running completely because he did not understand the physics behind them. ... Wilder's way of thinking is very important point within the book. ... He writes in Kings: Letter from Birmingham Jail "why is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" (Jacobus 384) King was trying to make it apparent to people that whites...

• Word Count: 2053
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Church and is an even-keeled figure through the book. ... The court trial is a major plot crescendo in the book. ... Although the book is fiction, one does think that trials like this probably did happen. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the book, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Anne Moody discusses the hardships that blacks endured and the salvation that blacks achieved in order to become not "separate, but equal." ... These conditions show that the blacks were being taken advantage of both physically and mentally: "The faster the chickens moved, the sicker I got We all ran out suffocating as though we were running from death"(Moody 145). ... Anne Moody had been in a sit-in near a white college in the South, and shares what happened to her in the restaurant: "I was dragged about thirty feet toward the door by my hair ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is the last time the two sisters see each other: soon Celie will learn that her sister is dead, killed for being disobedient and running away. ... It seems that marriage vows are quite loose in this community. ...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School