And Arnold Friend appears to be just a stranger that drives up in a "jalopy, painted a bright gold- but he too has psychic powers. ... Tiresias also predicted the future with precision when he told Oedipus: "A seeming stranger, we shall be shown to be Theban born, blind, who once could see, a beggar who was rich. ... Oedipus and everyone in Thebes thought he was from a different land when in fact he was Theban born. ... Her fate is being girl with no self-respect, with a weak, mind, and a girl who cannot keep herself from being persuaded by some strange man who she gives her innocence to. ...

• Word Count: 2789
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In my still-growing youth, I have seen quite literally many highs and lows. These highs and lows are not in reference to some wicked depression or an unsatisfying relationship, but rather by means of the take-off and landing of a commercial jetliner. By being the son of a mother who has worked ye...

• Word Count: 3686
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of...

• Word Count: 2800
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Heller even tries to get the reader to believe that Yossarian is insane by describing him as having, "an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him"(29). ... A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. ...

• Word Count: 2803
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Hobbit begins simply: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." The hobbit in this particular hole is named Bilbo Baggins, and his "hole" is actually a very comfortable residence known as Bag End. The narrator tells us that hobbits are a little people, half the size of a man, and they have...

• Word Count: 5600
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

The Union believes in education, and they want him to study law so that he may help them with their land cases. ... On his return to Nigeria Lagos is almost a strange place and Umuofia an even stranger one. ... He speaks English with less formality (an English of "is" and "was") because he is used to the language, and it is not strange to his tongue. ...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

OUTCOME Thesis Statement: A feministic approach on Wuthering Heights which displays women's rebellion against patriarchal society by showing Catherine as a rebel against her father and her husband and by creating Isabel and Catherine as two contradictory characters. I. Introduction A. Women's pos...

• Word Count: 5526
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School