While many may argue that birth, the creation of life, is a wonderful and absolutely beautiful thing, I cannot reason how it would be a pleasant experience for a young boy like Nick. ... Subsequent to his arrival home and the discussion of his day with his father over dinner, Nick's father informs him that he saw his very close friend, Prudence, in the woods with Frank Washburn, another young boy. ... Though Hemingway could easily have had Nick find out about Prudence and Frank Washburn through one of his childhood friends, he did not, in order to create a stronger feeling of father and...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On The Antler is a story centred around two main characters: Hawkheel who is a quieter character with a love of books and Bill Strong who is a more nasty character who gets off on other people misery and only thinks about making money. ... She firstly detailed Hawkheel starting off when he was a "half-wild boy" where she described him "smashing" branches giving the impression that he was quite a troublesome boy. ...

• Word Count: 720
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What do you personally remember about your adolescence? ... Connie is also wearing a jingling bracelet, which is not only again reflecting light, which in turn represents innocence about Connie but signifies adolescence. ... "Connie sat with her eyes closed in the sun, dreaming and dazed with the warmth about her as if this were a kind of love-(10). ... Her mother warned Connie about being so self-centered. ... Further, in the story, the mass media of music glorifies the bad boy representation, which in turn fuels Connie's compulsive desire to obtain a bad boy. ...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The hero of "A&P" is Sammy, the anxious checkout clerk storyteller, and the other hero is Harrison Bergeron, the intellectually and physically advantaged boy for whom the story bears its name. ... This all changed when the manager of the store made remarks to the girls about their beach attire and no shoes and how they were not dressed appropriate for the store. ... The theme that John Updike was trying to illustrate was think rationally and also don't think to quickly about a decision. ... The story is about how the government has taken all the freedom from the people and made ...

• Word Count: 912
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" was written in anachronic order starting off by telling a story during the civil war era about how a man is about to be hanged. Then the story then changes direction by introducing that man as Peyton Farquhar and finally telling the audience about his untimely death. ... (Jackson 291) Still, the author never revealed what the story is really about until the very last paragraph of the story. ... In "The Lottery" the first foreshadowing clue is the little boy Bobby Martin "had already stuffed his pockets full of stones&qu...

• Word Count: 903
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Asked about his "sense of audience," Mistry responds rather grandly, "I suppose the world is my audience," then qualifies the claim by adding "At least, I wish it" (146). ... First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? ... Yet Mistry seems little concerned with such matters, and his three stories about Asians in Canada that appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. ... When I don't have that, I will not write about it. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Asked about his "sense of audience," Mistry responds rather grandly, "I suppose the world is my audience," then qualifies the claim by adding "At least, I wish it" (146). ... First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? ... Yet Mistry seems little concerned with such matters, and his three stories about Asians in Canada that appear in Tales from Firozsha Baag lack the immediacy that Mukherjee and Divkaruni attain. ... When I don't have that, I will not write about it. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate