Fleur got herself into trouble at times, and once had to change into a pig to save herself from a fellow gambler, Lucy, who "pushed her against the big fence and the package of coins (she won) split, went clinking and jumping, winked against the wood. ... Even though The Girl Who Married the Bear is an origin story, intended to instill family values such as love and trust, and exemplify people's connection to nature; it, as well as other origin stories, gives Native Americans the chance to see characters just like themselves, living with the same traditions, only finding themselves in ab...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The greed illustrated in the story is also a theme, alerting the reader to the unsavoury characters of the Warden and Mr Sir. The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... Stanley constantly reminds the reader of his "no- good- dirty- rotten- pig- stealing- great- great- grandfather", and the curse he had passed down to "him and all his descendants", responsible for his very bad luck. ... The book also considers contemporary issues which enable the reader to relate ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The greed illustrated in the story is also a theme, alerting the reader to the unsavoury characters of the Warden and Mr Sir. The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... Stanley constantly reminds the reader of his "no- good- dirty- rotten- pig- stealing- great- great- grandfather", and the curse he had passed down to "him and all his descendants", responsible for his very bad luck. ... The book also considers contemporary issues which enable the reader to relate ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also criticised that government officials should be carefully considered by the attributes of their character and their virtue, and not for their wealth. ... The twelve animals of the Chinese horoscope include the rat, rabbit, horse, rooster, cow, dragon, ram, dog, tiger, snake, monkey and pig. ...

• Word Count: 1680
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Typically, the sacrificial victims are almost always animals "customarily Greeks chose the bull, the sheep, the ox, the goat, or the pig as honorable subjects (Burkert 55). ... Rene Girard, a Civilization Professor at Stanford University presents the rationalization of this position in his novel, Violence and the Sacred: "this dividing of sacrifice into two categories, human and animal, has itself a sacrificial character, in a strictly ritualistic sense. The division is based in effect on a value judgment, on the preconception that one category of victim "the human being "is qui...

• Word Count: 2118
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate