In order to understand the text to its fullest, the reader must read attentively, formulate thoughtful questions on the text, and animate the evocative text with imagination and creativity. ... In Gunn's example, he focuses on the self-formulated questions of plot and character as the most significant part of the study. ... Continuing to shine new light on some of the controversies of this passage, Dunn offers some new insights on many of the characters in Genesis 19. ... In comparison with my readings of this passage, Gunn related to the characters on a much deeper level of understandin...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The overall tone of this passage is quite dark, with the opening paragraph graphically describing the mutilation of the Pleasure Mouse's foot, ending with her bellowing 'in agony.' ... This particular passage is in past tense, and told in story time, meaning readers are able to closely follow the process of the foot binding and the how Pleasure Mouse reacts to it in more detail. ... In addition, a 'moon sickle' is an agricultural tool used for harvesting, that when used on people, may cause agonising pain, correlating with what Pleasure Mouse will experience later...

• Word Count: 1720
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One such instance occurs in that passage where Jane, having departed from Lowood, awaits her carriage to Thornfield: the next stage of her life. ... These questions in particular, in their invitation of a response, draw the reader further into a sense of dialogue with a real person independent of the novel. ... She asks "how could she really like an interloper not of her race?"... In the passage recounting Jane's first real conversation with Rochester, we see another of these moments. ... Indeed, never again in the novel is Rochester quite so unreserved and "gregarious and communicative a...

• Word Count: 2174
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some examples: replacing "the fireman" with the pronoun "he" or "two boys" with "they". ... These are the words that show how ideas are connected. ... These lexical ties can occur over long passages of text or discourse. ... Individual difference in working memory has an impact in how a discourse is understood. ... When we read or listen to a passage that we are familiar with it is easier to understand it. ...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The chosen passage focuses on the ensuing conversation between the sisters. ... Further concerns with modernity are apparent within the text. ... Margaret questions her: 'what do you know?' ... We can assess the noun 'telegram' as a synecdoche for the capitalist world as whole, therefore the juxtaposition of it within the syntax with the emotive noun 'anger' may illuminate how Forster, through narrative focalization, highlights how he himself connects emotionally with the world he lives-within. ... But what is the lasting image of England we can take from the pas...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrative voice has a better perspective and speaks with maturity whereas we understand how the character feels at the time as things happen. ... " This allows us to understand the story through you Pip's eyes with the reflection of the narrator. ... Bennett and Royle pointed out that the comedy of this passage is partly produced by the double sense of 'character' – as the shape of an inscribed letter on a tombstone and as the personality of a human being.... Pip begins with a misunderstanding of how to pronounce his own name saying so "I called myself Pip&...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of course we think that we know the people we have spent most of our time with and gone through a lot with, however, we can never know somebody completely. ... How did Vriginia Woolf manage to do this? ... How he scolded her! How they argued! ... But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into. ...

• Word Count: 2383
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate