Each and every child should be required to read the short novel Weetzie Bat by Francesca L. ... Children who read the novel will encounter educational lessons about the power of friendship, faith, and love. ... As the novel progresses, both characters successfully complete their missions in finding the perfect lover. ... The main character in the novel, Weetzie Bat, demonstrates to readers that with a little hope wishes can in fact come true. ... The characters in the novel are ultimately concerned with the happiness of other significant loved ones. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This reading accurately describes some of the deeper meanings inside this novel. ... This novel displays an undercurrent of love, friendship and trust. ... No matter the difficulties thrust against the main characters in this novel, the ultimate triumph of good over evil is obvious. ... Through the information given it is clear that the novel "A Cage Of Butterflies" is accurately described by the reading that the novel is "a refreshing tale about the power of love, the strength of the human spirit and the power of good over evil. ... This novel is expertly written by Brian Caswell, and really ...

• Word Count: 528
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The dialogical novel is one of versions of the novel of XX century, distinguishing it as from the traditional "realistic" novel, explaining the sense hidden in event, and from the traditional "romantic" novel, explaining in a plot the developed in consciousness of the author gnosiological model of the world. In the "realistic" novel the reader deals with plot objectivation, and in "romantic" - with subject. The author of the realistic novel subcontracts objectivating and finishing functions of the experienced historical regularity whereas the author of the romantic novel subordinates t...

• Word Count: 2592
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Though the reader can expect to find some shocking, yet interesting facts about the meat packing industry in this time period (early 1900's), Sinclair may have had reasons other than displaying the truth behind meat packing for writing the novel. ... Sinclair has his main character, Jurgis Rudkus, put through a series of mis-fortunate events throughout the novel, most of which are a result of a moral-lacking economic system. ... Because The Novel is based in the industrial, early 1900's and Sinclair's main point is to show the trials of working men, the industrial environment ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, before delving into the past, Fitzgerald starts his novel in the present where he evaluates the four main characters in the novel. ... All values and judgements are those of Nick's which helps to maintain simplicity and give the novel its cohesiveness. Fitzgerald continues to keep his novel simple by being highly selective in the material which he chooses to include into the plot. ... By quickly progressing from one important event to the next, Fitzgerald is able to highlight many issues in his novel and uses the convention of structure. ... Additionally, juxtaposition is incorpo...

• Word Count: 756
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. ... Forster sees something deeply wrong in the puritan and merchant society of his time and he underlines that view in his novel: we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. ... A...

• Word Count: 379
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the analysis of the first novel and the last novel discussed in the course, the concept of hope will be examined interactively with direct and indirect danger. ... Both novels depict the repercussions of the reckless ways people have tampered with technology or mismanaged societies. ... In Shute's novel, the characters can not accept that they will ultimately die from radiation sickness. ... McCarthy's novel illustrates something on the other side of the spectrum by having citizens battle against one another for necessity to survive. ... Both novels illustrate despondence an...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel "The Scarlet Letter", the author Nathaneil Hawthorn's depiction of the two male characters, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth, emphasizes the moral problems of the seventeenth century puritan society. Hence, their different characters contribute vitally to the plot of the novel. ... At his first appearance in the novel, Hawthorne describes his impressive and skilful preaching and calls to the reader's attention his physical features such as his eyes and his hair. ...

• Word Count: 328
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel, O Pioneers!... Cather's characters, through the main character Alexandra, and everyone she interacts with is evident demonstrations of the type of historical context the novel entails. Through her novel, Cather can demonstrate challenges Americans faced during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, particularly in situations such as isolation and inevitable loneliness, and about gender roles. Throughout the novel, Alexandra is continually abandoned through the death of her father, fleeing neighbors, Carl's departure, her brother's endeavors, and his eventual death. ......

• Word Count: 649
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Freedom is also conveyed throughout the novel through Asher's character with the rebellion against the school to be able to wear what he wanted. ... Through Lowry's use of stream of consciousness within her novel, real issues in the present world are effectively explored reflected through Asher's requirement to own his freedom of speech within a society. ... And through the longing for freedom within the novel the characters are set on a journey of self-discovery. ... Brigid Lowry explores the journey of self-discovery within her novel Guitar Highway Rose effectively through th...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Day includes the suspicious death of an innocent boy as the main incident of the novel, with a private investigator handling the case. She also introduces a single suspect who is alluded to early in the novel, Harry Lavender. ... The novel ends with Lavender succeeding in releasing his memoirs after his death, implying the victory of the villain. ... This also shows the volume of power encompassed by Lavender, as he deviates from traditional criminals and does not get caught nor seen throughout the novel. ... The other characters of the novel also help to differentiate Valentine from traditio...

• Word Count: 1114
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marele Day's choice of Sydney as a plot setting is vital to the novel and provokes a reaction in the reader that is one of discovery, exploration and search for truth. Sydney is beautiful yet corrupt, as is the case with the two protagonists in the novel. ... Some characters are planted simply as stylistic tools, others with specific purposes to push the novel forward but all to represent diversity in the city. ... Everywhere you turn throughout the novel, beauty versus corruption is being portrayed and it all traces back to the city itself. ... Sydney is the character that carries the h...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel is based on a world in which homosexuals are not denied any rights, and are extremely accepted. ... The main character in the novel, Jane Bond, ironically, does not feel uncomfortable or uneasy by indulging in public displays of affection with her female partner. ...

• Word Count: 330
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reason for Okonokwa's downfall in Things Fall Apart The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe has long been seen as a response to Christian colonial literature, which presents the African as a barbaric dark image. ... Through examining Okonokwa and his character flaws and essentially the reasons for his downfall one may surmise that shedding light on the African plight was not Achebe's some message in this novel. ...

• Word Count: 455
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I am never sure as I re-read the novel's conclusion, however, as to whether Henchard satisfies the eighth point, except that his fate enriches Elizabeth-Jane's understanding of the human condition. ... The theme and spirit of tragedy found a new vehicle in the novel in the 19th century, its form being originally used only in plays. Thomas Hardy has been quoted as comparing the rural setting of this and other of his novels to the stark and simple setting of the Greek theater, giving his novels something of that drama's intensity and sharpness of focus. ...

• Word Count: 1167
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Journey to Individuation The novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies follows the character Dunstan Ramsay on his path to individuation. Although he does not quite reach individuation by the end of the novel, he is slowly learning how his rebirth, acceptance of archetypes, and the people around him all contribute to his journey. ... The rebirths' of all three characters also has significance on the novel as a whole. ... Davies symbolically displays the rebirth of Dunstan, Magnus and Boy throughout the entire novel and most specifically through the scene where Dunstan reveals Magnus' ...

• Word Count: 909
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel, Tess realizes how D'Urberville abuses her and the importance of Angel Clare, her husband, and therefore murders D'Urberville and begs Clare to accept her into his life again: "I could not bear the loss of you any longer- you don't know how entirely I was unable to bear your not loving me!" ...

• Word Count: 380
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

​The representation of women throughout history has always gone unnoticed. It is often misunderstood or disguised as equivalent. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and in Virginia Woolf's, A Room of Ones Own, we get a particular look into women's roles in a patriarchal society. To...

• Word Count: 1227
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Faeries, gnomes, goblin kings, dreams, symbolism and fantasy; these are the most essential building blocks in the wildly creative world of Jim Henson's movie, "Labyrinth." This film, while meant for the entertainment of children, carries many adult themes that Henson and his co-creators George Lucas...

• Word Count: 2010
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate