Forster looks at everyday Edwardian life, and follows the protagonist, Lucy, in her struggles with the class system, love and her obligations as a woman living in that time. ... However, as the novel progresses, she experiences more, and she matures, and eventually realizes that it is impossible for her to be happy when she is a living a life that she us not interested in leading. ... The theme of growing up and maturing is integral to the novel, with the reader watching Lucy mature and develop emotionally. By the end of the book, she has gained significant amounts of intelligence and is far m...

• Word Count: 1127
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Prejudice and racial hate is an aspect in the human life that can discredit and strip one off his or her moral stance and position within the society. The novel titled "A Lesson Before Dying,"" is a graphic representation of the fact and notion that the colour of the skin of a human being could play a critical role in determining the substance and character of a person. Consequently, the primary thesis of my analysis of "A Lesson Before Dying " revolves around prejudice, intentional or not, among the characters. ... As these racial prejudices are going on, other things are also happening in...

• Word Count: 968
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Literature has the ability to change our thinking Literature, particularly in the form of novels, provides us with an objective view of life. ... Prominent characters in Guterson's novel all represent individual themes, goals and morality, which transfer into real life issues. ... Yet the lessons learnt in the novel are not purely fictional, the novel is strengthened by the fact that this trial and situation could have been quite real. ... The denial of rights laid out in this novel serve as an impacting lesson in learning from our history, and preventing the reoccurrence of unfair tre...

• Word Count: 1123
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The young women in this novel are shown dealing with the conflict of choosing what is more important in their lives "self-cultivation, or domestic duties. ... Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). To deal with the darker sides of life, Alcott teaches her young readers to develop the spiritual self, similar to the Transcendentalist movement, to which her father was a part of (Showalter, viii). ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her ch...

• Word Count: 1473
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Educating children using novels about realistic portrayals of life broadens the minds of children by exploring diverse views of lifestyles to help each child make informed decisions when choosing a way of life. ... Children who read the novel will encounter educational lessons about the power of friendship, faith, and love. ... The characters within the novel portray the realities of life by expressing genuine feelings of happiness that they share with loved ones and moments of sadness that take into account the inevitable complexities of life. ... The characters in the novel are ultimately...

• Word Count: 808
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The children in the settlement received lessons in subjects such as art, carpentry, and cooking, but Anne Tyler also attended a local public school at Harvard. ... The ordinariness of day-to-day life that families encounter is most often the subject matter of Tyler's novels; many critics ascribe her popularity with reading audiences with the fact that her characters are relatable and ordinary but not simplistic (Concise Dictionary ). ... In her 1982 novel, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, the tension of the Tull family is seen from the vantage point of each family member, each with th...

• Word Count: 834
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Flatland is not only an intriguing and engaging book about geometry itself, it also teaches valuable lessons about what a negatively multicultural society would be like - one with distinct classes who are viewed as "better" or "worse" than others. ... I am really excited to use this book, along with other resources to help with learning activities that correspond to the book's topics, to increase my students' awareness of multiculturalism and provide a platform that presents mathematics in a new and life-application-level way. ... These views are dealt with at the beginning of the no...

• Word Count: 1407
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Kellers existence in the novel is greatly due to Pauls parents who nag him on to take the lessons and who in turn have their input towards Keller. Keller is introduced to this novel with a somewhat enigmatic, reserved quality about him. ... He wears a white linen suit freshly pressed contrasting with the drunk wolf whistling, strangely ironic living in Darwin shut in an oppressive room with the windows closed and ceiling fan stilled. ... Keller who shows Paul the first of many "miracles" in his playing also makes Paul see the first of many miss judgments about him as well as many other lif...

• Word Count: 657
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Absolute True Diary of a Part Time Indian," is a young adult, (YA) novel written by Sherman Alexie. The protagonist is a young boy named Junior, comes across problematic situations causing him to learn valuable lessons and develop into an improved person. Being a Native American on a reservation in Spokane, Washington has a negative impact on Junior's life. ... Junior learns from this, that ending friendships are a difficult, yet critical, part of life. ... Through friendships and experiences, Junior grows into a mature young man by the end of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 566
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All through the novel, Jane Eyre mixes different religious experiences, which she has gained from distinctive sources. ... This thus prompted Jane being mean with Mrs. ... At the point when struck without reason, the victimized person needs to "strike back again hard," to instruct the attacker a lesson (Brontë, 1990). ... One day, she will make a perfect life, one that joins Miss Temple's refinement and Helen's most profound sense of being with a spark of Jane's passion. Christianity in Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte addresses the topic of Christianity in the novel Jane Eyre. ...

• Word Count: 847
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In addition, he illustrates the price to which those with a more liberal approach to life pay as a result of their aptitude. ... Consequently, Prynne serves a period in prison, and upon her return, she isolates herself in a secluded cottage ostracized from the mainstream life. ... The theme of the novel which directly relates with the story may be interpreted as a moral lesson. ... However, the novels greater significance lies within its relation to the modern world. ... Should we abandon leaders, then we welcome a anarchic world with disarray and chaos. ...

• Word Count: 748
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... He published his second novel, A Fine Balance, in 1995. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, b...

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

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... He published his second novel, A Fine Balance, in 1995. ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, b...

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

Montana 1948, a novel written by Larry Watson and published in 1993, describes an embarrassing recollection of David Hayden happened in a small town called Bentrock. ... However, this decision makes Wes's life very painful and miserable, with further accumulating conflicts between these two brothers. ... With these separate powers combined, they have created a dominant social system along with an invisible aura that people can see. ... A lesson should be learned throughout this novel is that long-time unregulated and centered power existed in a family or a society will definitely lead to ...

• Word Count: 868
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although Orwell's originally titled novel, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. ... The novel is replete with messages and lessons regarding blind conformity and the misuse of power, that are not to be found in typical fairy stories. ... Right after the animals rid the farm of humans, they turn around and learn the ways of man, with the pigs" teachings of reading and writing to the other animals. ... The sheep in the novel were easily ...

• Word Count: 899
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gulliver combats this with an infatuating obsession with clothes, believing that people should be clothed and if so, they will remain civilized and human. ... This misfortune is a lesson to Gulliver, teaching him that death is inevitable and that he can be relieved from the fear of death. ... The novel "Robinson Crusoe" focuses on a situation where an individual is stranded and left to fight for survival. ... He believes that his fate has turned into providence, and for this reason he has been punished by God, and left on the island for a lesson in life. ... Despite his misfortune, he beli...

• Word Count: 1742
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dickens establishes the theme and shows Pip learning this lesson, largely by exploring ideas of ambition and self-improvement. ... Significantly, Pip's life as a gentleman is no more satisfying "and certainly no more moral "than his previous life as a blacksmith's apprentice. ... At the beginning of the novel, like Pip, Jane is a child. ... In the course of the novel, all of these things change. ... Fortunately for Pip and other Victorian men in his dilemma, they do not need to concern themselves with moving beyond this sort of gender discrimination, but only with rising...

• Word Count: 1152
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The play Mingus Remixed is written and performed by Barry Shabaka Henley who strives to capture the final moments of Jazz musician Charles Mingus's life through a historical realist narration and performance of significant life events. ... Shabaka's performance is within this room as he explores Mingus's past experiences and reflects on them in order to glean life lessons and give perspective about the recollected events. ... Charles Mingus begins his monologue with humorous stories such as meeting prominent Jazz players in 1950's New York, going on tour with Burd, and his ...

• Word Count: 815
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, considering that Siddhartha is a novel about synthesis and unity, such an extreme, with its emphasis solely on the cerebral and its negation of the physical, cannot be sustained. In a three-beat pattern, which sets the rhythm for the novel as a whole (and which echoes the three-phase structure of Siddhartha's life, from mind to body to unity), Siddhartha leaves the learned men of his town, then the Samanas, and then even Gotama Buddha. ... He realizes that he does not know himself because he has spent all his life escaping himself in his attempt to find Atman, Life, and the Divin...

• Word Count: 1200
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She also received a postcard addressed to Hilde Moller Knag which started the biggest mystery of her life. ... Gaarder's book clearly narrates the history of philosophy through the lessons given to Sophie Amundsen by Alberto Knox. Anybody who wants to learn about the history of philosophy can read this book and understand the concepts with ease since they were explained with the basic knowledge of young minds. ... By the description of the book, one may say that it would be more like a textbook than a novel. ... Gaarder wrote an excellent novel about the history of philosophy. ...

• Word Count: 771
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The connections, and relevance it has to today's modern society and the lessons that can be learned from it, is what classifies it as being classic. ... However, its concerns with radical social reform, along with the workings of the imagination and an interest in nature, Frankenstein identifies itself as a classic Gothic novel with important links to the Romantic movement. ... It is important to note that the setting in the novel is very much concerned with nature and how it reflects the characters. This aspect links the Gothicism of the novel to the Romantic period, a period closely...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thus the actual cultural identity within the book can therefore be easily defined as one concerned primarily with money. There is a clear separation in the identity of those with old money and the nouveau rich. ... Olaf's College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition. ... Another brief history lesson: At the end of the first world war the role of women dramatically changed. ... After the war women generally came to the conclusion that there was more to life than taking care of children and a house. ...

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

The novel follows the tragic story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientific prodigy, who discovers to secret to life and who uses it to bring to life a creature whom he assembled using various dead body parts. ... Yet, later on, as the creature becomes aware of how he came to be and is confronted with the cruelty of society, he decides to seek revenge on Victor Frankenstein's family and wreaks havoc upon the life of his creator. ... "My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence  into the search of the philosopher's stone  and the elix...

• Word Count: 1600
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both of these novels illustrate the bitterness of society to those who are cast aside as different. ... Yet, even with all of these obstacles, this family has proven in this novel to be among the richest. ... Even the old blind man who many would sympathize with for his lack of vision, is enjoying life more than most other characters mentioned in this story, as he is continuously depicted singing or playing a musical instrument, which normally brings smiles to any bystanders. ... Once again, the real monster in this novel is the society in which these people are "born" into. ... As ...

• Word Count: 1085
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Through his encounter with Ultima's magic, Antonio learns to sympathize with people who believe differently, open his mind to see life from shifting perspectives, and live in harmony with himself and others. ... In conclusion, the old healer Ultima lives and teaches the moral system that the novel espouses. ... Antonio is a man of learning since he understands that his experiences are lessons about life, and he knows that he must take life's lessons to heart, even when they are difficult, painful, or disappointing. At the end of the novel, on her deathbed, Ultima treats Antonio as ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate