"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon, integrates unique elements of structure, language style and character narration to really deliver a rare, wonderful and one of a kind book that truly brings up thought provoking issues and is overall a satisfying read. ... I think the author has chose to have a less action packed plot and no breathe taking ending to make it more believable and realistic as well as to put Christopher's disability in context with what he writes and the overall quality and events in his life. ... The clever language used is a vital part of...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Overall, the passage explores the narrator's feelings towards America and what could be seen as the American dream, for near the beginning of the passage the narrator states, "I am a lover of America," allowing the rest of the novel to detail the progression and change in the relationship between America and the narrator....

• Word Count: 522
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Characterization occurs when the author draws an overall picture of the characters. ... The explanation of character and the use of specific information form the story demonstrate how effectively this aspect of short story structure supports the overall idea. ...

• Word Count: 1162
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Ralph Ellison's novel, "Invisible Man," the narrator is influenced by many. Although there are many acting on him, he becomes ambivalent to the two characters, Dr. Bledsoe and his grandfather. While toiling between which one he should follow, he finds himself in numerous situations. Finding hi...

• Word Count: 567
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All authors use literary features to develop atmosphere in their stories, and "William Wilson" is no exception. The short story "William Wilson" employs the internal conflict of the narrator with an imaginary doppelganger to illustrate the conflicts between a man and his conscience. The gothic mood ...

• Word Count: 591
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even though Shakespeare's Macbeth and Rupert Goold's film adaptation share numerous ideologies and general storyline, a difference exists in the setting, the characters, and overall atmosphere of the play. ...

• Word Count: 712
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Whilst the text may offer a critique of modernization, it is somewhat paradoxical in its overall resolution. ... Overall this short syntactical arrangement creates a quite powerful allegory; without people like Henry, England would fail to exist. ...

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

In the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor, Baileys mother views herself as a respectable and wise southern lady.However, to the reader, her actions reveal that she is in fact another person.We know this to be true because she primps excessively, lies, uses racist language, and ...

• Word Count: 760
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Overall, the ending increased my understanding of Tim as a person and how he coped with the deaths of people he was close to, but decreased my understanding of what he actually experienced in the war. ...

• Word Count: 685
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The title, The Moment Before the Gun Went Off, refers to the overall place and state the farmer and farmhand found themselves in before the unfortunate event took place, a moment of high excitement shared through the roof of the cab. ...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fact that she never experienced any of the instances in the novel detracted from the overall credibility of the story, forcing the reader to view it as merely fiction rather than historical fiction. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What makes up Literature? Literature plays an important part in the educational world. It can be used to explain historical events in history, theories of scientists in Biology, and many other subjects. Literature also makes up a unique reading styles because of the different literary terms and ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, has been critically acclaimed by many newspapers and literary critics, Philip Pullman writing for The Guardian believed it was "Unmistakably powerful". It was this positive perception of the book which, in November 1998, encouraged the National book foundation to award Sachar with...

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

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. The book itself, has been critically acclaimed by many newspapers and literary critics, Philip Pullman writing for The Guardian believed it was "Unmistakably powerful". It was this positive perception of the book which, in November 1998, encouraged the National book foundation to award Sachar with...

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

Tension is thus created between what a reader who has already read the novel knows to be the overall time-frame, and the individual pockets within that time-frame where events seem to be present ones, and indeed, although in using a first person narrator Bronte does give a great deal of life and emotional strength to the novel that it might otherwise be lacking, there are times like in these pockets of present tense, when we are encouraged to step back, disentangle ourselves from Jane's perspective, and evaluate events for ourselves. ...

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