The initial chapter has Doctor Iannis curing Stammatis's from deafness only to discover that a pea is lodged in his ear. ... The following chapter(2) uses single narrative in the monologue of Mussolini. ... The humourous image of a self absorbed dictator is purposely created, and his feline encounter later in the chapter ends up as a bloody mess and an early siesta. Satire is present in the chapter involving Corelli and the mine on the beach(43), with the smug engineer being decapitated shortly after declaring that Corelli was going to be killed. ... The ludicrous nature of this dialogue ...

• Word Count: 2754
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Social occasions are a vital part of rural Highbury life in Emma, as they are used to further the plot and give an otherwise unseen insight into the depth of different characters. ... This Chapter also indicates Emma's ignorance, through the mention of Frank Churchill. ... Chapter 15 contains the conclusion of the dinner party and Mr Elton's declaration of love to Emma on their journey home. ... It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together." ... (p124) Emma's desire for the development of her own character is evident in Chapte...

• Word Count: 1241
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first of these sections, including the chapter covering Don Quixote's first expedition, functions mainly as a satirical composition of fashionable romance tales. The second section, contains the rest of the first part, is written under the appearance of a history, by going along in a historical detour and breaking up the chapters regularly, carefully reporting every day's events. The third section, which covers the second part of the novel, is different since it is written as a more established novel, arranged by emotional and content, which relates to the theme, and filled with ...

• Word Count: 1783
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, he is able to face his failings in a logical manner because he is unafraid to be honest about his 'behavioural problems' as he lists in Chapter 73. ... Hence, although Haddon's novel suggests that lies can have devastating effects, it also teaches that for some, lies are invariably a part of people's lives. ...

• Word Count: 815
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As part of this convention, the narrator occasionally addresses the reader directly with the word "reader.... When speaking to Helen, Jane 'pour[s] out' her 'tale ofsufferings and resentments', Helen 'said nothing' and waited 'patiently till the end' and this quality is what allows Jane to trust in Helen, which later almost reaches idolisation on Jane's part. She claims she is 'struck with wonder' (chapter 8 PAGE 74) by Helen. ...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lawrence is a writer who excites great passions - which is entirely appropriate, since that is how he wrote. He is the first really great writer to come from the (more or less) working class, and much of his work deals with issues of class, as well as other fundamentals such as the relationships bet...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... Its author, the elderly monk Adso, divides his text into seven parts, spanning seven days; each part or day is further ordered into "periods corresponding to the liturgical hours" of the monastic day (7). ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate