His wife had died and his daughter was taken from him as a result of his reckless lifestyle. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ... Not only has Charlie lost most of his money, his daughter and his wife, but also his personal honor. By naming Charlie's daughter Honoria, Fitzgerald is alluding to the fact that Charlie not only finds his lost daughter in Paris, but also his lost honor. ... Fitzgerald's untraditional plot structure and symbolism in his work, "Babylon Revisited", clearl...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His wife had died and his daughter was taken from him as a result of his reckless lifestyle. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ... Not only has Charlie lost most of his money, his daughter and his wife, but also his personal honor. By naming Charlie's daughter Honoria, Fitzgerald is alluding to the fact that Charlie not only finds his lost daughter in Paris, but also his lost honor. ... Fitzgerald's untraditional plot structure and symbolism in his work, "Babylon Revisited", clearl...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1965, the couples first daughter, Tezh, was born, followed by Mitra in 1967, prompting the family to move to Baltimore, the place in which Tyler still resides, although now widowed, and where many of her novels and short stories are set, especially Baltimore's Roland Park-the "epitome of upper-middle class waspdom in all its glory" (DISCovering Authors). Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household, and publishing twelve more novels, a children's book, numerous short stories, and several reviews. ... When her daughters we...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel Crank follows the story of how fictional character Kristina Snow, a "gifted high school junior, total dweeb, and perfect daughter"(Glass) transforms into Bree, her meth addicted alter ego. ... Cresting to the top, time moves into overtime as you wait for that scant hesitation, just before you drop how you feel at that instantthat's exactly how it feels when you shake hands with the monster"(Crank). ... Hopkins is able to give a first hand account to the battles of addiction as her daughter, also named Kristina, struggles with meth addiction. Hopkins openly admits...

• Word Count: 875
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All throughout history, there have been times in which a moment or event nearly summed up a generation: what happened during that time period, what the people were experiencing, the emotional state of a country, the impact of a single person all merely examples of stories that helped share a larger one. ... Originally born just outside of Johannesburg, Nadine began to gain a political identity at a young age as the daughter of two Jewish immigrant parents, who spent much of their own young adult lives under repression in Russia. ... After being home schooled through most of her younger year...

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

Despite his awareness that his parents, his wife, and his daughter all think he is insane, he acts out his life as a drama of paranoia and nuclear dread, fashioning an impromptu shelter out of a ping-pong table as a youth and digging a hole for a larger shelter as an adult. ... But as he begins to locate this topic within broader contexts, his continued popularity can be attributed to his gifts as a master storyteller, his willingness to grapple with the relevant intellectual issues of our time, and his reminder of the continued need for fiction in a world which increasingly tends to look else...

• Word Count: 781
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sethe's dead daughter is reincarnated as a young woman, and from there the story revolves around those two characters reconnecting. ... In "The Woman Warrior," the reader knows that the belief of ghosts is realistic because of the setting and the time period. ...

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

On the other hand, like most puritans of her time, Mary Rowlandson wrote to discover God's purpose in her life. ... Both captives were separated from their families; interestingly, both had a female relative (a daughter for Mary Rowlandson and a sister for Olaudah Equiano) who was also a captive and later reunited. ...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Interaction of internal (apofatic) and external (aleatoric) laws is the plof-forming reality of the novel of new time. ... Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly motivated turn of events as the idea of the novel as a genre is defined with becoming the person. ... On the contrary, the author of the dialogical novel understands, that it is a product of the environment and generation of time. ... "The French lieutenant's woman- (1969) is the novel about young, a little bit mysterious woman who is born and lives in the Victorian Eng...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate