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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nathaniel Hawthorn, author of "The Minister's Black Veil- and "Rappaccini's Daughter,"" lived a life of solitude "devoting the majority of his existence to the acquisition of knowledge. ... In "Rappaccini's Daughter- the young, beautiful Beatrice is isolated "literally "as a result of the poison her father has instilled into her. ... She "must pass heavily, with that broken heart, across the borders of Time "she must bathe her hurts in some fount of paradise, and forget her grief in the light of immortality- in order to achieve her freedom of solitude and s...

• Word Count: 673
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... Only the Italian-born daughter-in-law remains to carry on the dynasty. ... In reply to Greer's criticism, Mistry retorted: "She wants to say that those four months teaching the daughters of high society put her in a better position to judge India than I am in, having grown up there and spent 23 years before emigrating? ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ruin, the chaos, but at the same time engage its immense vitality ...

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

Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... Only the Italian-born daughter-in-law remains to carry on the dynasty. ... In reply to Greer's criticism, Mistry retorted: "She wants to say that those four months teaching the daughters of high society put her in a better position to judge India than I am in, having grown up there and spent 23 years before emigrating? ... Both writers catch the city's squalid side, the poverty, disorder, filth and ruin, the chaos, but at the same time engage its immense vitality ...

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

The story demonstrates that most notable flawed logic that Jackson demonstrates in "The Lottery" over time is that traditions get dilute, with rituals changing and ultimately losing the meaning of the tradition itself. ... In addition to the final act of the lottery itself, immorality is also seen when Tess attempts to offer her daughter and son-in law as an addition to the drawing of papers, all to lesson her own chance of being chosen. ... Summers in regards to her husband Bill getting the marked paper, "you didn't give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. ...

• Word Count: 1719
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate