The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. ... "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ...

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

The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. ... "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ...

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

It's interesting to note the clown's cementation on the other characters and how the comedic wit and timing helps the visualization of the story. ... The clown's first scene reinforces the fact that he knows of his superiority in his intellect and what he does: "Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents." ...

• Word Count: 600
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... " Shabaka closes the play by having Mingus stand up from his wheelchair and dance allowing for the performance to close on a positive note while also showing resolution of Mingus's internal conflicts. ...

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

The factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched him to stardom. ... These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ...

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

Personification heightens a reader's emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ...

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