When you think of Charles Dickens you immediately think of A Christmas Carol. ... His more popular works included Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. ... A lot say his characters are not interesting and his plots are average. ... His characters are over exaggerated and it ruins many of his stories. But others think his characters are great and his plots and themes are very well written. ...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Ghost stories are big business in today's modern English language culture. The 6th Sense, one of the most popular ghost films of the decade, grossed about $300,000,000 in theaters in the United States alone (Box Office Mojo). The majority of those within the English speaking cultures may not realize however, the impact Hamlet had on both this movie and every ghost story made after Shakespeare's work. The way ghosts are looked at, felt about, thought about, and presented in television, movies, and books would be completely different without the influence of Hamlet's first encoun...

• Word Count: 3178
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Priestley's 'An Inspector Calls' is one of the most thought-provoking and mysterious characters that modern day literature has yet produced. It is this mysterious element that contributes greatly to making him a very interesting character and one that may be perceived in many ways. ... In terms of how he is used in the basic structure of the play, he is there to move the play along in that he encourages the characters to tell their stories. ... The characters cannot hide the truth from the Inspector because he appears to know it already. ... It is ironic that a character who bel...

• Word Count: 4696
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

In matters of character Victorians prized respectability, earnestness, a sense of duty and public service; most would have regarded an industrious, pious conventionality as the best road not only to material recompense but to heavenly rewards as well. ...

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If you're from the American south, you may feel that you share a unique bond with other southerners. Traditions, values, speech patterns, and even favorite foods bind them together in a way that "outsiders"" may find hard to understand. Pulitzer Prize winning contemporary author Rick Bragg builds up...

• Word Count: 4108
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School