Ethan's mother died and after the funeral after moving out Ethan asked Zeena to marry her out of his fear of being alone in the farm house. ... In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne had an arranged marriage with Roger Chillingworth who sent her to a colony in Massachusetts before him. ... Before leaving Boston Dimmsdale confessed his sin to the town and falls dead, a year later Chillingworth dies. Hester returns to Boston to live in her cottage, alone and when she dies she is buried next to Dimmsdale sharing a tombstone that says "A". ... While fictional it seems so real, and the book...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Each person in life faces different adversities they must struggle to overcome, from these obstacles the person and those around will, ideally, take with them a lesson and learn from the experience. ... (Defoe 55) Before and even more so after her marriage to Robin, Moll's past is not one that makes her the most chaste of women. ... Moll realizes this before she gets very into the lifestyle that she leads later on in the novel. ... Moll married the younger brother in hopes of a better life and a promising future, but after five years of marriage, he died: He had been really a very good ...

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Following the loss of the family fortune, both of Lily's parents died, leaving her to live with her aunt, Mrs. ... Before this event, Lily lived her life in a way that she was generally confident with. ... There he found that she had died in her sleep. Although several lessons can be drawn from this story, one of the most evident, especially at the end of the book, is that one must never take someone else for granted. ... Had it not been for rumors and their triumph over her, she may not have died the way she did. ...

• Word Count: 1570
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Jane becomes an orphan a few years after her birth, because both her parents die suddenly from typhus. ... Before he dies, Mr. ... Reed died. ... Perhaps this is the most important lesson that Helen teaches: to always maintain self control and be try to be the bigger person. ...

• Word Count: 996
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Our marriage would be the talk of the town and pasted on as a life lesson and made into a book called "What Not to Do When You Grow Up.... But I understand he got to you first and asked you first before I can. ... Even a fly could not land on your skin before I destroy it with my sharp dagger. ... Marrying me will bring you a longer happiness because if you marry Jem, he might die before your first anniversary together. ... Before meeting you I always kept people at arms-length but now I want to keep you forever in my arms so that you can't run away from me. ...

• Word Count: 913
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He tells her the reason he did not see it before was because he was so used to the grave yard being there. ... Before he can go on though, she tells him to stop. ... She accuses him of not caring that the child just died. ... The lesson to be learned is that communication is a strong factor in everyday life. ...

• Word Count: 1115
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• Grade Level: High School

Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels...going about tending the store and prostrating [herself] before Jody, while all the time she herself sat under a shady tree with the wind blowing through her hair and her clothes (72-73). ... After Joe dies and Janie remarries to a man named Tea Cake, she faces a whole plethora of new challenges to overcome. ... Also just like Odysseus, Janie must fight one last battle before she retires from her adventure. ... Not only does she bring back a story to tell, but she also brings back wisdom and important life lesson...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

If Hamlet had been able to make he decision to murder his uncle when he had the chance, the whole play would have ended before it truly had begun. That would have been the climax of the play and no one else would have died. ... Whether it is a lesson on how to behave in a tough situation or a new found love, Shakespeare has the ability to intertwine so many different themes and ideas in this play. ...

• Word Count: 1178
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Linden Hills", by Gloria Naylor successfully creates a chilling argument against oppressive patriarchal societies and families. She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainment of material things and status become the driving force for people. "They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" (Naylor 39). This quote is from Lester in a conversation with his friends, summing up the people of Linden Hills, of which he begrudgingly is one of. ...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She must go to work to support her family and baby, whom, soon after, grows sick and dies. ... With several life lessons learned from her tragic encounter with Alec, Tess is reluctant to fall truly give of herself to Angel, but she realizes to give herself up, is to receive love. ... Tess forgave Angel for abandoning her in the past and is ready for their future life together before she is arrested for the death of her former husband, Alec. ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The new moon had been up and down three times before she got worried in mind"(Ch. 3). ... She really did not find her freedom until Joe Starks dies and Tea Cake comes and scoops her off her feet. ... She has learned two life lessons – that people must go out and live their lives (not simply stay home and gossip) and that they must find God for themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Because Stephen Blackpool was see by many people around the bank several nights before the robbery, and was now no where to be found, he became the prime suspect along with an old woman that he had been seen with around the town. ... Gradgrind tells her in a round about way that she is sorry that she was never taught the real lessons in life just science. She died only a short time later. ...

• Word Count: 3472
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. ... But instead, it turns out that Rebecca was dying of cancer, and that furthermore she was infertile; she had lied to Maxim about her pregnancy. ... Instead, the heroine's thoughts turn to her younger self, years before, and then the real story begins, told in a flashback. ... He is Maxim de Winter, the owner of the famous estate known as Manderley, and he is reportedly in mourning for his wife, who died the previous year. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. The story is interesting and impressive because the heroine's personal character is quite different from the common run. In other novels, the heroines are always beautiful or powerful or rich, but Jane Eyre is only a short, penniless a...

• Word Count: 3066
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School