Hughes says "I believed her. " This automatically separates opinions from facts since the author is stating he believed her. ... The use of first person shows its power and constant emphasis on the story's message by again separating the facts from opinions.   ... He knows he is going to be separated from his family and it's obvious he knows that this will be of negative impact to his life. ... A first-person point of view piece of literature is again aiding the audience in understanding the child's current state of emotions. ... This is his last plea before he gets separate...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The significance I found in this is that no matter what generational group each character belongs to, they are all still individuals who will continue to be different and separate from one another. ... This search requires each of the stories which chronicle a critical moment in their respective lives to be separate from one another in order to truly hit home the idea of personal character. ... Now with the death of Suyuan, their game - the last true piece of old China they have with them - has been put on the shelf. ...

• Word Count: 1953
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

By the end of the story, the two ladies had seemingly pieced together whether Minnie Foster murdered her husband. ... Although they all lived separate lives, they each understood what it meant to be place in the bubble of being wives. ... She was lonely and her husband had taken away her last piece of her old life and her last sliver of sanity and happiness. ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A Good Man is Hard to Find is a collection of intriguing short stories written by Flannery O'Connor. They were first published in 1948. O'Connor's stories reflected life in the South. Most of her stories are told through the eyes of either a child or an elderly person. At first glance, they al...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The concept of a thin veil recalls the Biblical account of the Israelites' temple, where a thin veil would separate the people in the temple from God's presence so they could not interact with His presence directly; much like the ancient Israelites, we are forbidden access to knowledge of the true nature of the subject at hand. ... " We want to believe that this positivity is merely dramatic irony, in that the narrator is simply ignorant to what we have already pieced together-yet as it draws on for fifteen whole pages, we question whether we truly do know more than our narrator...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the 19th century, the gender role in the American society was extremely different and separate compared to the gender role nowadays. ... The Yellow Wallpaper was read on its first decade as a piece of horror fiction, situated in the Gothic genre (Shmoop). ...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography