In Sandra Cisneros' novella, "The House on Mango Street," a thirteen year old girl named Esperanza takes the audience through a series of events as if they are living Esperanza's life with her. ... The author names almost all men and all the women. Cisneros names the women in the story because they have no other personal identity other than their names. The men and their names are not as relevant as the names of the women in the story because the men on Mango Street all have the same traits, abusive and controlling. ... "A car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her life&...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Since Baldwin grew up in the slick city streets of Harlem, the story portrays a similar aspect by presenting two devoted brothers who share pain and suffering of their past in Harlem, and an undefined understanding of each other, which allows them to travel through the pain of the past and into the promise of the future. The memories began when the narrator of the story, the brother whose name is never mentioned, reads about his brother getting caught in a drug raid for using heroin. ... T"he story of their uncle getting hit by a car and perceiving their father in death was an atrocious thi...

• Word Count: 1017
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Speaking with a heavy Yiddish accent the Electoral College became the "Electrical" College, or a neighbor named Mr. ... He left his native Russia in 1904 at the outbreak of Russian Japanese War, not having any desire to fight for a nation that kept its Jewish subjects in a state of second class citizenship. ... It was here that he was introduced to a young lady, recently arrived from the Bessarabian region of Russia, named Devorah Livshin. ... In fact one of her first memories was that of an effigy of a decapitated Kaiser Wilhelm being led through the streets on Armistice Day, November 11, 191...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6