Claude remembered his mother asking Mr. ... Claude takes a liking to the soldier because he can relate to the way the soldier walks around in the story in pain, with love in the back of his mind and woman trouble over his head. ... He can remember his father, but not his mother; doesn't know if he has sisters or not, -can remember seeing girls about the house, but thinks they may have been cousins" (Cather 1201). This passage comes across sad to the reader because the soldier cannot remember any women in his life because of a tragedy of war, but this fact only intrigues Claude to the man ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

. © 2010 When Madame Valmonde drives over to see Desiree and her baby for the first time in a month, she remembers when Desiree was a baby. ... Desiree rises, walks over to him, and says, "Armand, look at our child. ... Without changing out of her slippers and white gown, Desiree fetches her baby from the nurse and walks away, out into the late-afternoon sun of the October day. ...

• Word Count: 2905
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Not only Maa she also looked after Dad, I remember she uses to run after Dad when he use to get drunk and sleep either on roads or in Dano`s taxi. ... I remembered when, I buzzed the doorbell of flat number 105, in Mehran complex. ... I remember I was in Karachi and was supposed to leave the same night for South Africa. ... They would just say "Hi" and walk inside their room if I was sitting in the lounge. ...

• Word Count: 4191
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

For a long time, the woman has assumed a secondary role in the first generation of Indian English male writing such as R.K.Narayan, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand. Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is confined to a very secondary position. It is only through the advent of the rise in fiction by Indian women writers that the woman has been able to assume a major role in the novel. Many of the Indian women novelists focus on women's issues; they have a woman's perspect...

• Word Count: 3535
• Approx Pages: 14

Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. The story be...

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

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is a complex work of literature. It combines involved characters with deep symbolism to tell the story of a troubled woman and what drives her to suicide. Because of its complexity, it is difficult to classify The Awakening into a literary category. On the surface, ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. These struggles often occur between characters, but predominantly they occur between the characters and their emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, s...

• Word Count: 3710
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School