Although the majority of the book portrays the depressing day to day mission of the man and the boy, each time the two overcome imminent death, they are encouraged to persevere. ... Upholding his role as a faithful husband and father till the very end, Dwight informs Moira about his loyalty to his family and expresses that his wife, Sharon, "will want to meet [Moira]" (256). ... The boy in The Road experiences countless moments of fear and cries just as any other child would in a harsh environment with "human livestock" (47). ... Constantly claiming that "[he] is reall...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He wanders out of the jungle, followed by a fat boy named Piggy. ... Initially he is so assured of this that he doesn't worry about their situation. ... When Jack isn't getting his way, he lashes out, often attacking Piggy, a boy much weaker than he. ... "Brave New World" is about a Utopia, an ideal state, a bad ideal state. ... The boy grew up absorbing three cultures: the Utopia he heard about from his mother; the Indian culture in which he lived, but which rejected him as an outsider; and the plays of Shakespeare, which he read in a book that survived from pre-Utopian days. ...

• Word Count: 1298
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• Grade Level: High School

Readers are quick to treat novel characters like other people and immediately upon their introduction, the reader often can begin to decipher the kind of person that she or she is reading about and will make no hesitation to like or dislike the character very quickly. Looking at the characters in the novel that represent the idea of "good-, one can see that the actions of each boy are directly related to the name that Golding assigned them. ... He is described by Golding as a skinny little boy with black hair and is slightly younger than Ralph is. ... Piggy is a heavyset boy with asthma and...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: High School

He arrived on the island having experienced some success in exercising control over others as he was the "chapter chorister and head boy", which allowed him to dictate the choirboys (Golding 22). ... He believes he "ought to be chief" because he is "chapter chorister and head boy", and also because he "can sing C sharp" (Golding 22). ... Walking behind him was his choir boys, who all wore "shorts, shirts" and "each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it", unlike the other boys, Jack had a golden cap badge, which indica...

• Word Count: 2153
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• Grade Level: High School

It is a simple story, in which there are only two main characters the old man and the boy. ... I would like to talk about the core of the seven-eighths. ... The writer does not tell us the name of the character he is talking about. ... His conversation with the boy shows his strong will. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ...

• Word Count: 2478
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• Grade Level: High School

When the adults give young Jim a gun in preparation for the impending mutiny, the gun is used to even the playing field between the boy and the men. ... Likewise, Jim in "Treasure Island" is impulsive and, as a young boy, he is still learning moral reasoning and virtue. ... Crusoe goes into so much detail about every aspect of his adventure that it seems very tedious, especially when he begins a log on the island to explain exactly how he has determined to survive there. ...

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When Stephen is being treated, he witnesses the effects of a gas attack, on a boy. ... Weir describes how his dad 'was bored' when Weir was talking about war. ... Stephen is explaining his feelings towards war, and you can interpret through his expression, that he is passionate about war. ... Stephen feels that the concept of war now is not about international conflict, it's about the degrading of men, the horrors of war, and what he has witnessed has made him feel this way. ...

• Word Count: 1354
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• Grade Level: High School

He now understands much more about the complexity of his own mind. ... Harry learns more about himself through the experiences that he shares with Maria. ... At the ball Harry encounters Hermine dressed as a boy. ... Harry learns a lot about himself through his experiences with drugs. ... Another overall theme that Harry learns about is sensual pleasure. ...

• Word Count: 1545
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• Grade Level: High School

He grabbed her by the face and kisses her hard on the lips and didn't let go for a while and Esperanza never told anyone about it. A boy named Sire really brought out the mature side of Esperanza when she got enough courage to stare back. ...

• Word Count: 1313
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The study claims that Murasaki Shikibu tried to illustrate Genji as a hero, instead of as a "play boy" (Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding n.d.). ... Another writer for the New York Times, while working on a piece about the memoirs of a prostitute, comments that, "Sex memoirs are nearly as old as the world's oldest profession....

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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about a young man called Holden Caulfield, who travels from Pencey Prep to New York City struggling with his own neurotic problems. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. We had an official population of about five hundred, and the surrounding farms probably brought the district up to eight hundred souls." ... (Davies, 230) The more time Dunstan spends with Liesl, the more he learns about himself and the more insight he has on his own life. Liesl encourages Dunstan to live his life the way he wants to and forget about his past which he feels responsibility and guilt for Mary and Paul Dempster, regarding the snowball incident when...

• Word Count: 1556
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• Grade Level: High School

Assef who is a head Taliban soilder also tells Amir about his hatred towards Hazaras ans how it is the Sunni's job to rule over and get rid of the Hazaras. ... He tells Montag about the history of literary thoughts and explains to Montag why books are important. At one point Faber becomes very influential to Montag and he uses Faber as a source of wisdom about books and knowledge. ... This is the scheme Amir plans because of the negative influences on him about Hazaras and his own cowardice. ... Amir goes back to Afghanistan to find a boy named Sohrab who is now an orphan and the son of H...

• Word Count: 1766
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• Grade Level: High School

While Edna was having a conversation with her friend, Madame Ratignolle, she was thinking about how her title as a wife was only for the benefit her husband and did not allow her to think for herself. ... Though we see what she actually thinks about a women's place as a mother in the social order. ... It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. ... There's a gradual change in Edna as she thinks about how women are portrayed in their culture and held to a specific standard. ... "'You...

• Word Count: 1575
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• Grade Level: High School

The main character of the novel, the Narrator, an unnamed "thirty year old boy" who is employed in the recall division of the Federated Motor Corporation is the personification of the modern day American male raised in a capitalist society. ... You are not your bank account- He wants to stray away from material possessions and wants society to think as he does about consumerism. ... Only men are allowed and it is about releasing their most primal male urges. ...

• Word Count: 1809
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• Grade Level: High School

However Paddy doesn't know what has happened because Roddy Doyle doesn't go into great detail about it or doesn't attempt to explain it. ... Paddy's friends seem important to him because in every extract he seems to be with them or thinking about them. ... The novel starts with Paddy talking to his friends as a young boy. ... - Roddy Doyle does not go into detail about the man because in that situation Paddy probably didn't even look at him therefore he wouldn't know anything about him. ... One of these things is his nurse Peggoty he goes into quite a lot of ...

• Word Count: 2123
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• Grade Level: High School

He compares himself with Phineas and sees that while he has to deal with his own negativity and adversity, Phineas apparently had none to fuss about. ... But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough" (Green 230). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me---knocked me down for nothing. ... Jane is willing to tell everyone the truth about her aunt and cross over her role boundaries. ...

• Word Count: 1755
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• Grade Level: High School

Her inability to define the voice and attach a form to it is frustrating, as this description, for all its many words, tells us nothing about the voice in the end other than that it is unclear. ... In an early moment of tension, Hepzibah is frightened by the shop bell which she perceives to be "betwitched", becoming fearful that she has "summoned up an evil spirit" (49)-yet we quickly discover that it is simply a sweet little urchin boy wanting to buy gingerbread. ...

• Word Count: 1547
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

"But Amy was right: nobody ever asks about the language. ... People who have read perhaps only two of his books will be reasonably sure, on purchasing their third, that they will read about themselves, or at least about people who bear a resemblance to themselves. ... We, as a race, like to hear about other peoples problems. ... We are also interested in the subplots, for although Stephen King is certainly a horror writer, he can and does also write about life; about romance, friendships and their failings, disputes, brawls, parties and all the things that we do to live, thrive and survive. He...

• Word Count: 2261
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• Grade Level: High School

He tried to make friends with a boy, who made fun of his ugly appearance and rejected him. ... Both of these men had great ambitions and were not concerned about wealth; they wanted the glory of achieving their goals. ... In this novel, Zola wrote about the nature of human beings "their animal instincts. ... The story can also be used as advice about the penalties of rejecting authority. ... Mary Shelley wrote a scary story about unusual events. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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• Grade Level: High School

Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. ... They continually find themselves loving something more and more about themselves. ... He states after a casual conversion with Bernis about life, "Somewhere, I sense, a ship is foundering. ... Her lack of emotion confuses her and she begins to panic and rant about how she was a horrible mother. ... She tells of how she needed to escape the feeling of imprisonment brought about by her sons death. ...

• Word Count: 2037
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• Grade Level: High School

'It is about time I caught you doing things maids are not meant to do. ... Although Griet did not bring any trouble to the household, her status as a maid, supportably speaks about her nature. ... The mother-in-law then learns of his background, if the boy does not come from a wealthy family, mother-in-law may refuse his proposal to marry his daughter. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

Even though they are much stronger, having more thought put into them, the others rebuke what is said after realizing that it has come from Piggy, the most detested boy on the island. ... Both Jack and Roger have the power of never being asked a question about their abilities. ...

• Word Count: 1849
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School