Lymon talking about you might be sleep. ... Berniece: That's what I"m talking about. ... As soon as Boy Willie and Lymon told Doaker and Berniece about their scheme with the watermelons, Berniece turned quite cynical towards both Boy Willie and Lymon. ... If that's why you come up here you can just forget about it. ... We also see how persistent Boy Willie is, with his remark to Doaker about cutting the piano in half and selling his part. ...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The setting of this drama took place in the 1940s in the home of Doaker Charles, Berniece's and Boy Willie's uncle. ... He tells of a sordid relationship with Lymon's mother and brings news about home, which is Mississippi. ... She don't know nothing about it. ... I just ain't ready to get married right now." (1366) At the end of the play, Boy Willie and Berniece finally came to terms with the ghosts of the past, which were compelling them to take their stands about the piano. Some family members, especially Boy Willie, challenged the use of the ghost returning to h...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6

As a boy in Spartan society, life is anything but easy. ... If you were a boy, this meant one thing: learning to make war (Brown, par. 1). ... The life of a Spartan boy was simple until they reached the age of seven. ... It is what the Spartan culture is all about, keep fighting along while showing no pain. ... It is the day they have been waiting for about fourteen years, graduation day. ...

• Word Count: 1768
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He begins to have a flash back to a time when he was a young boy. ... The boy notices the Star of David on the girl's jacket. ... The girl entrusted the boy with her prized possession. ... Lastly, he returned the mended unicorn to the woman because he knew that she loved it and he cared about her. ... The girl trusted the boy with the unicorn. ...

• Word Count: 1808
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "Funny Boy", written by Shyam Selvadurai, Ajrie goes through an internal and external change. Arjie is a homosexual boy who has not yet realized who he is and what his potential is. Arjie has dreamt of weddings and read about love all of his life, but after seeing what happens to Radha Aunty and the kindling being lit for the war on the rise, he finds that he is affected personally, and his views begin to change about love. ... After finding out for the first time that Radha Aunty was in contact with a Sinhala boy Ammachi's immediate reaction was "And what if the Nagendras h...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Portrait of a Boy This painting is a mid 19th century piece by an American artist. ... The painting is of a young boy standing on a patio next to a pillar. ... There is also slight use of chiaroscuro in the braiding of the young boy's hat. ... The boy's clothing promotes wealth and regality. ... All of these factors contribute to the suggestion that something else is about to happen. ...

• Word Count: 1758
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Black Boy Author: Richard Wright Theme: The autobiographical account of Richard Wright takes place in the south from 1900 to 1945, and his fueled hatred towards white people in the South as he grows up. ... He and his brother decide to save their money and move up north, but not let anyone know about it. ... Richard Wright's theme in the book was trying to inform the reader about the misinterpretations that he and others had about society and the way it was ran. ... I think that the main theme was expressed well with the events that he told about how he was acting and thinking. ... ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Soldier Boy, written by Anthony Hill, involves the audience in the biographical story of the youngest ever ANZAC, Jim Martin. It also informs us, the audience, about the conditions and events that were a part of Jim Martin's short life, and the Gallipoli campaign. ... Through figurative language Hill informs us about the poor conditions at war, the suffering that the Anzac's went through at war and helps us to get a clearer picture of Jim Martin. ... Hill used many and varied writing techniques to engage the audience in the story, Soldier Boy. ...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Rodriguez strived to become the "scholarship boy" who rises above his surroundings and becomes educated. ... Rodriguez continues to deepen the rift between himself and his family by reading books one right after the other and becoming the "scholarship boy". ... I now view Rodriguez as a stubborn, overly ambitious boy who is afraid of becoming his parents and strives to be the persons that they could never be. ... His duty is to enlighten his community and bring about more equality in his town. ...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He has not developed the skills of a man and as a result is seen by others as a boy and treated as such. ... Athena's task is to take Telemachus out of the female world and into the male world and turn the boy into a man. ... The idea of crossing water is seen as a metaphor that signifies the colossal physical and mental journey in which he is about to undertake. ... Telemachus learns about speaking and doing, talking and keeping silent and he also learns about the Gods from Menelaus. ... The suitors plan to kill Telemachus because they know that when Telemachus returns he will be a man a...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

They talked a lot, Milkman learned about his family's history from Pilate. She told him of when she and his dad were little kids he was a nice boy, and he saved her life twice, once when her father died and they were stuck in the woods. ... Hagar and Milkman met when Milkman was only a little boy at the age of twelve, and Hagar was seventeen. ... Hagar is thirty-six now, Milkman lost interest in her already, and she began to pout about his lack of attention, her self-esteem began to dwindle. ... On the way, he talked quietly to her about her love for Milkman. ...

• Word Count: 1568
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his book, Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane describes in intricate detail how the white South Africans controlled South Africa in the 1960's and 1970's. ... As a boy, Mark would help the people who could not read get the documents they needed to keep their books in order. ... The first was in the very beginning of the book when he was only about 6 years old. ... My presence on the bus so startled several white old ladies that were about to disembark, that they fled to the back." ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

On her album Sprit, Jewel has a song called Fat Boy, which is about a fat boy being ridiculed by those around him and trying to cope with it. ... "Wouldn't it be nice if I could just melt myself like ice or outrun my skin and just be pure wind" the boy thinks to himself. ... The boy, like many wishes that he could be different, and deep down inside wishes that he wasn't himself. ... "I am so embarrassed about what happened. ... As the novel progresses, Olive discovers much about herself and others that allows and encourages her to grow and accept herself for who she is. ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8

The main character, Anson Hunter, the rich boy', thinks he is socially above the few women that appear throughout the short story. His belief that women are below him causes Anson to be arrogant and conclusive about the women he meets. ... Paula represents all women, because how Anson treats her is how he feels about women in general. ... Anson's lack of respect for women makes him unconcerned about anything that does not have a connection to himself. ... "The Rich Boy- portrays a tension and a struggle for power between two genders. ...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The novel "Black Boy," written by Richard Wright takes you back in the deep south of Jackson, Mississippi where whites attempted to tame into submission blacks by hard discipline. ... A major lesson that Richard Wright has taught me, in when Shorty, a young black boy, gets beat by the white people and jokes about it. ... In the novel Richard has written about his life and about different and hard situations that he had faced with bare hands and with no support at all. I have to say that he is very courageous to write about himself. ... It was horrifying to read about all the humiliati...

• Word Count: 1641
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"What Harry is All About" There are times when the child within each of us dreams of being in another world, a world where magic truly exists and the Laws of Science do not apply. ... Right now, because of its wide readership all over the world, Harry Potter's story, the boy wizard, is said to be "one of the beloved figures in literary history" (Cagle 60). The story of the book is mainly about Harry Potter and how his magical story unfolds. The story begins when a baby boy, named Harry Potter, was delivered in front of Dursley's house late at night by a huge man riding on a f...

• Word Count: 1460
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The play flashes back often as Willie reminisces to himself about how things used to be, and how great Biff used to be. ... It has been over ten years now and he still has not made any money, and the dream of his father's about Biff making money is starting to drive him crazy. ... Biff was the all-american boy and Happy was just his brother who followed him around and wanted to be like him. ... He worries about everything and does not have the self confidence that Biff has. ... Willie did not believe that Bernard was a well liked person, so it comes to show that Willie's ideas abou...

• Word Count: 1434
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Essay #2 Seamus Heany "Mid-term Break" "Mid-Term Break" is about a boy who explains his experience, when a close member of his family dies. ... When I first saw the title I was not expecting it to be about a funeral because a lot of people relate to mid-term break as being a good thing. ... It indicates a break, but the poem is nothing about that. ... The family member that died was a brother or sister to the boy that the author is talking about. ... The title of the poem is "Mid-Term Break" and, as I have said before, this title does not make you think right away that it is about the death o...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This incident has actually brought about a realization or an epiphany of a truth about life that is more of realism than of a warm and fuzzy moment within the boy's young existence. ... The final despair is the condition of the boy himself. ... The light, happy story of the young boy in love never came to be. ... Joyce seems to describing the life in Dublin as one which will only bring about defeat and disappointment. ... The final defeat of the story is that the boy simply gives up. ...

• Word Count: 1460
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When I started reading it I supposed that it was about a poor boy gradually became a gentleman in the upper class. ... The book tells a story of how a young man grows up gradually from a pure and innocent boy to a selfish and smooth-faced one, yet having met with amounts of suffering, he changes into be a kindly youth. ... He seemed to have found, like Pip, that this "great expectations" had turned to ashes. 2.As Dickens had written about orphans in "Oliver Twist" and "David Copperfield", he obviously wrote about Pip smoothly and freely at description. ... What he wrote about deals with a w...

• Word Count: 1502
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"Oranges" is about a young boy's first walk with a girl. ... Little details about the house and the weather keep the reader interested and informed. ... She knows "Very well what it was all/About (41-42)," and lets the boy pay with an orange. ... The ending of the poem reveals more confidence about the boy. ... This boy got lucky. ...

• Word Count: 1527
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His parents migrated to the United States when they were about 18 years old. ... Dick usually didn't care what people thought about the way he looked or acted. ... This shows that Dick did only what he wanted to and did not worry about his "ragged" appearance. ... His wiry "Chinese hair" which stuck up all of time was a dread in his life and he was very self-conscious about it. ... He says that all throughout his schooling he was the boy who they looked at as the nice boy, not the cute boy. ...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gary Soto seems to have taken an experience from his memory and written his poem "Oranges" about a boy's first walk with his girlfriend. This poem is written in first person and is narrated by a boy who is a reliable source. ... Although cold outside, the boy is not concerned about the cold, as his heart is warmed with the thought of his walk with the girl. ... Again the orange is significant in the poem as the boy uses it to purchase his girl a gift. ... As he walks the girl back home he holds her hand for awhile, "I took my girl's hand/In mine for two blocks," (lines 47...

• Word Count: 1251
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Poetry is supposed to be unique, things about your own life to share. But he had nothing unique about his life. ... A simple thing as a baby crying he couldn't handle, how about being rich and famous? ... In "A little cloud", Chandler thought about poetry as a way of an escape. ... The possible ways out of paralysis could be doing something about their life to make it better. ...

• Word Count: 1746
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He describes the boy's school as "Christian Brother's School set the boys free." ... Here the narrator gives the reader insight into the idea that the Catholic Church has a very high authority over the people of Dublin and the low moral they feel as they go about their daily routine. ... The boy shows his intense, deep, inner excitement in the form of shyness and nervousness. ... Instead of thinking about the challis in religious terms he replaces the religious aspect with his blinded, materialistic, love for the girl. ... He is not only ignorant to the fact he truly believes he ...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate