After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... The tempest that is Indian politics before, during, and since Mrs. ... In a newspaper article that appears on the Internet, which unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germai...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After a few years in Canada, he started writing stories and gained immediate attention, receiving two Hart House literary prizes and Canadian Fiction Magazine's annual Contributors' Prize in 1985. ... After all, they are probably most widely known for a single practice: the way they dispose of their dead by leaving them in a tower for vultures to feast on. ... The tempest that is Indian politics before, during, and since Mrs. ... In a newspaper article that appears on the Internet, which unfortunately provides neither a date nor a source, Mistry replies to criticism leveled by Germai...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In one summer, she met Robert in Seattle before she got married to a man preparing to be an officer in the Navy. ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... After dinner, they drink more, and the narrator continues to witness. ... She leaves the room to get on a robe, and Robert and the narrator share marijuana who has never smoked before. ... After a while Robert checks the drawing with his fingers, and tells the narrator he's on the right track. ...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After briefly attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he became a hospital custodian for three years. ... After dinner, they drink more, and the narrator continues to observe. ... After an evening of heavy drinking and pot smoking, the narrator turns on the television and begins to describe what he sees to the blind man. ... The narrator goes on to explain that after the blind man's wife died while visiting her relatives in nearby Connecticut, he had called the narrator's wife from his in-laws' and made arrangements to visit. ... Now,...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Before this, he studied law in Paris, but the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, which destroyed his family's fortune and forced Maupassant to find work as a government office clerk, interrupted his studies. ... After dinner she asks the soldiers that after a whole month of being together she didn't even know their names. ... After dinner she sat by the fire to warm herself and the soldiers climbed up into the loft to go to sleep. ... Before we get into the meaning of the story, let's take a look at who Kate Chopin was and what would inspire her to write this short story as wel...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The day after the game we went squirrel hunting and we had stopped at a gas station along the way. ... Tanner in the story was much like everyone else at this time period, unaware of the changes in the black community that had happened or that were going to happen after World War II. ... As before O'Connor almost makes them seem like it is okay to talk to people like that. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling in the bed before he could muster enough vitality to stumble into the pantry for a drink." ( p. 388 ) Gloria and Anthony Patch are seen as glamorous, and "free." ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

After many readers discover this, they cease to continue investigating the other discourses present. ... Several signs that support the affair theory between the man and the girl are that the man takes control of the conversation from the beginning, he often talks down to the girl as if she is much younger than him, and the girl asks the man for permission before taking any actions, such as ordering a drink. ...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A bored voice answered; someone who could not care less and just wanted to get home after a tedious day at work. After putting the phone down, Nat knew he had to pick up Jill before it was too late. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ... After narrowly escaping death, Nat goes around the house to make sure that he has properly boarded the windows. ... After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

A bored voice answered; someone who could not care less and just wanted to get home after a tedious day at work. After putting the phone down, Nat knew he had to pick up Jill before it was too late. ... On the way home after sending Jill with Mr. ... After narrowly escaping death, Nat goes around the house to make sure that he has properly boarded the windows. ... After supper they heard planes and Nat's wife and children get their hopes up. ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

(4282 words) I have chosen to research and write my Extended Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and his portrayal of perversion, which is present in every human's heart. I read many of his short stories and realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. I have watched movies that ...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hawthorne's Portrayal of Puritanical Hypocrisy Throughout time, there have been many great American novelists and short story writers. To some, Nathaniel Hawthorne has earned both of these titles. From writing several successful novels, and many short stories, Hawthorne has introduced the way of...

• Word Count: 3188
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School