The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. ... Cormac McCarthy is an American writer known for stylistically complex novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian. ... "The Road was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006 and, in 2007, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Since then, the novel has been adapted to film, and was released in 2009" (Mote 2). ... The boy pleaded to his father to not take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel is divided into four sections and collectively narrated in each section by different characters in the novel. ... In the novel, Benjy is thirty-three, the age of Christ at his death. ... Benjy spends his days being attended to by Dilsey, the Compson family's black maid and her son, Luster. ... Quentin narrates the second chapter of the novel. ... Rather it is the act of a boy so in love with his sister and so obsessed with maintaining the closeness of their relationship that he would rather be condemned by the town and suffer in hell than let her go. ...

• Word Count: 2419
• Approx Pages: 10
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His parents, James Hughes and Carolina Mercer Langston, separated when he was a very young boy in 1903. ... At night they would read him stories from such works from popular black authors such as W.E.B. ... They would also tell him stories of black history, and encourage him to try to make positive changes someday. ... In his autobiographical novel, Hughes said as a young boy, "For the first time loneliness strikes me, strikes me terribly settling down in a dull ache round about, in the dusk." ... Even as a young boy he was ready to take chances in life. ...

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. As he says in his note, he had become one of the Seven Days for love of black people, not for any hate of whites. ... Instead, the boy had been dropped at a house and taken in by an Indian family. ... The novel, Song of Solomon, is one of self-discovery for Milkman and the subsequent acceptance of the risks of truly living, of taking life as it is and making the most of it, of 'flying', as M...

• Word Count: 1472
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... The responder can see there that the father is blind to the boys needs, he can only see that the boy continues to love him and believes that that is all that matters. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant exper...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In each novel, the main character experiences suffering, that leads to the maturity of each of them by the conclusion of the stories. ... Potok begins his novel with a baseball game that Reuven is playing in against a school of Hasidic Jews. ... Danny does not understand why his father treats him this way until the end of the novel when Reb explains to both Danny and Reuven his reasoning. ... In this group of workers there happened to be a young man by the name of Hank Spruill who would change the way life was in the small town of Black Oak while he was there. ... Besides witnessing the murder...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School