We need someone to support us, to guide us and to get us through the hardships the world throws at us. ... Joe continuously shows Pip that he is there for him and supports him throughout the book. ... In the book "Great Expectations" Joe was always there for Pip. ... This particular part of the book shows how humble Joe is. ... However, we don't need to necessarily have a mother or father to guide us, to support us and to be there for us. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Just like the American inspirational speaker and life coach, Iyanla Vanzant says, "Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children". ... He fears to become a controlling parent, but even more, he fears to fail as a guide and as an advisor to his child. In the first seven stanzas he seems to be having very contradicting thoughts; giving up on his commitment of not prognosticating, "How he will read and reread/ the Audubon Field Guide and memorize each bird (which is a comprehensive guide to America's birds with their species, pictures, fie...

• Word Count: 1118
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Communication is one of the most important factors in a relationship and the main theme in this story. Communication has the ability to make a relationship more stable. In most of her work Jhumpa Lahiri shows the length people go to in order to maintain a relationship. Lahiri focusses on relationshi...

• Word Count: 718
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book of Luke, which is where "The Prodigal Son" is found, has a constant message of salvation to which it should be sought after and sought to be given. ... Millet Robert, the foremost scholar of latter-day saints, brings up an interesting point in his book "Studies in the Bible and Antiquity". ... The eldest son is guiding his emotions in a thought process to which, "the one who remains faithful should be treated better than the one who excludes the others" (Volf 161). ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Motherhood change the woman's lives in the book something like beautiful. ... For example in the book something like beautiful Asha as a mother said; "I am working hard, slowly, deliberately now to finish the work I began so long ago ". ... When there is no one to hang out with, she is there the gentle hand is still there, still guiding still showing the child how to live, for example in the book something like beautiful Asha said That's sort of how I want to be as a mother: fully engaged and fully present. ... For example in the book something like beautiful said: parenting is a lif...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Athena is, in many ways, Telemakhos" guide during his transformation. There is a vast difference between the Telemakhos of book one and the Telemakhos of book four in the way he speaks, the way he thinks of his family, and in his faith. In the beginning of Book One, Homer describes Telemakhos:"sitting there unhappy among suitors, a boy, daydreaming" (1. 141-142). ... While his transition from boy into man is somewhat gradual, the change is most apparent in Book Four while Telemakhos is speaking to Menelaos:"I came to hear what news you had of father. ...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The crucial element of the inclusion of the role of the mother in the book is that it allows Shelley to comment about the role of the mother within a male-dominated society. ... Frankenstein describes her as being a loving woman, giving him "tender caresses", guiding him throughout the early years of his upbringing and teaching him right from wrong. ...

• Word Count: 1028
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There does exist one peace of literature written as a handbook for man to guide him throughout life's journey. This book is called the Holy Bible, and though there is but one author, many penned the words. ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Davy stays with basically three jobs throughout the book, whereas Jack is influenced by the time, and therefore moves from job to job, until he gets a job in the Wimmera district. ... Sam Burlington's girl friend, Jess is murdered later in the book and this affects Davy profusely because the police arrest Sam for the crime, and question Davy. ... (Blurb) Societies" standards that guided the two boys into their adult lives would probably determine the way they later treated their children and grandchildren, and would ultimately affect the way those persons would bring up their offspring. ...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"Parental Voids at the Cause of Adolescent Struggles" Adolescence can be a very trying time in an individual's life; it is a time in which people search and struggle to understand themselves and the world that surrounds them. Three prime examples of adolescent struggles are in the characters El...

• Word Count: 1185
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School