In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... The critic Isabelle Jan contends that a child making such a flight into another, dreamlike world is no easy task: Peter, like all children, "require a sponsor and a guide- (68). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other children in the book are far from overwhelmingly cordial. ...

• Word Count: 1473
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Around the World in Eighty Days is a very fascinating novel. This novel dealt with the quest of Phileas Fogg to travel around the world in eighty days. It is an adventure novel because it retells the adventure of Phileas Fogg and his companions around the world. The theme of this novel is one o...

• Word Count: 1846
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The frame work for "Like water for chocolate" as a book divided into monthly installments with romances, recipes and home remedies, establishes the way in which the reader will imagine the experiences in the novel. Like Tita whose way of life is based on the kitchen, the reader must navigate her world through the power of food, guided by the recipes at the beginning of each chapter. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Everything is Illuminated" was Foer's first novel and was named book of the year by The Los Angeles Times in 2003. Additionally, the novel won the 2002 National Jewish book award and the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year award. ... Heritage Touring provides Jonathan with a translator, Alex, and Alex's grandfather who is the guide and driver. ...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The interesting and intricate character of Heathcliff in the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights" is portrayed in different and complicated ways by the different narrators. Also the emotions he goes through and the way he reacts from different incidents through out his life gives us an insight on his c...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Part III: Overall Critique Guided by the displaced Huron warrior Magua, four people--Major Duncan Heyward, Psalmodist David Gamut, and Alice and Cora Munro--strike through the wilderness forest for Fort William Henry, which is tormented by the French near Lake George. ... Although the terminology was sometimes hard to understand, I enjoyed the book very much. ...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The capacity to choose what we integrate into our personal repertoire of images and ideas is both a central function of the moral imagination and a central feature of one's own personal character formation. The moral imagination then is not only a storehouse but also an intellectual guide " (Bohlin,...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School