In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ... In the first pages of the book, the underground man explains, "I am not at all the jolly sort of person you think I am, or may think I am." ... By the end of the book, when you think he mig...

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• Grade Level: High School

The first line of the book is both important and powerful, for it expresses the death in a way that suggests Meursault's outlook on life. It is important to note that Meursault and his mother did get along, despite his nonchalant attitude toward her death, as he accepts the fact that his own existence, as well as everyone else's, will eventually end. ... Marie takes the role of Meursault's girlfriend in the book. ... It is interesting to note that Salmano and Meursault can get along, despite being so different in the way in which they deal with emotion. ... It is important t...

• Word Count: 1699
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• Grade Level: High School

I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ...

• Word Count: 1477
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• Grade Level: High School

A conventional book, or play, would have three parts, a beginning, a middle and an end, but "Enduring Love" Is not a conventional book and McEwan is not a conventional writer. ... Other obsessions which have lingered throughout the book are also cured. ... The book began with a picnic, so it's ending with a picnic is another factor which adds to the cathartic atmosphere of the chapter. ... There are many similarities between the final chapter and the first chapter, but the important difference, is the first chapter ends on a dark, pessimistic note, while the final chapter ends optimistica...

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• Grade Level: High School

This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other childr...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When one reads a book the names of the characters don't often stand out as anything of particular interest. ... Golding has several characters in the book that fit under each broad category and as the names show, have specific traits that put them there. ... It is interesting to note, therefore, that the meaning of the name, "Ralph- symbolizes: good, positive leadership, responsibility, dedication, survival, and means counsel'. ... Jack and Roger, together, are the ultimate display of evil that Golding is trying to show in the book and their names are very accrate to their char...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: High School

It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. In the book, the characters were more spirited, in the Victorian sense, lacking that exuberant, while the characters in the movie were just the opposite, as they were far more energetic and spirited in their portrayals of the character. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This would have been unbelievable, risible even, at the start of the book, but the reader has become so engrossed in the story, so completely immersed by King's telling of it that even if we were to find it doubtful we would not admit it to ourselves. ... For some, we have been on page one of a Stephen King book almost countless times before (the man is a prodigious author), and in a comforting way we know what to expect. ... This is because the majority of the book-buying public are adults, and the majority of adults dislike the sheer difference of the worlds that these authors present. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His first book was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. The Red Badge of Courage was written in order to win a bet he made that he could write a book in ten days on a subject he had no first hand experience with. ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on the civil war actually the reader must know that he is talking of the civil war because he never actually states that in the novel. ... The first is Jim "the tall soldier- also portrayed as the religious figure in the book, with his initials being J.C. many people see him as a Jesus figure, even his d...

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• Grade Level: High School

Many individuals fail to notice other factors that are neglected by some due to the believe that these factors do not reveal essential details about characters that could help the reader grasp the main themes that are trying to be conveyed in the book. ... Starched clothing is known for making clothing look more formal, which is interesting to note because Santiago is the one who wears unstarched white linen clothing and José Dias, a dependant, is the one who wears starched white trousers. ... At one point in the book, Capitu sees a picture of Dona Gloria and her husband on the wall and...

• Word Count: 1389
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I hope we"re being true to the spirit of the book if not to the letter of it." ... One critic, Jane Marcus responds to Potter's statements about the changes made in her version of Orlando saying: "I can't believe anyone who helped with the making of this mockery of genius has ever read the book They were not familiar with the contested meanings critics have seen in Orlando, because it is not even a minor "classic" in England, or they would not have dared to desecrate it." ... It is important to note also that the film lasts a mere ninety-three minutes, which not only suggests numero...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

How are both Stoker and Shelley able to horrify their readers, not through graphic violence but through images of the loss of humanity, in Stoker's Dracula' and Shelley's Frankenstein'? In both novels we get a sense of a loss of humanity with the characters, but of which characters? The monst...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Findley's goal, much of the time is to stimulate the reader into an awareness of what is happening, in order "to prevent the horrors that are there in this book" (46). ... But what is important to note is that it is Noah's penny and bottle trick that gives Yaweh the idea of wiping out life by flood, thus making the event both a human and a divine responsibility. ...

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George Knightley is the only character in the book who openly sees Emma for who she really is, and in this regard "he acts as a stand-in for Austen's and the reader's judgments of Emma- (spark notes). ... Elton's comments to Emma about Harriet, this is the climax of the book, and contains the biggest misunderstanding of them all. ...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School