Character Summary Grey Beaver: He is the Indian who owns white fang and is the unspoken, in a type of way, master of white fang. ... Several times throughout the book he is referred to as a monstrosity. ... Book Summary There really isn't a whole lot that I can tell you about this book, unless I was to give the entire book away, but this story is basically about White Fang, as the title suggests, and his path from being a savage wolf dog to becoming a domesticated friendly pet. It takes courses that you wouldn't expect and plot twist that you wouldn't think humane, but then a...

• Word Count: 513
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Body of Christopher Creed-Journal#1 Summary: As the story begins, we meet Torey Adams a kid from Steepleton. ... But after getting to the third chapter the book got really interesting. ... A made up city by the author for this book. ...

• Word Count: 350
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• Grade Level: High School

The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. ... This book represents the struggle that minorities faced while living in ghetto communities. ...

• Word Count: 322
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

I will give you a brief summary on this book .First, Sam starts off at home. ... For a long time Sam is sort of absent from the book. ... There are some Native Americans in this book, too. ... If you like a good action packed, thrilling, exciting book then I suggest you read My Brother Sam is Dead....

• Word Count: 489
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• Grade Level: High School

Brief Summary: This story is about a 15 year old girl, Macey Clare, who's parents are never home so she stays with her grandparents most of the times. ... Opinion: My really liked this book because it keeps you reading until your eyes get tired. ... It would be a very good book for someone to read if they were prejudice because it shows the effects that racism has on peoples lives. ...

• Word Count: 587
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Brands is an enlightening summary of the conflicts, victories, and turmoil of the 1890s. The book is organized mainly by chronological order, starting from the end of the frontier times of western expansion, to the rise of electrical technology, the overwhelming effects/conflicts of immigration and urbanization, to the great clash of the industrial superpowers, the intense and fierce worker/union movement, the rise of racism and segregation, and the fierce political battle for political dominance in America. From the way the author organizes and it seems that the author's purpose in writi...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Summary: The Things They Carried is a riveting book in which Vietnam War veteran Tim O"Brien abstractly writes of his experiences in the war. ... The Things They Carried is not only a book about fighting and brotherhood, but a book about the internal secrets and conflicts of men at war. ... Although the book does not go in sequential bravery, cowardice, love, hate, life and death in his book, based loosely around his own experiences in war. ... And it was certainly his intention, to use his book as means to teach. ... The title of this book also offers insight to what it's reall...

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"Man is the warmest place to hide." This is the catch phrase of The Thing, but for the host it is a cold frightening end. The Thing, written by Alan Dean Foster in 1982, was meant to terrify its readers. However, when one delves deeper into the story there is a more profound lesson to be learned....

• Word Count: 567
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• Grade Level: High School

The book gives a complete story of Santiago's quest to find his Personal Legend, and in the end he did. My life is not a book and is not complete; I do not even know my Personal Legend yet, so to compare my life side by side with his is difficult. ... While reading the book, I was thinking that Santiago would learn and move on but I was discouraged when he did the expected and stayed "happily ever after" with Fatima. ... I am still not done so I can not make a final summary of it. ...

• Word Count: 1111
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Next, Everyman attempted to evade Death by requesting a twelve year respite, in order to make his counting book perfect and no longer fear Death. ... Good-Deeds tells Everyman that he should have had his book of account ready for this very day; and consequently, she cannot help him with it now. ...

• Word Count: 509
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• Grade Level: High School

I will give a basic summary of the story line, and I intend to show the omniscient narrator's point of view in analysis of the characters. ... The entire book makes you think long and hard about life, how precious it is, and how quickly it can be taken from you. ... The book opens with the story of the death of the five-year-old who is adored by her family. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Like Water for Chocolate is a novel published in 1989 by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. The genre of this novel is of romance and Esquivel employs magical realism to combine the supernatural with the ordinary. The passage takes place after Nacha's death on Rosaura's wedding and Mama Elena makes Ti...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School