For instance, in the first few chapters, Hardy goes out of his way to describe the very atmosphere of Casterbridge, its Roman ruins, its market place, its inns, its" grizzled church", its High Street with its timber houses, its old gardens full of "bloody warriors" and snapdragons, its disputable Mixen-Lane, its two bridges towards which" gravitated all failures of the town". ... He manages his books in his head, conducts his business by word of mouth, and employs the aid of weather prophet---already obsolete in many parts of the country at that time, in order to determine the success of a ha...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... Nevertheless, as an adult read, Holes' reminds the reader of the plea...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We will find the same kind of image in the first chapter of the governess" story: "I had the view of a castle of romance, inhabited by a rosy sprite, such a place would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take color out of story books and fairytales. ( ) No, it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship. ... On the one hand, Douglas adds verisimilitude by giving more details about the characters ...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8

The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. ... Sachar's use of short, yet condensed, chapters ensures students will find the book a very fast, but also informative read, making it very difficult to put the book down, and therefore creating a very addictive read. However, the short chapters, do not retract meaning from the prose, but linguistically create an epigrammatic style of deliverance. ... Nevertheless, as an adult read, Holes' reminds the reader of the plea...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate