In Chapter 2, the narrator of the novel explains that: "Micro-organisms, which cause so much disease and pain on earth, have either never appeared upon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago. ... In Chapter 10, Wells states, "it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. ... It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about." ... Except for a few chapters when the action switches views to the point of the narrator's brother, this book was written as a first...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
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• Grade Level: High School

As the story progresses, chapter by chapter, the ties between the environment and to the representation of the characters in the novel become more apparent. ... In chapter one, the overriding theme of the relationship of people and its environment is slightly furthered in this chapter. ... (Chapter II, pg. 26) which he envisioned to be written on each tablet. ... Chapter 4 follows up on the preceding chapters by furthering the discussion of the entrapment the environment has on Ethan. ... The wet roads slow down his delivery, and chance circumstances make it difficult to find the glue. ...

• Word Count: 1383
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the first chapter, she uses three pages to describe the outside of Manderley and the driveway that leads to it. ... The reader truly does not need to know exactly how the rooms inside Manderley look, or how the road and the scenery looked to the narrator when she and Maxim were driving in Monte Carlo, or exactly how the gardens look at Manderley. ...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When we first meet Tom in chapter two, he is walking down the road in a cheap new suit because he was just released from prison. ... When Casy is saying grace in chapter eight, he compares himself to Jesus. ... In the last chapter, Rose of Sharon breast feeds a starving man from her milk that was meant for her baby. ...

• Word Count: 1107
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. ... In chapter three, ironically titled, "[T]he Searcher", Patrick is searching for Ambrose Small but that is merely a metaphor for his vocation. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School