The story is drawn with ordinary images, but it contains a lot of hidden feelings and inner thoughts through the characters' actions. ... He only wants to protect them and brings them out of this deathly mountain covering in white snow and cold winds. ... He feels a sense of attachment with Tom and suspects the group will not survive in the mountains. ... Oakhurst would rather die in the snowy mountain than let Tom freeze and starve to death. ... He is strong as a gambler, but he becomes weak in the snowy mountain. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Authors often use naturalism to illustrate a situation in which a single character or group of characters are subject to the laws of nature that are beyond their control including God, nature, and people. ... The regionalism demonstrates the western setting in which the characters are in. ... Landmarks of the narrative exhibit the site of the story's background. 3 In that advanced season the party soon passed out of the moist, temperate regions of the foothills into the dry, cold, bracing air of the Sierras. (Harte 396) The Sierra Mountains are spoken of as the background of th...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ... There i...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate