That Was Then, This Is Now was chosen as a notable book by the American Library Association. The Outsiders was chosen by the New York Herald Tribune as one of the best teen-age books for 1967, and received the Media & Methods Maxi Award in 1975. ... To remedy this oversight, the young author began to write about teens in a setting she felt would be familiar to her contemporaries. ... In this book by a now Seventeen-year-old author, it almost does the trick. ... I got the feeling that it was a very personal novel for Hinton and at the end of the book it was almost like I had gotten to know the ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

One message the author may be conveying to the reader is that blindly following traditions could be fatal. Throughout the story the author uses irony to shock the reader at the tale's conclusion. ... By the the end of the story readers then figure out why the the kids were gathering small rocks, as the author states, "The pile of stones the boys had made earlier was ready" (Jackson 6). ... The author could have chosen any other name, but she decided on "Graves". ...

• Word Count: 1411
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To define and make a short story successful out of the many that are written, the author often builds a single focus around which the whole short story is concentrated. ... The author, O'Flaherty, describes each motion and nuance of the sniper, his looks, emotions, and thoughts. ... Both short stories use their chosen single focus and maintain that focus through the whole story. Both stories have their own single primary focus and each author uses its own focus to its fullest extent, concentrating and even building their stories around this one centre. ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The way the author divided the novel up into monthly installments makes you think of hour long series events that come on television. ... In "Like water for chocolate", the author Laura Esquivel extends the cultural themes of magic realism to the domestic world or a female responsibility dominated household. ... This theme of emotions being translated through food was purposely chosen to show how women are seen as care givers or nurturers despite stress being placed on them by the very people they provide sustenance for. The author does not present the existence of a utopian togetherness of wo...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, we can assume that through the ambiguous nature of the narrative form, we are exposed to the authors unease with, and conflicting ideas towards the threat of modernity, not just aesthetically, but within the context of how such dramatic cultural and social u...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"THE LADY OR THE TIGER" Introduction: The short story "The Lady, or The Tiger" is written by, "Frank R. Stockton". This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. It was one of the biggest selling stories in 1895, which made him voted as the fifth best living American writer of th...

• Word Count: 1579
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Yellow Wallpaper The short story, Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is written in first person and it is from our nameless character's writings that we are introduced to her world and her life. It is through this that we see our main characters transition into a world that only s...

• Word Count: 2055
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School