(Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel Rebecca. ... Rebecca is in many ways similar to the story of Cinderella, a classic Gothic Romance (Masterplots 3). ... hough, and that helps the reader relate to her and sympathize for her. ... This keeps the reader trying to figure out if Maxim really loves her or not. ... Dumaurier starts off her novel with elements of a classic Gothic Romance, and ends the story in mystery and suspense. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Two classic pieces of literature, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, and "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson offer readers the chance to live this fantasy vicariously through their characters. ... His rather gray nature inspires a sort of cognitive dissonance within the reader. He is certainly a likable character that the reader wants to succeed, though the reader objectively knows that crime should not pay. ... Yet the story shows the reader that there is more to it than that. ... Though both books offer readers a grand adventure to whisk them away from their daily grind, they take t...

• Word Count: 1319
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

He starts his readers up a track along which they build feelings of sorrow and pity for Emily Grierson, only to rip those feelings away and send the readers" views of her plummeting downward. ... By introducing us to Emily through her death we are instantly distanced from her as readers. ... This is Faulkner's first cue for the reader to follow. ... Readers as a result, upon the demented discovery, are completely thrown aback. ... He includes his readers directly in this story by using an unnamed narrator. ...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. ... One way that Bronte captured her readers is using empathy. ... Some readers may sympathize with him because he was abused. ... We, as readers, do the same thing that Isabelle did. ... I think that readers will see this book in so many different ways that it will always be a classic. ...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Nawal El Saadawi "s classic, "Woman at Point 0" is a novel filled with symbolic significance and social cognotation towards female discrimination. ... The reader can also discern such perpetual suffocation regarding women in society through quotidian activities such as eating, were the eyes are once more utilized as a symbol of female compliance towards male domination... Her mother is perhaps the readers first ecounter with gaze symbolism in the novel. ... The narrator continually mentions this in every single eye description he reader encounters... Understanding its symbolic significance, ...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate