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. ... What is really amazing about the book is that the author started writing if for a high school writing assignment and her teacher pushed her to write more. ... 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 author. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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

When The Story of an Hour was published, she received quite critics of her contemporaries in 1894 that "considered her story rebellious and revolutionary in its questioning of traditional women's roles.... The short story was an "autobiographical tale of the author's own experience with the popular medical treatment of Dr. ...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography