One has to set standards for oneself and conform to them with dignity, thus not falling into despair. ... Secondly the deaf man is described as sitting in the shadow of the leaves of the tree, which gives one the feeling that the deaf man is shying away from the life that is surrounding him. ... Even though the deaf man leaves the Café drunk every night, he pays and walks out with dignity. ...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She only tells what is important to her for understanding the past, but it is a method which leaves the reader confused. ... s story is one of hardships, and the fact that she tells it in "a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner" might make it fall under Herman's definition of a trauma narrative (49). ...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The feelings we get when looking at a beautiful sunset, or the colours of the leaves changing in the fall are no less important or meaningful to us just because they may not be completely accurate portrayals of reality. ...

• Word Count: 1521
• Approx Pages: 6

One image is of calm, peaceful evergreens, the other, of trees that have gone bare in the fall, dark, and foreboding. ... In the third stanza, he describes both paths as having leaves on them, and none of them are black. ...

• Word Count: 1767
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

There are many different ideas about what death actually is and what, if anything occurs thereafter. religions in general tend to propose some form of afterlife. there are, in contrast, philosophers and scientists who propose that there is nothing beyond death. Religious ideas are often dualist, mea...

• Word Count: 1698
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Janie's hopes for having love with marriage fall on Joe, who seems to have big plans in becoming a town leader in a new black town in southern Florida. After Logan threatened to kill her with an axe, Janie leaves her old life behind and runs out the gate to meet Joe, who she marries that night on their way to Florida. ...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School