Each member looks for a lesson they can learn from in the loss of Buck, but it is not until they realize that sometimes death leaves a person with no reasoning as to why it happened, that they can truly mourn for the loss ("Ordinary People" 273). ... At the end of the novel, Beth leaves the family behind. ... The epilogue starts in the fall and ends in the summer of the next year. The plot structure of the novel is a very important element to Guest's technique, it leaves the reader questioning the past. ... He voices his opinion that Beth's point of view is barely articulat...

• Word Count: 2059
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Leaving for many months, Bernis leaves his home in Paris, along with friends and a loved one, Genevieve. ... He leaves nothing to the imagination, because every feeling that a reader must feel is told by him. ... The woods spread out their quilts, the hills and valleys rise and fall in waves, like someone breathing. ... Whatever happened To Tuesday and so slow Going down the old mine With a transistor radio Standing in the sunlight laughing, Hiding behind a rainbow's wall, Slipping and sliding All along the water fall, with you My brown eyed girl, You my brown eyed girl So hard to find ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He leaves with his faithful servant and confidant, José Palacios, and a small retinue of loyal officials and friends. ... The General remember that his "dream began to fall apart on the very day it was realized (Márquez 153).... It's steady pull can be felt throughout the novel as the central character is forced ever forward, despite his repeated attempts to fall back into his own history. ...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He is the writer who started a novel with a man falling to his death from the ropes of a balloon. ... It leaves the reader feeling disturbed, confused and chilled. any sympathy the reader has picked up for Parry in the first appendix evaporates into horror, as the second appendix is read. ...

• Word Count: 1500
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He drops his clothes in the same way he willingly leaves the world behind. ... While she was pregnant, she visited a Savage Reservation, hurt herself in a fall, and got lost, missing her return trip to London. ...

• Word Count: 1298
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However because Roddy Doyle doesn't use Paddy as a narrator looking back on his life, means that he doesn't comment on what Paddy can or can't remember or his misunderstandings, instead he leaves the reader to fill in the gaps. ... This makes the ideas of the child more meaningful, it is easy for the reader to fall into the mind of Paddy because it is nearly impossible to get lost or lose interest because the story is constantly kept at a fast pace. ...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The characters must navigate through black magic, incest, rape, and the supernatural as they fall from grace and are faced with their consequences of their actions. ... Beatrice de las Cisternas is a nun who leaves the convent to fulfill her desires and is described by the narrator as, "a character so depraved, she did not long to confine her characters to one being" (134). ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henry leaves him to die and throughout the entire novel Henry is haunted by this guilt. Next is "the cheery voiced solider- this particular character "has no face- but leads Henry back to his regiment after falling astray. ...

• Word Count: 2113
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School