Written post World War II both stories deals with familial impacts, one due to technology growth and the other for the reason that of isolation and not being able to provide for the family. ... The themes in both stories differ from one another, while ANBS deals with the materialistic and consumeristic society due to technology, RBS focusses on the isolation and its ways of affecting a whole family. The materialistic and consumeristic society in ANBS is all because of the rapid growth of technology and how some parents work day and night to purchase lifeless objects to fill their houses on the...

• Word Count: 626
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

McIntyre seems sympathetic to the Guizac family and especially to Mr. ... Shortley's return, after their family had left the farm believing they were to be fired because of Guizac's efficiency, began his slow vengeance against Guizac. He told the town of his version of the events at the farm and stated "Revenge is mine, saith the Lord". ...

• Word Count: 418
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Pigeon Feathers involves a young boy, David, moving from the city to a country farm with his family. ... He seeks out many of his questions by turning to his family, the bible, and the local reverend. ... David has two very different parents who argue over whether or not the farm has soul. ... David had to find the answers himself, without the help of his family or anyone around him. ...

• Word Count: 545
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

That Eye The Sky Review The Novel That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton is about the Flack family consisting of Sam and Alice, their children, and Tegwyn and Morton. The story is located in the outback of Australia, they live on a farm where it is isolated from everything else. ... Due to this incident, gradually through out the novel we find the details of each character and how this incident gradually pulled the family apart. ... As the family is falling apart , Ort hopes for a miracle that will cure his father. Then when a stranger, Henry Warburton who is an evangelist comes into the story...

• Word Count: 271
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

O"Connor was no stranger to the country for the reason that she did grow up in the south and on a 500 acre dairy farm (Charters, 1116). ... For example the Bailey family in" A Good Man Is Hard to Find", are Atlanta, Georgia natives. They are a middle class family, who has a grandmother that believes in herself as a true Christian. ...

• Word Count: 443
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Tilley, Sylvia's grandmother, chose Sylvia to live with on a farm in New England near the woods. ... Whether Sylvia was at home or on the farm, she always did choirs around the house to help out. ... A White Heron explains how an individual found herself, and by doing so killed one mans dream and passed up money for her family. ...

• Word Count: 850
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When the reader first starts to read A White Heron, it sounds like a simple story about a young, curious girl living with her grandmother on a farm, and a bird hunter who is looking for a heron that the young girl has seen before. ... In the beginning of the short story, A White Heron, Sylvia was very much afraid of the woods which were in the back of her grandmother's farm house. ... Sylvia's immense curiosity, and desire to locate the bird, helped her get over her fear of the woods by the end of the story. " the woodlands and farms reached miles and miles into the distance; here ...

• Word Count: 1090
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This school was on a corner of a farm that belonged to the Grieves family. ... She lived with the Grieves family. The family is consisted of Ellie, Flora, their father and Flora's fiancé Robert. ... During Ellie's sickness, she would come at night and read her bedtime stories, and she did all the cleaning, the cooking and some of the farm work. ...

• Word Count: 955
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The brothers are Benjy, a severely retarded thirty-three year old man, confessing in April of 1928; Quentin, an educated Harvard student, speaking in June of 1910; and Jason, a resentful farm-supply store worker, speaking also in April of 1928. ... She is the only daughter and the second oldest of the Compson family. ... A very religious woman, she and her son, Luster, are loyally devoted to the Compson family. The total demise of the Compson family can be described as a "riches-to-rags" story. ... Landless and mentally deranged, the family begins to fall apart. ...

• Word Count: 698
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I think Faulkner discovers at least one important question in the story were he asks at what point should a person make a choice between what his parents and or family believes and his own values? ... He also establishes the fact that he plans to move himself and his family out of town. We are then introduced to the rest of Sarty's family. The inciting force takes place after Sarty and his family move to a house owned by a man named De Spain, under the assumption that they will cultivate De Spain's farm and give him a portion of the crop. After the family moves into the house, Abne...

• Word Count: 845
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

You might be able to take William Faulkner out of the South (as he, himself, attempted to do when he moved his family to England for a time), but you could never take the South out of William Faulkner. He lived it, breathed it and suffered for it as he carried with him all of his life the image of the once proud Southern aristocracy, of which his family had been esteemed members, disintegrated following the Civil War. ... The short story, "Barn Burning" was the story of an itinerant family of farm laborers moved from place to place after the violent pyromaniac father, Abn...

• Word Count: 694
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. ... The next morning Nat goes down to the farm to see if anyone else had had trouble during the night. ... When Nat got home from the farm, his wife informed him that there was an announcement on the radio that the extreme cold and hunger of the birds were the principal reasons for the birds" bizarre behaviour. ... Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. ... Nat does not, because he knows that thi...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Nat protects his family as best he can but deep down he knows that nature has won and the human race is to be wiped out pretty soon. ... The next morning Nat goes down to the farm to see if anyone else had had trouble during the night. ... When Nat got home from the farm, his wife informed him that there was an announcement on the radio that the extreme cold and hunger of the birds were the principal reasons for the birds" bizarre behaviour. ... Nat tries his utmost to put his family at ease because they are sensing that the situation is very grave. ... Nat does not, because he knows that thi...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Abner does not care for his children and only views them like farm animals, just there to help with the work. ... Janet Carey Eldred explains this well in the following lines, "Throughout "Barn Burning," Abner reiterates the importance of blood or family ties and of the power of family solidarity in the sharecropper system. ...

• Word Count: 701
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In, "Gooseberries," a man's dream of owning a farm becomes a "definite disorder" (Chekhov 3). ... The most damaging effect of my obsession was on the relationships I had with my friends and family. ... My relationships quickly began to degrade because my friends and family thought that I disliked them. ... Nicholai has worked towards getting his own farm for most of his life. ...

• Word Count: 1357
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Laurence was diagnosed with lung cancer, and rather than becoming what she believed would be a burden to her family, she committed suicide. The novel itself deals with the protagonist Morag Gunn, a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying to write a novel. ...

• Word Count: 785
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In "A Small, Good Thing," Carver takes the quiet life of a family and instantly starts drama by putting the family through life changing trials. ... He took the simple life of a family and created lots of drama while still maintaining his writing style, which has an effect of making his stories interesting. ... She used to go to auctions with her dad to buy things for the farm. ...

• Word Count: 1227
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. ... Young Louie enjoyed playing cowboys and Indians, and roughhoused in the family barn. ... The L"Amour family library encompassed some five hundred books, among them the works of Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Poe, as well as popular American and English writers. ... L"Amour's family history is rich in frontier adventure. ...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He takes little interest in taking charge of his household with no desire to support his own family. ... He would rather help everyone else other than his family without reserve. In fact, Rip does not care at all for the livelihood of his farm and family. ... His choice to walk away from his family is yet another instance of Rip not wanting to take care of his family, and instead abandon them to go look for something to trivial as a squirrel. ... Rip being the kind hearted soul he usually is to strangers (everyone but his family), he proceeds to help the dwarf carry this keg of liquor. ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

His would seemingly make it prone to family prejudices, a younger parallel to the European aged communities, yet there is no evidence of this kind of hierarchy. ... Ichabod's attraction to Katrina Van Tassel is really based on his hungry-eyed appraisal of her father's farm; at one point he envisions selling it off for cash and then moving on to conquer new frontiers. ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate