The main character, Ellis, is haunted by the fact that he was unable to mourn his father's death, and is currently unable to connect with his son. ... Bret and Jayne had a son named Robby. ... The name "Robby" was named after Bret's dad, therefore, it led Bret to call his son a "secret son." Careless about his son, Bret refused to visit him and pay child support. ... The reader soon begins to see a cycle happening between the father and son. ...

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• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ross had mourned for years over the sudden death of her brother and her father, now she had lost a daughter and was going to lose a son. ... Ross missed her son when he went to war. ... Mister Ross had tracked his son down so his wife could have one last look at her son. ... Ross had another chance to say goodbye to her son she blew it. ... All she could do was wave at her son through the window. ...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Morrison's father's family left Georgia to move north as an attempt to escape sharecropping and the violence against African Americans in the South. ... She grew up during the Great Depression, which her father compensated for by working three jobs for seventeen years ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... They married in 1958 and had two sons, Harold and Slade, before divorcing in 1964. ... She published her first children's book, The Big Box, in 1999, which she worked on with her son Slade, that focuses on describing the ways that well-meaning adults sometimes block their...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's cl...

• Word Count: 3018
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to ...

• Word Count: 4675
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated ...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Further comical religious incidents involve Father Arsenios; being drunk before sermon and beating burglars and escorting them to Dr. ... The absurdity in which the family cannot distinguish a stranger from their own son is evident, and not only is the family under the illusion that Yossarian is their son, the reader is too, though still well aware of how irregular the situation is. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

1. INTRODUCTION It is truth universally acknowledge that a good novel in possession of a good love story must be in want of a screen adaptation. Yet no work of Jane Austen reached the big screen before 1940's Pride and Prejudice – which, though highly popular, was the last Austen film for a long period. Between 1948 and 1994, television was the chief medium for adaptations of Austen's novels. Then six important film and television adaptations appeared on the screen in two years. ...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography