Holden is consumed with finding and protecting purity, and when he found something pure he didn"t want to disturb it. ... He lays his symbols so subtle that most of the time they're not even found or addressed even by a commentary over the book. ... Allie is Holder's younger brother who died of leukemia when he was just thirteen. Holden loved his brother more than anything and when he died he punched out all the windows in the garage. ... If his fist represents his love for his brother or his heart than maybe he can't love again. ...

• Word Count: 2230
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In the next three paragraphs I will present some of the elements found in the poem, a description of each verse and finally my analysis. ... In the Article "Literary Periods, Movements and History" about The Beat Generation, a good description of this struggle is found: "people began to question the rampant materialism of their society[] they saw runaway capitalism as destructive to the human spirit, and a dissatisfaction with consumer culture.... In the next line: "Returned to our mammal brothers and sisters" Brautigan uses personification as a primary element. ... ...

• Word Count: 1519
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

Again Victor plays the role of God when the death of his brother, William, occurs. Victor reads of his brother's death through a letter from his father, and travels back home. He is very troubled by his brother's death and when he nears his home, he stops to watch a lightning storm. ... In his book, Cloning Science and Society he stated, "Human cloning violates the norms of procreation on parenthood through a process that removes the humanism from human parents to human child."6 Both of these topics, bring to the forefront that most American's do not side with this new found id...

• Word Count: 1508
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "The Rich Brother" by Tobias Wolff, the same situation arises when Pete loans Donald some money. ... I found out later that day that my friend had used the money to buy cigarettes, and I was real upset at him for lying to me. ... The Rich Brother. ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I found it a little weird that they called the main character by her last name and with a "Mrs" title, but her sister was referred to only by her first name. ... Josephine has a main part in this story, because she is the one who has to tell her sister tragic news about her brother-n-law and this to me is a climax in the story. ... In one hour she had found out that her husband had died, then she became aware of her freedom, and then seeing her husband alive was too much for her to absorb. ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

After a while volunteering I found that I wasn't helping for the reason that I started. ... This especially influenced me because my brother is mentally handicapped and I would never want to see him in the same position as the main character at the start of the movie. ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Frankl's mother, father, brother, and pregnant wife were all killed in the camps. ... Also allot of his information can be found on the internet especially in the Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His older brother Brad was well though of at Gordon High as an all rounder. ... Laurie's Criticism Laurie believes that The Wave is dangerous and mindless and is diverted from the idea of freedom of speech and thought and suppressed the ideas on which the country was founded on. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There she was the lonesome girl all alone in her bedroom, she was a girl of eighteen years old with no brothers or sisters to talk to. ... The police and forensics were around, and were looking for clues, but they found a box of tablets, which were half emptied. ...

• Word Count: 1345
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

When he found the letter sent from the king on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ordering his death, he changed it so Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were the ones that were to be killed: "I sat me down,/ Devised a new commission, wrote it fair-/ I once did hold it, as our statists do,/ A baseness to write fair and labour'd much/ How to forget that learning,"(V,ii,33-37). ... Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum. ...

• Word Count: 1897
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School