To understand and get a feel of the atmosphere, there are certain elements that we must visualize. ... This scene gave the reader a sense of a father and son waiting patiently to get home to there beloved one. ... Passion and lust took over, and they forgot the fact that they both were married. ... Alcee is a married man that is temporarily separate from his wife. ... As the storm dies, it seems as if things get back to normal. ...

• Word Count: 546
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• Grade Level: High School

He puts his integrity into jeopardy when "he had gone to San Antonio to meet a girl he believed he loved" (252) and married her "without consulting Yellow Sky for any part of the transaction" (252). ... The major internal conflict that Jack has involves his move into having a family and getting married. ... He threatens to kill Jack until he learns that Jack has no gun and had gotten married. ... This is the background event in the story as Jack Potter, the town marshal, gets married and comes home with his bride uncertain as to how his community will react to his decision and whether or n...

• Word Count: 866
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• Grade Level: High School

They desperately want to be married, but due to certain circumstances are not able to. The reader learns of the circumstances when Hemingway writes, "They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the banns, and neither of them had birth certificates" (359). ... The man goes to America to get a job so that he and she can get married. ... Why did Luz and the major not get married? ... There is a conflict in the story between two lovers who want to be married and the circumstances that come about and keep them apart. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Both of them are beautiful, one is married and the other "would clearly have no trouble" ("The Man from Mars"- Page 19). ... Her sister is also beautiful and she is going to get married. We do not know much about her past activities, as we get to know some in the short-story. ... Women have to be beautiful and then get married, which Christine's family thinks that she can never achieve that ideal role. ...

• Word Count: 637
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Skating Party', Nathan Singleton was torn between Eunice Lathem and her beautiful married sister Delia Sykes. ... In a letter from his mother, he had found out that Catharine was to be married to Henry Stewart Chasens, and asks her to go for a walk with him. ... The walk gets longer and longer, and it never seems to end. ... Long Walk to Forever' ends with Catharine choosing to stay with Newt than to get married to Henry. ...

• Word Count: 638
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

"And be one traveller" is another story that deals with identity. 12 year-old Alison was on a plane trip when she suddenly gets sucked into the future. In this future, she is married and her husband has just died in a car crash. ... When Jamie's mum wants to get married again Jamie is furious to find out that her stepfather is going to be her deceased father's old partner, Chris van der Veer. ...

• Word Count: 519
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• Grade Level: High School

Livvie is a girl who married Solomon at a very young age and was taken to live in a house isolated from the rest of society. ... She was not allowed to get involved with the life that was going on outside of her house. ... Her right to make decisions for herself were nonexistent when she married. ... The watch symbolizes time, the time that Solomon took away from Livvie when they were married. ... In the end, Livvie gets what she wants. ...

• Word Count: 965
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Then we get married" (1). ... Lantin, and he met a girl at a gathering and fell in love with her and then he married her. ... They were married for six years; M. ... The girl married M. ... Lantin would get very tired after a long day of working and would not go to the theater with hey so she did not see him that much. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

As a result, Ellie and Robert got married. ... Ellie's condition was getting worst, but her sister took care of her. ... When she was married and settled in her own home, the teacher got a letter from her dear student Flora. Ellie was dead and Robert was getting married again. ... We do not get to know the characters through their physical description. ...

• Word Count: 955
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• Grade Level: High School

In the short story "The Eighty-Yard Run" by Irwin Shaw, Christian Darling is a married ex-football player now living in New York. ... He went on to get a job with her fathers" company and married his college girlfriend, Louise. ...

• Word Count: 491
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• Grade Level: High School

In the 19th century it was not uncommon for teenage girls to get married. ... Now-a-days women have more freedom and get married because they want to, not out of a sense of duty. ... Mallard's death was like the death of the social norm, back then, that women get married and become subservient to their husbands. ...

• Word Count: 1184
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In today's society, women that aspire to have many material possessions may achieve their goal by either working hard or getting an education or both. ... "She let herself be married-(103), is a perfect example of showing that she had the power to get married, not her husband. ...

• Word Count: 874
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• Grade Level: High School

She suggests going to Maryland and getting married; though the narrator warns us that she cannot be serious, since they do not have the means to go there. ... However, they meet again in 1958; he has served in the army, married "some girl " and had three children. Rebecca has also married and has had two children. ... When he gets home, he is exhausted, "his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost." ... Although both of them are married and have children, they do not worry about meeting and making love. ...

• Word Count: 2096
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When Emily is sick Toby helps her get well, he takes care of her, he opens the door for her, and he gives her food. ... People around Emily and her husband Homer were thinking they were madly in love after they ran away and got married. ...

• Word Count: 316
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Gertrude Lodge is the other main female character, She is married to Rhoda's ex-lover, the farmer. ... But when Humphrey comes back from his travels he breaks the news to Phyllis that he has already got married. ... She does this for extra money and a does it for a buzz, as there is a chance of getting caught. ...

• Word Count: 885
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She is married to M. ... Loisel had tried hard to get this invite as normal working class people don't usually get one. ... When he received he invite he showed it to he, he didn't get the reaction he expected. ...

• Word Count: 565
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• Grade Level: High School

Her name means "of the cross" in Latin which refers to the sacrificial death that Tessie Hutchinson gets. ... As the cards fall, she soon turns to her true nature; one that offers a married child before herself by trying to force her to participate. ...

• Word Count: 432
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• Grade Level: High School

It was interesting to me how she did not remember to get the gun from Dave once he came back home. ... During his lifetime, getting married, buying a gun, or moving out on their own were certain points that most young men went through to make the transition from boyhood to manhood. ...

• Word Count: 614
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• Grade Level: High School

She disputes the results of both drawings once completed, and she makes every attempt to lower her chance of winning by drawing her married daughters into her familie's drawing. ... Graves whom the citizens get the papers from, therefore it is almost like he is the one who has the most influence over whose grave it will be next. ... Hutchinson get stoned to death? ...

• Word Count: 512
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• Grade Level: High School

Her uncle tried to get her to dance but Esperanza didn't have enough courage to do it. ... The time finally came when Esperanza was forced to get a job just to stay in a Catholic school because her parents refused the idea that she would go to a public school. " Nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. " So Esperanza got a job at a photography studio organizing pictures with their negatives. ... There is a few times in the novel that portrays what can happen to a beautiful woman that got married. Rafaela was a beautiful woman who got married to a man who thought...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Bill says to Nick, "Once a man's married he's absolutely bitched,"" and "You've seen the guys that get married-. ... After getting thrown off a train, Nick meets two friends named Bugs and Ad. ...

• Word Count: 1056
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• Grade Level: High School

She had trouble getting people attention since nobody really knew about her or her work at the time. ... They get a notice that the power in their home will be turning off for five days. ... She states that the husband and wife from an Indian decent were happily married at one point. Before the death of their child, which devastated the both of them, they were happily married. ...

• Word Count: 1328
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• Grade Level: High School

As soon as Francis runs in fear he assumes the role of the weaker one of the married couple and Margot assumes the role of the predator. ... The next day it is like Francis is reborn hunting the buffalo, he gets off the car and shoots like and expert and experiences no fear. ... When he asks Margot what she thought of it she responds "I hated it" for the obvious reason that she knew because of his newfound attitude he will leave her after the safari is over, she realizes this right after she says this he casually says "you know I don't think I"d ever be afraid of anything again" and by ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

But the real reason why Margot married Francis is his money. ... Unfortunately for Francis, just as he gets ready to kill a buffalo and shows that he is not a coward, Margot raises her own gun and kills her husband. ...

• Word Count: 488
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Hawthorne was happily married to Sophia Peabody. ... Hawthorne was married to a very beautiful woman and may be referring to her beauty. ... "It is a testimony at once to Hawthorne's ambivalence, his seeking to cover with one hand what he uncovers with the other, and to the persuasive sexism of our culture that most readers would describe "The Birthmark" as a story of failure rather than the success story it really is--the demonstration of how to murder your wife and get away with it" (Fetterley, 164). ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School