The theme that stands the most is based on the relationship between parents and children. ... In "October Sky", the story takes place at a West Virginia mining town during the 1950's. ... The story makes it clear that Dee was confused about the meaning of her heritage. At first she states this by saying "No, Mamma, call me Wangero, I couldn't bear it any longer being named after the people who oppress me." ... "When I looked at her something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet." ...

• Word Count: 1757
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

What is real to me may not be real to someone with Chinese heritage, as The Sugar Sisterhood states, there are many dubious phrases in The Joy Luck Club. ... When Lindo's mother gives Lindo up in the forest the trees are very spindly. ... Harold may not have known what his wife wanted, but that is a main theme of countless films. ... I went into The Joy Luck Club expecting a formulaic story, with old characters and plots I know by heart, what I got was a very fresh, honest perspective on an old theme. Embellishments and details make stories more interesting: "I caught a fish" is boring...

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

Relationships between father and son are a reoccurring theme in this story. ... Other characters in the story show parallel relationships. ... Both of them give advice to Ophelia, telling her to stay away from Hamlet. ... She explains "He took me by the wrist, and held me hard . ... As it did seem to shatter all his bulk And end his being: that done, he lets me go For out o' doors he went without their help, And to the last bended their light on me." ...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The feelings rose up in me like a column of wind, but when it got to my mouth, it had no voice, now words. ... Lily is unable to listen or forgive what she does not want to listen to the stories of Deborah when August sits down to explain. ... "The one that would let me know I was loved." ... "You can hate me all you want, but she's the one who left you." ... A theme being that Children tend to search for the comfort of their maternal figures which had been what Sue Monk Kidd illuminated in the Secret Life of the Bees....

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ibsen's Ghosts is a story about intrigues, false images, secrets, and lies. ... That this was the opening scene identifies Regina's parentage as the/a main plot of the story, and who her real father is. ... Alving To me it was not as important as to what the books were actually about, but it was more important to see what the books symbolized. ... It is here that the story begins while the first act was more character building. ... This act that he puts on falls in line with sort of a don't judge a book by its cover kind of theme where here you have this unsettled looking fel...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7