It tells of the struggles women must go through when they reach menopause; the big change. ... That is why Fannie Flagg does not just come out and say that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians. ... I still want you to come back and I'm not a kid anymore, so I'm not gonna change. ... "But sometimes, in the middle of a crowd or alone at night, she never knew when it was going to happen, Idgie would suddenly come to mind, and she would want to see her so bad that the pain of longing for her sometimes took her breath away."" ... It could be that they were not like any other towns back in those...

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• Grade Level: High School

Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly motivated turn of events as the idea of the novel as a genre is defined with becoming the person. ... After "modernism" has called into question both sense living in event, and ability of the author to introduce it in product, " the dialogical poetics " has come into its own. ... "I do not know, - the story-teller interferes with "objective-epic" narration, destroying illusion of the all-knowing author, - whom she could become in our century, but is sure, that a lot of centuries back she would be...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hugo goes into great detail about how "slavery still exists, but now applies only to women's and its name is prostitution" (180). ... The recognition of Fantine plait comes when she begins to fall into prostitution. ... Eponine despite having no place else to go turns away from her father and away from the evil she has known since birth. ... Eponine does not simply sit passively to the side when it comes to love, instead she is the aggressor fighting her the man she loves. ... Eponine never gives up on a goal and is written as an active character that can manage to find a solut...

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As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

• Word Count: 4673
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His character is deranged because everything he does is simply for himself and no one else and he will go to the extent of even having to kill somebody. ... However, this is not enough for Wanda to calm down as she is convinced that she will go to prison no matter what. ... Hawkins decides that Wanda was not in the right mental state and goes to Oratory to find a doctor's number for Wanda. However, when she returns back, she finds Wanda dead. ... The way that Wanda's death is described comes off as her having major psychological problems because the howling and throwing her handbag i...

• Word Count: 2565
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During his younger years James read constantly and slipped away as often as he could in order to go to the movies and even to plays. ... A book allowed him to get far away from his troubles, and by the age of fourteen he had read everything in the Harlem libraries and had started going down to the main library. ... He did not go to college because his family needed him after his stepfather's mental health became worse. ... Baldwin finished Go Tell It on The Mountain, a novel that stood as a autobiography of his younger years. ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In the last pages of the novel, the reader comes to find out that Gloria and Anthony won their court case for the thirty million dollar inheritance from Adam Patch, but unfortunately, they are too strung out to enjoy it. The book ends with Anthony being brought on board a cruise ship in a wheel chair, a mad cripple who goes insane. ... War comes and goes, but the participants never get caught up in the meaning of it. ... The characters hurry back to life as usual with all its money and booze. ... There is no need to go through every nasty remark m...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ross comes across as being envious of her son and daughter's relationship because Robert and Rowena had a relationship where Robert was like a parent (guardian) to Rowena. ... I know you're going to go away and be a soldier. Well- you can go to hell. ... When Robert started training he would go for long walks at night as well. ... When Mister Ross came in and said it was time to go, Mrs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While Kafka's novella is comprised of sentence structures that can be interpreted in different ways, the ambiguity in the novella comes not from what is said, but from what is not being said (Sokel 204). ... In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other symbol in the story relates to the abortion without going further into detail about what other meanings the ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This haunting becomes the dominant metaphor of Bret's work, as the ghost of his father comes back to warn him of something about his family, and as his son becomes a ghost and disappears. ... Later on, Bret comes to find that Jayne is pregnant with his child. ... This leads him to fantasize that his dad comes back from the grave to warn him. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate