As soon as I got down here I could already tell that it was going to be a lot different. ... We went to go watch Alabama play LSU in football. ... " I said yes, he followed by saying "You old enough to go to a nigger whore house?... " He then followed up by saying "you look old enough to go to a nigger whore house.... She has lived through the most racist time period and it comes out in her writing. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He then flashes back to the story of how his wife met the blind man when she worked for him as a reader. ... "'Go ahead, bub, draw,' he said. ... The drawing goes on and on. ... The narrator goes on to explain that after the blind man's wife died while visiting her relatives in nearby Connecticut, he had called the narrator's wife from his in-laws' and made arrangements to visit. ...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• 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...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The truth found in his writings is just too awe-inspiring when it comes to the rendering of those darker motives that drive us on. ... This exposition comes from his thoroughly descriptive diction as the setting is exposed to the reader. ... The narrator goes to great lengths to scientifically explain the apparition of the cat in the wall, however the chain of events that he recreates in his mind are so highly coincidental that an explanation relying on the supernatural may be more easily accepted. ...

• Word Count: 4324
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: High School

(http://www.online-literature.com/maupassant/ Literature Network) This comes into play when in the text it says: "When the war broke out, Mother Savage's son, who was then thirty three years old, volunteered, leaving his mother all alone. ... Because Mother Savage was known to "have money- she would be assigned four Prussian soldiers to come into her home. ... As she was preparing dinner, the soldiers were able to bring back a rabbit so they could have something good to eat for dinner. ... Gwyn page 67 paragraph 6) She then states "Now I'm going to do something for you- (Fictio...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• 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 ...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate