The Novel: Go Tell it on the Mountain is very strait forward; there are three main parts in the novel, the beginning, the middle, and the end. ... In order to remove the guilt, he goes to the church for the evening prayers. ... He ignores his responsibilities in taking care of the house and the children, but whenever things go wrong Elizabeth is the first to be blamed. ... Florence also tells him not to take his guilt out on Elizabeth or John. ...

• Word Count: 770
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada's home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. ... Inman deserts the Confederate army a few years after the start of the war, and he tries to go back to Cold Mountain where he can find Ada's home. ... This place is seen by Inman as a beautiful place he can go to forget, relax, and to be reborn. He believe this thanks to his Indian friend Swimmer who tells Inman that Cold Mountain is the closes thing to the heavens (pg19). ...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Cold Mountain Essay Ruby, the young firl who comes along in the book to help Ada with her farm, is the confidante that I chose. ... Swanger tells her that Ada needs help with farm. ... The stories that Ruby tells Ada about, the ones that include how her father never cared for her and how she had to do everything on her own, make Ada remember her own father and also gives her a different view of life, one in which she doesn't have to rely on anyone, she just needs herself. ... Ruby and Ada would be perfectly fine without Inman they"d go about working on the farm like always. ...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Even naming the pony Gabilan, after the mountains, symbolizes something which Jody yearns for: freedom and adventure. ... When Grandfather tells Jody about being the head of a "westering people" (p192), Jody says that maybe someday he could be a leader of the people. But his Grandfather tells him that there is no where left to go. ... The characters in The Red Pony are simple and realistic, and each character has an important story to tell. ...

• Word Count: 749
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. ... How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? ... If the fire were to go out, the leadership skills and civil order on the island would all be lost. ... After allowing the fire to go out, Jack tells Ralph,"The fire's only been out an hour or two. ... Jack was only asked to do one task, to make sure the fire did not go out. ...

• Word Count: 1065
• Approx Pages: 4
• 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. ... 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. ... His first two works that dealt with his racial heritage were Tell It on the Mountain and The Amen Corner. ... David keeps all his dreams inside and does not tell anyone about them. ...

• Word Count: 2515
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Baldwin had his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," published in 1953. ... Set in Paris, this novel tells the story of a love affair between a white American student and an Italian bartender. ... And it won't be fixed until white people and black people tell their stories openly and honestly" (Manley 5). ... Baldwin tells the story of a Jazz musician who is deeply hurt by racism and thus unable to trust anyone and so unable to give or accept love. ...

• Word Count: 1511
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• Has Bibliography

Wolfe's childhood consisted of him watching many of his family members fail miserably in life, making the best of what they had and it was that which gave him the push he needed to achieve his dream of becoming a writer and tell the stories of which he had witnessed in his own hometown of Ashville, North Carolina. ... Through the rough times of Wolfe's childhood he witnessed his family go all the way to the top of the mountain and stumble right back down to the bottom numerous times and it was that which gave him the drive to escape that tumble his family was in and achieve his dream...

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So we must make a smoke on top of the mountain. ... One may become fearful when they do not know what is going to happen in the future. ... As Ralph and Piggy landed on the island, both did not know what was going on. ... As one can tell, Piggy's dialogue exposed that he was panicked because he did not know what to expect after arriving on the island. ... It is up to them to decide which characteristic is going to outshine the rest. ...

• Word Count: 984
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He ventures over the Sahara Desert many times going back and forth between Paris and Toulouse. ... She tells of how she needed to escape the feeling of imprisonment brought about by her sons death. ... A mountain over which he flies swells like some recumbent giant's breast, almost grazing his wing-tip. ... "Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came Down in the hollow, Playin' a new game, Laughing and a running hey, hey Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin' and you My brown eyed girl, You my brown eyed girl. ... I saw you just the oth...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

(Eco, 1984) Eco explains how the historical fiction writer must become immersed in historical evidence: to tell a story, "you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest detail." ... Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... This kind does not allow anyone to get lost: you go in, arrive at the center, and then from the center you reach the exit...

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

The writer does not tell us the name of the character he is talking about. ... Day after day, he goes out into the sea, but not getting a single fish in 84 days. ... It is hope and strong belief that encourage him to persist in going fishing. ... At night, he "dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long garden benches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountain." ... It is only "try it again" that makes him go on fighting. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• 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