The discolorations of ages have been great. ... In this description, straight from the first words, Poe gives the reader a sense of old age by describing it as "an excessive antiquity-. His description of old age is then reinforced again by the phrase, "The discoloration of the ages has been great."" ... He describes the house as a "fair and stately place with banners yellow, glorious, golden on its roof did float and glow in state his glory well befitting, the ruler of the realm was seen."" ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

"Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles...but a golden color ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illuminated by a yellow burning under the dark. ... Some of the hurdles she has to endure are her old age, the cold weather, the wilderness and landscape, wild animals, and a hunter with a gun. ...

• Word Count: 1059
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The "Jazz Age," which Fitzgerald is known for naming, reeks with empty, bored people who can never love or trust. ... They thrive on pleasure but, by the age of thirty, they are used up, spent, and gray. ... Gloria is one in a long line of Golden Girls in Fitzgerald's novels who are beautiful but pathetic, empty and self adoring. ... And no baby in a high chair is more pampered, petted, and queenly crowned than she in her youth-centered world where the golden baby rules. ...

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

He smiled at me and I could see multiple golden molars shining like crystalline rocks in a cavern. He was extremely short – maybe four foot seven – which was odd for a man his age. ... But this was her curse and she was fated to be forever young when her heart failed at the age of nine. ...

• Word Count: 1480
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become metap...

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

Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to Canada in 1975. Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. The Parsis and India become me...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate