Seeing as, he attacks the Danes because he does not understand them and the core values of civilization among them: allegiance, honor, and community. ... The Danes are terrified of him, he attacks innocent people, he is against God, and he chooses to be a murderous creature like his ancestors. ... Enraged at the revelry at Herot, Grendel viciously inspires fear in the Danes with unprovoked attacks on them. ... He "rushed angrily over the threshold- (723) Angry at the way the Danes continued to stick together and find happiness after his attacks. The poet tells us Grendel's immoral fee...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His enemy had led away his heart." ... Once he has given up his heart to her, Yvain is discribed as completely conquered. ... He has "left his heart behind...she who remained at home held and joined herself so closely to that heart that he did not have the strength to draw it away." This entire first section of the story would have the reader believe that the love of a knight for his lady leaves him powerless to control his own heart, and that she is the dominating force in his life. ... His journey brings him to an attacked lion, whom he saves and makes a friend of. ...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Othello loves the gentle Desdemona with every ounce of heart and soul in him. ... Shakespeare then makes him subject to a clever attack which is aimed at his most vulnerable points."" ... He is completely heart-broken. Othello has never felt such deep pain in his life - the betrayal of whole-hearted love. He comments, "My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand,"" (4.1. 184-185). ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

On his own, he kills Widow Smolby after she tries to attack him for breaking into her house (204). ... Lippard is exploring how Devil-Bug's soul has been deformed from the things in his life, and that these feelings are hidden deep down in the heart that he does have. ... Confess Luke that we married men live more in an hour than you dull bachelors in a year...And then her heart, Luke, her heart. ... You could see that the struggle at work within his heart was like the agony of the strong man wrestling death. ... Lippard, in one fell swoop, shows the ugly heart of Bess but how she got to ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Humans are born good, but they carry a seed of evil within them, which may sprout based on their environment and weed itself deep within their hearts. ... Her wild "witch like" behavior was caused by her chaotic upbringing, none of which was actually her acting out of the evil in her heart. ... "But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he want in, and to the condemned criminal as he came fo...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Turks are discovered to be heading for an attack Cypress and Othello being the good soldier he is gets sent to Cypress. ... He loves Desdemona with his whole heart. ... Brabantio adored Desdemona but when she eloped and married Othello it broke his heart. ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The family is under a definite attack a. ... We as parents are called to have faith in God through prayer Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. ... (2) For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. (3) For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. (4) He taught me also, and said unto me, let thine heart retain my words: keep my...

• Word Count: 1400
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The sheer fact that the poem's main character is named after a deadly disease that attacks the nervous system, foreshadows someone's life being taken too soon, and the deteriorating loss of the mind. ... "Murmuring how she loved me-she/ Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,/ To set its struggling passion free/ From pride, and vainer ties dissever,/ And give herself to me forever" (21-25). ... This is best explained in the key passage: "Happy and proud; at last I knew/ Porphyria worshipped me; surprise/ Made my heart swell, and still it grew/ While I debated what...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mercutio takes offense to Tybalt's numerous attacks on Romeo's character, and when Romeo refuses to fight, Mercutio takes that as Romeo being scared by Tybalt's loud-mouthed insults, and challenges Tybalt in Romeo's place. ... He tried to help Romeo recover from his infatuation with Rosaline, even though his double entendres and the Queen Mab speech, which moved from light-hearted joking to a hysterical premonition of the problems that were to follow, may not have been the most effective means possible. ...

• Word Count: 1276
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The play mocks this earnestness it is the characters who do not act so seriously and are more care free and wear there hearts on their sleeve, so to speak, who are rewarded with love, and in doing so are proven not to have acting dishonestly in the least. ... Wilde's most concrete attack throughout the play is on marriage as a social tool, and he provides even more absurd obstacles in the final act when Jack holds Cecily under his guardianship until she is 35. ...

• Word Count: 1280
• Approx Pages: 5

This permits for teachable moments in a time where the child doesn't feel under attack because the situation or topic is not presently happening. ... When parents keep their ear and heart open for their kids, half of the problems that the younger generation face, would be solved. ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Amelia appeared to be stronger and finally defeated her husband, but at the same time Cousin Lymon entered into the fight and attacked her. ... Amelia was left alone, humiliated and with her heart broken. ...

• Word Count: 1405
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He teaches her to play checkers and generally makes her feel like a regular person with a playful heart. ... The dog threatens to attack Janie and bites Tea Cake when he comes to her rescue. ... The next day, however, Tea Cake becomes paranoid and attacks Janie with a pistol. ...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She knew if he did not eat, he would suffer an attack in the morning. ... Unlike Erdrich, where they had their whole lives to spend together and Louise was not going anywhere, Dominique says "When you leave, the children can be devastated - and it can break your heart too."" ...

• Word Count: 1685
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout life everyone tries to find their identity. For some people finding their identity is easy or natural but for others it could take years before finding themselves. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston; the author follows the protagonist, Janie Crawford. ...

• Word Count: 1883
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School