She is transported back to the present and is able to forget the past: "And then opening her eyes, how fresh, like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays, the roses looked; and dark and prim the red carnations" (P. 16.) ... If Heartbreak House seems to be different from other Shaw plays, it is not because hearts are broken. Young women usually have their hearts broken all the time in Shaw plays. These characters usually have their hearts broken not once but twice. ... And they aim to use all this talk to break one another's hearts. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His dark, lean face wore an expression of intense anxiety, his eyebrows twitched as if he were in constant pain. ... Here there were no street lamps, not even a light in the windows, but natural darkness; with the moon high overhead throwing sharp shadows across the white cobble paving (Cather 1197). ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School