As I think back to my first love, I remember how that love dominated my entire existence. ... When I read this, I was reminded of how consumed I O"Dowd 2 once was. ... Honestly, that question reoccurred in my mind at least fifty times a day; yet still I continued to be self-destructive, much like Munroe's character. ... When feelings that good are jerked out from under you, you stumble and you fall, exactly how this girl stumbled and fell. ... These experiences and questions will allow me to become closer to that desired individual, and possibly closer to that "modest and quiet wisd...

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• Grade Level: High School

and How did it happen? ... The story starts off with the basic problem and then leads into the three questions of who did it? ... and how did it happen? ... The second question, what is it?... And the third question how did it happen?...

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• Grade Level: High School

Alice Munro's story The Time of Death tells about very strong feelings of women and how men are perfectly disregarded. ... Only in one short passage one can sense tension connected to love and romance. ... Despite Mr Alban's explanation Valeria won't believe that it is a question of a wrong person. ... 'Miss Cuffe---' 'How too bad you are! ... (p. 86) This passage shows that their dreams have almost come true after moving out of the town. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How H. ... This is the perfect example of how opposites build tension. ... We never find out why that night is important but it gives the reader a 'red herring' question. ... The old people with disabilities symbolize the fear inside him and how he would not like to end his life. ... Any passage relating to the unknown could build tension. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although Sammy agrees with Lengel that this action will not be soon forgotten, he decides to go through with his decision. Updike suggests that adolescence is an impulsive age as well as a rite of passage into adult hood. ... In the beginning he acts like an immature kid as he dissects how each of the girls look in their respective bathing suits, but in the end, his values appear to have changed and we believe he has matured a little as he notes "[M]y stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world [is] going to be to me hereafter" (104). ... Sammy struggles with internal conflict. .....

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermi...

• Word Count: 1547
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Notice how Steinbeck describes how Elisa's irritated face has vanished as a result from the stranger's question, which is Elisa's interest. ... This moment in the story illustrates how her attention was diverted away from being resistant and rejecting the man to being engaged and interested because of her emotional relationship and attachment she has with her chrysanthemums. ... "I"ll put them in a flower pot, and you can take them right with you. ... From the passage above, Elisa's action shows that she is horribly hurt to see that her sprouts are lying there on the gro...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

After finishing reading, we feel puzzled and frustrated which is due to the sudden ending, in contrast with the extended beginning. ... The narrative frame is no longer provided with "a god", which implies that is no longer governed by "the rule". ... Relativity and paradox prevail and if any explanation is possible, it means that there is no proper explanation, so The Turn of the Screw has continuously challenged the reader and has given way to a lot of questions and a lot more misunderstandings. ... We may wonder why this story is so important to him and how closely he was connected to ...

• Word Count: 2120
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