He shows his true realistic view through the reality of George actually dying in war and through Georges mothers personality. ... In the story it is very hard to decipher if Editha really loves George, or if she is just overtaken by the thoughts of true love and heroism. ... This is how she will get pity from everyone. ... This story however chooses to show one what can really happen when war takes place. The story doesn't tell how George died either. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born."" (Wilson) While growing up, London never knew true happiness and because of this, he often turned to nature. ... In example, being an oyster pirate probably taught him how to survive on the lowest circumstances. During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. After hearing their stories, he would collaborate a selected few and produce his own. ...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This book tells the lives of Owen and Johnny. Owen is the only child of a granite worker in the small town of Gravesend, New Hampshire during the Vietnam War. ... With a wonderful plot, undying humor, and straightforward honesty, Irving weaves a story that is unforgettable. ... Irving uses this great story to show us what being a true friend is really about. ... I like how he sticks with what he believes in no matter what. ...

• Word Count: 336
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

It was a statement that was true over a century ago and still holds true today. ... This premise is actually repetitive in telling stories of those who are able to find their true "social self."" ... In Dialogues in a Monastery the main character, Synesios tells his good friend Ipklisis why he decided to become a monk; he continues with a love story. ... They fall so deeply in love, but Synesios' good fortune is no more when his love, Nouty, tells him she must leave him to return to her husband, who earlier we learn was affected by fighting in the War. ... But, one's experience i...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Set in Paris and the Spanish city of Pamplona, this novel is a story of a World War I veteran and writer, Jake Barnes, and his group of expatriates as they try to find meaning to their lives in the 1920's. ... Jake was left physically disabled because of an injury he suffered during the war. ... Brett has lost her real true love, also her first true love, which, in my opinion, is one factor that prevents her from commitment. ... Jake comforts Brett as she tells him she has let Pedro Romero go and has decided to go back to Mike Campbell, the man to whom she was engaged. ... It is pretty a...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Because of this diversion, Henry tells Catherine "I do love you" because even though he really doesn't at that moment, he feels it's the only way to forget about the war (Hemingway 31). ... This statement is made about how Henry doesn't realize how much in love he is with Catherine yet and he won't until it is too late. ... This makes us uneasy because it so often comes true. ... Henry's understanding of how meaningful his love for Catherine is outweighs any consideration for the emptiness of abstract ideals such as honor, enabling him to flee the war and seek her o...

• Word Count: 1161
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Each subsequent story draws us deeper into the fascinating history of the painting. ... In another story a couple must sell the painting to feed an abandoned child recovered during a debilitating flood. ... The painting that is a true Vermeer is a representation of something missing in all the characters lives. ... In A Night Different From All Other Nights, a Jewish family owns the painting during World War II. ... Saskia does not want to sell the painting because she believes that it tells the story of the abandoned baby's mother, and does not want the child to grow up without any herit...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The play of Much Ado About Nothing is a love story that is directed by the very esteemed director by the name of Joseph Alberti, who hails from Boston Massachusetts. ... I was awestruck on how when the men first come into the play they are dressed as people that were a part of a gang or M.A.F.I.A. ... They could have showed the soldiers as men from the military coming back from war. ... She looked more of a bold and bratty personal because of the fact her hair was cut short (I know it sounds crazy but tell me does a heroine have long or short hair). ... He did his role so well that he had c...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The war with Spitz did not end until Buck killed him. ... London tells how Buck finds his true calling, "the call of the wild", as he enters the wolf pack. ... The sentimental aspect of the book comes out in the last two pages when London tells the reader that no one enters the valley where the Yeehats were killed. ... Jack London's The Call of the Wild is a story of an ordinary dog placed in extraordinary situations. ...

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

For example when Montag was talking about how books are "people", Mildred quoted, ""Now," said Mildred, "my 'family' is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh!"(75 ) Mildred's 'family' is a way to distract her from not only the fact that she has no family and that there is a war going on during this period of time.This shows how obsessed with technology people are that they forget about their own problems, however it does not make the problems disappear but hides them temporarily and it starts to build up so they keep thei...

• Word Count: 1133
• Approx Pages: 5