This story shows his passage from being a young coward to a brave man. ... Crane never tells us of his age, appearance, or exactly where he is from. ... Crane points out that he is not a true man yet by referring to Henry as "the youth" throughout the story. ... He is loud, obnoxious, and he doesn't realize how scared he really is. ... The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, emphasizes that individuals have different personalities and bases his story upon their diverse approaches to fighting in war. ...

• Word Count: 935
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Is War Necessary? ... This movie tells the story of a reluctant hero, Benjamin Martin, who enters the war after his family, becomes endangered by the British. ... It was the British who instigated and prolonged the war. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... Based on an inspiring true story, The Lost Battalion recreates the life and death action of the first Great War, however seems to focus on death and negativity. ...

• Word Count: 4263
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Summary: In this story, the author Ray Bradbury tells us about futuristic American city in which books are illegal to read or posses, and firemen aren't employed to save houses, but to burn books. ... She tells him to stop and smell the flowers. ... Soon after he leaves the city the next world war starts. ... How did he know? ... And then you just sit there, contemplating how real this unreal story actually is. ...

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

The story centers on him and his adventures. ... Wilson is full of bravado and speaks of how hard he will fight. ... Wilson makes it through that first battle unscaved; the same is true for Jim. ... The general tells the officers that the line is holding well and it will win the battle. ... Henry makes up a story about how he got separated and received the wound. ...

• Word Count: 818
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. ... 38 This clearly illustrates how instinctive and deeply entrenched was this desire for the supernatural. ... Hale arrives, it is quickly determined that "Tituba knows how to speak to the dead,"40 and that more went on than simply dancing. ... Hale, who forces confessions out of her as if he wants them to be true. ... She is also another unnatural link to this story. ...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Changes tells us a story of living in the "hood" and dealing with issues such as police brutality, poverty and racism. ... Changes is telling a story of unity and through this story Tupac puts together a platform for peace, unity and understanding. ... He states that although he was raised in a rough environment that nothing can compare to a mothers love and all he can do now is show her how much he appreciates all that she struggled for. ... By addressing the text and tying the two songs together we will show how the text has bared an imprint onto society. ... Although Tupac was labele...

• Word Count: 3526
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Potok uses Reuven Malter as the victim of suffering in his story while Grisham uses Luke Chandler. ... On one hand, Reuven grows up in a Jewish family during World War II. ... Reuven felt Billy's pain and thought about how fortunate he was to have been spared that fate. ... So he told the sheriff that Hank beat the Siscos in self-defense, which was partially true, until he picked up a board and started beating them with it. ... When a person is put into a difficult situation, they grow and mature as they learn how to handle it, j...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this fable, the strange being is the child that tells the smug community that the emperor has no clothes on. ... Eventually, he reached the communion of the devil where he saw most of his town and his wife in their true forms, followers of the devil. ... Without certainty, how did Goodman Brown proceed? ... He showed how much kindness and bravado he had by saving his master's, Dr. ... "The Monster" typifies how human frailties can lead to upheaval when people are made to face obvious truths that they would rather deny or ignore. ...

• Word Count: 2988
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. ... His political views began to take true shape as he saw that the under classes of this time period were only represented through their strivings to improve the lot of their children. ... His first book that showed his true political feelings was The Road to Wigan Pier, in which he wrote about the struggles of coal miners in the Lancashire town of Wigan. After seeing their struggles, he began to take an active political part, and when the Spanish Civil War he joined Ernet Hemingway and others i...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... During the war the factory manufactured cylinder heads for the Air Force planes (P40s). ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ... She then told him that could not be true because if Larry was dead, then his father was a murdered! ... He is a very practical man who knows how the world goes on. ...

• Word Count: 3955
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

This simple story is one that many people know, and do not think twice about. But anyone who knows anything about the life of Tupac, or the strange things surrounding his death, will tell you that this story is anything but simple. ... But some things are just too strange to ignore, and we must dig deeper to find the true answers. ... Why would Tupac all of a sudden take an extreme interest in a war hero who died hundreds of years ago without having a specific purpose? ... This is the same name as the Italian war hero, simply with his own and unique spelling. ...

• Word Count: 4248
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Emerson was fourteen years older than Thoreau and at the onset of his magnificent prime, but he sensed a true disciple in Thoreau-that is, one with so much Emersonian self-reliance that he would still be his own man (New Britannica 125). ... The basic story was a day-by-day account of the river voyage. ...

• Word Count: 2638
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School