Bluestone's analysis of the story seemed very over interpreted. ... She is a wild one-wild, without shame. ... Sloan concludes that such words as "sin", "hell", "wild", and "animal" that Salzman uses are all words that excite Leo's desire. Sloan also goes into discussion about the sexual messages of the story. ... Sloan's final point brings to light the fact that this might be Stella's first date, saying that Salzman gave her the wild image just to attract Leo. ...

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The story is that of a family (The MacIvey family) through three generations, a family emigrated from Georgia into the wild and untamed lands of Florida. They start out eeking out a living from the earth, but over time learn to round up wild cattle and drive them to market. ...

• Word Count: 399
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Along the way she stops to warn the foxes and other small animals to stay out of her way saying, "Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons, and wild animals!...Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites .Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. ... When getting into the building she is overcome by the size and style the building appears to her. ... Phoenix would change her attitude ten out of ten times if put into different scenarios dealing with the same issues. ...

• Word Count: 679
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Young Goodman Brown," the reader is introduced to a young man who has made a conscious decision to go into the forest to meet with Satan. Most critical analysis of this short story finds that there are a lot of references to the period of time around the Salem Witch Trials and the way New Englanders lived after this period. ... Young Goodman Brown has decided much to the angst of his wife, to go into the forest to carry out an evil journey. Young Goodman Brown departs his wife and heads into the forest, in the dark of night, knowing that he...

• Word Count: 1193
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

That night the birds find a way into the children's bedroom where they are attacked viciously and had Nat not stepped in, the children would have been killed by the birds. ... This story was written in the 1950's, which is not long after the Second World War and Nat turns the kitchen into an air raid shelter. ...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

That night the birds find a way into the children's bedroom where they are attacked viciously and had Nat not stepped in, the children would have been killed by the birds. ... This story was written in the 1950's, which is not long after the Second World War and Nat turns the kitchen into an air raid shelter. ...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. ... A prism, by definition, refracts light into a spectrum of colors. ... He becomes a criminal like Caravaggio by breaking into the Waterworks. ... When Clara leaves Patrick, he is thrust into a world of darkness. ... Only with love can anyone be expected to have identity and fit into a community. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School