Frome's land is barren and isolated from the town, like in the book, and Zeena is portrayed as sickly, frail, and old. ... His land is dead, and his house is cold and falling apart. The dead trees seem to gather around Ethan's house, further adding to the inhospitable nature of his land, bringing out the theme of naturalism; the way that Ethan's land is set up is almost a parallel to Ethan's character, isolated and oppressed. ...

• Word Count: 614
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the office of Meacon Dead Freddie testifies that a ghost killed his mother. ... She was thought to be dead years before and should not have naturally survived long enough to meet Milkman, having given birth to decades worth and generations of children. ... But Circe is dead. ... That was as far as he got, because although the woman was talking to him, she might in any case still be dead-as a matter of fact, she had to be dead." ... The story is told of when Africans were brought over to be forced slaves, some, called flying Africans, such as Solomon, would fly back to their home land. ...

• Word Count: 705
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The knowledge that these photos show history brings up the idea of the past, of things long gone, or long dead. ... This monochromatic land forms an image of blandness and bleakness, causing the feelings of hopelessness and despair. Findley further describes the land as a deathtrap, where "Men and horses sank from sight. ... This loss refers to death and connects with Hell, which is supposedly where the (damned) dead wind up. ...

• Word Count: 879
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Faith was planted by the Spanish friars and watered with their blood was not dead; it awaited only the toil of the husbandman" (Cather 32). ... Cather repeatedly uses pieces of the land to represent the faith of Father Vaillant and Father Latour. ... Christ used the rock to compare to the land and the people. ... Cather uses this description to start using land to represent how the people will be in the Americas. ... Cather used many details in her representation of the land to come up with beautiful tale....

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For example, when Sam wakes up one day on the Abrolhos islands smelling his dead father right beside him, he knows that there are spiritual forces at work and yet he cannot tell "which way the shadow's fallen". Thus, he goes to work as normal, thinking "today wasn't his day to be worried", and is "dead wrong", losing the fingers of his hand. ... When Fish drowns and is apparently raised from the dead, the fact that their miracle turns sour as Fish is now mentally retarded causes them to lose their faith in God, as Oriel blames God for the tragedy. ...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

Fitzgerald's second novel explores the same waste land that pops up in so many of his other novels. ... He is not the last character who will loose all and end up either dead or wanting to be. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

This book is about the women who live in the community of Brewster Place, a poor Neighborhood on a dead-end street. ... The book in many ways describe the South as both a land of plenty and a land where they are harshly deprived. Mattie came from Tennessee, a Land where she grew up. ... The land is garnished With beautiful sugar cane fields and lush countryside. ...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her parents, brother and cousin have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ... Her prayers were answered when he did not end up in the "Land of Nod." ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"The watchman, who is also the gravedigger and the church sexton (thus deriving a double profit from the parish corpses) has utilized the vacant land [in the graveyard] to plant potatoes there. ... "You feed upon the dead, Lestiboudois!" ...

• Word Count: 970
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He has feelings, too, of fear, as Wright remarks "He was following a strange path in a strange land" (p.127). ... Max tells the court that Bigger cannot kill because he himself is dead, and a person without empathy or sympathy, without the deep, steadying love of family or faith in anything. ...

• Word Count: 1197
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her parents, brother and cousin have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ... Her prayers were answered when he did not end up in the "Land of Nod." ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

He has feelings, too, of fear, as Wright remarks "He was following a strange path in a strange land" (p.127). ... Max tells the court that Bigger cannot kill because he himself is dead, and a person without empathy or sympathy, without the deep, steadying love of family or faith in anything. ...

• Word Count: 1197
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The spirits of the dead that appear to Tita throughout the novel, suggest that one's influence does not disappear after death. ... Some women sometimes took a dead soldier's clothes, used his weapons and joined in the fight themselves. ... Ranches like the de la Garzas" were unsafe during the revolution because both the federal army and the rebels lived off the land, obtaining food and supplies from the local people. ...

• Word Count: 2483
• Approx Pages: 10

Throughout Charlotte Bronte's Victorian era novel, Jane Eyre, and William Shakespeare's Renaissance era play, The Tempest, society carries ideals and expectations for its citizens to abide by such as appearance, roles and behavior. If someone does not conform to these ideals they ostracized from soc...

• Word Count: 1755
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the first of the relationships treated in the novel, Tom Brangwen doesn't quite have the identification with the land characteristic of his ancestors but he has similar roots and has few intellectual abilities. ... But like the earlier men, he's really alive only in the female side of himself, the male side having atrophied and been taken over by conventional, dead ideas. ...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is clear that Frankenstein being a human being and the monster he created switch roles by the end of the novel due to the situations in which they land. ... Such an obvious lack of concern for other human beings because of the possible consequences that could come out of creating new life from the dead shows lack of humanity, proving him to be a monster. ...

• Word Count: 2040
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School