Maurizia is not happy being married to Ezio and despite him showering her with gifts, she believes that the grass is greener on the other side as he desires a love with much more purporse. ... However, Allende ends the story characterising Maurizia as truly a strong person when she despite desperately wanting to see her son after 28 years, decides that it is in everyones best interest if she doesn't and she leaves her ex husband and her son to be happy, as they are better off without her. ...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2

His proclaimed self-control and fear of involving himself in a relationship that would undoubtedly end leaves Joe Barry, the protagonist, with mixed feelings of lament and pain. ... Alone with his love and surrounded by the flames of the spreading grass fire, Joe "thought about [his] fears, all the different ones, and the things that could make a person run" and was left with a sorrowful emptiness when Glenda left the next day and never returned (199). ... But even those wild flames were tamed to the point they were nothing more than a grass fire. ...

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

Leaving for many months, Bernis leaves his home in Paris, along with friends and a loved one, Genevieve. ... He leaves nothing to the imagination, because every feeling that a reader must feel is told by him. ... I saw you just the other day, My how you have grown, Cast my memory back there, Lord Sometime I'm overcome thinking 'bout Making love in the green grass Behind the stadium with you My brown eyed girl You my brown eyed girl- The lyrics of this well known song, Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison, tell exactly what Bernis felt when he saw Genevieve after his flight to Africa. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

It was a sunny and windy day in late September with the prime traces of autumn beginning to pull the bright colored leaves from the trees. ... I also could smell the scents from clean laundry and fresh cut grass. ...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She did not look back now, but went on and on, thinking of the blue-grass meadow that she had traversed when a little child, believing that it had no being and no end."" ... When Edna comes back home, Robert is not there but he leaves a letter that reads good-bye. ...

• Word Count: 2270
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Bradbury's short story, "The April Witch," introduces the setting of the story as spring time in Illinois where the gentle breeze flows through the grasses, the flowers are blossoming and young girls everywhere fantasize about falling in love.The main character of the story, Cecy, like most of girls of her young and naive age, desperately desires to find and experience love for herself. ... She can literally soar as a dove, blow with the breeze, perch like a frog and experience life as these other things, while she leaves her "plain, bony body" behind in pursuit of adventure (#). ...

• Word Count: 1907
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Great Gatsby and the American Dream For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. - 1 Timothy 6:10 - As people, we do not realize what kinds of sorrows we bring upon ourselves. All the want, the greed, the needs, add together to make our lives miserable. ...

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