This will become more evident later on when Oedipa stays up all night long, wandering the streets and seeing signs of the Tristero everywhere, only to wonder the next morning if it was all a big hallucination. ... Nowhere is this seen more clearly than Oedipa's all-night excursion, a trip that is essentially pointless in its conception and useless on all practical levels. Indeed, Oedipa only ends the night even more confused than she has been. ...

• Word Count: 2590
• Approx Pages: 10

The unknown and frightening images that can fill a child's room at night are incorporated to show how the belief in hidden truth can often seem to be real and take form. ... This night's profusion of post horns, this malignant, deliberate replication, was their way of beating up. ... It is like being a child and not being given the reason for why bedtime is at eight o"clock while other children can stay up until nine at night; it us upsetting. ...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the ages, literature has revolved around the personal relationships between people. The relationships between women have evolved throughout the ages possibly as a result of the transformations of society as these texts explore; The Shakespearean era where only men were allowed to act, the Victorian era in which everything must be prim and proper and women should still do their work as a mother and wife to the Post Modern era in which women are free to express themselves in the same way that men are. All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's cl...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Have you ever read a something that was so easy to read but hard to talk about? In The Bachelors (1960) and A Far Cry From Kensington (1988), Muriel Spark presents her characters in a troubling condition. They have problems in their life such as being threatened for not paying their taxes or being prosecuted with fraudulent conversion and forgery. Spark covers ideas like the psychology of people and how they react to situations that impact their life negatively. In The Bachelors (1960), the narrative revolves around a group of young bachelors who seem normal until the readers are introduced ...

• Word Count: 2565
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"But sometimes, in the middle of a crowd or alone at night, she never knew when it was going to happen, Idgie would suddenly come to mind, and she would want to see her so bad that the pain of longing for her sometimes took her breath away."" ...

• Word Count: 2942
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School