"The £1,000,000 Bank Note" is a prime example of how his humor reflects in what he writes. ... When henry walked out, he opened the envelope the guys had given him and found a £1,000,000 bank note inside. ... The one work that I feel Twain expressed the most in is his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. ... Thomas Arthur Gullason states that in this novel, Twain has a definite plan. He says that Twain uses repetition and previous themes in the novel to make it more interesting. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. ... Though this is a crucial moment that alters the course of the novel, all we are given is that "She thrust herself past Clifford, and disappeared into the room, but almost immediately returned, with a cry choking in her throat" (250). ... However, later in the novel after Hepzibah discovers Judge Jaffrey dead, she senses that a "stifling atmosphere of dread fill[s] the house with a death-smell...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Regardless of her illness, she wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories while acquiring success and praise. ... (Baumgaertner, 24) Flannery remained devoted to Catholicism throughout her life, and this along with the consciousness of her own imminent mortality gives worthy insight into what was compiled in the thirty-two short stories and the two novels: a bitter perception of salvation, a confident view of violence as an oblige for good, and a therapeutic liberation of hostility. ... Flannery notes, "There is a moment in every great story in which the presence of grace can be felt as ...

• Word Count: 1784
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to literary researcher Patrick Galloway, one must be "initiated to her trademarks when reading Flannery O'Connor's novels or short stories." ... As O'Connor writes, "Distortion in this case is a tool; exaggeration has a purpose, and the whole structure of the story or novel has been made what it is because of belief. ... O'Connor describes the appearance of Grandmother's "leathery thin face " and the trousers of Red Sam whose "stomach hung over them like a sack of meal swaying under his shirt " ("A Good Man..."" 34, 37).The characters appear this way to foste...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Also she is under the pressure of the promise to her master as she herself admits that she had already been carried away in London, in Harley street by her master who "prove the gentleman, a bachelor in a prime of life, such a figure as have never risen, saving a dream or in an old novel before a fluttered anxious girl out of Hampshire vicarage." She thinks of herself as having a mission to fulfill, regarding her new circumstances she notes: "they had, as it were, an extended and a mass for which I have not been prepared and in the presence of which I found myself, freshly, a little scared, no...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8

This foreword from the famous novel Gone with the Wind had summarized the Old South. ... The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with many mysterious events happened through times ("A Rose for Emily-). ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School