War and Famine Agunpakhi is the debut novel of Hasan Azizul Huq. ... The novel starts with a young girl of rural Rarh, now in West Bengal. ... In the early part of the novel, she mostly speaks of life within the family: births, deaths, marriages, love to each other and the family bondage gets predominant in the early description of the novel. ... Pointing to the history the novel refers to the hardship caused by both war and famine. ... The last chapter of the novel is under the title: "No one left. ...

• Word Count: 2420
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Secondly, Atticus's daughter Scout, the protagonist, who also comes across to learning of what will be, to what is when demonstrating courage. ... Scout does not know much of courage from the beginning of the novel, as for later on during the story she gains knowledge and maturity. ... In this quote Scout realizes that fighting back only makes the problem worse, and leads on to learning from Atticus's advice. ... For an example, Boo puts gifts inside the Radley oak tree near by, when Scout finds the gifts she says, "The gum looked fresh. ... To conclude, one of the most signific...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the beginning of the novel, Huck is wild and carefree, playing jokes and tricks on people and believing them all to be very funny. ... When the feud erupts, Huck hides in a tree wishing he never came ashore. It made me sick I most fell out of the tree. ... In the middle of the novel when Huck meets the Duke and the King he beings to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong, and begins to mature and do the right things. ... By the end of the novel Huck realizes that no matter how bad someone can be their life still worthy. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In The Big Sleep, author Raymond Chandler features a straightforward, candid style to establish the quintessential detective story and effectively create the memorable and admirable protagonist of the novel, Philip Marlowe. ... Marlowe, upon entering into the foyer of the mansion, describes a stained-glassed panel "Showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree . . . he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. ... Therefore, in a straightforward and direct manner, Chandler establishes the detective as the goo...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They provide invaluable opportunities for learning. ... In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar says, "The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, and the world was the river" (Foer 16). ... This novel is besieged with the theme loss. ... The novel displays this by showing Oskar reflecting on the memories he shared with his father. ... Rachel Joyce starts her novel with Harold trying to figure out how best to respond to Queenie's note while having his breakfast. ...

• Word Count: 2017
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Rambert eventually finalized his escape plan, but, upon learning that Pieux was separated from his wife, Rambert became ashamed to flee. ... Once I finally finished reading this novel, I was overjoyed. ... Camus described the town as "a town without pigeons, without any pigeons, without any trees or gardens." ... The idea of no trees or gardens gives the image of dusty, barren fields that have not bared any life in many years. ... Bernard Rieux was the main character throughout this novel. ...

• Word Count: 2018
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This was the beginning idea of her world-famous novel, Frankenstein. ... The creature, without no parental guidance, matures by itself, learning how to become human. ... Shelley's alienation and abandonment is clearly seen in her novel. ... Clerval represents Mary's closest childhood friend and half-sister Fanny, who committed suicide after learning a family secret. ... This death was the most devastating one, much like Elizabeth's death in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2436
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

One of his most famous novels, In Our Time, portrays how his writing was effective and how he was an export with the use of rhetoric. ... The river just showed through the trees. ... By describing the setting in detail-such as how the ground was up high and how he could see the river through the trees-Hemingway is revealing how Nick has reached a pinnacle in his life and is making progress from his past. ... In this case, the purpose was to show how Nick is growing internally and learning about life. ... Elliot was learning the touch system on the typewriter, but she found that while it increa...

• Word Count: 1461
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is true in Mark Zusak's novel The Book Thief. In the novel, Liesel Memminger is separated from her family due to financial reasons and is moved to the city of Molching, where she settles in with her foster parents. ... While Liesel benefits from learning of Max's stories and someone she can identify with, Max is also benefited as he is given many gifts and stories from the outside world. ... She waited for the tree to fall. But the tree would not move (446, 447). ...

• Word Count: 2179
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Even though To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize Award, the Alabama Library Association Book Award, and the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the novel still receives shouts of criticism because of its "immorality" and "racist attributes" (Karolides et al.). ... This novel challenges students to question the definition of humanity, on whether a man should judge another on the color of his skin. ...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Such is the case in Linda Hogan's novel, Solar Storms#. ... Since a person or place's beginning within the consciousness of others often begins upon learning its name or giving it its name, it only makes sense that if beginnings are important, names are too. ... Within the novel we are not told who gave the land this name, but why would Hogan, as the author of this story, give this name to this land? ... But by the end of the novel she has become known as Maniki, a true human. ... While at first glance Bush may not remind one of a shrub or tree, much about her character is similar t...

• Word Count: 1974
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps his interest and later achievement of a Masters of Philosophy in anthropology from Yale, in 1970 came from his unique genealogic tree, Irish and French on his mother's side, and Modoc Indian on his father's. ... Perhaps these women's strength inspired the novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. ... At the end of this section of the novel, she finds her place in the jigsaw and completes her family, learning any is suitable for a sense of belonging. ... In the conclusion of this section of the novel, Christine will find her family will fill it and heal her wounds. ...

• Word Count: 1903
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Alexandria is center of Greek learning c. ... In Japan, Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji c. ... Rivers, trees, stones, ponds, fire, and thunder. ... Anglo. were not barbarians, they didn't lead luxurious lives either, or lives dominated by learning or the arts. ...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin's novel, "The Awakening," focuses on Edna Pontellier, a woman struggling to find her true self while committing herself fully to being a wife and mother. ... Edna has an epiphany when she is finally able to enter the ocean and become one with it by learning to swim. ...

• Word Count: 2199
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

James Joyce's famous collection, "the Dubliners", is a novel that "shows the emotional paralysis in the disillusion of love, fetters of marriage and obstacles in communication.... After learning Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 2446
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School