Another character in the novel seen as "good- is Simon. ... The last main character in the novel seen as "good- is Piggy. ... Ralph, Simon, and Piggy are all characters in the novel that are seen by readers as "good- and help communicate the themes that Golding tries to show in the novel. ... Jack has a progression in the novel that shows that evil can get worse. ... Perhaps the most evil of the boys in the novel, is Roger. ...

• Word Count: 1386
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel, Jack portrays evil and violence, the dark side of human nature. ... Jack's flamboyancy is shown throughout the novel, as he is very confident in his words. ... For the first half of the novel, Jack is jealous and envies how Ralph was chosen to be leader instead of him. ... The purple spikes around the green ring explains the behaviors Jack shows in the later parts of the novel. ... Most of the boys, particularly Jack, give into their animalistic tendencies by the end of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2153
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, families are a very important part of the structure of the novel. ... Almost every family mentioned in the novel was either incomplete or was dysfunctional. ... Not one family in this novel was complete. ... This phrase right here shows his feelings for her from early on in the novel. As the novel proceeds, his feelings remain unchanged. ...

• Word Count: 1455
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, there is also a great deal of symbolism throughout the whole story. ... You also learn that Tita shows her emotions through her cooking, which is a vital part of telling this novel. ... At the very end of the novel Tita finally gets to experience the one thing she has always wanted to experience, and that is love. The novel ends with Pedro and Tita making love, and during this all of Tita's candles are lit. ... In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Tita's cooking expresses her love and sorrow that she feels for Pedro. ...

• Word Count: 1481
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Freedom is also conveyed throughout the novel through Asher's character with the rebellion against the school to be able to wear what he wanted. ... Through Lowry's use of stream of consciousness within her novel, real issues in the present world are effectively explored reflected through Asher's requirement to own his freedom of speech within a society. ... And through the longing for freedom within the novel the characters are set on a journey of self-discovery. ... Brigid Lowry explores the journey of self-discovery within her novel Guitar Highway Rose effectively through th...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But in this novel we find another kind of romantic love' in the sense that for romantics Love passion involves suffering, mostly because this romantic love can't be fulfilled, as it happens to the protagonists in the novel; Catherine and Heathcliff cannot find a way to be together except in the grave. ... Most characters in the novel also suffer the love or lack' of love. ... From this point there is an on going conflict between love and hate, which lasts until the end of the novel. We could say that there is a general confrontation during the novel between two opposites: Nat...

• Word Count: 2324
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This analysis of Golding's novel proves to support significant evidence that humans are naturally evil, unless that evil is tamed. ... This is a pivotal part of the novel. ... The events immediately following this point are probably the most important in the novel. ... The condition of life in the novel is extremely poor. ... Golding was also making a cautionary point in writing this novel. ...

• Word Count: 1683
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• Grade Level: High School

Jacques Bernis is the main character of this novel. ... A minor character that showed up in the last few pages of the novel is the sergeant. ... His character may seem insignificant but he offers wise advise to Bernis, before his death at the end of the novel. ... During his stay in the United States, he wrote several novels, one of which is The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince). ... Being able to read of love like this, is indescribable, and should only be focused on as the main theme of the novel. ...

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

Marele Day's choice of Sydney as a plot setting is vital to the novel and provokes a reaction in the reader that is one of discovery, exploration and search for truth. Sydney is beautiful yet corrupt, as is the case with the two protagonists in the novel. ... Some characters are planted simply as stylistic tools, others with specific purposes to push the novel forward but all to represent diversity in the city. ... Everywhere you turn throughout the novel, beauty versus corruption is being portrayed and it all traces back to the city itself. ... Sydney is the character that carries the h...

• Word Count: 1259
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender written by Marele Day, distinctive voices are created through the creation of voices depicted through various literary techniques. ... Day plays with this stereotype at the beginning of the novel challenging the traditional beliefs in what people assume a detective would be like: a male figure. ... Lavender's voice within the novel is omniscient, sinister, and overall threatening. ... Throughout the novel Harry is never present; his voice is always in the background, this adds to his voice becoming more threatening and dark. ... In conclu...

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The novel exposes this through Victor Frankenstein's creation, the monster, who unfortunately is not accepted due to the different characteristics he has been given from his creator. ... Isolation plays a significant role within the novel and notably affects multiple characters, but why and how does isolation impact these certain individuals? ... His family, including Elizabeth and his father, went out of their ways multiple times to communicate with him throughout the novel. ... Victor Frankenstein can be held accountable for a majority of his absences, but the creature assisted his isol...

• Word Count: 1291
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• Has Bibliography

The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Awakening by Kate Chopin's is a controversial novel full of symbolism. The meaning of each place and objects creates major symbols throughout the novel. ... The first line of the novel is about a pair of birds at the door of the summer cottage. ... She begins the novel with the image of a caged bird and throughout the story other birds and avian images appear representing freedom, failure, and choices that Edna, the story's main character, must make. ... Edna is fully dressed when first introduced; slowly over the course of the novel she remov...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The pursuit of knowledge leads to despair and corruption in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. ... As I have read through the novel, the creature begins to change as he gains knowledge. ... Now, we will take a closer look at how knowledge hurts these characters and leads to despair and corruption throughout the novel. ... Victor meets Walton in the beginning of the novel and is very sick at this time. ... This is an important spot in the novel where he is finally finished off by his horrible scientific creation. ...

• Word Count: 1506
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This grotesqueness is exhibited through odd behavior, such as self isolation, lack of communication, and becoming defined by one event in life, and is expressed in the novel's many themes and motifs. ... The themes of isolation, failure to communicate, and being defined by one event in life pervade many of the novel's stories. ... The shortest story in the novel, entitled "Tandy," epitomizes and happily concludes the themes of isolation and failure to communicate. ... The themes and motifs in Winesburg Ohio were developed by Anderson to show 20th century America the negative impac...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novels, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" and "Surfacing", we see two individuals struggling with love and relationships. ... At the beginning of the novel the narrator is content with Joe being around, however we know right from the start that she does not love him, but that he loves her... The past of the narrator is the main theme of the novel. ... As we see through the two novels, love and relationships are difficult to maintain. ...

• Word Count: 1377
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• Grade Level: High School

Jimmy also blamed himself for Kiowa's death, and as with the memories of the men alive, the guilt of their death lingered throughout the novel. ... Although it is easy to assume that Tim O"Brien is the character narrating most of the novel, the book is not autobiographical and some parts are real while others make the reader question the validity of the novel's truth. ... After returning to the States, he coped with his emotions and memories by telling his war stories, " I realize it as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story" (246).The entire novel actually focused on O"Br...

• Word Count: 1691
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

An important part of lesbianism that is portrayed in the novel by Hall is the strong magnetism felt by Stephen to have more manly mannerisms. ... Like many other lesbians in the novel, Stephen feels uncomfortable and out of place when adorned with feminine clothing or styles. ... An important point that is made for the first third of the novel is the contempt that is felt by Stephen for her long feminine hair. ... Many of the lesbians that were not feminine in novel were extremely intelligent. ...

• Word Count: 2169
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Mary Barton is about thisinnate goodness? ... Margaret, pious throughout the entire novel is ultimately rewarded for her goodness, in several ways. ... Not to say that she is lacking completely of faith, but simply that she has not lead a particularly Christian life up to this point in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1264
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, The House of the Seven Gables, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, distributes symbolism from a home that belonged to a family who prided themselves the best in the whole society. ... It was built one hundred and sixty years; according to the novel. ... "(1) The house is the very first symbol in the novel. ... It plays an important role from the beginning to the end of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, uses the theory of the six degree of separation by uniting people through a "steel cable" inside a web of tragic events that eventually leads the character to find hope for life again. ... " Inside McCann's novel, he supports this theory by giving each and one of his characters heartbreaking situations that all lead them to changes them as an individual. The novel begins with Ciaran's brother, Corrigan, and his altruistic role in society. ...

• Word Count: 1442
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

That is what The Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Golding, tries to express. Through an analysis of the character named Jack, this essay expresses how that same evil takes him over little by little as he develops mentally, physically, and emotionally throughout the novel. ... Secondly, throughout the entire novel, William Golding tried to make Jack's clothing reflect his personality. ...

• Word Count: 1590
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was written by Ken Kesey. The novel takes place in a mental institute. McMurphy is a man who tries to escape a work farm by saying he is not sane. McMurphy is sent to this mental institute to be examined. Here McMurphy is the hero who sacrifice himself in o...

• Word Count: 1329
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• Grade Level: High School

In Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, Jack Burden states, " The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man can't know. ... Examples of knowledge enslaving man are seen in the novel through the characters of Willie Stark, Adam Stanton and Jack Burden. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

William Golding's most popular novel The Lord of the Flies has become a must read for all students of English literature along with the likes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and E.M. ... The beast has absolutely zero physical aspect to it in the novel, in the beginning. ... Further down the novel, this beast somehow takes the form of Simon. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This novel is basically a microcosm for the human condition. ... This novel takes the dismal view that we are all capable of such things given the right conditions, and there is a constant battle going on in ourselves, between the two sides. ...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School