Each person in life faces different adversities they must struggle to overcome, from these obstacles the person and those around will, ideally, take with them a lesson and learn from the experience. Daniel Defoe's novel Moll Flanders seems to lie out an instruction manual on life for readers and evidence of this can be found in a close reading of selected passages through out the book. ... Moll realizes this before she gets very into the lifestyle that she leads later on in the novel. ... Life is filled with lessons at every turn and Moll lived a life filled with struggle after struggle...

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• Approx Pages: 3

Life is a gift revealed in this novel that evokes many emotional tears and lots of laughter. ... The novel ends with a surprise gift to that family. ... The second gift in the novel is that of Maribeth, who comes to town and helps bring Tommy back to his normal life. ... Throughout the story, Maribeth tells Tommy that some people are only here for short periods of time, to help other people and to teach them lessons. The entire novel stresses this point and makes the reader believer that it is true in life as well as in fiction. ...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the novel many factors play into restricting Jane from freedom, but with her strong integrity and sense of justice she finds the freedom she yearns for. ... Jane's life takes a turn for the better when she's sent away to school. ... Perhaps this is the most important lesson that Helen teaches: to always maintain self control and be try to be the bigger person. ... Jane doesn't want to have that restriction in her life and wants to be with someone when they can be free together. ... However, when she is sent away to school at Lowood she finds a sense of justice with th...

• Word Count: 996
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

These are only a few of the words that describe the novel Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns. ... Everyone learns that nothing can stay the same forever and they must accept aht and keep living life. The motif of change runs through this novel. ... (pg.348) Rucker wasn't the only one with these feelings. ... Rucker began holding a drawing and the person's name that was drawn got a driving lesson from Will....

• Word Count: 618
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"This is a novel about love in all its forms." What does Paul learn about love from his various relationships in the novel? ... One of the ways Paul learns "about love in all its forms" is through his relationships with his parents and their relationship with each other. ... He realised how the lessons on love and life that Keller had taught him had influenced him and how much more he could have learnt from the man that had so much to offer. ... From teenage years with his parents and maestro to marriage with Rosie and their child, he became who he was because of love and relationships....

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It seems that in the later portion of the novel, Angel and Alec exchange roles. ... Hardy adds even more guilt (Herman 76) and confusion to Tess's life that she finds hard to handle when confronted with this "monster" from her past. ... In the beginning, Angel seems to be a part of the novel exclusively to end Tess's suffering. ... With several life lessons learned from her tragic encounter with Alec, Tess is reluctant to fall truly give of herself to Angel, but she realizes to give herself up, is to receive love. ... Her life's foundation begins to crumble when she tells Angel ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

He lives in a run down farm with his wife Zeena who thinks that she is sick. ... This novel is quite similar to "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathanial Hawthorne. ... Ethan fell in love with her having another relationship while he was married. ... Ethan wanted to spend the rest of his life with Mattie, and he got his wish only it included Zeena. ... While fictional it seems so real, and the books can teach important lessons to the readers....

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. Janie is raised by her Grandmother and spends her life traveling with different men until she finally returns home. ... She has learned two life lessons – that people must go out and live their lives (not simply stay home and gossip) and that they must find God for themselves. The novel ends with Janie coming to terms with Tea Cake...

• Word Count: 1360
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Because of Helen's Christian lessons of endurance, forgiveness, and meekness, Jane accepted her situation at Lowood and made progress in both her studies and her character. ... Jane remarks, "A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play... She finally finds some direction in her life and acts on it. After accepting a job as a governess for a little French girl, she journeyed to Thornfield Hall with excitement about her "new duties" and her "new life". ... Jane's struggle for a contented life brought her to many places with new obstacles to overcome, but her str...

• Word Count: 803
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Regaining one's loss of identity is important for the characters within both novels to undergo. ... This violent event had a detrimental effect on his family's honor, especially his father's pride, which the protagonist valued with his life. ... In this case, our protagonist's identity is connected and linked with his job and the most important person in his life, his wife Sihem. ... He has spent most of his life with her in the form of husband and wife which entitled keeping her happy until death due them apart. ... In the beginning of the novel, the surgeon is busy with h...

• Word Count: 2550
• Approx Pages: 10

Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. ... Once you read the novel, you can not forget Jane's strong personal character. ... From her leave from Gateshed Hall to the end of the novel, Jane's experience can be divided into three parts. ... (P245) This paragraph, I think, is one of the most wonderful parts of the novel. ... I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence- Life is great if you don't weaken. ...

• Word Count: 3066
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim's sister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. ... This discovery prompts Maxim to tell the heroine the truth: Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who lived a secret life and carried on multiple affairs, including one with her cousin, Jack Favell. ... Characters The Heroine - The novel's protagonist and narrator; we never learn her given name. A shy, self-conscious young woman from a lower-middle class background, she begins the novel as a paid companion to Mrs. ... Rebecca - In li...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

We will see how Willie, an outsider from Putney Wayne with no education and no money, is the one with the greatest amount of character and morality. ... Even Roxanne's love interest Xavier, a successful black businessman, becomes frightened at the thought of falling in love with a black woman, calling it "one of the most terrifying experiences of his life (Naylor 97). ... (Naylor 137) The entire motivation for aligning with them is purely financial. ... Nedeed's own neighborhood stands by and watches out their windows as his house burns with him inside. ... Whatever doubt Willie h...

• Word Count: 2802
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With the struggle of trying to organize a major life decisions, it's often difficult for a couple to maintain a family-life balance. ... "Gone Girl" is a dramatic film that was created after the novel written by Gillian Flynn. ... At the end of the film, Amy decides to come home and continues to play mind games with Nick. ... This typical romantic comedy ends in a positive way with a big wedding, but left me relating to Toula's overbearing family. ... While this ideal isn't intended to be a negative, it's obstructing Toula's efforts in using the life course a...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate