Craig Silvey has constructed Charlie in a way that allows us to grasp a deeper understanding on issues that happen in society from 1965 and relate them to our current issues. Silvey has portrayed the characters to show the bigger picture in our great society. ... Jasper is an Indigenous half-cast who is seen as the outsider of town. ... Jaspers character shows self-reliance, independence and maturity as he deals with the discrimination of the town. ... There are no strong women presented in the novel this is because the town is based around dominant males. ...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

THE SETTING AND SYMBOLS IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE The setting place of this novel is Casterbridge (England), a fictional town based on the city of Dorchester. ... At this extent, the town does have some features, which are important to the novel. ... With this kind of impression in our mind, we even can foresee the struggles between Henchard and Farfrae. ... He runs the town by traditional customs. ... For example, the reappearance of one long-lost character would test our willingness to believe, but here we witness the returns of Susan, the furmity-woman, and Newson, each of them br...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Dunstan's home changes from a peaceful town of Deptford into the violent and killing fields of World War two. "It was called Deptford and lay on the Thames River about fifteen miles east of Pittstown, our county town and nearest big place. ... "This was fighting we lived in trenches, in dung-coloured mud into which dung and every filthiness had been trodden, in our dung-coloured uniforms; we were cold, badly fed, and lousy." ... Joel Surgeoner, the atheastic tramp who had an intimat encounter with Mary Dempster at the town's "pit" changed his way of life and became a servant of Go...

• Word Count: 1556
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

First, it immediately intrigues the reader and stimulates our interest (where have we been before? ... Taking this to its logical conclusion, we want to escape from our own humble lives to a place where heroes and heroines still thrive. ... There is no real "good and evil" scenario in our world, there are only perspectives. In King's imagined world, in his little, sleepy Maine towns and in particular in "Castlerock" (a fictional town in which many of his books are set), there is almost always a good and a bad. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

We first meet the families in two small towns in Western Australia, the Lambs in Margaret River and the Pickles in Geraldton. This acknowledgement of these towns appeals to Australian readers as they are able to relate to them, as they are places they know. " through Nedlands, Shenton Park, and Subiaco." ... "We do it for our family Quick- Rose Pickle is forced to take on the role of a mother after her own Mother, Dolly abandons the family for alcohol. ... As we read the text our gained knowledge of each family confirms our views that they are real Australians. ... We see our mothers as the...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However, sometimes those events, which we often dream about, result in a complete destruction of our lives and personalities. Sometimes, the gifts of fate have devastating effect on our families, friends and other people we know. ... Main Characters Hank Mitchell - The main character of the novel who lives in a small town of Delphia, 30 miles east of Asheville, Minnesota. ... Jacob rents a small apartment above the hardware store in the town where he was born. ...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Quentin then goes on to think that God let them lose the War because, "only through the blood of our men and tears of our women could He stay the demon and efface his name and lineage from this earth," (11). ... Thomas was very devious and was not liked by the town. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"William Faulkner's outrageous story of the Bundren family is undoubtedly one of his most complex and enigmatic novels; complex because beneath the surface narrative of a grotesque journey, we are terrifying depths of human significance; enigmatic, because we never seem to be certain in what sense the novels control our responses," states Jan Bakker. ... According to Jan Bakker, "Only Anse, the husband, has profited, and the irony here is in line with the irony of life, which does not concern itself with equity but distributes rewards or punishments regardless of our moral, or lack of mor...

• Word Count: 1548
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

But isn't that exactly how our lives are today? ... This book is much like our lives, like I said before, many would find it boring because its just reading their life, however I found it intriguing because we find ourselves everyday asking why does this happen to me, when actually it happens to everyone. ... This young woman is the love interest of every man in the town. ... "Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came Down in the hollow, Playin' a new game, Laughing and a running hey, hey Skipping and a jumping In the misty morning fog with Our hearts a thumpin' and you My...

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

Many of the standards developed by the upper or middle-class were based greatly on religion "as religion and thrashing are the only remedies for a depraved nature and our immoral souls must be considered" (28). ... Kinnear's remained white; "An indication perhaps of the town's judgment upon her" (464). ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School