Schwartz, also entitled Cathedral, project a sense of contradiction in their illustration of a man's spiritual ignorance and eventual spiritual awakening. ... In the short story, Carver describes Bub's moment of spiritual awakening very intensely and also brings a strong sense of appreciation from Bub. ... The spark for Bub's spiritual awakening is caused by Robert, and this is obvious in both the short story and the video. ... The characters are very similar and the plot is the same. The difference is that the plot thickened more in the short story. ...

• Word Count: 1465
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Miller does an incredible job in making Biff's awakening such an exciting portion of the novel. ... Told separately, these memories would still be important, however, by interlacing the developing plot, with the previously occurred events, Miller makes these memories twice as suspenseful and twice as climactic as they ever could have been standing alone. ... Finally, in an awakening unparalleled in the rest of the work, Biff erupts, standing up and accepting that both he and his father are "a dime a dozen-, and that his entire family is living in a surrealistic dream world. ... Through...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4

The character Hartright, in The Woman in White, begins the journey along the path of the plot, yet is of a secondary nature to the plot itself. Mary Barton is not as dependent on plot as it is on theme. ... There are two types of plot structure which we can distinguish between - loose plot and organic plot. ... The plot of The Woman in White is highly complex. ... The second epoch displays the awakening of the sisters to their repression, and ". . . rising in resistance, and with new maturity and independence, rejecting the plot that imprisons them" ( Thoms 66). ...

• Word Count: 1673
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School