The young boy and Rebecca meet at a cottage, where there is a group of eight or nine people. ... She is a Jewish girl from the exotic Bronx and, to the boy, this "vast borough seems a Cythera." ... The boy thinks of The Bronx as a Cythera, since it can "house such fantastic creatures as Rebecca. ... Since they come from different backgrounds, and given the setting of the story, the love between the boy and Rebecca is certain to fail from the very beginning. ... The word "trapped " suggests that they are restricted by the setting, as it has been explained above. ...

• Word Count: 2096
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The young boy, Tommy, seeing how drained and distressed his mother is, with a burst of insight exclaims "Mother, I won't never go droving; blast me if I do!" ... In the setting of The Drover's Wife, the reader's attention is obtained through the use of adjectives such as "stunted, rotten apple trees- and "big, black, yellow-eyed dog-. ... In The Loaded Dog, he describes the setting of the story in great detail. ... In The Loaded Dog, Henry Lawson describes the settings of the story by direct, detailed description. The settings are developed throughout the story. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The prose fiction "Catcher in the Rye", explores an inner conflict, of a boy, "Holden Caulfield", and his journey from his school to his home. ... These two put together is like putting diamond to black velvet, the black under the white diamond intensifies the whiteness of the diamond. Similarly to Salinger who explains the inner tumoral and despairs of his fictional character, Holden, Frances Echin explores the conflict experienced by an Asian boy and one of his opponents who is also the narrator, in the short story "Tri". In this short story, initially the main conflict focus on an Asian ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7

The choice of French names and words reminds the reader of the stories' setting and helps create an irony that is echoed throughout the text. ... She no doubt saw mixed ancestry in the black communities and realized the cause of it. ... This would also mean certain social destruction for Desiree having given birth to a black child. ... One of La Blanche's quadroon boys was near the baby when Desiree noticed the resemblance of the skin color between the boy and her baby. ... The quadroon boy is one quarter Negro ancestry and so his mother La Blanch is also of mixed ancestry. ...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

Looking at the characters in the novel that represent the idea of "good-, one can see that the actions of each boy are directly related to the name that Golding assigned them. ... He is described by Golding as a skinny little boy with black hair and is slightly younger than Ralph is. ... Piggy is a heavyset boy with asthma and bad sight. ... It is almost sad to see the little children playing on the beach all day and crying all night, and then seeing the older boys, who are not really that much older, murdering other people and setting fire to the island. ...

• Word Count: 1386
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The main mention to costume in the books was the man in black, who ironically proved to be the opposite of what his dark clothes and mask suggested. Similarly, props and setting play a much greater part in the film than in the book, close attention being paid to ensure the rural village is idyllic and the castle magnificent. Where in a book the imagination provides the information that is left out, each responder creating their own image of each setting, in a movie it is essential to design each individual element to create the right impression. ... Where many of the props, such as the Rod...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate