Roddy Doyle presents Paddy's childhood, as being fun because of what he gets up to with his friends, but he also shows it is a life with difficulties mainly caused by his family. ... Paddy's friends seem important to him because in every extract he seems to be with them or thinking about them. ... The novel starts with Paddy talking to his friends as a young boy. He doesn't start the novel with Paddy looking back on his life from the day he was born as Charles Dickens does in David Copperfield. ... This is because Doyle uses simplistic language and short sentences helping to cr...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Part two starts with Meursault being interrogated by a police official. ... It is important to note that the focus of the trial was on Meursault's character rather than the crime committed, and he is sentenced to death because he does not "play the game,"" or, in other words, not conform to society's beliefs. ... The novel ends with Meursault's great epiphany. After reflecting upon the situation that he is in, he accepts his death sentence. ... He lives his life for the moment, and he accepts the moment of his death, because during his life, he lived his live by his own valu...

• Word Count: 1699
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

After the death of her child she does not become pessimistic but she wants to start her new life with optimism as if the death of the child meant the end of her sorrow. ... In the hope of starting her new life she sets out and she gets to Talbothays where she meets her second love Angel Clare. ... He helps them and Tess agrees to live with him. ... She is arrested here by the police and sentenced to death. Tess has a tragic end because she accepts her fate. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A single subject- catching fish is dealt with. ... It is obvious that the opening sentence here is terse and direct. ... To him, a new day is a new start. ... He returns home exhausted, bloody, stripped of gear, and even poorer than when he started out. ... In his opinion, he loses the game because of violating the limit of nature. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Hinton started her writing career at the early age of sixteen. ... This novel suggests the stories' content because the Greasers are a gang of social outcasts and misfits. ... The Socs start to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. ... I agree with the last sentence. ... However, I do not agree with the statement that the story was written with self-indulgence. ...

• Word Count: 1477
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

At the start of the novel, Silas Marner is a valuable member of the community in a village called Lantern Yard. ... He uses long sentences and descriptive language such as far away among the lanes' or deep in the bosom of the hills', to create a relaxed scene and a slow pace for the reader. ... In this way the author creates a sense of pity which draws the reader into the novel as they begin to empathise with Silas because he is so hurt and lost. ... In his distress, Silas is crazed by the loss of his gold and this changes the attitudes of the villagers as they react with caring co...

• Word Count: 2184
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

For example, "Needful Things" starts and ends by us, the readers being addressed by an elderly man, "You've been her before. ... While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... but it is also an acknowledgment by King of his fans, because we have been there before. ... To alter that sentence and its meaning slightly, most people who read do so to escape. ... Reading a King novel, we know we are on the "right" side, because we are on the side of the author. ...

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

The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". ... We are joined, we are one, with a huma...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

True to its roots as a Gothic novel, the atmosphere of The House of the Seven Gables broods with ambiguity and fear, with this uncertainty culminating in moments of heightened suspense. In these moments, author Nathaniel Hawthorne breeds tension with a terse syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. ... A major discovery is reduced to a single sentence-four simply constructed clauses, containing naught but a subject-predicate replication of the most essential action. ... Having laid the foundation of imperfect, indi...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate