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. ... This is the peak of spiritual awakening for Bub, and when he mentions, "I thought it was something I had to do" (163), it is made obvious to the reade...

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

The Member of the Wedding, written by Carson McCullers, is a coming-of-age novel. It was written in 1946 in the southern part of the United States. It describes the adolescence and struggles of becoming a woman for a young girl named Frankie Addams. Carson McCullers wrote her first novel when ...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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

Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today. ...

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

The short story "Desiree's Baby-, by Kate Chopin, incorporates very interesting twists and turns capturing the reader's attention, while provoking thoughts on issues deeper than the text itself. Kate Chopin depicts the ignorance and the stupidity of racism and chauvinism in a realistic way. These ...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ...

• Word Count: 2447
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography