The first book I choose was an article written in the book Ceremony and Ritual in Japan by D.P. ... Tylor and James Frazer would call animism. ... Even though most of the young women in a village are considered strangers, because they usually marry outside of their own village, they first become part of the village through the Shinto traditions and rituals that take place both in and outside the home. The majority of rituals that take place inside the home, such as daily prayers and offerings to the kami are performed by women and mainly acted out in the kitchen (Martinez 189). ... If yo...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography

The heroine who remains nameless, lives in Europe with her husband, Maxim de Winter traveling from hotel to hotel, harboring memories of a beautiful home called Manderley, which, we learn, has been destroyed by fire. ... He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. ... She despises the heroine for taking her mistress's place. ... Danvers, and a man called Favell, and wonders where they are now. ... At the end of the drive, the heroine notices a book of poetry in the car, and he insists upon giving it to her. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. ... Calude's two main goals in this book are his quest for achievement and his quest for sexual fulfillment. ... Claude chooses the wrong women in order to help him gain acceptance from his family and Cather does a good job of taking all of the women in Claude's life and placing them into two distinct categories: safe and dangerous women. ... Claude "wished he could do something to help that boy; help him get away from the doctor who was writing a book about him, and the...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Both females had large families, lived in ghetto neighborhoods and were deprived of a "real home.... While at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Cisneros felt out of place and did not like the work of her peers so she resorted to developing her own style. ... By allowing Esperanza to be her spokeswoman who asked questions and called attention to issues Cisneros could not express herself, Esperanza was ultimately operating as a fictional substitute for Cisneros. ... You stay at home. ...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Clarissa returns home to the small attic room she is secluded and lonely. ... Clarissa is analysed in terms of her life, personality, and thought process throughout the book by the author and other characters. ... Clarissa enjoys the moment-to-moment aspect of life and believes that a piece of her remains in every place she has visited. ... The world is a very scary and dangerous place for Septimus: "The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames" (P. 18.) ... Holmes pushes into his home to see him, Septimus throws himself out the window to his death. ...

• Word Count: 2609
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Again using pauses created by punctuation (comas and dashes) the lines of the stanza produces the sensation of the act taking place, a hand moving in and out. ... The sound of the word causes the reader to envision and feel what has taken place in the metaphor "splits the green girlwood of her body". ... The break in the rhythm forces you to halt then breathe and absorb what has taken place and ponder that he now is too old - an implication of victory. ... Her father who " is the king in his own castle" which according cultural status quo gave him sanction to do whatever he wanted in his h...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pekarik stated in his book that the affairs with Fujitsubo and Rokujō were the "two most improper loves in Genji's life- (220). ... When his father learned of his son's affair with Lady Rokujō (called Lady because of her social status), he was very displeased with his son. ... This dwelling was a place that his "live-in- lovers dwelled in. They shared this place equally and according to Pekarik there were no signs of jealousy between them. ...

• Word Count: 2745
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School