Fate plays a large part in the events that unfold in her tale and this is what gives the story its intended impact. ... The story begins with a neutral gaze, giving no indication of the authors' gender or sexuality. ... But although we are not left with a happy ending, we are left with a little bit of hope, that one day he will return and waiting there will be a note. A note of love and of opportunity. A note that will lead him to his love, and ultimately his universe. ...

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

This piece of literature exhibits the time period's life style and significance by giving the readers a feel of what would be of importance to a typical family in relation to the time period. ... In contrast, Fyodor Dostoevesky's modern novel, Notes from the Underground, portrays the feeling of every man being on his own. ... This is illustrated throughout the works of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich, and Dostoevesky's Notes From the Underground. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Under...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the story, O'Connor notes that she is always wearing a dress or a skirt so people in public would know she was a woman. ... Some readers may also feel that the misfit's actions are justified due to the fact that it did give her the punishment she deserved. ...

• Word Count: 1261
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

To create the illusion that his characters do exist out of the novel McEwan wrote three endings to "Enduring Love", giving evidence of their continued existence. ... There are many similarities between the final chapter and the first chapter, but the important difference, is the first chapter ends on a dark, pessimistic note, while the final chapter ends optimistically. ...

• Word Count: 1500
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Extraordinarily, O"Connor goes on to give the reader more insight as to what will happen in the future when the grandmother says, "Look at the graveyard that was the old family burying ground. ... Instead of abandoning her values for fear that the ending was too strong, O"Connor opted to give the reader an "out", so to speak, by providing a general map of events that will transpire through foreshadowing, so that one could decide whether or not to continue reading. O"Connor later, after noting that some faint-hearted readers found the ending too brutal, defended it in this way: "If I took o...

• Word Count: 2114
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Next, it is essential to note that the original story was written in Spanish and translated to English. ... To give example for statements: At the very beginning of the book, he asks that "how many people must there be in the world who run away from others in fright because they can't see themselves?"... In many occasions he tries to give reasons why he commits a crime. ...

• Word Count: 1655
• Approx Pages: 7

A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... Dally helps them by giving them some money, a gun, and a place to hide. ... "Hinton's fire-engine pace does not give the reader much time to manufacture doubts. ...

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

He may inference that Douglas has altered the original manuscript "in old faded ink and in the most beautiful hand", or that the narrator in "the Prologue" is not telling the truth when explaining: "let me say here distinctly, to have done with it, that this narrative, from an exact transcript of my own made much later, is what I shall presently give". ... On the one hand, Douglas adds verisimilitude by giving more details about the characters and, on the other hand, he subverts the perception: "it appeared that the narrative he had promised to read us really required for a proper intelligence...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8

Personification heightens a reader's emotional response to what is being described by giving it human qualities and therefore human significance. ... Note that the connection between sound and pronunciation is sometimes rather a product of imagination and also that written language retains an aural quality, so that even unspoken your writing has a sound to it. ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This intrigues the reader giving them a notion that the calmness of the night will not last for long. ... Lord Sannox says "I had long intended to make a little example, your note of Wednesday miscarried, and I have it here in my pocket-book. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Sometime after they both are in New York again, a girl named Sheila gives a reunion party in her parents' apartment. ... It is important to note that fairly early in the story, the narrator makes the following statement "of course this is a summer romance, but bear with me and see with what banal literary irony it all turns out or does not turn out at all." ...

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