While living there Esperanza dealt with boys giving her the type of attention a girl shouldn't have at that age while some men were somewhat forceful with her. ... One character that isn't given much detail but only the name gives more evidence to how bad the neighborhood can be. ... But the uncle started giving her compliments on how beautiful she looks and that changed her mind. ... As time went by Esperanza saw the two hanging outside drinking beers and talking to strange objects such as trees and cats. ... My favorite part of this novel would have to be when she says how she ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The cyclic pattern of the narrative gives a structural framework to the story in which very little actually happens. ... 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-. ... The use of these flashbacks or anecdotes is to give more information about the Drover's wife and it creates a good characteristic of the women. ... The point of this is to give the story a bit of gentle humour. ... It also gives audiences wider perspective of Joe Wilson. ...

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

So he can convince them to give up things that are important to them. ... Rumpelstiltskin is in control of his "victims" when he offers them the deals he gives them. ... There is something vaguely familiar about stories when you lose out because you have barked up the wrong tree, or made a deal with a person that has screwed you over. ...

• Word Count: 1467
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author employs literary devices such as using the tone to enhance the meaning of the events that happen and she uses literary devices such as irony, simile and personification to give a depth to the events and dialogues of the characters that make up the story. ... It was a sweet substitute for the yet absent murmur of the summer foliage, which drowned that music about the Grange when the trees were in leaf......

• Word Count: 2278
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After having come back from returning the rope, with the rope still there, violence may give way to a beautiful, romantic atmosphere "...the smell of broiled steak floated nose-high in the cooling air. ... At the very end of the story the atmosphere is quite charming: "...There was a whip-poor-will still coming back, imagine clear out of season, sitting in the crab-apple tree calling all by himself" (p. 92). ...

• Word Count: 1958
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Thin and cranky music from the carrousel easing through the sparsely planted trees down toward the shore. ... Sometime after they both are in New York again, a girl named Sheila gives a reunion party in her parents' apartment. ...

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