Initially, the connection that indigenous people have with the natural world gives them peace and satisfaction. ... Weller describes 'Grotesque trees twist[ing] in the half-light. ... It also displays Billy's tortured and conflicted feelings upon returning, however he also appears intimidated as he " cannot understand these trees.... The film shows whole and functional people who are in harmony with nature, whereas Weller gives readers a picture of a people still struggling to retain their connection to the natural world. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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

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

Not only do stories take us readers on a journey, they're written to entertain and instruct, to give us a vision, to teach us a life lesson somehow, and tell the truth from the natural world. ... The tree like shaped monster shows up to his bedroom at 12:07 every night and insists on telling Conor three different stories with the fourth one being up to him to tell. ... On page 208 it says "A moan started in his throat, a moan that rose into a cry and then a loud wordless yell and he opened his mouth and the fire came blazing out, blazing out to consume everything, bursting over the b...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On the other side of the cafe` is a fruitful plain, green and full trees. ... Jig hopes that this beaded curtain will give her moral and religious courage... The man is asking the woman to give up everything for him while he gives up nothing. ...

• Word Count: 1632
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MA. KATHRINA TERESA T. ALCALDE AUGUST 7, 2003 ENG2 - W THE PRICE OF BEING A WOMAN Clock ticks. Time passes. Different generations of life begin. And yet a "contagious disease" had not been treated. From the earliest tradition of the anc...

• Word Count: 1423
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The performance included the actors retelling the story while giving the audience entertainment with live action. ... This included the feathered creatures, trees, the remains of the verdure of the region, and the waterways, all depicted in lovely detail. ... His essential objective in doing so is to keep his hosts content so they will give him a chance to stay in the home and feed him. ...

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On the inverse range, the poem "The Mending Wall" gives a fabulous case of a custom that should be kept, regardless of the fact that it is not totally obvious upon first look why it ought to. ... My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines" (Frost 24-26). ...

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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

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