Rose Pickles and Quick Lamb have found fulfillment in their l, for they "shout exultant into each other's mouths". This love they have found in each other is expressed in the library. ... Thus, Winton uses the library as a powerful symbol to affirm the importance of love in life as it helps Quick and Rose find fulfillment in each other. ... This is because as Fish's physical self became separated from his spiritual self in water, this reunion must also occur in water, at the river. ... The Christian spirituality in the novel can be seen in how when Quick picks up an Aboriginal man...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

I beat grandma on the stick side with a little rubber ball and a souvenir hockey stick she'd gotten at a Chicago Blackhawks game. ... We'd all be sitting around at my grandparents' farm on the Nith River, about twenty minutes outside Brantford, watching 'Hockey Night in Canada.' ... I remember after watching a game against the Everett Silver-tips my grandpa got me a souvenir wooden hockey stick with the Chiefs' logo on the side. ... Figure this one out: You can accidentally high-stick a guy and get thrown out of the game, but two guys can stand there and beat each...

• Word Count: 1402
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The eldest of eight children, Campbell grew up in Spring River, Saskatchewan along with her large family in the mid-nineteen hundreds. ... Although of mixed blood on both sides, Campbell emphasizes her connection with her Metis heritage. ... Campbell's great grandmother on her father's side, known as Cheechum was arguably the most influential person in Campbell's life. ... Her father, like many other Metis activists became deeply disappointed. ... We had always been poor, but we'd have love and laughter and warmth to share with each other. ...

• Word Count: 1391
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This holds true for both sides. ... Despite their uneasy relationships they do love each other and help each other in times of need. ... In other words Family members may not be as friendly or as loving. ... Longing to be returned to it, to be reunited with his spiritual side. However his family is reluctant to let Fish near the river. ...

• Word Count: 1583
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The upper class received an education that included writing, geography, math, and other skills. ... When children were placed in other families, they were cared for as members of that family. ... While the group was isolated in the Delaware River Valley, they had considerable influence in the government of Pennsylvania from 1681 to the 1750s. ... The hardship and devastation that was wrought throughout the country changed everyone no matter which side they were on. ... They endured the loss of family and kin, watched human kinds cruel nature improve, but stayed and supported the cause on bo...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Tom reassures his mother that he is not like the other people who find that prison is a horrible insult. ... In this chapter, the Joad's have travelled for a day and decided to camp on the side of the road when they meet the Wilson's, whose car has broke down. ... Noah decides to stay behind and says that he will make a living off of fish from the river and his absence will not affect them. ... Migrants govern themselves, which avoids the cruelty of the policemen in the other towns. ... But other than that, I enjoyed it....

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His head was turned to the side and there was blood pouring from his mouth, encircling his head like a halo. ... The downstairs neighbor reported seeing our house guest and a few other men moving all of our belongings into a truck and driving off, so much for trust. Within the same year, I was walking down the street by the Hudson River. ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

A lifestyle of severe poverty that was not fit for man or any other living thing. ... His mother needing help and other people looking down on him for being a beggar would give Frank an added push to strive for more. ... At one very low point in the story Angela is forced to go to the doorstep of a priest and beg for his leftover food with several other ladies. ... As he discovered new things about himself that he liked and other things that he was doing wrong and would according to the church be doomed for he started to care less and less, and his "eventual liberation from the confines of cat...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School