Category: Literature
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The Last of the Mohicans Study Guide
The Last of the Mohicans Study Guide Author: James Fenimore Cooper Original title: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 Characters: Chingachgook, Magua, Uncas, Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Major Duncan Heyward, General Marquis de Montcalm, Hawkeye, Col. Edmund Munro, Tamanend “The Last of the Mohicans” is one part of a number of historical…
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Ilsa Hermann
Ilsa is the mayor’s wife. Ilsa is a well-educated woman, and she even has her library which was a very rare thing in that period. Her son Johann froze to death in the final year of the World War I. Ilsa likes Liesel: when she saw how Liesel stole a book from the fire, she…
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Ethan Frome Summary
The story of Ethan Frome starts off as a narrative from the perspective of an engineer who remains nameless throughout the story and portrays his feelings throughout the timeline. The events start 20 years prior to the main story of the character Ethan Frome and give an insight of the knowledge of the 20 years…
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Fahrenheit 451 Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Fahrenheit 451: Guy Montag And People Who Influenced Him Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the future in a time where such ridiculous things as reading books, driving slowly, and walking outside are prohibited and the job of firemen involves burning books. The main character, Guy Montag, is one of the many firemen and he expects…
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King Lear Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! King Lear 2 Prev123
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Macbeth Essays – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
Macbeth, a Play Full of Darkness Macbeth is a play full of darkness, evil, and tragedy. It is the story of a man who goes against his conscience and commits a horrible deed which leads to his destruction and loss of everything he has around him. This includes the relationship he has with his wife,…
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Kindred Study Guide
Kindred Study Guide Author: Octavia E. Butler Original title: Kindred Characters: Dana (Edana) Franklin , Kevin Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Alice Jackson (Greenwood) , Sarah, Tom Weylin , Margaret Weylin , Nigel , Carrie , Alice’s mother The novel “Kindred” was written by Octavia Butler in 1979. It is one of the few slave narratives written…
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Death of a Salesman Summary
The main character of the story is sixty-year-old salesman Willy Loman. We hear the serene flute melody at the start of the play and see him returning to his home with two large suitcases. Loman’s house is small and old, with the tiny garden, squeezed between modern skyscrapers in New York. Willy is exhausted and…
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When I get out of here, if The Handmaid’s Tale
When I get out of here, if I’m ever able to set this down, in any form, even in the form of one voice to another, it will be a reconstruction then too, at yet another remove. It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be…
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Turnus
Turnus was the King of the Rutuli in Roman mythology. The chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas., killed by him in a duel after stubborn battles. The central figures of the second part of the Aeneid are Aeneas and the king of the Rutuli of Turnus. Both images are positive, both of them are valiant…