Category: Literature

  • Mr. Van Daan

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    Mr. Van Daan is a head of the family which is hiding in the annex with the Franks. Previously, he worked with Otto Frank in Amsterdam. Anne calls him Mr. Van Daan. Analyzing her description, he is responsible, strict, frank, and sometimes egotistical. He wants to keep more food to himself instead of giving it…

  • Richard III Summary

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    III, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that surrounds the setting of a long civil war period. Richard who is the Duke of Gloucester is unhappy about his current position. He informs his audience that Edward had became king of England after a civil war session between the Yorks and Lancasters. Despite the fact…

  • Maman

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    This character is Mersault’s mother. He told that she was not very smart, but she knows a lot. Also, she was kind-hearted. The story of Mersault’s mother death opens the novel. They lived together for a long time until Mersault had money to afford care about Maman. Also sometimes he tells that they didn’t have…

  • Wainwright

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    We can’t say much about this character, as he isn’t dynamic or changing his role, attitudes, desires or aims during the text. In this text, Wainwright is described as a strong leader of the Freedom League. What is that? It is a religiously based group; their main aim is to oppose opposes Earth’s domination by…

  • John Reed

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    Well, at the beginning of the novel we can think that John, Eliza, Georgina are just kids who don’t understand what they do. At least John, being the eldest, knows for sure what he’s doing, that he is beating Jane for no reason. He was cruel, spoiled, and ‘mamma’s darling”. Of course, life doesn’t spare…

  • The Knight

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    In the preface to the Canterbury Tales, Jeffrey Chaucer describes each figure traveling on a pilgrimage to the Canterbury Cathedral to pay homage to the sanctuary of Thomas Beckett. Using direct characterization, the character description method, directly indicating their character traits, Chaucer leads readers to different types of people who were typical of medieval society.…

  • Jem Finch

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    Jeremy (Jem) Finch is one of the central characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. He is a boy aged from 10 to 13, the brother of the book’s protagonist Jean Louise (Scout). He is described in the novel from his sister’s point of view. The book follows his evolution from a child…

  • The Little Prince Study Guide

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    The Little Prince Study Guide Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Original title: Le Petit Prince Characters: The Little Prince, The Rose, The Narrator (The Aviator), The Fox Published: June 29th 2000 by Harcourt, Inc. (first published April 6th 1943) ISBN 0156012197 (ISBN13: 9780156012195) How many times have you heard people say they would only learn French…

  • As I Lay Dying Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    While I waited for him in the woods, waiting for him before he saw me, I would think of him as dressed in sin. I would think of him as thinking of me as dressed also in sin, he the more beautiful since the garment which he had exchanged for sin was sanctified. I would…

  • Black Boy Study Guide

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    Black Boy Study Guide Author: Richard Wright Original title: Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood Richard Nathaniel Wright is one of the most famous African American writers of the mid-20th century. He became the first black-skinned writer whose books were read by all of America. “Black Boy” is an autobiographical novel, which tells…