Category: Literature

  • Pablo Saler

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    The exasperating leader of the guerilla band who has a radical point of view on killing people. He is an aging and selfish man of great courage who is greatly influenced by the war. In many ways, he is the most intriguing and complex character in the story. In fact, the hero accepts killing, and…

  • War and Peace Summary

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    The epic story by Leo Tolstoy describes the times when Napoleon started his conquest in Russia, but, justifying the name of the book, the first scene we see is a lavish party in Sankt-Petersburg. The party is held by Anna Pavlovna and is dedicated to her name-day. We see all the major characters coming to…

  • The Outsiders Study Guide

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    The Outsiders Study Guide Author: S.E. Hinton Original title: The Outsiders Characters: Ponyboy Curtis, Darrel “Darry” Curtis, Dallas “Dally” Winston, Johnny Cade, Sherri “Cherry” Valance, Steve Randel, Sandy Published: Published September 1st 1988 by Puffin Books (first published 1967) ISBN 014038572X (ISBN13: 9780140385724) Susan Eloine Hinton started writing early. At the age of fifteen she…

  • Okonkwo

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    Okonkwo is very proud, ambitious, and ill-tempered man. In this book, he is a tragic hero. He has a role of the leader in a clan called Umuofia. How did he get such an honorable status? Since early childhood, he fights with his laziness; he worked very hard to gain his goals and not to…

  • Persepolis Summary

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    The story opens with young Marji in the year 1980, having to wear the veil to school like any other student. Even though her parents were quite modern and secular, they still believed in the leadership of the Shah of Iran until he established the fundamentalist practice of Islamization of Iran by rejecting the ways…

  • Lori Walls

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    She is the oldest child of the family but isn’t the one who dominates. She’s closer to her mother, Rose Mary, as she shares her interests in art. Lori is particularly intelligent and loves reading fantasy novels as a form of escape. She often sympathizes with Mom while blaming Dad for the family’s problems. The…

  • Tom Robinson

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    A black man who was accused of raping a white woman. His descriptions and words leave no doubts to the reader that he is innocent. Atticus Finch decides to defend him and this is the reason why Finch’s family gets terrible treatment from the town’s inhabitants. During the trial process Tom has to go through…

  • Philosophy

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    Voltaire is known for his philosophy of freedom at the time of Enlightenment and pluralistic thinking. Being a strong adversary of official Catholicism, he’d advocate for human rights and encourage people to open their minds to the wind of political, philosophical, and social changes…

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles Study Guide

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles Study Guide Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Original title: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle is one of his most famous – or maybe the most famous – novels about Sherlock Holmes. The case of the mysterious Hound inspired many movie directors to…

  • Civil Rights

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    Frederick Douglass is a well-known name in the history of American abolitionist movement. Through his autobiographical texts, he let the world see the reality of slavery that others wished to believe was fictional. He was the first African American to occupy a respected position among civil…