Category: Literature

  • Literature & Fiction

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    Toni Morrison is a famous American prose writer, Editor-in-Chief, Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, also well-known as the conscience of America. She was born in February 18, 1931, in Lorraine, Ohio. In adolescence she adopted Catholicism, and with it, the name Anthony – the…

  • Dr. Bledsoe

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    The president of the protagonist’s college, Dr. Bledsoe firstly appears as a man with highly humanistic ideas and conceptions. He serves as an example for the narrator. With the flow of time, the protagonist finds out that Dr. Bledsoe views are dramatically ambiguous. At the first part of the story, Dr. Bledsoe appears to be…

  • The Alchemist Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.”Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams. The Alchemist…

  • Romeo and Juliet Essays

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    Cyrano de Bergerac vs Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scenes Balcony Scene Comparison Shakespeare and Rostand employ unique writing methods in order to show the battle the characters in each of their plays, Romeo and Juliet and Cyrano de Bergerac partake in to express their true feelings for one another. Each play utilizes the motifs and…

  • William Bankes

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    William Bankes is a friend of Mr. Ramsay; he stays on the Island of Skye as he was invited. William is a botanist by profession. This character is a widower at the age of sixty. Mrs. Ramsay tries to find a woman for him and wants him to marry Lily Briscoe. However, they remain close…

  • The Cask of Amontillado Summary

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    The narrator, whose name is Montresor, starts his story by stating that he suffered a thousand offenses from his acquaintance, Fortunato, but the last one is an irreparable insult. Montresor decides to take his revenge. He thinks about it and comes to the conclusion that his revenge should be unnoticed by anyone else. Resentment, it…

  • Alphonse Frankenstein

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    The head of the Frankenstein family, Alphonse is a loving father to Victor and his other children. Victor owes his remarkable genius to his father who has done everything to make his children happy and created all the conditions of his intellectual development. Alphonse also teaches his children that the family ties are the most…

  • Winesburg, Ohio Summary

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    “Winesburg, Ohio” consists of several parts, each of which presents the fantasy of the old writer about the real people. The book is framed by the prologue called “The Book of the Grotesque”. The writer wants to see the street from the window while lying in his bed. He hires the carpenter to adjust his…

  • The Poisonwood Bible Summary

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    The Poisonwood Bible is a heavy book to read. It’s about being overzealous and being a careful parent, about culture clash and hard choices. When you read it to the end you’ll understand that the novel deserves its name from first to last letter. In 1959 a Baptist priest named Nathan Price assigns himself to…

  • The maid

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    This is the first servant of the Samsa family. Though she is only sixteen, Gregor seems to admire the maid because she ” had dared to stay on after the cook’s departure.” She has one requirement for agreeing to continue her employment with the Samsas: she will lock herself in the kitchen and stay there unless someone…