Category: Literature

  • The Natural Study Guide

    The Natural Study Guide Author: Bernard Malamud Original title: The Natural Published: July 7th 2003 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1952) ISBN 0374502005 (ISBN13: 9780374502003) “The Natural” is a novel about baseball and suddenly it is a novel about almost paranormal mystery. The author brilliantly merges so familiar and close-to-earth game with all the…

  • Baron Danglars

    Baron Danglars is a character who plays an important role in the plot of the novel. As a person, he is extremely jealous and greedy and makes lots of effort to imprison Edmond Dantès. Danglars is a Mondego’s co-worker, but he is constantly jealous as realizes his less attractiveness and lack of talents. His motive…

  • Adam Trask

    Adam came to the world in 1862 on a farm in Connecticut as a father, the first wife of Cyrus. He is brought up by the second wife of Alice. Cyrus considers him not so strong and wise as his brother Charles. He was a calm, obedient child, evading conflict and violence. Not knowing what…

  • Fahrenheit 451 Summary

    The most famous work of Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 refers to the direction indicated as pessimistic future ideas in the subcategory “anti-utopia.” This is the name that indicates the temperature at which the paper ignites, in the context of this book. The main idea of Bradbury’s novel is a warning against the expected negative consequences…

  • The Joy Luck Club Essays

    Cultural Clashes in The Joy Luck Club Author Amy Tan began writing the short stories that eventually became the novel The Joy Luck Club as a way of understanding the turmoil of her relationship with her mother (Lew). Those stories eventually spawned a best-selling book and a feature film which serve to not only shed…

  • Hatchet Study Guide

    Hatchet Study Guide Author: Gary Paulsen Original title: Hatchet “Hatchet” is an amazing adventure novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. This novel tells the story about Brian, a young 13-year-old boy whose parents are divorced. Brian survived a plane crash that left him alone in a desert in Canada. Through internal conflict, external forces…

  • Snowball

    Being an ardent supporter of Old Major’s principles of, he tries to improve intellectual, moral and physical qualities of other animals. He believes that literacy will help them understand the rules of animalism depicted on the barn wall. He reduces The Seven Commandments to clear and concise instructions in order to maximally simplify a new ideology…

  • Pete

    The best person in Alex’s gang. If we can say a word “best” while talking about those bad guys. Okay, he is the best from the worst. He is a very dynamic character who has changed his life a lot. After the prison and program he becomes a typical middle-class citizen, and exactly he was…

  • A Tale of Two Cities Summary

    The story starts in 1775. The first character we see is a senior British gentleman named Jarvis Lorry. Mr. Lorry is an employee of a wealthy international company called Tellson’s Bank and he travels to England with a secret mission that is so deeply personal that it makes him cry sometimes. He should tell the…

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