Category: Literature

  • To the Lighthouse Summary

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    The book starts in Ramsays’ summer house in the Hebrides (the islands near Scotland) just before the beginning of World War I. There the reader meet all the family: Mr and Mrs Ramsay, a couple who are around fifty years old, and their seven children. Some guests – friends and colleagues – come to visit…

  • Dilsey Gibson

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    Dilsey is the only source of stability in the Compson household. She is the permanent black housekeeper of the Compson family. Her children and then grandchildren have been working in Compson’s house all their lives. She is the only character detached enough from the Compsons’ downfall to witness both the beginning and the end of…

  • The Poisonwood Bible Essays

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    Race in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible Set in the African Congo during the late 1950s through the 1980s, Barbara Kingsolver’s novel, The Poisonwood Bible, tells the story of the struggles of the Price family and the high price of independence for the African nation itself. Center to the story and the conflict between the…

  • The Ghost of Christmas Past

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    The Ghost of Christmas Past is like a child and has a source of unquenchable, bright light—perhaps this is the best thing that people have in childhood and that they diligently seek to hide over time. The Ghost of Christmas Past comes to Scrooge and rediscovers the past, bringing Scrooge first to his childhood, where…

  • The Pretender

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    This personage is mentioned twice in this satirical essay. His real name is James Francis Edward Stuart, and he was the son of King James II. During the Glorious Revolution in 1688 King James II was dethroned and replaced by William III and Mary II. James Francis Edward Stuart was a Roman Catholic. He himself…

  • Animal Farm Study Guide

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    Animal Farm Study Guide Author: George Orwell Original title: Animal Farm: A Fairy Story Characters: Snowball, Napoleon, Clover, Boxer, Old Major, Muriel, Jones, Squealer, Moses the Raven Published: Published May 6th 2003 by NAL (first published August 17th 1945) ISBN 0452284244 (ISBN13: 9780452284241) George Orwell has always been a loud critic of the social wrongdoings…

  • Sherri “Cherry” Valance

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    Cherry Valance is one of the dominant female personages in the story. Being a rich daughter, she allows herself some liberties and freedom of action. The girl is looking for Pony’s love, although it is impossible to say for sure about the reciprocity of their feelings. The guy perceives the heroine as a friend who…

  • Gene Forester

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    Gene Forester is the narrator and the protagonist of the novel. At the opening of the novel, he is a man at the age of thirty who remembers his time as a student at a private educational academy called the Devon School. As a student, he was extremely clever and competed for the Victorian. He…

  • Muriel

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    Goat Muriel is depicted as a very clever character, but Orwell takes her a secondary role on the farm. She has such qualities as diligence and tact. One of the few she can read but prefers to remain a passive observer. Muriel does not display callousness towards others animals and willingly helps to them, for…

  • Uncas

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    Uncas is the son of Chingachgook. He is an example of a “good Indian,” as opposed to Magua. Fast-footed deer, strong Indian, well-oriented in the dark and hears any, even the quietest sound. For his speed and courage gets the nickname, Bounding Elk. Uncas’s courage, the naturalness of his manners, convinces doubters of The Wily…