Category: Literature

  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold Study Guide

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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold Study Guide Author: Gabriel García Márquez Original title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada Characters: Santiago Nasar, Ángela Vicario, Bayardo San Román, Pedro Vicario, The Narrator (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), Pablo Vicario, The Visiting Magistrate The legendary Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” in 1981. It is…

  • Jan Coggan

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    Jan Coggan is a minor character of the novel. He is an honest worker from Weatherbury. He was a crimson man with a spacious face. Coggan loves to tell different amazing stories about his relatives. He is characterized as a kind and generous man. Jan tries to help Gabriel in several cases. He offers Gabriel…

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Study Guide

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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Study Guide Author: Tom Stoppard Original title: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Published: Published January 21st 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1966) ISBN 0802132758 (ISBN13: 9780802132758) Tom Stoppard wrote what is often considered an absurdist book entitled “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”. This tragicomedy was first staged in Edinburgh…

  • A Wrinkle in Time Study Guide

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    A Wrinkle in Time Study Guide Author: Madeleine L’Engle Original title: A Wrinkle in Time Characters: Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O’Keefe, Dr. Kate Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, Mr. Alex Murry, The Happy Medium, Aunt Beast, The Man with the Red Eyes, IT Madeleine L’Engle wrote “A Wrinkle in Time” in…

  • Policemen

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    There were three of them. And to be honest, they don’t have influential characteristics. Yes, anyway, they play a role in the narrator’s story because without them nothing will happen, no culmination will happen in the story. They are conscientious and responsible. They didn’t waste time after the murder and started immediately searching the killer.…

  • The Awakening Summary

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    The Awakening tells the readers a story of Edna Pontellier, the woman who discovered in herself the desire to belong to herself only, so strong and mature that, at her time, it was considered illness.   The story starts in 1890s, Louisiana. Edna is a wife of a rich and educated man Léonce. She goes…

  • The Good Earth Study Guide

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    The Good Earth Study Guide Author: Pearl S. Buck Original title: The Good Earth The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck was a bestseller of its time and played a prominent part in getting its author the Nobel Prize for literature. A family drama set in China before the World War I, this book showed…

  • Jane Eyre Essays

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    Bird Imagery in Jane Eyre In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses many types of imagery to provide understanding of the characters and also to express reoccurring themes in the novel. Through bird imagery specifically, we are able to see Jane develop from a small, unhappy child into a mature and satisfied young woman… 2 864…

  • The mother

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    Mrs. Samsa is initially shocked at her son`s transformation but wants to enter his room. When she sees Gregor, she is afraid and repulsed at his new form. Tender and concerned, Gregor`s mother is torn between love for her son and her horror from the new state of Gregor. Greta and Gregor’s father want to…

  • The Iliad Study Guide

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    The Iliad Study Guide Author: Homer Original title: Ἰλιάς Characters: Hera, Paris, Hector, Achilles, Aeneas, Zeus, Thetis Published: April 29th 1999 by Penguin Classics (first published -720) Setting: Troy ISBN 0140275363 (ISBN13: 9780140275360) The “Iliad” is a great story of the battle of Troy written by Homer. It is a marvelous book and it doesn’t…