Category: Literature

  • Hunchback of Notre Dame Summary

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    The story begins in Paris, in 1482. A celebration called Festival of Fools is held in the center of the city. It is the strange holiday, fun and cruel at the same time when every moral law can be broken. The culmination of the celebration is electing the Pope of Fools – the person who…

  • Silas Marner Study Guide

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    Silas Marner Study Guide Author: George Eliot Original title: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe The story of Silas Marner by George Eliot goes all the way through from heartbreaking to heartwarming. The story is full of both realistically depicted issues of the rural society of that time and humor and hope that gradually help…

  • Snow Falling on Cedars Study Guide

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    Snow Falling on Cedars Study Guide Author: David Guterson Original title: Snow Falling on Cedars Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson is primarily a detective story that features the case of a fisherman possibly murdered by his colleague and former friend amidst the storm. Almost everyone is convinced that the suspect, an American Japanese…

  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide

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    Things Fall Apart Study Guide Author: Chinua Achebe Original title: Things Fall Apart Characters: Okonkwo, Unoka, Ikemefuna, Ogbuefi Ezeudu, Ekwefi, Nwoye, Ezinma, Obierika Published: September 1st 1994 by Anchor Books (first published 1958) Setting: Africa ISBN 0385474547 (ISBN13: 9780385474542) In 1958 Chinua Ahebe wrote “ Things Fall Apart” and it was one of the few…

  • Edna Guidry

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    Edna Guidry is a wife to the sheriff. She is described in the book as an extremely kind woman with a deep heart and ability to sympathize people. Actually, this woman is one of the rare characters in the book that can deeply and sincerely sympathize with black people. Being a wife of the sheriff,…

  • The Kite Runner Essays

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    The Kite Runner Introduction “There is a way to be good again” (Hosseini 2). This is what Rahim Khan said to Amir to convince him to go back to Adganistan to save Sohrab, Hassan’s son. Amir is the narrator and the main protagonist of the novel Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Amir is the son…

  • Steppenwolf Essays

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    Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse That modern audiences still often find Hermann Hesse’s experimental novel “The Steppenwolf” groundbreaking and unique illuminates the intense individuality with which Hesse pursued the novel’s composition and themes, as well as the apparent longevity of his technical advances in narrative, many of… 1 518 words Steppenwolf Kandace Thompson Dr. Dillion English…

  • Ghosts Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    Anil’s Ghost Courage Essay At the start of the novel, Nail did not have inspiration or courage to continue with her studies as an archeologist. Nail seemed timid to herself. She felt lost and emotional. ” (Annotated 1421 Nail was at a low point in her life, and felt vulnerable because her parents had died…

  • Rebeca Buendía

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    Rebeca is the adopted daughter of the head of the family, José Arcadio Buendia, and Ursula. Rebecca got into their family at the age of about 10 years. The only thing with her was a sack, inside which were the bones of her parents, who were cousins of Ursula. Initially, the girl could be described as…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes – Page 16 | Just Great DataBase

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    For a while’ in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. To Kill a Mockingbird 0 The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with…