Category: Literature

  • Alice’s mother

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    Alice’s mother is a free black woman, legitimately making Alice free too. She advises her daughter to be brave but is helpless to defend Alice from the cruel real world for all black people in the slave-holding American South. Alice’s mother also admits to cooperate with Dana inasmuch as it does not add expose herself…

  • M. Gillenormand

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    Monsieur Gillenormand is Marius’ grandfather who prevents his father, Georges Pontmercy, from establishing any contacts with his son. He is a monarchist who supports the French king and rejects democracy. His visions are typical for an old bourgeois who does not accept any new political ideas and visions. Based on this reason, he hates Georges…

  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles Essays

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    Tess Of The D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The D’Urbervilles is a novel in which his protagonist and other characters are confronted by an almost endless array of moral and socially acceptable choices. Thomas Hardy makes the reader to take a critical look at the character’s situation, the character’s thought process… 1 441 words Tess…

  • The Tempest Summary

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    In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, The King of Naples and his cohorts, along with the ships crewmen, struggle to remain afloat as the ship they are navigating is overtaken by a terrible storm. On land, the sorcerer Prospero, and his daughter, Miranda, look on as the storm blankets the vessel. The storm…

  • Looking for Alaska Study Guide

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    Looking for Alaska Study Guide Author: John Green Original title: Looking for Alaska Characters: Miles Halter, Alaska Young, Chip Martin, Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya Published: December 28th 2006 by Speak (first published March 3rd 2005) Setting: Alabama (United States) ISBN 0142402516 (ISBN13: 9780142402511) John Green wrote “Looking for Alaska” in 2005. Some might say that…

  • The Giver Study Guide

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    The Giver Study Guide Author: Lois Lowry Original title: The Giver Characters: Fiona , Jonas, The Giver, Gabriel, Jonas’s Father Lois Lowry wrote “The Giver” in 1993. The next year this strong book received the highest award in the young adult literature field, the Newbery Medal. Born on Hawaii Island and educated at Brown and…

  • The Idiot Essays

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    The Idiot Summary The Idiot, by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, tells the tragic story of Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin. The Prince is a kind, modest man and an unfortunate sufferer of epilepsy. After spending years in an insane asylum in Switzerland, he travels back to his native Russia to find his… 1 699 words…

  • Fathers and Sons Summary

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    ‘Fathers and Sons’, a novel written in the mid-19th century by Ivan Turgenev, has received much critical acclaim ever since. The novel begins with Nikolai Kirsanov, one of the main characters of the story, waiting patiently for his son. The author describes some of the physical features of Nikolai, and provides some context to his…

  • Atlas Shrugged Summary

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    This epic novel takes place in the nearby future in the United States of America. The economics of the country is on the verge of collapse and the government tries to take more control up to the outright oppression. The rest of the world transferred to the socialist model of government, becoming Peoples’ States. In…

  • The Time Machine Essays

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    Arguments and Counter-arguments presented by “Time Machine” “The Time Machine,” first published in 1895 by H.G. Wells is a classic science fiction novella that has captivated the hearts of young readers since its publication. It has spawned numerous films and television adaptations, but the most iconic contribution this book has given to the literary world……