Category: Literature

  • Simon (LOTF)

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    The most spiritual and innately good person, Simon represents all the positive features that humanity can be proud of. He is sensitive and takes care of the more vulnerable children. But his love for solitude and respect for nature make him an outcast on the island full of barbarized teenagers. His eagerness to work for…

  • Siddhartha Study Guide

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    Siddhartha Study Guide Author: Hermann Hesse Original title: Siddhartha Published: Published December 1st 1981 by Bantam Books (first published 1922) Setting: India ISBN 0553208845 (ISBN13: 9780553208849) Discover yourself and look at the world around you differently with this spiritual book by Herman Hesse. Published in 1922 it still preserves its relevance for those who are…

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Summary

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    The story starts on a Saturday summer afternoon in 1912. In the small yard among the old houses of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a tree, called the Tree of Heaven grows, offering the inhabitants shadow and inspiring deep thoughts. Francie Nolan, one of these inhabitants is eleven years old. She with her little brother gather garbage for…

  • Name Of The Rose Study Guide

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    Name Of The Rose Study Guide Author: Umberto Eco Original title: Name Of The Rose Characters: William of Baskerville, Adso of Melk, Abo, Adelmo of Otranto, Remigio of Varagine, Salvatore Out of many books the legendary Umberto Eco has written, “The Name of the Rose” remains one of the most symbolic and fascinating. With just…

  • Maya Angelou

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    Angelou is the main character of the novel and also plays the role of the narrator. She is very intelligent and prying girl who is extremely interested in everything that is somehow connected with languages. In this novel, she shares with readers her memories from her childhood and adolescence when everybody named her Marguerite. These…

  • Daisy Miller

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    In Daisy Miller, Henry James slowly reveals Daisy’s character through her interaction with other characters, especially Winterbourne, the main character. “The author uses the story of a third person, but the thoughts and views on Winterbourne dominate.” Therefore, the public no longer knows about Daisy as Winterbourne. ” This technique helps to preserve the ambiguity…

  • Alice Munro

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    Alice Munro is the half-sister of Cora. Alice is a blonde with blue eyes. She is the daughter of Alice Graham, the second wife of Munro. She is very kind, beautiful and gentle girl. Alice is an archetypal “girl in trouble” who throws her hands when bad people come and inspires such kind people like…

  • No Exit Study Guide

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    No Exit Study Guide Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Original title: Huis clos One of the most famous existential works, “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre is a source of inspiration for lots of modern writers and playwrights. The depiction of Hell as a very comfortable and hospitable place was something new for the audience of that time.…

  • Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt Hamlet

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    Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love Quote Analysis Act II, Scene 2, line 115. This line is told by Hamlet to Ophelia in “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. Nowadays it can have quite an ironic sense, because stars aren’t made…

  • By the pricking of my thumbs, Something Macbeth

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    By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Quote Analysis Act 4 Scene 1 lines 44-45 Said by the second of three witches in Macbeth in Act 4 Scene 1, this phrase became popular in the modern culture. “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury is the most iconic example, but…