Category: Study Guides
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The Glass Castle Study Guide
The Glass Castle Study Guide Author: Jeannette Walls Original title: The Glass Castle Characters: Jeannette Walls, Rex Walls, Rose Mary Walls, Maureen Walls, Brian Walls, Lori Walls, Erma Ted, Stanley Walls, Dinitia Hewitt, Jeanette Bivens, Grandma Smith, Ginnie Sue Pastor, John Taylor Published: January 17th 2006 by Scribner (first published March 2005) Setting: New York…
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Gimpy
Gimpy is another worker at Mr Donner’s bakery where Charlie Gordon, Frank and Joy work as well. However, this character is a dishonest one. He steals money in secret from Mr Donner. When Gordon becomes clever, he understands this and wants to reveal his secret. The relationship between Gimpy and the protagonist is simple to…
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Cat’s Cradle Essays
Cat’s Cradle Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, which was published in 1963, is amazingly easy and even enjoyable to read. A reader is not made to search through a novel thoroughly to find themes the author dwells upon. These are, as in most Vonnegut’s novels, messages pertaining to death, religion, and apocalypse… 849 words Vonnegut…
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Judge Thatcher
Judge Thatcher is the dynamic personage fighting for Huck’s safety and well-being at the start of the novel. The judge is super-respectable and seems like an all-around good guy. At the end of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer (this novel’s prequel), the judge takes the money that Huck and Tom found during their adventures and…
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Raphael
He is archangel in the heaven. He is very gentle. Exactly he helps Adam all the time; he even warns Adam of the dangers in the Garden. Raphael is a wise guide and appears as a luminous, soft being. Raphael is traditionally seen as a friendly and sociable angel and, in fact, sits down to…
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Mr. Ramsay
Mr. Ramsay is a character that bears considerable responsibility for the family of eight children and a wife. He is harsh, rude and expressive. He is strict with his children. Mr. Ramsay adores his family, however, tends to demonstrate tyrannical attitude from time to time. He is a professor of philosophy and a writer as…
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Robinson Crusoe
He is the main character in the novel Robinson Crusoe, written by the English writer Daniel Defoe. Robinson tells the story about him being on the desert island for 28 years and his willpower and incredible thirst for life. The man appears in the Novel as a middle-class guy, who lives in New York City.…
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Narrator
The author does not give the name to the narrator showing that it is not important for readers. Such anonymity illustrates that the story itself is more significant than the narrator. The only thing that we know is that the narrator is an old school friend of Roderick Usher. When the narrator visits the house,…
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The Mill on the Floss Summary
To fully understand the sense of “The Mill on the Floss” we should know a bit more about its author. George Eliot is a pseudonym of a woman named Mary Anne Evans and her book is a rare kind of autobiography. Though the events of life of the main character don’t match the real life…
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Antigone Summary
The tragedy written by Sophocles starts from the chorus, reciting the previous events. There once was king Oedipus, a wize and noble man of tragic fate, who ruled Thebes. He did everything he could to avoid his fate – to kill his father and to sleep with his mother – but everything Oedipus did, rightful…