Category: Study Guides

  • The Alchemist Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. The Alchemist 36 We have to be prepared for change. The Alchemist 35 We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have…

  • Robert Jordan

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    The main character of the story, a young American, and a well-trained dynamiter. He is a well-built man with blonde hair. Robert Jordan’s main duty is to blow up the bridge during the attack on Segovia. Hence, he enters the band of the gypsy soldiers who fought for freedom in the hills of Sierra de…

  • I was benevolent and good; misery made Frankenstein

    —

    by

    admin
    in , ,

    I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. Quote Analysis In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus, Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist, assiduously accomplishes his animation project i.e. bestowing life to a human skeleton, the bones of which were collected from charnel…

  • Brobdingnagians

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Brobdingnagians are residents of the state named Brobdingen, where Gulliver came after a trip to Lilliputians. During the second voyage, Gulliver’s ship deviates from the course, and the team lands on the nearest island, where people of giant growth live. They are as big compared to humans as humans are to Lilliputians. However, Gulliver eventually…

  • The Secret Life of Bees Study Guide

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    The Secret Life of Bees Study Guide Author: Sue Monk Kidd Original title: The Secret Life of Bees Published: Published January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published November 8th 2001) Setting: United States of America South Carolina(United States) Tiburon, South Carolina,1964(United States) ISBN 0142001740 (ISBN13: 9780142001745) “The Secret Life of Bees” of the authorship…

  • Paul Lazarro

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Paul Lazzaro is a key character with hard and complicated destiny too. Unfortunately, he is described in the story as an evil. In his life, he is a fellow American POW with a grudge against Billy. He believes that Billy is the one who is responsible for Roland Weary death of gangrene. His character is…

  • Tenorio Trementina 

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    Tenorio Trementina is an evil warlock whose aim is to kill Ultima because of her gift for healing. The first conflict arises when his daughters cast a spell on Lucas. Ultima wants to help the boy and decides to lift the curse. However, before doing that, she warns Tenorio that if his girls don’t lift…

  • Cash Bundren

    —

    by

    admin
    in ,

    The eldest of all Bundren children and probably the most stable one. He is also an experienced and adept carpenter, who makes the coffin for his mother Addie Bundren. The fact that he constructs it right in front of his mother’s bedroom demonstrates how chill and cool Cash is, stripped of many useless emotions. He…

  • A Rose for Emily Essays

    —

    by

    admin
    in , ,

    Miss Emily Grierson: Her Strength and Weakness as Portrayed in “A Rose for Emily” In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily Grierson has been perceived by her townsfolk as an icon and a monument, and that her family “held themselves a little too high for what they really were.  None of the young…

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Essays

    —

    by

    admin
    in , ,

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first installment of a trilogy by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, fresh from being convicted for libelling a wealthy Swedish financier, is hired by an elderly industrialist to find out who murdered his niece more than…