Category: Study Guides

  • Winesburg, Ohio Summary

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    “Winesburg, Ohio” consists of several parts, each of which presents the fantasy of the old writer about the real people. The book is framed by the prologue called “The Book of the Grotesque”. The writer wants to see the street from the window while lying in his bed. He hires the carpenter to adjust his…

  • The Poisonwood Bible Summary

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    The Poisonwood Bible is a heavy book to read. It’s about being overzealous and being a careful parent, about culture clash and hard choices. When you read it to the end you’ll understand that the novel deserves its name from first to last letter. In 1959 a Baptist priest named Nathan Price assigns himself to…

  • The maid

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    This is the first servant of the Samsa family. Though she is only sixteen, Gregor seems to admire the maid because she ” had dared to stay on after the cook’s departure.” She has one requirement for agreeing to continue her employment with the Samsas: she will lock herself in the kitchen and stay there unless someone…

  • Anne Frank

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    Anne is a real author of the diary. She begins it on her thirteenth birthday when she got this diary as a present. Anne starts writing about some girlish things like friends, boys, studying. When it goes further, she starts depicting more serious events. Because of the Holocaust and the World War II, she is…

  • Oedipus the King Essays

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    Informal Discussions of Oedipus the King Discussion of the play Oedipus the King should be preceded by the notice that the plot for this play was not invented by Sophocles. On the contrary, the story was well-known to Greek audience and probably for this reason it was so popular. The story of king Oedipus served…

  • Bob “Rat” Kiley

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      Bob “Rat” Kiley is a friendly and skilled medic, who braves danger to keep his fellow soldiers alive. He carries comic books, brandy, and M&Ms. Kiley previously served in the mountains of Chu Lai, the setting of “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.” O’Brien has great respect for Kiley’s medical prowess, especially when he is shot for the second time and is subjected to the mistreatment…

  • The House of the Spirits Summary

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    The novel tells the readers about the life of four generations of the one family. Mostly it is the story of life of two women: Clara del Valle and Alba de Satigny, their relationship and family issues. There is no chronological order, so it is a bit hard to follow the storyline. The novel starts…

  • Arabella Donn

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    Arabella is the flirtatious daughter of a pig-butcher who lives in Alfredston, near Marygreen. She is Jude’s first romance. She is so selfish, thoughtless, and manipulative that it’s hard to take her seriously as a character in some ways—she’s like a cartoon villain or something.. Of course, this isn’t a romantic comedy, so Arabella’s behavior…

  • The Return of the Native Essays

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    The Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, a writer of nineteenth century society, has created an everlasting impact on its readers through his most profound and lively characters with varied dimensions in personality. He gave his characters a touch of realism with an in-depth intensity to misunderstand their real nature and… 1…

  • The Notebook Study Guide

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    The Notebook Study Guide Author: Nicholas Sparks Original title: The Notebook The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks is a simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking romantic story that has inspired lots of movie directors and given hope to countless people who don’t believe in lifelong love. The story is quite trivial: an old man reads to a lady…