Category: Study Guides

  • Lord Jim Study Guide

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    Lord Jim Study Guide Author: Joseph Conrad Original title: Lord Jim Lord Jim is a romantic adventure novel by Joseph Conrad that even shares some traits with Gothic novels. Despite the exotic setting and the extraordinary events that puts the story far into the territory of historical fiction, the themes raised in it are very…

  • The Aeneid Summary

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    In the ancient age when the gods descended to Earth to sleep with mortal women, many heroes were born. But few of them were the offsprings of the goddesses and the mortal men. One of such heroes was Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, son of the ocean goddess Thetis, another one is the hero…

  • Ur-Shanabi

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    Finally we get to the character who plays one of the most important roles in the story. He is the boatman who takes Gilgamesh over the waters of the dead to see Utnapishtim. Also, he is the guardian of the mysterious “stone things.” He is a very important and well-known personage in Mesopotamian mythology. But the…

  • Ethan Frome Essays

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    Reversals in “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton In Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, the lives of the characters are turned upside down but not in a sense that they are able to escape from the state are in. It’s more like the physical wellness of the characters and their social place within their microcosm is…

  • Maureen Walls

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    Jeannette’s youngest sister. Maureen is beautiful but never learns how to care for herself; she relies on her friends’ parents for food, shelter, and support. She is the most fragile of the children and spends all her life looking for someone to take care of her. She worked from time to time as a bartender…

  • The Contender Essays

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    The Contender The Contender is a book about a young black boy named Alfred Brooks, growing up in a poor part of New York. Alfred is faced with a struggle inside himself to become a better person. Alfred does not want to be just another “good little slave”, but he doesn’t want to find himself…

  • Milo Minderbinder

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    First Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a true master of destinies on the island. This mess officer creates a syndicate and declares all the pilots to be its members. Although he is not in a hurry to share the profit. Strongly determined to put the war on a commercial basis, he gets the money from the…

  • The Notebook Summary

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    The Notebook, written by Nicholas Sparks, is a novel about the two characters, Noah and Allie, and narrates their love story as it slowly unfolds into various events starting from the moment their paths had intertwined from their teenager days. Both Noah and Allie live in the south side of America. The story starts off…

  • Hans Hubermann

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    Hans is Liesel’s foster father. His appearance is simple and nice – he is tall and gentle. He has a lot of courage and bravery. Also, he likes trying to play on accordion. Once in the World War I he was saved by a Jew Erik Vandenberg. Later he hides his son Max from the…

  • Lieutenant Frederic Henry

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    Main hero of the book. We can describe him as a character that has a very dynamic role. He is the one who has changed a lot from the very beginning until the end of the story. Frederic is a little bit aloof guy. And it is not a strange thing as his work is…