Category: Study Guides
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Pete
The best person in Alex’s gang. If we can say a word “best” while talking about those bad guys. Okay, he is the best from the worst. He is a very dynamic character who has changed his life a lot. After the prison and program he becomes a typical middle-class citizen, and exactly he was…
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A Tale of Two Cities Summary
The story starts in 1775. The first character we see is a senior British gentleman named Jarvis Lorry. Mr. Lorry is an employee of a wealthy international company called Tellson’s Bank and he travels to England with a secret mission that is so deeply personal that it makes him cry sometimes. He should tell the…
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The Odyssey Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase
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Robinson Crusoe Summary
The eponymous main character is an eighteen-year-old living in a town called Hull in England in the seventeenth century. He is the youngest of three brothers, and he wants to travel the seas instead of becoming a lawyer like his father hopes he will. Robinson’s family does not support his wishes and his father tries…
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Cassandra
Cassandra is a Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba. This is one of the most tragic images of the trilogy. Her tragedy is in possessing the gift of foresight. Cassandra knows what terrible end awaited her and seized her as a military booty of King Agamemnon. She tries to warn everyone about future misfortunes,…
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Hedda Gabler Summary
‘Hedda Gabler’, by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, is a dramatic play about an unconventionally neurotic female protagonist and how her life is turned upside down by a series of manipulations and scheming. The first act begins in the living room of the Tesmans’ new residence, where Aunt Julle and Berte are having a conversation. The…
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Romeo and Juliet Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Educated men are so impressive! Romeo and Juliet 68 Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.* Romeo and Juliet 68 Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having,…
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Mr. Green
Mr. Green plays a secondary role in the novel. Mr. Green, an attorney, was in isolation and had to wait two hours to return, and when Green finally came back, he said that he had one businessman in the village, who he could not postpone anyway, but that he would arrive before the dawn on…
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Fallen Angels Study Guide
Fallen Angels Study Guide Author: Walter Dean Myers Original title: Fallen Angels The painful theme of Vietnam War still is acute for the American society, even after all these years. But only a few authors depicted it with such degree of truth as Walter Dean Myers. The war here is shown through the eyes of…
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Main Street Study Guide
Main Street Study Guide Author: Sinclair Lewis Original title: Main Street Main Street is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that shows us the futility of the idealism and progressive ideas about equality and cultural growth when the environment and society aren’t ready to accept it. But the other side of the satire is not…
