Category: Study Guides

  • Arthur Radley

    Arthur Radley lives in isolation and is not willing to go outside his dwelling. Boo is an interesting man for Scout, Jem, and Dill. Children have lots of fun trying to persuade him to leave the house, but the man remains a mysterious recluse. Arthur is that representative of the innocent “mockingbirds” because he is…

  • Manolin

    A young boy is almost the only one who respects old Santiago. Manolin is a devoted apprentice, and he is eager to go fishing just as his mentor did. Because of Santiago’s lack of luck, the boy’s parents make Manolin visit another fishing boat. However, a kind boy is loyal to Santiago because he believes…

  • Wide Sargasso Sea Summary

    Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel by Jean Rhys, is regarded as not only a great standalone novel, but also a powerful prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Published in 1966, the novel delves into the story of the ‘madwoman in the attic’ from Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea she gets a…

  • The Happy Medium

    The Happy Medium is a human being living on a planet in Orion’s belt. On this planet, everything is medium. At the same time, a Happy Medium is a person who feels happy because of not noticing bad things happening. The image of the happy medium is presented in the text several times. In one…

  • Gulliver

    Lemuel Gulliver is the main character of this story. He was born in the family of a poor nobleman who had an estate in Nottingham. When he was fourteen years old, he was sent to college in Cambridge. But his father did not have enough money to keep him there for longer than three years.…

  • Friday

    He is one of the main characters in Daniel Defoe’s novel. The man was a savage from the cannibal tribe. He was rescued by Robinson Crusoe on the twenty-fourth year of living on the island and named after the day it happened. Robinson describes him as a man of twenty-six years with a pleasant appearance…

  • Twelfth Night Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

    What is decreed must be, and be this so. Twelfth Night 1 for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. Twelfth Night 1 A contract of eternal bond of love,   Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,   Attested by the…

  • Black Elk Speaks Essays

    Black Elk Speaks Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt is the story told by an Ogalala Lakota Sioux of his life in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Yet Black Elk is reluctant to tell ‘his’ story because he does not separate himself from all life, ‘my friend, I am going to tell…

  • Robin

    Robin is a local fighter, troublemaker, and clown. On the pages of the tragedy, he is in trouble after he decides to leave the profession and devote himself to dark magic through the books of Dr. Faust. Goethe assigns Robin the role of a comic elf, which compares the play with the works of Shakespeare.…

  • Romeo and Juliet Study Guide

    Romeo and Juliet Study Guide Author: William Shakespeare Original title: An Excellent conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet Characters: Romeo Montague, Juliet Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Friar Laurence, County Paris, Escalus, Balthasar Published: Published January 1st 2004 by Washington Square Press (first published 1597) Setting: Verona(Italy) Italy ISBN 0743477111 (ISBN13: 9780743477116) In late 1590s William Shakespeare…