Category: Study Guides
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Max Vandenburg
Max is a 23-year-old Jew who needs to hide from the Nazis in the Hubermanns’ basement. Max feel huge heartache and even fault because he needed to leave his family to save himself. When he gets to know Liesel, they become good friends. Usual topic of their conversations was about their nightmares. Their friendship is…
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Ivanhoe Study Guide
Ivanhoe Study Guide Author: Walter Scott Original title: Ivanhoe Ivanhoe is a romantic novel written by Walter Scott and telling us about the story of the descendant of one of the last Anglo-Saxon noble families under the Norman reign. The interest in medieval culture and ballads inspired Scott to vividly depicts tournaments, battles of honor,…
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Daisy Miller Summary
The novel tells us about the tragic misunderstanding and culture clash that turned into drama a clearly romantic story. A young American named Winterbourne, who has lived in Europe for many years and has almost forgotten American customs and culture, comes to a small Swiss town of Vevey to see his aunt. In the hotel…
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Utnapishtim
Here we come to the character that can be easily described as a bad guy even antagonist. But first things first. His name is translated as “he who saw life.” Though we would like to interpret it in another way “he who saw death.” Why? This guy witnessed the death of the entire world, which…
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To the Lighthouse Essays
Role of Women in To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf is an outstanding and unique novelist who portrays the inner self of the human mind rather than the happenings in the external life. Woolf’s To the Lighthouse deals with the conflict between the feminine and masculine values which is universal in nature. The women in the…
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Narrator
This person is a wreck. Everyone who reads can’t feel sorry for him even after we understood that he’s going to kill the old man simply to feel free of the power of his eye. He’s always nervous, paranoid, worried and scared. Even more, he is physically and mentally ill (we see and feel his…
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The Alchemist
And finally, the great Alchemist who we were talking about very much. He is a very powerful one and lives in the Al-Fayoum oasis in Egypt. We and Santiago first hear about the Alchemist from the Englishman, but eventually, Santiago reveals himself to be the Alchemist’s true disciple. The Alchemist’s outlook is serious; he always…
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Moishe the Beadle
Who is he? He is a poor, humble man who works at the Hasidic synagogue in Sighet. Moishe is a person who is likable. Almost every person in the towns adores him. He is one of the good characters as he helps Eliezer to study the cabbala, and he teaches him that it is more…
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Essays
Island of the Blue Dolphins In the Pacific there is an island shaped like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephant and birds abound. A young Indian girl lives and waits for her people to return for her, from the land to the east.…
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Agustín
One of the fighters in Pablo’s band of guerrillas. To be more precise, he is a foundational member of the band. Though he is a loyal man, Agustín is one who makes hasty decisions and has a harsh temperament. He doesn’t believe Pablo even though the man has the intelligence needed to be a good…