Category: Study Guides
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The Kitchen God’s Wife Study Guide
The Kitchen God’s Wife Study Guide Author: Amy Tan Original title: The Kitchen God’s Wife The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan is to some extent an autobiographical work. The main character, as the author, is also a daughter of Chinese immigrants to America, she lost her father and knew nothing about her mother’s previous…
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Clarisse McClellan
Clarisse McClellan personifies femininity, strange in its parameters in the new post-apocalyptic world. She avoids television and technological innovations that enhance sound or taste. Instead, her family prefers live communication, talking on a variety of topics. She is peace-loving by nature and chooses humility instead of struggle. Her eccentricity attracts fireman Montague, having atypical qualities…
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Céleste
A friend of Meursault’s, Celeste has a restaurant where Meursault likes having dinners. He is an example of a true friend as he helps him with everything, and shows his desire to do more and more for the best friend. Celeste is very loyal to Meursault. He tells us that for real Mersault is another…
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Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as Alice in Wonderland
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Quote Analysis We meet this quite famous quote in the book “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” by Lewis Carroll. It is from Chapter 5 “Wool and Water”, Page 69. There the White Queen explains Alice that the things there…
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Siduri
Siduri is a twofold character. In this story, she is a barmaid and an alewife that Gilgamesh encounters on his journey into the Underworld. Also, she lives in the cottage by the sea. She is the one who discourages Gilgamesh on his journey and his struggle to get immortality but ultimately directs him to the…
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The Lady with the Little Dog Essays
Expression Versus Expectations in Chekhov’s The Lady With The Dog In The lady with the pet dog, Chekhov’s notion of romantic love coincides with his idea of the duplicitous self and society. Central to Chekhov’s discussion of romantic love is the individual and the institutions that define him (in particular, marital and domestic ones) which…
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The Narrator (Ethan Frome)
Appears to be an engineer. He comes to Starkfield for work but gets interested in the story of Ethan. He is a nosy, curious person, indecent and straightforward. He isn’t ashamed to go around and ask everybody about Ethan’s life. However, citizens are in no hurry to share with a stranger the details of a…
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Kurt Vonnegut
Well, we know a lot about this character, as he is one of the main heroes in this awesome novel. For many years, Vonnegut tried to write a book about Dresden but found himself unable to complete the project. He appears within the Billy Pilgrim story very briefly, in the literary equivalent of a cameo.…
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A Separate Peace Summary
The plot begins with the arrival of the main protagonist, Gene, to his alma mater, Devon School, where he was a pupil fifteen years ago, just before the start of the second World War. The narrator gets to reminiscing about his younger years when he was just a student; most of his memories revolve around…
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Vanity Fair Study Guide
Vanity Fair Study Guide Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Original title: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a piece of literature about the rigid social order, impossible expectations and the characters of different initial statuses who all try to live up to these expectations. Both men and women…