Category: Study Guides

Greta Samsa is Gregor’s younger sister. A young girl is on the way of adult life. Before Gregor`s transformation, Grete worries about him, and they are very close. She is very cute and adoring. But then she offends him because the consequences of Gregor’s transformation begin negatively affect her own life as she takes it…

Tante Lou is pictured in the book as a strict and not sentimental woman. She was the one, who raised her nephew Grant and previously even raised his mother. She is not the person who expresses her love and kindness with the help of kisses and hugs. Tante Lou is often angry and irritated, more…

Society’s presumptions about the narrator tend to be rather mistaken since no one knows his true essence. For some reason, he is considered to be the nameless protagonist who is also reflected in the title of the novel.  1930s America with all the stereotypes and racial preconceptions force the black man, the narrator, play different…

Alex is an absolute anti-heroic hero of the text. He is addicted only to two things in his life. And they are violence and classical music. By the way, it is hard to realize how a person who likes classical music be a violent one. Being aggressive he is also a good-hearted and innocent boy.…

Bernards has a key role in forming Kurt as a personality. He is dynamic, as he changed after all years. Bernard is showing us as a calm, wise, good-hearted and strong man. He is Vonnegut’s old war buddy, captured with him and held in Dresden. Vonnegut finds him some years later, after the war, and…

This character is an antagonist in the novel. She likes order, where everything is in the proper place; she adores when she has complete power, and when she can manipulate other people and her patients. Being the main nurse and the woman with many connections inside and outside of the hospital, she can do things…

Rosamond Oliver is described for us as the beautiful young woman whom St. John is in love with. In fact, he won’t allow himself to marry because she wouldn’t make a good missionary wife. We suspect that he also enjoys torturing himself by denying his passion for her. For some time, Rosamond seems to hope…

Night Study Guide Author: Elie Wiesel Original title: NIGHT Characters: Eliezer, Moishe the Beadle, Eliezer’s Father, Mrs. Schächter, Idek, Stein, Franek, Rabbi Eliahu, Juliek “Night” is a written testimony of the Nazi German camps composed by Elie Wiesel in 1960. It’s a short read of hundred pages that will leave you thinking about the values…

Ruthie is of the two smallest children in the Joad’s family. She is twelve years old. She is in that period when a girl wants to be a little one, and at the same time, she starts becoming a lady. In her character we see both – something wild, grim-faced, and serious girl in her…

This person isn’t a character. He is more a device of the plot that helps drive the action. In the story, he’s Fortunato’s rival in wine tasting. In all, the narrator doesn’t need Luchesi in telling about the murder (for this reason Amontillado is enough). Luchesi is more kind of insurance for Montresor. He brings…