Category: Study Guides
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Flowers for Algernon Essays
Flowers for Algernon The book Flowers for Algernon takes place in the United States of America in the city of New York. A good deal of this book takes place in Professor Nemur’s lab. The reason much of the story takes place here is because it is the place where the experiments take place. The…
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Beloved Study Guide
Beloved Study Guide Author: Toni Morrison Original title: Beloved Characters: Baby Suggs, Sethe, Beloved, Paul D Garner, Denver, Halle Suggs, Amy Denver American literary history wouldn’t be the same if Toni Morrison didn’t write this legendary “Beloved” novel. It is partially based on a real story of an enslaved woman who fled Kentucky to escape…
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Herb Clutter
Herb Clutter headed – a cloudless, religious, God-fearing and hard-working family. They had everything painted for years to come; everything was calculated and weighed. Almost everything, except for two uninvited guests. Killed Clutter lived in a perfect world. They had an orchard called Apple Eden. The owner of the farm is a model American as…
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Serena Joy
Serena Joy is the Commander’s wife who once worked as an activist of anti-feminism. This character has a name of Serena Joy because it was her stage pseudonym. She was a Gospel star and used to be a motivational speaker. She remembers that time of her youth when she performed as a singer at Gosper…
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The Age of Innocence Essays
The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence is an ironic title. No one in the entire society described in the book is innocent at all. They are all naïve but not one of them is innocent, they are all liars, hypocrites, and /or fake. The entire society that Newland Archer, the main character, lives…
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King Lear Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
King Lear – Analytical Monologue Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 268-284 LEAR: It may be so, my lord. Hear, Nature, hear, dear goddess, hear! Suspend thy purpose if thou didst intend 270To make this creature fruitful. Into her womb convey sterility. Dry up in her the organs of increase,And from her derogate body never springA…
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Lee
Lee is a complex and interesting Chinese-American servant of Adam Trask. Readers meet Lee when he is about to take Samuel to bring him to the ranch to discuss boring fountains with Adam. At first glance, Lee looks like a stereotypical Chinese servant carrying a queue and a Chinese-speaking Pidgin. Within a few minutes of…
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Pride and Prejudice Essays – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase
Discuss the use of literary technigues in Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a very accomplished book because of Austen’s clever and successful use of literary techniques. Literary techniques refer to the deliberate construction of language to further the story whether that be to develop…
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White Fang Essays
Jack London Mirroring in “White Fang” Introduction “I have sometimes wished you would call me ‘Wolf’ more often.” Jack London – to his wife. Once Charles Child Walcutt described Jack London as a steamer, which “was supposed to have more power than any man dared use, but it was also known to run out of…
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Rachael
This character of Dicken’s ‘Hard Times’ is represented as the factory worker. She is a woman with soft character and gentle behavior. Her best friend is Stephen whose wife who ends up as an incurable alcoholic and lives separately from her husband. Rachael helps her friend to come over his troubles with the wife at…