The Bridget Jones's Diary is a romance novel, and as such is focused on the romantic relationship between two persons. ... The novel ends with the summary of her past year where she says "An excellent year's progress." This novel as many other romantic novels, showed to women that they can have big standards and expectations from a man and still end up with finding one that actually fits to them. ...

• Word Count: 1201
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Novel Response #4 Breakfast of Champions By Kurt Vonnegut Vonnegut, Kurt. ... Summary- Well, to start it off, this is a great book that questions the way people are supposed to act, and what a reader's elders have taught one about the way people should also think. ... In this novel, it has flashbacks, and present situations that the characters are introduced to. ... This book is a book that a reader could compare to a novel such as The Corrections. ... This novel is a fast reader and every page is new and surprising. ...

• Word Count: 672
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Character Summary Grey Beaver: He is the Indian who owns white fang and is the unspoken, in a type of way, master of white fang. ... He is more obedient to Scott than he is anyone else in the novel. ... Book Summary There really isn't a whole lot that I can tell you about this book, unless I was to give the entire book away, but this story is basically about White Fang, as the title suggests, and his path from being a savage wolf dog to becoming a domesticated friendly pet. ...

• Word Count: 513
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Text Summary Main Characters: Sula Peace- Seen as a "wild and defiant- girl. ... Basic Novel Summary: Toni Morrison's novel Sula chronicles the lives of influential woman living in the mostly black community of "the Bottom- from 1919 to 1965. ... The novel ends with Nel going to Sula's gravesite and mourning her death and the demise of their friendship. The novel ends, "It was a fine cry "loud and long "but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow."" ...

• Word Count: 1171
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Body of Christopher Creed-Journal#1 Summary: As the story begins, we meet Torey Adams a kid from Steepleton. ... And a little bit of information is that this was Carol Plum-Ucci very first novel. ...

• Word Count: 350
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. ... Much of the irony at the end of the novel stems from Golding's portrayal of the naval officer. ... After the war, Golding resumed teaching and started to write novels. ... The novel's sales enabled Golding to retire from teaching and devote himself fully to writing. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the novel's central themes and ideas. ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

Warm Bodies is a post-apocalyptic fiction and paranormal romance novel, written by Isaac Marion. The novel incorporates various aspects of black humour within the futuristic setting, which thematically sets the presentiment of the novel. ... This novel is effective in comparison to other novels in a similar genre or on a similar theme. Although I have not read any other novels within this theme, Romeo and Juliet portrays a similar premise throughout the novel Warm Bodies. ... The novel incorporates much gore, cheesy humorous comments and originality that is constructed throughout the eloque...

• Word Count: 1193
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Cujo," by Stephen King, is a novel about a sweet innocent St. Bernard who becomes rabid and wreaks havoc. In the beginning, Joe and Charity Camber and their son Bret live out on an old farm place where Joe fixes cars in the old cow barn. They have a large St. Bernard named Cujo. Vic and Donna Trent...

• Word Count: 357
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

" Is the famous quote to start off Daphne du Maurier's top selling novel Rebecca. ... The novel keeps you on your toes and makes you want to learn what happens next. ... Danvers, came about for the novel. ... A theme of the novel is insecurity. ... In the novel, the second Mrs.de Winter didn't even have a name. ...

• Word Count: 3228
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel the Mis-Education of the Negro was a challenging read, but it taught me valuable life lessons about being a young black man in America. ... For example, in chapter seven my football coach and then teacher had us write chapter summaries about thoughts on the book. He often gave us feedback on our summaries which we discussed in class. ... "Have black churches become the dumping ground for uneducated people carrying the bible, you be the judge," as stated in chapter seven of the novel entitled Dissension and Weakness. ... The novel the Mis-education of the Negro was a challen...

• Word Count: 501
• Approx Pages: 2

Realism in the fiction in the novel Realism was a literary movement in the last half of the 19th century in which writers opposed much of what the Romantics had stood for. ... This use of realism has the grave defect of obscuring what is probably the most original feature of the novel form. If the novel were realistic merely because it saw life from the seamy side, it would only be an inverted romance; but in fact it surely attempts to portray all the varieties of human experience, and not merely those suited to one particular literary perspective: the novel's realism does not reside in ...

• Word Count: 3498
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the next few paragraphs, I will elaborate on the purpose of this book being written, the author's background, the characters and plot, the summary, the relationship of government, and my opinion of the book. ... He started to write novels as a hobby; then he was named "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" after writing A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament. ... In the next few paragraphs, I will elaborate on the purpose of this book being written, the author's bac...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

INDRODUCTION Whether there is an American novel literature or not, is no longer in doubt. ... No sovereign , no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manners.., no great literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class- no Epsom or Ascot!... ... America then was a classless society or rather a society of one class- the middle- so America's literature is different' the difference lies in the fact that they consider the novel as a...

• Word Count: 455
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. ... Avoid plot summary. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... However, in the closing lines of the novel, Stephen finally frees himself from his father's influence. ... Summarily, Joyce's use of patriarchal figures and references throughout A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man allow for the development of conflicts which further shape Stephen's own personal development. ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1852 she published her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ... Summary of 1862 Military action continued in eastern and western territories. ... Summary of 1863 During May 1-4 the Union army is defeated at the battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. ... Summary of 1864 During the month of May and June battles at the Wilderness in Virginia, Spotsylvania in Virginia, and Cold Harbor also in Virginia resulted in heavy losses for the North. ...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel about a nameless father and son who are traveling to the coast in the south. ... Cormac McCarthy is an American writer known for stylistically complex novels, such as The Road and Blood Meridian. ... "McCarthy published his debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, and was awarded the William Faulkner Award for it (Mote 1). ... Since then, the novel has been adapted to film, and was released in 2009" (Mote 2). After the release of this novel, McCarthy's book became very successful and is now read in high schools in America and Canada. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Another issue which is explored in depth in the novel is the class systems which were much more prevalent in Edwardian society than they are in today's society. ... The novel depicts Lucy at the beginning as impressionable and naive; all of our actions stemming from the desire to please the people around her and ensure she is liked. ... Through the intervention of her cousin, Charlotte Bartlett, she is pushed towards George, and at the end of the novel, she experiences her happiness in the choice which she eventually ended up making. The theme of growing up and maturing is integral to th...

• Word Count: 1127
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Life Before Man: Novel Summary and Research Plot Summary A) As Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man begins, the reader is introduced to the initial characters Elizabeth, her husband Nate and their children Janet and Nancy. ... The novel begins in Toronto in 1976, ending in 1978. ... The entire novel is written like a journal. ... Nate Schoenhof is Elizabeth's husband and the novel's antagonist. ... The weather is often dismal, alluding to the novel's depressing tone. ...

• Word Count: 881
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Summary The morning reveille, a hammer banging against a length of rail, is sounded at five o'clock. ... Much of the novel's popular success in the Soviet Union was connected to the fact that the novel was widely recognized as a chronicle of common experience. At the time of the novel's publication, every Soviet citizen had some connection to the camps, whether through personal experience or the suffering of a friend or loved one. ... Summary Shukhov considers going to the dispensary to report that he is ill. ... Summary When Shukhov finishes eating, he heads back to t...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Cultural Variations in styles of thinking Is it true that people from different cultures "think differently"? it seems clear that students from different cultures often bring different purposes to their thinking and learning. These different purposes produce different results, for example in the...

• Word Count: 455
• Approx Pages: 2

Summary: This novel mainly takes place at the end of the 20th century, but there are also flashbacks to the late 19th century mainly at Green Lake, in Texas. Some of the main characters in this novel are Stanley Yelnats, Zero, X-Ray, Squid, Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam, Elya Yelnats, and Madame Zeroni. ...

• Word Count: 249
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School