... from her sweetness. At the sight of her mild, tender eyes, full rosy cheeks, soft white neck, and nave smile, either men or women could not refrain from calling her "darling-. She is compassionate, gentle, and sentimental. When Kukin, the owner of an outdoor theater and a resident in the lodge Olenka inherited from her father, complained about the rain and the audience every night under her room, she ... was touched by his misfortune and cried for him. Gradually she grew to love this plain-looking man. She is so delicate and vulnerable that she ... couldn't exist without loving someone...

• Word Count: 549
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... (Inside Hamlet's Quarters) My trusted friend and comrade, O, fie! Horatio, dearest friend, I trust the morrow of your days to find you well and blessed. O, Life! What a most wicked, wicked night of sleepless toss and turning. Ha! Not any different than yerternight. And yesternight, still. I pray ... I "thaw and resolve [myself] into a dew," and have to face no more the horror of my truths. And yet, the "Everlasting [has]..fix'd a ... ," and I cannot take away this meanigless life. O, God! I am weary of this world, weary of the "unweeded" Denmark, weary of life and all that it posses. If...

• Word Count: 422
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... by many, including his lovely wife, Faith, until that day. When he plans to go into the forest with the old man he loses his innocence and some of his sanity. "after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and go to heaven." This is him confessing to himself he will be letting go of his honor. Now he will only ... that place was. On this journey of his he lost the image of the "prefect" and sheltered world of that he had only known existed. His life went from the tender loving care that England taught him to the, wild, unorganized, harrowing place they call the Congo. His pure eyes wer...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School