... assert that the simple techniques, in which, the author used were perfectly constructed: plot, theme, sequence, and etcetera. When a reader looks back on literature and understands that an author carefully wrote a story analyzing these tools; a person begins to reveal that a certain author is great. To understand the ... that would last for generations to come. He was required to anticipate the force of the current going upstream and downstream make mental- notes of the changing depths at every crucial spot where the leadsmen dropped their knotted ropelines into the water and sang out th...

• Word Count: 3292
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. Yet, in sharp contrast to such high acclaim in the circle of expertise, not an insignificant portion of American students do not feel inclined to read ... is "the death of a beauty". The other similar examples are enormous in this book such as the description of the roadside scenery on the way up to the mountain to study martial arts. In this part, thou...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the Bell Tolls. His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators, but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway died in 1961. From these ... started to, because I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers . . . I should think what one learns from composers and from the study of harmony and counterpoint would be obvious."" Hemingway 1958 (Plimpton p 108) "There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...

• Word Count: 2697
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... the famous novel Gone with the Wind had summarized the Old South. The civilization may be gone with the wind, but the discussion and study of that time will never end. It was an endless theme for many American writers at the time. William Faulkner was considered to be one ... and the town of Jefferson is a recurrent theme. First of all, the story opens in section one with Miss Emily's funeral. The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with ... the Civil War was one of the major ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School