... or make decisions that will greatly affect her personal life. Elvira, Antonia's mother, views her daughter as, "young and artless, uninstructed in the world's perfidy and with charms sufficient to render her an object of seduction" and takes control over matters of Antonia's heart and sends away ... Don Raymond. After Agnes falls in love with Don Raymond she is finally sparked with the strength to escape the life she does not want, and tries on multiple occasions to escape from the convent. This spark is later ignited into a flame after Agnes loses her virtue to Don Raymond and ... becom...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . He is certainly less candid in these recent years, but at the time of his publishing Haroun and the Sea of Stories in November of 1991, he was still under the foreboding shadow of the Iranian fatwa. This was his first publication since the release of The Satanic Verses, which was the spark that set off the Islamic world, and it therefore holds significant relevance to his crisis. With ... this edict hovering over Rushdie's head Haroun and the Sea of Stories takes a more transient role in his literary ... time line and covertly addresses many issues in the literary genre of metafiction...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate