... one of his or her digressions, goes into depth about the loneliness of love. The narrator describes love as a selfish, horrible experience, detrimental to the parties involved and a cause of great pain and suffering. The degradation of such an inherently human emotion as love evokes a strong emotional response from the reader, especially that of pity for the characters and their plight borne of an ignorance and misunderstanding ... of love. This initial pity by the reader, however, goes far beyond momentary pangs of conscience, it encourages them to take McCullers' lesson to heart, and ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... of David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. Many perspectives are possible in interpretation of the piece: for example, interpretation as a romance versus a mystery. Credited with instigating the versatility of the novel are countless trivial and more importantly three prevailing subplots: interracial tension, a love affair forsaken by the race gradient and obstructed by Hatsue's marriage to Kabuo, and finally Ishmael's twisted contemplation to avenge his own broken ... , when Kabuo's trial is judged and its verdict decided by the speculation of white Americans, a race-related mis...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

... woman that Scottie becomes hopelessly obsessed with. It is his inclination for romantic delusion that leads him to fall prey to Judy's trickery, readily rejecting real love in favor of the illusive, dreamlike love he finds with Madeleine. As the two converse for the first time in Scottie's apartment, Hitchcock imbues a dreamlike quality to the atmosphere by employing swelling romantic orchestration that reflects and facilitates Scottie's enchantment ... with Madeleine,giving a sense that he is no longer in the conventional world but is caught up in the mysterious dream world that she in...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

... can be considered extraordinary because of the setting and the close parallel that it plays with the performance of "Romeo and Juliet". This movie creates an extraordinary theatrical performance of "Romeo and Juliet", because all of the parts of the play are played by men, there are no elaborate scene changes except for those created by the narrator in the imagination of the audience, and the deep and profound love relationship that ... is created by William Shakespeare in the play of "Romeo and Juliet" and the tragic ending of both "star crossed lovers" deaths in each others ... ...

• Word Count: 1874
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Graduate