... distorted characters and narration, it elicits a strong emotional response from him or her. The unidentified narrator somewhat haphazardly sets the story beginning in the relative present and frequently jumping back to points in the past past, relating the previous and present interactions between the three freakish main characters: the androgynous Miss Amelia, the manipulative hunchback Cousin Lymon, and the evil criminal ... wind, and time often suspends in the story to accommodate the narrator's digressions on various topics. The distortion of the characters and the narrator that McCu...

• Word Count: 426
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... synonymous with its inhabitants. A novel of love and destruction, Snow Falling on Cedars is satiated with underlying plots and morally exigent themes. {Guterson's novel interweaves realistic interpretations with romantic accents to fuse these subplots, together with a role-playing setting, into one watertight mystery romance.} The small community associated with San Piedro Island, recently stricken with the misfortune of a mysterious drowning, ... as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of property. The mention that his house offers "no aff...

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

... in which she stands is evocative of a painted portrait, communicating to the audience that Madeleine is constructed as a fictional character rather than a real person. Her slow, deliberate, movements as she steps out of the room, her ethereal white blonde hair, her distant eyes, dreamy voice and lingering gestures are all components of a contrived, haunted persona, yet they also represent the ... unattainable qualities of an ideal 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 rejec...

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

... was performed later at Bourbages, "The Curtain". The actors that took part in this play were all young to middle aged men, because at the time, women were not allowed to perform in any piece of theatre. However, the parts of the play that were meant to be women required men to be dressed up as women, so that their part could be easily recognizable ... with each other, was the forces of wealth, power, and nobility that were trying to keep them apart. The casting choices of those in the performance of "Romeo and Juliet" were played all by young to middle aged men, and the parts that resem...

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