... another person, a sense of personal satisfaction that can be bought with material goods. The characters in the story crave to love someone else but fear to be its recipient. Even the narrator, in 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 ... ...

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

... the race gradient and obstructed by Hatsue's marriage to Kabuo, and finally Ishmael's twisted contemplation to avenge his own broken heart, placing Kabuo forever in prison and away from his one true love. Tension subsists among the residents of San Piedro at the very introduction of the novel, as a blanket of silence has draped itself over the community subsiding there. This silence is not of hate present in the ... minds of the citizens, but rather of fear that interaction of higher frequency may re ... -catalyze the destructive feud that ensued nine years earlier, as the white citizens...

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

... is a hypnotic tale of one man's struggle for power, his hopeless search for his ideal love and his abandonment of reality for an illusion. In particular, the scene in Scottie's apartment after he rescues Madeleine from the bay is significant in illustrating these central themes, which is ... several seconds at an open bedroom door, drawing emphasis on the subject of the shot. Madeleine, who is shown to be sound asleep inside. When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled expression. Her obvious ... over by the fire, ...

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

... much like "our music videos today". The staging of the performance was at "the Curtain" and was pretty much fixed in one set design and the only way the setting was really changed was through the imagination of the audience with the help of the narrator. There was also a utilization of music during the beginning of the performance of the trumpet fanfare and during whatever dances that ... allows the audience to closely relate who the Montigues (blue) and the Capulets (red) were during the brief encounters and sword fights that would take place. With the usage of the narrator, the audie...

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