... the white citizens looked the other way when their fellow townspeople, the Japanese-Americans, were relocated to Japanese concentration camps in lieu of the ongoing Second World War. Therefore, when Kabuo's trial is judged and its verdict decided by the speculation of white Americans, a race-related misconception could prove to end the infinitely invaluable freedom of an innocent man. The love affair ... circling the blossoming Japanese-American youth Hatsue, and the infatuated white American youth Ishmael, was one condemned by the time and location that made it so thorny for these two ...

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

... the reader. McCullers usage of distortion ultimately moves the story from a simplistic narrative about social misfits to an allegory dealing with very complex and abstract emotions. Once the reader comes to realize the lessons embedded in McCullers' 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 ... 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, de...

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

... in Scottie's apartment after he rescues Madeleine from the bay is significant in illustrating these central themes, which is made especially effective through Hitchcock's use of camera angles, framing and background music. The camera pans slowly across Scottie's apartment at the beginning of the scene, finally stopping to pause for several seconds at an open bedroom door, drawing emphasis ... 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 gestur...

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

... , the pirates daughter", because at the time comedy plays were a big success. Instead, William creates a tragedy play, about "two star crossed lovers" from two different worlds who will fall deeply in love with each other and suffer the consequences of society around them that does not let them choose who they are to be with, but suffer from prearranged marriages. William obtains this ... terrible pain they feel when they realize that they can not be together, much like the way Romeo and Juliet felt when they realized that they came from two different sides of society and no matter how m...

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