... character, Patrick Lewis, searches for identity and light. Without these elements, he lacks love and cannot survive the world. A passage in chapter three describes him as a lonely man that is isolated from the world around him. "Clara and Ambrose and Alice and Temelcoff and Cato- this cluster made up a drama without him. And he himself was noting but a prism that refracted their ... , Ontario. What did the word mean? Something that suggested there was a terrible horizon in him beyond which he couldn't leap. Something hollow, so when alone, when not aligned with another- whether it was Am...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... that more. Yes, money can help to obtain material possessions, but it doesn't buy you the close relationships held with friends, family, lovers, and people in society altogether. Also, money doesn't make you a whole person; in fact, it often hinders you from being your true self because of the fact that ... power to obtain just about anything that can be bought. This mindset tends to make give off an attitude of arrogance and could result in disconnection from people, even the ones you love As Karen Sunde wisely said, "to love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." Through ... good persona...

• Word Count: 398
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... that differ with each other. The story of A&P seems like a typical short story about a boy working at a super market when he judges people walking in and out. Throughout the story, the main character named Sammy complains about the people who walk through and how his manager mistreats a group of ladies that he ... same things everyday and having to deal with a disrespectful manager. On top of that, the ladies in bikinis reminded Sammy of the fun times he had in the past which also made him quit. While I was reading the book, I fell into the trap of the explicit goal as this story made it ...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3

... friend such as Ruthie had with Francie. I relate myself to Ruthie because people have picked on me and turned their back on me in the past, and I trust myself completely with my friends. In the middle of reading your book, I just suddenly asked myself "how do I treat other people?" I noticed how I don't exactly respect everyone. And that there is always a person that I can ... bully if I looked hard enough. Every person has that same problem too. Discrimination was a problem in this book, and it is a problem in my school. After reading this book, I was inspired to be nicer. Because of t...

• Word Count: 504
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... status of males and females. Benedick at the beginning of the story was portrayed as an egocentric bombastic military man who can never be in love as he objectifies women and is very misogynistic which is the starting ground for all the conflict between Benedick and Beatrice. However as ... start their relationship with a hate-love relation and as it evolves Shakespeare ends the play by resolving it. Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme ac...

• Word Count: 797
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... was called by God to be His voice to the people in about the middle of the eighth century b.c. and dedicated at least thirty-eight years of His life to prophesizing (3). Hosea is typically known for its metaphor between Gomer's unfaithful marriage with Hosea and Israel's unfaithful relationship with God. This book focuses on the themes of sin, judgment, and forgiving love ... (1). Hosea's purpose in writing this text was to demonstrate to the Northern Kingdom the spiritual adultery they were committing towards God. He came to inform them, however ... us just like Hosea did. Other days,...

• Word Count: 526
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

You can't judge a book by it's cover. In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, we meet Jane Eyre, who finds her true love to be someone she is not attracted to. Jane is attracted to people ... goes on to tell him that appearances mean little or nothing. Jane understands that to have a true and loving relationship with someone, that both must have not looks, but a similarity in thought, and a like for the other's personality. Relationship's such as this are ones of quality that will last for a long time. Although Jane is not a beautiful women, ... thinker than to have beautiful features and an abund...

• Word Count: 565
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... was a grenade, she lived her life as she was not terminally ill and embraced everyday that she had with Augustus, like it was her last." Throughout the book, another important message was to live everyday, as it is your last. "I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a ... day as it was there last. They took on new adventures together and lived as they had all the time in the world. Lexie Lubov, stated that, " Teenagers will take life lessons away from this book. It will teach them how to cry, how to smile and how to acept the changes that we are faced ... ...

• Word Count: 607
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... Micheal share is questioned. Personal Notes for Using the Book: The story is a very realistic portrayal of what first love is really like. The fact that Katherine falls so hard for Micheal and they truly believe that they will be together forever is something that everyone feels the first time. The way in which this forever is questioned is also quite true ... of other issues that are brought up momentarily in the novel that aren"t deeply discussed like maybe they should be but they are brought up and could initiate conversation. Other issues include, birth control, pregnancy, suicide, ...

• Word Count: 585
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... wanted and the chance of what is real love. Janie learns a lot in all of her relationships, she learns about marriage, happiness and integrity. She learns different experiences and finally found her own independence as women. This book was incredibly good. Hurston did a good job of showing the different ... aspects of Janie as she tries to find herself in all three of the relationships, it teaches her life experience as each relationship gives her ... gave us a character that went through different experiences and showed how it molded her into becoming the woman she is at the end of the ...

• Word Count: 982
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Have you ever wondered why your friend has started to act differently? Drastic changes in our lives can cause fluctuations in our emotional states. Laura Esquivel displays a perfect example of this evolution in her book, "Like Water for Chocolate". The protagonist of the novel, Tita De La Garza, is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena. As the black sheep, Tita spends most of her time ... in the kitchen. Due to tradition, she is prohibited from marrying because she is obligated to take care of her ... ) This quote connects Mama's actions to Tita's maturity. She believes that Tita is trying to p...

• Word Count: 626
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... "Being sons of mothers whose husbands had blundered rather brutally through their feminine sanctities, they were themselves too diffident and shy", displays Paul's extreme difficulty in giving himself to his first lover, Miriam. When Gertrude becomes sick and Paul and Annie give a drug to speed-up her death, I thought ... situation only worsened. Although dead, he could still not break ties with his mother. Lawrence constantly uses jealousy for a better understanding of the relationships in the novel. Walter, although rarely giving attention to his wife, experiences jealousy for his sons...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... . __ feelings hurt, I say. I don't mention mine" This shows that she is obviously feeling hurt and left out by the fact that Shug is in love with someone else, perhaps even slightly envious. This gives us a new insight into the feelings Celie has for Shug Avery, suggesting that she is perhaps ... Celie. It is evident from page 98 that Celie is in love with Shug, and almost completely confirms the assumption we have felt from the beginning of the book; that Celie is homosexual. There have been a number of implications throughout the book, but when Celie says "It feel like heaven is what ...

• Word Count: 630
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... food and shelter. However, it is apparent that the only way to obtain sustenance is through thievery. Instead of searching for affection and love in Lázaro's master, he searches for any possible way to solve his hunger pains. Soon after the blind man abuses Lázaro enough, ... both are equally famished. Ultimately, hunger for food and for status becomes his next goal. In the company of his next masters, he acquires food but, more importantly, he is able to buy himself clothes and a sword that would feign his importance. After achieving his primary objective of ... were frequently overlo...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5

... question as to whether Hamlet is insane or not. The play hamlet is about a royal family whose king dies. The king was killed by his brother Claudius by pouring poison in his ear. After King Hamlet dies, his wife Queen Gertrude marries Claudius and he becomes king, leaving Gertrude and King Hamlet's son without having the throne. Throughout the ... book everything that has happened to Prince Hamlet one could see him getting more and more insane. One could say that Prince Hamlet is in fact totally sane because when he encounters his fathers ghost. When he sees his father's ghost the ghost...

• Word Count: 659
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... her. He deals with feelings of guilt because he had lost his wife and thought he was betraying her memory by being with Theresa. They fell in love with each other. At the end of the book Jeb finally realizes that a love like that to come around once is rare but for it to come around twice is a miracle. He writes one ... love she felt and received. Not many books have the ability to tug at a person's heart but this book just wasn't a sappy romance. It told of a very important lesson. Sometimes people can let the past destroy their future and if you want certain things in life you just ha...

• Word Count: 637
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... daughter, she reacts differently, with the end effect of Beloved leaving. Beloved is at their house because of the way she died, she has not had a peaceful death. In the very beginning of the book, before the reader knows that that the baby was killed by Sethe, Denver is commenting on how powerful the ghost is: "If she"d only come, I could make ... spell," said Denver "No more powerful than the way I lowed her," Sethe answered and there it was again. (4) In this passage Sethe flat out says that the ghost's power is just as strong as her love for it. For the whole book Sethe is in love w...

• Word Count: 678
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the power of love, the strength of the human spirit and the power of good over evil. It is proof that humanity does exist in a world, which seems to be increasingly gloomy and filled with ruthless beings motivated by greed and selfishness." This reading accurately describes some of the ... displays an undercurrent of love, friendship and trust. People who love each other in this book are obviously Greg and Mikki who at the end of the novel marry, Eric and Susan are another couple represented in the book. The love that Susan had for her deceased brother Richard is the single ... reason t...

• Word Count: 528
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Vladimir Nabokov wrote the novel Lolita, he did not set out to write a controversial novel about pedophilia, but rather a book about true love. It is a story of an older French man in love with the forbidden young children in America and his journey through the love trials of his life. When one looks past the immediate moral issues, he will find that here ... of every day, and that is a sign of his true love. Throughout the novel, you find Humbert writing about his love for Lolita in his journal. Probably one of the most convincing passages that he writes in this book shows us the depth ...

• Word Count: 620
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... , died. That same year, her half-brother died fighting in the Civil War. Throughout her life, Kate Chopin became an independent and successful writer, creating opportunities on her own. Although she had no political career, she was instrumental in the push for suffrage. Her book, The Awakening deals with the condition of women in marriages during the late nineteenth century. Edna Pontellier is the ... focal point in the book for feminism. Throughout the book, she struggles in her quest for personal fulfillment. Her independence begins to shine through as she pulls ... respect of Edna (w...

• Word Count: 507
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... she is being very rude, especially as she doesn't know him. Other examples of her rudeness are when she tells her friends not to get their cigarette ash in her peach ice cream after they complimented it, and when she is treating Hoke like a child when he needs to pee ... . In these instances in the play, I think Miss Daisy needs to think of others more. Miss Daisy is sarcastic in the play too. She is sarcastic when when she is telling Hoke to drive away quickly but she didn't say speed ... ! This is an example of when she is being sarcastic in a mean way, but there are also instances when...

• Word Count: 315
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

... people to look past society and be their true selves, and he wants to do that also, but he does not want to be in complete isolation. He feels that the cause of phoniness is being in group situations and feeling like you need to be good enough for everyone else. What he really needs is affection, but he there ... is worried that if he gets to close to anyone else that they will die and he will have to be sad all over again. Towards the end of the book, Holden begins to get better because Phoebe helps him. By refusing to let him run away without her, she is essentially saying, "I will al...

• Word Count: 639
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... he did not even know he was alive anymore. But when Harold meets Anna Pascal, everything changes. At first he thinks he is crazy, hearing this British woman narrator's voice in his head steadily confirming for him the repetition that is his life, but when Harold meets Anna Pascal, it seems to shake him awake. Then, when he hears the narrator ... and with some help from an English professor named Prof. Hilbert; he realizes she could be the decision that influences whether his story will become a comedy or a tragedy. He falls in love with her and by doing so he takes the biggest risk of h...

• Word Count: 506
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... avoiding motherhood. But as soon as she arrives she is given a young child by a complete stranger. Taylor quickly falls in love with Turtle and begins to embrace motherhood. Earlier in the book, prior to Turtle's assault, Taylor admits, "I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires and ... now I'm counting them as blessings," (185). Later in the book, Taylor's attitude towards motherhood shifts completely and her sureness is replaced with doubt. After the assault, Taylor says to Lou Ann, "I'm just ... afraid she will be replaced by Esperanza. A few years back, Esperan...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... and doesn't want to go to the support group, but she only gives in and goes for her parents. Hazel meets Augustus Waters who is perfect, charming and smart. Augustus has had osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer he lost his leg but is now cancer free. Hazel's favorite book is called Imperial Affliction written by Peter Van Houten. Hazel tried to contact Mr ... especially people who want to watch a sad romantic story about two teenagers who look past their path of cancer and fall in love. The MPAA rating is PG-13 and this movie was fantastic and I think everyone should read the book by John G...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School