... other hand values the surface details, the everyday life, and the common conduct of middle class individuals. They do this with the purpose of creating the illusion of reality. Herik Ibsen said that the effect he was seeking in his Realistic plays was to make "the spectator feel as if he were actually sitting, listening, and looking on events happening in ... for revenge. We can also see how Pip is at heart a very generous and sympathetic young man, a fact that can be witnessed in his numerous acts of kindness throughout the book (helping Magwitch, secretly buying Herbert's way into bus...

• Word Count: 3498
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... food, or starve! And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman." (39) Her financial tribulations can't be accounted solely to the fact that she has no money; rather, one must also note that at one point, she had large sums of money ... progresses, and Clifford becomes trapped by Maule's curse, Hepzibah's devotion grows stronger, and it is her and her alone that keeps Clifford alive and well at the end of the book. Again, Hepzibah is a surprise heroine/domestic ideology role re...

• Word Count: 2986
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... tone and point of view throughout the novel. Fitzgerald tells a wonderful story and in this novel, the story is quite easy to follow. In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. We are introduced to Adam Patch, Anthony's philanthropist prohibitionist grandfather. We meet Anthony's friends, ... from the pampered life of the beautiful to the suffering of the damned. The damnation is mainly caused by alcohol. Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling in the bed...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... prose--it's closer to poetry. The philosophy Ms. Cather espouses is simple enough for the peasant to understand, and too complex for the wisest scholar. This book just baffles me: it's not a novel, per se, nor is it a biography--it's more like an etching of time and place; of ideas and ... an unassuming manner that leads to the addition of this quality to the working definition of the heroic. Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather The book "Death Comes For The Archbishop", by Willa Cather, is a unique and compelling story about the Archbishop Latour and his friend Father Vaillant....

• Word Count: 7335
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike, receiving nominations for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Many critics note a shift in Carver's work between the publication of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and Cathedral, ... In times of recession and falling expectations, stress levels rise, alcoholism increases, and marriages falter. In Carver's stories, disaster always seems to be just outside the pages of the book. His characters ge...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Lafferty has captured the essence if Indian writing very well. This is shown by his description of day to day living of the Indians. This book showed how Lafferty could be versatile. This work was a very realistic story that people are able to relate. He uses a science fiction twist on ... realism. Shake again. The exact latitude and longitude of Paradise: go there and see, Shake, the exact name written upon the Devil's tombstone. This book is a strange twist of myths and monsters. The Devil is Dead is the classic example of the bizarre potential of Science Fiction. It is very ... tries ...

• Word Count: 2850
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... published in 1983. With its publication he finally received the critical praise he had longed for. Cathedral is generally considered to be one of Carver's finest works. The book was also Pulitzer Prize nominated book. The story is narrated in first person and is about a blind man who is coming to visit the narrator and his wife. The narrator does not realize ... of short stories by Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, was his first key work. It was published in the United States in 1976 and nominated for a National Book Award in 1977 (Claude Grimal, 1995). Carver began dri...

• Word Count: 3978
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of the title- he tells readers to take action, explaining that history is never unbiased- it is tainted by the storyteller's prejudice. The imagery in the title, and throughout the book, indicates that assuming the skin of a lion can be a way of legitimising one's life in order to compensate for historical omissions. This provides an opportunity for the once marginalised persons ... is actually an attempt at coming to terms with his own story since the stories of these two women are intricately interwoven with his own. By the end of the book, which actually is the beginning, Patrick is ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School