Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. ... The greed illustrated in the story is also a theme, alerting the reader to the unsavoury characters of the Warden and Mr Sir. ... The book also considers contemporary issues which enable the reader to relate to the characters and their scenarios. ... This type of analysis is encouraged within secondary learning, making Holes' a very good book to study. ... The involvement of the reader throug...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Write a considered analysis of Holes' by Louis Sachar, outlining its significance for both school students and older readers, placing it in the context of literary tradition'. ... The greed illustrated in the story is also a theme, alerting the reader to the unsavoury characters of the Warden and Mr Sir. ... The book also considers contemporary issues which enable the reader to relate to the characters and their scenarios. ... This type of analysis is encouraged within secondary learning, making Holes' a very good book to study. ... The involvement of the reader throug...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He was now ready to kill Duncan. ... He could not rest in peace if he did not kill Macbeth. ... Macbeth sees himself kill his ruler. ... Instead, Macbeth accepts the plans and goes further by asking Lady Macbeth to "mock the time with fairest show" (I, vii, 91). ... In privacy, Macbeth re-thinks his plans to kill Duncan. ...

• Word Count: 12917
• Approx Pages: 52
• Grade Level: High School

The setting, irony, character motives and Glaspell's message to the female readers gave insight on what came really came of Mr. ... She was so over joyed that she died "of the joy that kills" (Ronson 216). ... While they are discussing their findings and what it all means, the men mock them. ... "She-come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery" (Ronson 222). ... Their analysis of Minnie Foster provided enough evidence that she did committed the crime. ...

• Word Count: 1562
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play  Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... This comedic turn shows the difference between the noble, allegorical characters in the story (Alcyone, Juno, Seys) and the realistic, human characters of the poet's world. ... He hears a great number of birds singing loudly outside his window. ... The dreamer tries to talk the knight out of suicide by enumerating the foolish people in history who ki...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

Analysis After Ralph's tense, exciting stand against the hunters, the ending of Lord of the Flies is rife with irony. ... Now, when all he can do is struggle to stay alive as long as possible, a deus ex machina (an improbable or unexpected device or character that suddenly appears to resolve a situation) appears, at the last possible moment, in the form of the naval officer who brings the boys back to the world of law, order, and society. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the nov...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School