... arrive at many quintessential elements a great novel possesses such as: story plot, themes, lesson, and language. To create these things an author must establish a variety of characters, as do in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Chaim Potok's The Chosen, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. The reoccurring factor of opposite characters transpires in all three novels. Which gives ... depth and fulfillment to these novels. To begin with, David Malter and Reb Saunders, two characters from The Chosen, differ greatly. Reb Saunders, the Hassidic Rabbi and fathe...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... an essential introduction to the entire Bible, or the "book of beginnings". From the excerpt given in the text, it is difficult to ascertain the author of the book. However, although the identity of the author is not mentioned in the book, from outside sources, historians believe that Moses himself wrote the book along with the other four books of the Pentateuch ... freedom. This can be seen in God's sadness that man had disobeyed his commands and their banishment for their disobedience. Genesis introduces a God that initiates and makes covenants with his chosen people, pledging his lov...

• Word Count: 1238
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, The Fixer, the author, Bernard Malamud, presents to us a poor Jewish handyman living in Russia during the early 1900's, before the Russian revolution had begun. Destroyed by his wife's disavowal, Yakov Shepsovitch Bok leaves ... Golov. He was being used only as an example to the three million Jewish residents of Russia. He was being used as a warning. The meaning of the title The Fixer, chosen by Malamud, has a very literal meaning, however it symbolizes a much more profound thought. Literally, the title only refers to the main character of the novel, who makes a living as a f...

• Word Count: 915
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School