... the Old; modern society against southwestern Indian culture. In The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia she formalized this tension in a technique of embedding, allowing fragments of a legendary history-Cliff Dwellers, conquistadores-to surface momentarily and disappear. In The Professor's House, embedding became a central, self-conscious structure, with "Tom Outland's Story" opening what Cather called a "window" to a stronger, cleaner past ... ...

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

... seen as glamorous, and "free." They live selfish lives, living only for the moment. They thrive on pleasure but, by the age of thirty, they are used up, spent, and gray. They have wasted their lives in a desperate and degraded effort. Wealth - or the promise of wealth - turns Anthony into a failure. He believes nothing is worth doing and refuses to work ... ...

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

... by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to." (Carver's Cathedral). Carver's choice of first-person point of view for the narrator provides a clearer picture into the feelings, attitudes, and isolation of the narrator, who is never named. When the narrator speaks, his mood and inner traits are revealed by his tone of "voice." ... the time Robert touched her face. The narrator dislikes the poems but confesses that he might not understand them. The narrator achieves insight into his own life when he draws a picture of a cathedral with Robert, real...

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

... understanding of history by no means always corresponds to its objective substance. By investigating the development of ever changing reality and analyzing social relationships, the realist writers produced an authentic picture of contemporary personal and social life, since the underlying principle or the realist method, active cognition, brought important new achievements. The realists were able to portray the essential conflicts of ... , both having been made use of and having much to regret. This fits them for each other and no one else. So they leave the ruined place hand in hand, a...

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

... showing pictures of cathedrals, Robert asks the narrator to describe them to him. Because the narrator is unable to adequately use language to create meaning, Robert asks him to draw a picture of the cathedral on a large piece of paper. Robert places his hand over the narrator's as he draws. Signifi-cantly, while the narrator draws, the television goes off the air ... ...

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

... February 3, 2000 ArtVoice of Buffalo.) Michael Ondaatje is a familiar name at least to movie goers. He is the author of The English Patient,the novel that was made into a motion picture which garnered a number of Academy Awards a couple of years ago. At her suggestion, my wife and I went to see that film -- visiting a movie house is a rare occurrence in our family ... ...

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