I have realised that in order to change you need love and support from friends and family and that sometimes people need to change who they are in order to obtain their dreams/ goals. ... Without love there would be no humour and laughter in Sally's family and Sally wouldn't be able to change in the ways that she did. ... The only reason this final change occurred was because her family and new friends showed her love and support as well as understanding and encouragement. ... Not only did Captain Sarah have the love of her family but she also had the love of her friends to help de...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

On her deathbed, Victor's mom says, "Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. ... During the time of the exile, Felix was unable to see his loved one, just like while Victor was away studying, they both could not see the one they cared for. ... When the Monster starts killing his family members one by one, he makes Victor contemplate the idea of what it is like to be without a loved one. ... Every being deserves someone to love and someone to love them. ... This was most unfortunate because he never got to experience what living with a family or having anyone ...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The house on Cloudstreet itself, the river, the symbolic representations of the Lambs and Pickles families and the Aboriginal man contribute to meaning as Winton uses symbolism to make a comment on the racial policies of Australia in the 1950s, as well as to endorse love, family, and spirituality in the search for fulfillment in life. ... Besides this, the library, as well as the house in general is used by Winton to affirm his values of love and family. ... Thus, when Rose and Lamb make love in the library, "their sudden love remains in the room, hanging like incense". ... This love they h...

• Word Count: 1957
• Approx Pages: 8

Love plays an important role in Tess's life because love does not mean happiness to her but it causes her tragedy. ... Tess blames herself for loosing the family's means of livelihood. ... Her fluty voice attracts him first and he falls in love with Tess. This love seems to be different from the first one because Angel truly loves her. ... She, as always chooses unhappiness for the best of her family. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Heathcliff actually used Isabelle as a tool to get revenge on the Linton family. Isabelle fell in love with him and he used her for her whole life and never once returned that love to her. ... I believe he does all of this to get back at Edgar for marrying Cathy and among other things he despises the Linton family for. ... In Wuthering Heights Catherine and Heathcliff's love is a direct challenge to those social forces of family and class which tyrannize, oppress and restrict individuals and their relationship. ... He repelled readers by using Isabelle and her unending love, and living...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She is a simple, prepared housewife who will settle for a good home over love. ... Bingley to get married, in spite of the couple's true love. ... Whikham, while her sister Jane marries her true love Mr. Bingley, and Elizabeth falls in love and marries her true love Mr. ... From that point on in his life, Illyich isolated himself bye shutting out both family and friends leaving him sad and lonely. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The main character, Victor Frankenstein, grew up in a very stable and privileged family. ... "I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed. ... The creature on the other hand was given life without love, attention, or respect. ... The scarce amount of love between Victor Frankenstein and his creation immensely influenced one another. ... The creature never experienced the feeling of love and appreciation. ...

• Word Count: 1291
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• Has Bibliography

Whereas Mama Elena lets her loss of love turn her into the bitter dictator she has become. ... This victory although seemingly confined to one family will further the advance of women trying to wean themselves from the domestic centered stereotypes that exist even today. ... The matching of death and desire that occurs when the love between Pedro and Tita is free demonstrates this point. Tita in the end breaks free of having no control over her love for Pedro. In her lust for Pedro, Tita eats candles and burst into flames being reunited with her love in the after life. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In 1884, Anderson and his family moved to the small town of Clyde, Ohio. ... First, when he was only nineteen years old, Anderson's mother died, and his family pursued to split apart. ... The city and the search for money steal her only true love and her only chance at happiness. ... Anderson thought of sex both as the beginning and end to love. ... This opportunity for love could eliminate loneliness and isolation. ...

• Word Count: 1457
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The themes conveyed and the authors use of language also adds to the realist feel bringing across ideals of family, love and Australian culture. ... As readers we can relate to this as many families find it hard to provide for their family. ... Him, he was the one I loved ." ... Readers found that they were able to relate to this theme of family, as they to value family life and members. ... Events such as Oriel moving out into the tent, Dolly being alcoholic and Rose turning anorexic proved results of bad communication, readers realize they too sometimes have difficulties communicating w...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Emma immediately takes this opportunity to pry about the Martin family. ... Emma does not realize that her comments about the Martin family are actually uncalled for and very unladylike. ... Weston, on the other hand, feels nothing but love for her good friend Emma. ... Emma's love for Mr. ... Knightley's love. ...

• Word Count: 1855
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Tita must follow the family tradition that requires her to reject Pedro's marriage proposal so she can take care of her widowed mother until her death. ... The forces of love and passion conflict with Tita's responsibilities toward her mother. Tita learns to express her emotions through the food that she prepares for the family. ... Machismo is a centuries-old standard of behavior that governs the lives of many Latin American males and has long regulated the way in which families on the continent are organized. ... Any suggestion of dishonor on the part of a woman promises to bri...

• Word Count: 2483
• Approx Pages: 10

This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. ... We experience through Bernis, love, adventure, and death. ... Like most parents, both would grieve by crying and turning towards many friends and family members, and that is exactly what Herlin, the father, did. ... Remembering his family, his friends, and especially Genevieve. ... His journeys also showed his love for adventure. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The novel is about a Jewish hero from America named Jonathan who has a desire to find out the truth about his family's history. ... Alex's ultimate truth is that he loves Little Igor. ... On pages 131-132, Brod informs the Kolker that she has never loved him and never will love him. ... Safran clearly loves the Gypsy girl. ... Being with a Gypsy was looked down upon and would bring great shame to his family. ...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Valjean returns Marius to his family rather than Cosette, and Javert escorts him to his house where he disappeared from Valjeans sight. ... While both families are living in poverty, both women undergo less acceptable means of earning money for their families. Fantine's was a simple young girl who fell in love like all other girls. ... Her love for Cosette is endless and she proves that she would do anything for the benefit of her child. ... Hugo tries to convey the role of women in French society during the Revolution and motherly love through this juxtaposition. ...

• Word Count: 1615
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Due to this, Calvin is picking up the pieces of his family and doing his best to glue it back together. ... As Beth, Cal, and Conrad struggle with the death of a loved one, they blame themselves rather than facing the conflict head-on causing even more problems in the family system. ... At the end of the novel, Beth leaves the family behind. One of the crafts Judith Guest is loved for is her ability to control the story in different voices. ... She could not find it in herself to forgive those around her, which subsequently made her leave her family. ...

• Word Count: 2059
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Only when this is done can he feel himself to be part of "a human family, of the human family." ... Jewel is very special to his mother Addie, and although both love one another, neither can show this emotion in open situations. ... In this sense, Darl is like a sage and prophet to the rest of the family. ... She's the only daughter of the family, and represents fecundity, earthiness, and reproduction. ... Vardaman is the final son of Addie and Anze, and is often a victim under family circumstances. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks is a story of love and war. ... When Weir goes on leave to England to see his family, he realises that he is distant from communicating with them because he has been away so long. ... The fact he is wishing this upon his own family represents the hatred from the soldiers towards civilians as an effect from the horrors of war. ... 'He tried to cry but no tears would come to express his desolation or his love for poor mad Weir.' ... 'Not once but twice I have loved someone more than my heart would bear.' ...

• Word Count: 1354
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• Grade Level: High School

She is a 17-year-old girl in search of her family and most of all, who was her mother Hannah Wing (p 21). ... Angel is on a quest to meet her family and find out who her mother Hannah Wing was. ... Hw these women loved the land and the sanctity of life. ... That it is essential to learn how to love and how to except love in return. ... And that the world is a living place to be respected cherished and loved. ...

• Word Count: 1366
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• Grade Level: High School

Death for Karenin becomes the basic truth which makes him___ a living human being capable of love. ... Anna and Vronsky continues with their ill-fated love, while Karenin despite his ennoblement, finds Anna cannot love him and reverts back to his old ways. ... Levin serves as the backbone for Tolstoy's emphasis on the "natural life" where one loves and procreates, as opposed to the "unnatural life" where one lives by abstract principles. ... Anna now accepts death as she she had spontaneously and naturally confronted her love. ... It is the backbone for the other themes of the...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The monster saw the struggles that people went through working to provide for their families, and he selflessly helps them out. ... Because he is abandoned by Frankenstein when he is first created he feels alone and has no one to love. ... Just like a lot of humans, love and having a person to love is important to someone's life. The monster has never had someone to love, or has had anyone love him. ... After so much time and many warnings he gives Frankenstein to give him someone to love or for him to love him, the monster chooses to take revenge upon himself and kill all the important ...

• Word Count: 2040
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Faulkner uses a Southern family, the Sutpen's, to base the novel upon. ... The Sutpen's are a distinguished family in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, but the head of the family Thomas Supten has a hazy past. ... Quentin, a character who knew only the legend of the Sutpen family, is summoned by a women who tells him the story of the family. ... One either loves or hates Faulkner's writing, there is no median. ... This family is the Sutpens", who were at one time a prominent plantation family, the family turned on them selves and self destructed. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

At this point Jane realizes that her love has no hope. ... At the end of the novel she insisted Adele be brought back because she was a part of the family. Jane gave love wherever it was wanted. ... Although she loved many, none could compare to her love for Mr. ... She loved him completely and life without him was agony. ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

" (42) This blind adherence to religious ideals often baffles Stephen, such as when he is puzzled by his family's disquietude at his childish suggestion to marry his Protestant neighbor, Emma. ... Stephen also resolves his emotional turmoil toward the family by describing his father endearingly, despite his many faults. This demonstrates that although Stephen recognizes his family's-and specifically his father's-imperfections, he remains strongly rooted by familial love. ... Despite these tarnished upbringings, Joyce would remain strongly attached to his family, especially ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

is a typical teenage love story. ... While they are away, Michael and Kath tell each other that they love each other for the first time. ... Katherine's family is worried about her relationship with Michael; they worry that she is becoming too attached or that she will do something she will regret. ... She realizes that her first love with Michael may not really be forever since she so easily fell "in love" with Theo. ... However, she still tells Michael she loves him early in the relationship and believes that her love with him will last forever. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School