One could assume that because it is her aunt she would be treated better as she really is true family, but this is not the case. ... Jane, as a child, reflects that, 'It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group'. ... The fact that Jane takes comfort in the company of a stranger shows the lack of trust and feelings she has for her family. ... For example when the Pastor accuses Jeannette of not loving Go...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She felt that Being loved was letting others feed from your resource-all you had in life was put in jeopardy (Findley, 153). ... At Rowena's funeral she stood apart from the rest of the family pretending she did not need any help. ... After the death of Robert's sister Rowena, the Ross family seems to be broken. ... Her words, you can go to hell, in reality, show her true love and care for Robert, yet in a vulgar way. ... Ross could not handle the loss of another loved one and Robert could not handle the horrific situations he had gone through. ...

• Word Count: 2775
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Lunar Park is a novel about the breakdown of a postmodern American family. ... Being the careless, selfish and ignorant individuals they were, they both drank irresponsibly and were never around family. ... If the child does not see the love returned to them by their parents, they being to suffer. ... It was during Bret's wild and crazy life of running away from his problems with his father is when he met the love of his life, Jayne. ... Does Bret finally realize his father's love for him because he is realizing his love for Robby? ...

• Word Count: 3723
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

You don't love him. ... You love me you know you do.You know you do!'-(FGT 90) At this point in the story, everybody thinks Idgie is just a sixteen year-old girl with a crush, but Idgie knows that Ruth is her love, and Ruth knows that Idgie is her love. ... Idgie loves Ruth more than anything in the world. ... I still love you and I always will and I still don't care what anybody thinks- - (FGT 178) It is this undying love for each other that makes their relationship much more than just a friendship. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. ... "Tolstoy passionately loved life." ... Life for Tolstoy included family happiness, spiritual harmony, love, nature, hunting. ... The detailed and passionate description of a hunt that took place on Rostovs" land gave away the author's love for hunting. ... Natasha fell in love with a man at a time when she was engaged to another. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and fall in love. ... Anthony is born into a wealthy family, graduates from Harvard, and lives on the expectation of a multi-million-dollar fortune. ... He is unable to stay in love with Gloria. ... They love each other because they are both "clean." ... Their love is doomed. ...

• Word Count: 2828
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• Grade Level: High School

The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of li...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His stepfather was a strict disciplinarian who showed James little love. ... This is one main reason why the themes of many of his works dealt with the search for love and identity. ... He did not go to college because his family needed him after his stepfather's mental health became worse. ... Baldwin started writing as one of the many ways that he could be loved. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... Morrison's father's family left Georgia to move north as an attempt to escape sharecropping and the violence against African Americans in the South. The town of Lorain on Lake Erie is where both families settled and is also where Morrison was eventually born. ... African American folklore, music, rituals, and myths filled Morrison's childhood, and storytelling was...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, and the novella, "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, both contain covert alternate meanings that emanate from the authors' literary style preferences. The alternate meanings can be considered "hidden meanings" as they do not directly convey any information that overtly states the hidden meaning. The information that does exist can be interpreted as hidden meanings by analyzing other signs and implications throughout the ambiguous literature. Ernest Hemingway uses a literary style called the &q...

• Word Count: 3072
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate