(Revelation 19:9) Everyone loves a love story, and what better love story than that of the Marriage of the Lamb? ... This story of the marriage of the Lamb cannot be viewed only under the microscope of today's society, but needs to be compared to the time in which the story was written and the customs of that day. ... This contract was usually signed up between the father of the boy and the father of the girl, when they were very small children. ... Before you and I were born physically, we were betrothed by the Father to the Son." ... The father of the bride would take his dau...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The story illustrates Troy, his father, and briefly his son, in an examination of how these men serve to symbolize the struggle of men and how those struggles are often passed down from generation to generation. Throughout the story, the word Fences symbolizes every difficult aspect . ... Troy's father was less than a true man, but he was a worker and a provider. Troy, even as a runaway, carried with him his father's virtues. ... (Winson, 96) Rose's words, wise as they are, would have been ineffectual without the help of Raynell, Troy's illegitimate daughter, no...

• Word Count: 1386
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

One of the greatest stories in the entire bible can be found on the book of Exodus. It is the story of Moses. ... Pharaoh's daughter came to the river to bath. ... Along came seven daughters of Jethro to water the herds. ... When the girls told their father what Moses had done for them, he offered Moses dinner. ...

• Word Count: 1963
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

These issues were not only the influences that led her to write The Yellow Wallpaper, but the story is a mirror image of her life. ... Gilman theorized that her father, Frederick Beecher, a librarian and magazine editor, and grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, abandoned his family because his wife could no longer perform her duties as a wife (Schwartz xi)(Lane vi). ... This statement is true in both Gilman's life and it's recreation in the story. ... Here again, Gilman has the uncanny ability to combine aspects of her life with that of the story. ... Because of the financial state...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

By the time Hester and her daughter arrive at the scene, Dimmesdale is a nervous reck. ... In the final scaffold scene, the story comes to a close. ... At her father's request, she "kissed his lips. ... Although she would not kiss him in the forest, this kiss is Pearl's first acceptance of Dimmesdale as her father. ... Through the honesty of her father, Pearl is truly born into life. ...

• Word Count: 1627
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Henrik's breaks through his usual barrier of silence and speaks out against his father. He smashes wine glasses and disobeys his father's wishes for him to be silent or leave the table. ... "But the clowns will have a cup of coffee in the kitchen" The Father and Smiles: One can not know if you are a childs father Not to mention, The Seventh Seal. ... Although Igmar Bergman's film, The Seventh Seal is a very dark story, it is garnished with humor, primarily provided by Antonius Block's Squire. ... of comedy and tragedy, THE FATHER- How can a father know ...

• Word Count: 2216
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The first story in Out of This Furnace is about George Kracha, a Hungarian immigrant who came to America in 1881. ... The second story in Out of This Furnace is about Mike Dobrejcak, who marries Kracha's daughter. ... Dobie grows up without parents in the early 1900's; he lost his father in the steel mills and his mother to illness. ... While Dobie's father and grandfather picked their wives at an early age, with the idea of getting a family established, Dobie rejects this idea of getting married right away, and waits until he is thirty. ... Dobie was more American than both his...

• Word Count: 1427
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Far and Away opens up to Joseph Donnelly (Tom Cruise), an Irish tenant farmer and his battles with his rich landowner after his father's death over unpaid rent. A powerful scene takes place within the first 10 minutes which shows Joseph Donnelly and his brother carrying their father coffin while the rich landowners burn there house in the background for unpaid rent. For revenge Joseph sought to kill the rich landowner, but ran into his daughter Shannon played by Nicole Kidman. ... They follow in their daughter's footsteps and travel to Boston in search of ...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... For the story of The Last of the Mohicans, the episodic adventures are the appropriate fictional clothing, while the traditional emotional love represents the charming piping. ... Since conflict is a basic ingredient of the frontier in the novel, the story's action of flight, hostility, disguise, warfare, etc. ... With difficulty finding their way through the heavy morning mists and the infinite French, the seven, hotly ...

• Word Count: 1773
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• Grade Level: High School

James Tyrone, the Irish father, is deeply wounded from the unfortunate state of his family, which happens to be partly his fault. ... James" father left his family to return to Ireland, leaving them to suffer even more. ... Mary was a grateful daughter of a wonderful father and was always surrounded by prosperity. ... This transformation symbolizes how Edmund in the story felt like he is to blame for his family's corruption, and feels like he should have not been born. ... I remember everyday I looked back on those years and was disgusted how I didn't take action and fulfill tha...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School