Does Sethe kill her baby girl because she wants to save the baby from slavery or does Sethe end her daughter's life because of a selfish refusal to reenter a life of slavery? ... I couldn't let all that go back to where it was, and I couldn't let her or any of em live under School Teacher. ... She views her children as an extension of her life that needed to be protected, at any cost. ... And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. ... Maybe Baby Suggs could worry about it, live with the likelihood of it; Sethe refused- and ...

• Word Count: 3106
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

"The sympathy or magnetism among human beings is more subtle and universal than we think; it exists, indeed, among different classes of organized life, and vibrates from one to another. Loosely based on the events of Hawthorne's own life, The House of the Seven Gables attempts to show the suffering of descendants forced to repent for the sins of their "father", while they are unknowingly renewing the curse by nurturing the ancestral greed that has passed through the generations. ... However, the essence of the crime lived on through the generations. ... She lived in solitude ...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Leonardo and his brothers noticed that she almost never spoke of her home life or her childhood; she seemed to have no gay early memories to share with her lover, as sweethearts usually crave to do. ... And off she would go, wherever she was, to tell her father, though it meant going all the way to Makati, Rizal, where she lived with her parents in a new house on Zapote Street. ... "I built this house for Lydia," said Cabading, "and I want her to live here even when she's married. ... Then the newlyweds went to live on Zapote Street -- and Leonardo almost immediately realized why Lydia ha...

• Word Count: 5098
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. ... Roxie Hart, who has dreamed of fame and life on the Vaudeville stage all her life and Velma Kelly, a seductive club singer on the Vaudeville stage. ... Roxie uses her imagination on the stage as a diversion of real life. ... When he first meets Amos to discuss money it is shown the type of man he is when he says "Look, I don't like to blow my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today and had $5000 and ...

• Word Count: 5174
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Even Ralph, whose life has literally been saved by the presence of the ship, weeps tears of grief rather than joy. ... Although he never matched the popular and critical success he enjoyed with "Lord of the Flies," he remained a respected and distinguished author for the rest of his life and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. ... Though the novel is fictional, its exploration of the idea of human evil is at least partly based on Golding's experience with the real-life violence and brutality of World War II. ...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School