... Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. It has won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Non-fiction and has been selected as must readings by many American high schools. Yet, in sharp contrast to ... usually incompatible to the contemporary reading public or sometimes even critical circles but his/her literary value will finally be discovered by critics and literary scholars of the later generations. Notes: 1) Maxine Hong Kin...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind'' (Mitchell). This foreword from the famous novel Gone with the ... Jefferson is a recurrent theme. First of all, the story opens in section one with Miss Emily's funeral. The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house ... alive or death. Compare to Miss Emily's neighbors, modern people...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School