... Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska. My question is, though, how could I not? Ms. Yezierska entwines colorful language with beautiful story lines to form one strikingly influential novel of dreams, irony, and strife. Hungry Hearts is divided into ten short stories, which are all connected to one another. The way the story's narrator changes ... to find it is just as downtrodden and oppressed as their native land. This book also destroyed most of the stereotypes I had about immigrants. Yezierska explains clearly, through dialogue, that immigrants went to America looking for a better life not...

• Word Count: 432
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... with lung cancer, and rather than becoming what she believed would be a burden to her family, she committed suicide. The novel itself deals with the protagonist Morag Gunn, a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying ... Morag admired Christie's wisdom and she enjoyed listening to his stories he was telling her. The snapshots of "The Diviners" reveal Morag's past. The entire novel deals with her childhood in a small Manitoba town and later on as a young adult in Vancouver, where she decides to study. Morag was a very ... time. ...

• Word Count: 785
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... of An Hour" written in 1894. Kate Chopin was born Katherine O"Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851. Her background was a mixture of Creole, descended from French settlers, and Irish immigrants. She was well educated at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis and graduated 1868, following her father's accidental death. In 1870, she married Oscar Chopin, and the ... respect. Cazeau knows that he cannot force Athenaise to love him, instead it takes Athenaise to discover what her heart truly wants. Chopin's career is cut short when her last novel "The Awakening" is published in 189...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School