... this style to accommodate his readers. The people reading his literature at the time still had very strict and traditional beliefs. Avoiding the grim tone Hawthorne usually involved removing undesirable Elements and modifying others. It is interesting to note often contained such intense emotions as jealousy, lust, and revenge ... when she became involved with a preacher, is the victim of society's harsh feelings and treatments and is perhaps the only decent Puritan in the town because she gives everyone a chance and looks down on no one. Despite his long absorption in Puritan writings, i...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 1938, to laborer Clevie Raymond Carver and homemaker Ella Beatrice Carver. At an early age, Carver moved with his family to the working-class town of Yakima, Washington. Throughout his life, he drew on his experiences in the Pacific Northwest as settings for his stories. Carver graduated from high ... to have written about commonplace people and events using a plain writing style, simple diction or word choice, and a literal, straightforward, easy-to-understand tone. Cathedral is a famous example. The first sentence of the story, the narrator's statement that "this blind man, an old frie...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... The material is divided into three books, each with three chapters. Fitzgerald sticks to prose narrative and dialogue for the most part, and he keeps a consistent tone and point of view throughout the novel. Fitzgerald tells a wonderful story and in this novel, the story is quite easy to follow. In the first book, ... of violence and his need to dominate his women grow into other male bullies later in Fitzgerald's career. Anthony begins as the trim and dapper man-about-town, wearing his attitudes in the same way that he wears his clean, clean clothes. He ends up as a man in a wheel chai...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School