At first the narrator, or "Bub" as Robert nicknamed him, does not like the idea of Robert staying there because he is blind. ... He felt it absolutely was necessary to join in because he thought Robert would think he left the room and didn't want his wife to believe he was feeling left out. ... While the story progresses, the husband's attitude changes towards Robert. During dinner he watched with admiration as Robert used his knife and fork, on a piece of meat. ... The husband's understanding of Robert has improved when Robert confirms he wants to smoke dope with him...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Way Narrator sees Robert A. ... Narrator sees Robert as abnormal III. Baffled by Robert's individuality A. Way Robert Acted 1. ... Under other circumstances, the narrator's wife's descriptions of experiences that summer and Robert's friendship and advice through her marriages might have left him enlightened as to the depth of their relationship. ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

With no real introduction, Robert Frost gives the reader an intrusive look at an intimate moment in a couples life. ... The husband is not the only person left behind though, as the reader is left wondering how the situation may be resolved, but not getting a chance to see it. ...

• Word Count: 566
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Margot, his wife, is appalled by her husband's dread, and makes fun of him in front of their guide Robert Wilson. ... Margot Macomber mocks her husband openly by asking their guide, Robert William, if elands are dangerous. ... "He would have left you too." ... Robert Wilson is essentially Hemingway's misanthropic view of a man. ... When he gets older he tries to join the army, but cannot because of his bad left eye. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning of the story talks about the relationship between the blind man and the wife. By the end of the story we see how it now focuses on the relationship between the blind man and the husband. The husband's attitude towards the blind man starts out as resentful. I think he seems jealous of t...

• Word Count: 572
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

During her vacationing, Edna meets Robert Lebrun. ... Edna and Robert quickly develop to an "advanced" stage of intimacy. ... Edna tried to turn down invitations given to her by Robert, but often agrees. ... Edna's relationship with Robert plays a large part in her search for identity. ... As most would assume, she took "the easy way out" and left everything behind without a care in the world and just continued on with her selfishness. ...

• Word Count: 745
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. ... Edna is forced to choose between Robert and her family. ... The flames of love quickly consume her, and the presence of Robert invades her every thought. ... The "life- left behind consists of her "material possessions-(home, husband, children). However, when Edna's final rendezvous with Robert ends in disaster, she chooses to make one last decision. ...

• Word Count: 455
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• Grade Level: High School

She prefers to spend her time with a young man named Robert. Robert is a native to the island and he usually picks one woman each summer to hang around with. Edna and Robert are close to the same age, whereas Edna and her husband are very far apart in age. ... Also Mademoiselle Reiz receives letters from Robert about Edna and this makes Edna realize just how much she loves Robert. ... She was a little selfish in the fact that she just left her children without a thought. ...

• Word Count: 1005
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The first sign comes on a trip to the beach with Robert. ... One way Chopin shows this is through Robert Lebrun. ... First, Robert left for Mexico to pursue business. ... Robert's exit is also important because Edna is losing a love. ... But now he was gone and she was left knowing that she had been "denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded- (682). ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Even though Edna longed for and missed Robert when he left, Mr. ... Robert writes to his friend Mademoiselle Reisz regularly, sometimes mentions Edna. ... This was the Role of Robert for the summer, however he actually did fall in love with Mrs. ... Robert, trying to be honorable by not advancing on another man's wife, leaves for Mexico. ... Her wanting Robert, further distinguishes herself from any of the mentioned normative roles. ...

• Word Count: 1488
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This disapproval by , what seemed like everyone around her, left her questioning herself and gave her little hope and faith for the future. ... While on vacation, Edna falls in love with Robert Lebrun. ... When Edna feels lonely and is upset about Robert being away, she often visits with Mademoiseel Reisz, to whom Robert writes often. ... Edna realizes this, but she cannot help the way she feels for Robert and has a great passion for him. ... She misses Robert but she knows that she cannot continue what she is doing. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the poem, "Home Burial" by Robert Frost, the use of dialogue creates a movie-like reading, engaging the reader in a new approach to experiencing poetry. ... This tension is left in the end of this piece, the husband states, "I"ll follow and bring you back by force. ...

• Word Count: 1183
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The fact that the first man she fell in love with was Robert and the second was Arobin is of no consequence; she loved them because she was capable of love, and realized that she could feel desire and passion for a man (other than her husband). ... She was more in love with Robert because, as she said to him, " [i]t was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream'- (Chopin 332). ... I think she only fell in love with Arobin and became "[ ] supple to his gentle, seductive entreaties- because he happened to be there when Edna's sensuality and desires had come into ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is illustrated in Lou's statement, "The night before I left, I lay on the living-room couch with the front door ajar in case he came down in the middle of the night in one of his furies. ... Lou's decision to leave evidently had Robert concerned with the well-being of his children. Regardless whether or not Lou and Robert got along, they still had equal rights to their children. ... Lou had claimed that before she had left the children were not connected to her, yet out of her selfishness she decided to completely disconnect her children from her husband. ... I left my sanda...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Ideal of Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer rights than men. The Women's Rights Movement began in cities of the northeast in the early to mid-1800's and soon emerged in cities of the Midwest and western states. It was not until the 1890's that women in the southern states joined the bandwagon. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, set in the coastal region of Louisiana, was written and published during this time. Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great i...

• Word Count: 3206
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

According to Robert Hughes, children experience a great fear of change throughout the divorce because the family they once knew will now be different. ... This arrangement did not work out, and within a month my father moved out, and I was left to live with my mother. ... I was always a pretty good student in elementary school, and I tried hard to do well in my academics, but I think that the stress caused by the fear of change and the insecurity/anxiety I felt because one of my parents had left our home, changed all of that. ... Although the relationship has tremendously deteriorated since he...

• Word Count: 1897
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

When Jane Fairfax was three she was orphaned and was left to be brought up by Miss and Mrs. ... As a small child she was left at Mrs. ... Knightly says this of Harriet: Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs. ...

• Word Count: 852
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The head of the dissenting justices, Chief Justice John Roberts, believes that due process is a necessary right but that the majority opinion is taking its meaning too far. Our text book reverberates Justice Robert's logic behind his dissenting argument when it states: "The federal courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to increase national power over the states in several critical fields, especially with regard to civil rights, criminal law, and election practices (34)....

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Women In Marriage Rebellion, opposition to one in authority or dominance. During the late nineteenth century, patriarchal societies dominated various cultures. Many authors during these patriarchal times wrote about subjects of freedom and rebellion. Famous author, Kate Chopin, wrote on rebe...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The short happy life of Francis Macomber The main characters of this short story are Robert Wilson a hunter from England and the wealthy married couple from America, Francis and Margot Macomber. ... It is like he has nothing left to lose and as a reaction of that also loses his restrains. ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

After a past relationship with a man named Johnny has left her angry, she reacts by trying to make him jealous by having affairs with other men. ... In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts plays a hooker in Los Angeles, California. ...

• Word Count: 1182
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Blake, in the poem "A Poison Tree- wrote, "I was angry with my friend/I told my wrath/My wrath did end/I was angry with my foe/I told it not/My wrath did grow . . . - Just as Blake describes a person internalizing his feelings of anger and planning to use them in revenge served up cold, so must have Edgar internalized. ... Edmund had no reason to trust things would work out right if left to themselves and he had anger as an additional motivating factor. ...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Browning once said: "when the fight begins within him, a man is worth something". ... Too proud and independent to be just a mistress to Rochester, Jane left Thornfield, heart-broken. ... To defend her dignity and uphold the solemnity legality and purity of marriage, Jane left lover resolutely and determinedly in spite of Rochester's countless implores. ...

• Word Count: 3066
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship wi...

• Word Count: 2507
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School