... wife and two children, who live on the coast of Cornwall. One dreary, winter night, some birds manage to get inside the children's bedroom and deliberately attack them. When Nat tells the other villagers they inwardly do not believe that such a thing could have happened, but try and come up with logical explanations. Humans always believe that whenever there is a problem someone around the country or the ... world will come up with an explanation. Mrs. Trigg was one of the people that justified this further. "You ought to write up and ask the Guardian. They"d have some answer for it." T...

• Word Count: 4431
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... that she would use to ensure that not one of the soldiers would escape from the house. She felt she was doing herself and possibly her country a justice, but in the end she was brought to justice for the crimes she had just committed. Is it possible that she wanted the families of the Prussian soldiers to share in the grief that she was in; most likely when ... the text states: "This one has their names on it so you can write home about ... circle. Eliza was only 27 years old when she heard of her 50-year-old husbands' death. She may have been depressed, yet liberated by the news, or s...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... with Anthony being brought on board a cruise ship in a wheel chair, a mad cripple who goes insane. The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. This is a country where love turns to hate, where money never buys happiness. Fitzgerald's second novel explores the same waste land that pops up in so many of his other novels. Grey houses are filled ... moments, but they never rise to the greatness that the characters in Fitzgerald's later novels reach. There is a bleakness, a sorrow to the novel, a pessimistic cloud that hangs over all the characters and Americ...

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

... are no Elders, we are introduced to a man, the narrator, and his friend named John who unite after fifty years literally bumping in to each other on the street. The two friends both left their families and country to seek an education and financial security. The men, now in their sixties and well settled, reminisce about the past and talk about their families, relationships and experiences ... over the years. From their conversation it is clear that despite all ... is a 59 year old man whose brother, eighteen years his younger, has just arrived in Toronto and is going to be living with...

• Word Count: 2760
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... 's life. Robert Robert is the blind friend of the narrator's wife. He is well-traveled and well-educated. Some years before, the narrator's wife worked for him as a reader and they became good friends. As the story opens, Robert has just lost his wife and is traveling across the country to see his wife's family. He arranges to spend the night with the narrator and his wife. While at the narrator's house, Robert reveals ... himself to be a patient, kind man, someone who cares deeply for the narrator's wife. Even when the narrator is rude to him, Robert continues to ... ...

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

... wife and two children, who live on the coast of Cornwall. One dreary, winter night, some birds manage to get inside the children's bedroom and deliberately attack them. When Nat tells the other villagers they inwardly do not believe that such a thing could have happened, but try and come up with logical explanations. Humans always believe that whenever there is a problem someone around the country or the ... world will come up with an explanation. Mrs. Trigg was one of the people that justified this further. "You ought to write up and ask the Guardian. They"d have some answer for it." T...

• Word Count: 4405
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... nothing really goes out there. The reason behind the hypothesis of taking the narrator and the painter as the same person is that, we can imagine the that narrator was afraid of dying therefor was in search of immortality onto his last hours of being alive, he did not have anything in his mind about life after death, about that undiscovered country that no traveler returns. Maybe ... he was dead during the course of narrating that volume he found and all was just a dream of his and he wants to become immortal by painting a picture of his ... for his sexual repressions or Narcissistic d...

• Word Count: 3098
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... provides some comic relief. At first it appears that the novel may turn into a domestic comedy. All the elements combine to make this possible: family celebrations, the strife between generations, the husband-wife bickering, the children's education and hobbies and hopes for the future, and the escapades of the neighbors. Although this attention to domesticity and family affairs continues throughout the novel, it serves as a backdrop and as a contrast to ... seem self-imposed or a result of his overdrawn sensitivity, he finally succumbs to what he considers the hypocrisy of his country'...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... provides some comic relief. At first it appears that the novel may turn into a domestic comedy. All the elements combine to make this possible: family celebrations, the strife between generations, the husband-wife bickering, the children's education and hobbies and hopes for the future, and the escapades of the neighbors. Although this attention to domesticity and family affairs continues throughout the novel, it serves as a backdrop and as a contrast to ... seem self-imposed or a result of his overdrawn sensitivity, he finally succumbs to what he considers the hypocrisy of his country'...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate