When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. ... Ewen tells Vanessa about Grandfather MacLeod and how he enjoyed reading Greek plays. ... '[Grandfather MacLeod] must have been a lonely man...Maybe he would have liked to talk to somebody about [the] plays. ... Vanessa wrote in order to get away from the harshness of the life, it was an escape from the reality that she lived at home. ...

• Word Count: 1451
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The hero in a film is the character that seeks something, in Casablanca is not entirely clear who this is; it is most probably Rick Blaine played by Humphrey Bogart, though it seems in parts that it could be Victor Laslo (Paul Henreid) or Isla (Ingrid Bergman). ... He has a successful business, loyal employees and a life style he seems okay with. 2 a disruption of the ordered state by an event, Isla comes to Rick's cafe dredging up all the deeply buried hurt of her rejecting him in Paris. 3 a recognition that a disruption has taken place; Rick goes to the bar and gets Sam to play "As Ti...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It might seem pretty weird to you that my dad would do this, but it was actually pretty funny when I look back on it, its just one of those things you had to be there for I am sure because you must be thinking that he was crazy, he wasn't he just liked to play jokes. ... The letter I wrote was childish and selfish, I had so many questions, mainly "why?" ...

• Word Count: 1710
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the untitled poem she wrote, we can see this suffering for the impossibility of being with the lover; she uses words like grief and woe to describe the intensity of the pain: "If grief for grief can touch thee, If answering woe for woe, If any truth can melt thee, Come to me now!... They played free in the moors, not under society or moral rules. ... She continues in a state of good humour until it becomes obvious that neither Heathcliff nor Edgar is willing to play their part in this triangular friendship. ...

• Word Count: 2324
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I. Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that ex...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

She played rough with her father, riding on his back as if he were a bucking bronco. ... She wrote to Stephen, "The rumors that have reached me about you and Mary-certain things that I don't want to enter into-have simply forced me to break off our friendship." ...

• Word Count: 2169
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School