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The Sting: Summary & Review

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20111 Comment

The Sting is a classic story of revenge for the death of a good friend. Instead of the revenge being an eye for an eye, Hill has the leading characters get their revenge by coning the, man responsible for the death, out of his money. Within the first ten minutes you are grabbed into the…

Dorothy Parker’s The Standard of Living: Summary

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20111 Comment

The story speaks of two girls who are born to be comrades. Annabel and Midge live in the same milieu and like to eat the same kind of foods and sandwiches. The author describes in detail the way of living of these two friends. They like to eat sandwiches full of sugar, chocolate, butter, and…

Stephen King’s The Stand: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

Stephen King’s The Stand is a thrilling novel that portrays the forces of good against evil. In the year 1991, a plague strikes America, leaving only a few thousand people alive who are “immune” to the epidemic. Of the survivors, those who serve God instinctively join in Boulder, Colorado, while those who worship the “Dark…

Social Structure in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

In the famous works, “Canterbury Tales,” Geoffrey Chaucer tells of twenty-nine pilgrims that are “en route” to Canterbury. On the way there, the band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales in order to shorten the trip. Chaucer, (the host) introduces the each of the pilgrims with honest and wholeheartedly descriptions…

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery: Setting & Theme

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20112 Comments

The Lottery In many stories, settings are constructed to help build the mood and to foreshadow things to come. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story in which the setting sets up the reader to think of positive outcomes. However, this description of the setting foreshadows exactly the opposite of what is to come.…

Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken: Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20111 Comment

“Do not follow where the path may lead… Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Robert Frost Everyone is a traveler, choosing the roads to follow on the map of their continuous journey, life. There is never a straight path that leaves one with but a sole direction in which to…

The Positronic Man: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

An extraordinary story about an extraordinary robot. In the twenty-first century the creation of the positronic brain leads to the development of robot laborers and revolutionizes life on Earth. However, to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a tool; it is a trusted friend, a confidant, and a member of the…

Parallelism in Albert Camus’ The Plague

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

Here are some following facts about the story’s plot that involve parallelism through the novel. The novel begins at Oran where the plague becomes known. The main character, Dr. Gernard Rieux, is a doctor. In the beginning of the story he finds a dead rat on the floor. Even in those times rats were not…

Eric Campbell’s The Place of Lions: Setting, Summary, Style

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20112 Comments

Setting Only at the beginning of the book, the story is located in England, but later all the events are transferred to Africa. The actions of The Place of Lions develop mostly in Serengeti Plain, Tanzania, in a savannah full of wild animals and danger. In the book there is not showed the exact year…

Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is the story of moral corruption by the means of aestheticism. In the novel, the well meaning artist Basil Hallward presets young Dorian Gray with a portrait of himself. After conversing with cynical Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian makes a wish which dreadfully affects his life forever. “If…

William Saroyan’s The Oyster and the Pearl: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20111 Comment

In William Saroyan’s play The Oyster and the Pearl there is a lot of symbolism. The theme of the play is to take it easy and relax and life will be much happier. Harry Van Dusen is a barber that has a philosophy of “Take it easy.” He tries to spread his philosophy by talking…

S.E. Hinton’s The Outsider: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

In the book the Outsider by S.E. Hinton Ponyboy is the main character, in the book he is mostly referred to as Pony. Pony has two brothers, Sodapop and Darry. Pony is fourteen and doesn’t have any parent’s; they died in a car accident. Pony and Soda and Darry all live in the same house,…

George Eliot’s Silas Marner- The Weaver of Raveloe: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

The story of Silas Marner is a beautiful, eloquently told story which gives the reader a vivid depiction of the period in which it takes place in a rustic village in England in the 1800s. The story evokes many emotions from the reader as well as teaches some moral lessons about life which are timeless.…

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway describes an old fisherman and the unfortunate trials he faces as his “luck” runs out. Through the novel, the fisherman, Santiago, replicates Hemingway’s ideal man, a noble hero. Hemingway had a Code of Behavior that he himself followed. He had morals that were strict and an…

John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down: Summary of Chapters 1-8

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 201113 Comments

Chapter One Here we learn that a small town has been taken over by one of the many Nazi groups during World War Two. Mr. Corell “The town good guy”, the way I view it, sent the town postmen and policemen on a boating trip, keeping them from the invasion (we learn later that “The…

Mood in Shakespeare’s Othello

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

Othello is a play that evokes many emotions from a reader’s mind. The mood is changing, yet throughout; it demands a lot of contempt for the villain, Iago. Beginning with act one; there is an immediate setting for suspicion which will remain characteristic throughout the whole story. There is a touch of happiness for the…

Mary Anne Evans’ The Mill on the Floss: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

The Mill on the Floss is a book written by George Eliot, whose real name is Mary Anne (later Marian) Evans. There is a great deal of autobiography in this book. The facts of Mary Anne’s life do not match Maggie Tulliver, but there is an obvious reflection of her own life. Book One: Chapter1-13…

Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 20111 Comment

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the story of an adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness and gains maturity through an identity that she creates for herself in her mind. It is with this guise that twelve-year-old Frankie Adams begins to feel confident about herself and life. The author seems to indicate…

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles: Summary & Analysis

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

In The Martial Chronicles, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy and inhumanity of modern society, rather…

Analysis of Salzman in The Magic Barrel

EnglishBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 19, 2011Leave a comment

The character of Salzman, throughout the novel becomes increasingly mysterious. His appearance at many different times is extremely awkward. It is also spooky how he has the knowledge of things that he plainly should not be informed of. His character to put it plainly is just weird. Salzman has the typical salesman characteristics in the…

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