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Answered a Question in The Overcoat

There are no heroes in this story. Gogol creates a dark, naturalistic world where...

Answered a Question in Incident at Hawk's Hill

There are a number of similes in the book.  On the first page of Chapter 2,...

Answered a Question in Skinwalkers

Lieutenant Leaphorn is re-examining a murder scene with Officer Gorman, who is not...

Answered a Question in The Yearling

A list of main events for each season might look like this: Spring:  Slewfoot...

Answered a Question in Les Misérables

Inspector Javert is the head of the police, whose lifelong goal is to catch the...

Answered a Question in Stuck in Neutral

Although Shawn's father loves him, I don't think he has any idea of what his...

Answered a Question in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Mel and Terri in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love", exhibit a...

Answered a Question in The Moorchild

The little people dressed in red are Moorfolk, magic elfin creatures who live in...

Answered a Question in Into the Wild

On his way to his fateful sojourn in Alaska, Chris McCandless stops awhile in...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

The movie (it was originally a play) "Westside Story" illustrates the...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

The judge in the murder trial was Judge Taylor. He was known to...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout sees Mr. Cunningham, the father of a boy with whom she goes to school. ...

Answered a Question in Armageddon Summer

Speaking in alternate chapters, the main characters Marina and Jed tell about...

Answered a Question in Stuck in Neutral

Shawn attended a class for the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped in the Special...

Answered a Question in The Pearl

Steinbeck illustrates this philosophy, naturalism, allegorically early in...

Answered a Question in Gathering Blue

The Ruin song might actually be called the history of all people.  It...

Answered a Question in Gathering Blue

Kira lives in a harsh civilization where people, although fortunately constrained...

Answered a Question in Gathering Blue

The people have a rule in their code of conduct that says, "if there is a death,...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Lula, a tall Negro woman parishioner, tells Jem and Scout that they are not...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

Finch's Landing is twenty miles west of Maycomb.  In Chapter 13, Maycomb is...

Answered a Question in Viva Chicano

When the formalities at the station were completed, the police "loaded Keeny...

Answered a Question in Robert Frost

Robert Frost expressed modernist themes through classical,...

Answered a Question in Johnny Tremain

Lieutenant Stranger treats Johnny as a friend.The Lieutenant is above all a good...

Answered a Question in The Master Puppeteer

Jiro, having discovered the identity of the renegade Saburo, flees Hanaza in fear...

Answered a Question in The Tamarack Tree: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg

With the war fast approaching Vicksburg, Rosemary, the main character, works with...