
Amy Lepore
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Born in Bowling Green, KY. Graduated high school from Hopkinsville High in 1986; University of Central Florida with B.S. in 1991; and Murray State University with M.A. in 1996. Taught in Kentucky, South Korea, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, Mississippi on both high school and college/university levels. Freelance author. Married with two sons.
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Answered a Question in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The quote that pops into my mind is "bad things happen to good people." With the exception of the grandmother who is a selfish and completely self-absorbed individual (not known for... -
Answered a Question in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Good vs. Evil is a prominent theme. Dorian is an innocent, pure soul before Henry meets and influences him. Basil, Dorian's true friend and artist, did not want Henry to meet Dorian to... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The first time he sees it, he notices the shadows and the movement and the speed with which it moves and knows it to be his creature. This is just after William's body has been discovered and... -
Answered a Question in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Some of the things that I notice when I read this wonderfully entertaining work is that he is wise and very intelligent, and writes with a distinct sense of humor. I love how he looks at... -
Answered a Question in The Fall of the House of Usher
One very strong overall theme is that of tradition. The "Usher" family is a symbol in itself. Over and over in the story, the narrator mentions how long Ushers have lived in the house,... -
Answered a Question in The Grapes of Wrath
Class conflict is evident in the status of the work camps and the low pay the workers are paid. They live in relative squalor and there is often talk of revolt and rebellion. Strength of... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
29 pilgrims, and Chaucer, the narrator, makes 30. Chaucer died before he finished writing the stories all the pilgrims were to tell. The plan was one on the way and one on... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Yes. He is focused as a military man on his country and the rescue of his country from a tyrant. He does show emotion when he repeats that his family (all my pretty chickens and their... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
The Putnams are also always trying to hoodwink their neighbors out of their land. They report Proctor for plowing on Sunday and Mr. Putnam puts his daughter up to accusing their elderly... -
Answered a Question in Ode on a Grecian Urn
When the speaker speaks of the happiness of the lovers who never will grow old, and who are always just at the point of highest expectation of that first sweet kiss, and of spring which will always... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
With regard to Miss Havisham and the setting of her house...especially the room with the wedding cake and feast still laid out on the table...one can not help feel sorry for her. She is still... -
Answered a Question in A Good Man Is Hard to Find
The Misfit mentions "Jesus" when the grandmother is asking for mercy and connects him in a moment of unselfish reality to "one of her own babies". He unloads the burden of his father's death,... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. If the government is inefficient, topheavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it Beatty... -
Answered a Question in The Phantom of the Opera
This is such a great novel/musical! The main conflicts of man vs. man in this work are: 1. The phantom vs. the directors of the opera. The phantom has long given his orders to the... -
Answered a Question in The Kugelmass Episode
In a nutshell, Kugelmass (a stereotypical Jewish name), is an unsatisfied Humanities professor. He decides to have an affair since his second marriage is not a happy one. A magician has... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
The Fire Chief explains to Montag that the books have to be burned because the ideas in them are contradictory and hurt people's feelings. They are insulting or make certain groups of people... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
No one really knows. It is an age-old feud that no one has bothered to explain to either Romeo or Juliet, but it just understood that every member of both families and even down to the... -
Answered a Question in The Remains of the Day
Your grammar book will probably have a section on letter writing, but there are also lots of places online that will help you format and punctuate properly. Below is a link that will lead you... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Dramatic monologue is a form of characterization since Prufrock is acting and speaking...through what he says and does, he draws us into his world. We make assumptions about him by... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
We also know from the description of the creature's first encounter with Victor that he was an amiable creature. Victor himself says that the creature pulled back the bed curtains and smiled... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
There would have been lots of different kinds of meat--beef, pork, pheasant, and all sorts of other birds--fresh fruit, breads, wine, other types of alcoholic drinks--beer, mead, for instance.... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
You could look at it as if the main purpose is Faulkner's warning that not everything can last forever. Emily attempted to hang on to the past and not evolve and change as the times changed... -
Answered a Question in Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man
The narrator has the dream with his grandfather on his deathbed saying, "Kill'em with smiles. Yes'em to death." The epiphany here is that the grandfather realizes and the narrator learns that... -
Answered a Question in Night
Elie becomes a corpse by the end of the book for many reasons, but also in two facets: physically and emotionally. Mrs. Schacter and her son in the train would be a good place to... -
Answered a Question in Much Ado About Nothing
I like to play a game whenever I read a piece of literature. It's a game to find as many themes as possible. I fill in the blank with whatever comes to mind, and then dive into the... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
Concrete details are those that are stated openly which we don't have to read between the lines to get. We know Maggie is quiet because both Dee and Momma say so. We know she is scarred... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
Homer Baron mysteriously disappears and everyone in the town assumes he has gone back up north where he came from...however, we know that from the poison Emily buys for "rats" and the lye the men... -
Answered a Question in A Worn Path
Wow! How cool to meet her and hear her read one of her stories! That is really amazing! I have always loved Welty's attention to detail...it is not boring like so many other authors who... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
It begins with the letter Macbeth sends her. She reads it aloud and tells us that her husband is too nice (too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way) to do what is... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The nurse is a servant in the Capulet household and is the former wet nurse of Juliet. She is long-winded and often resorts to low humor of sexual innuendo. She often uses the wrong... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
For one thing, his name connects him. Piggy, Ralph, and Simon never fit into Jack's group. They were the reasoners, the order and peace keepers, the ones who made everyone understand... -
Answered a Question in Because I could not stop for Death—
“Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet/ Feels shorter than the Day/ I first surmised the Horses Heads/ Were toward Eternity.” As Emily Dickinson was a very religious young woman, it may be safe to... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
An interesting bit of etymology about the word "weird" is that it comes from the Old English word "wyrd" meaning "fate." The witches are very similar to the Fates in mythology who shared an... -
Answered a Question in My Last Duchess
There she stands As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
In addition, Shakespeare uses Titania in her potion-induced state to fall in love with Bottom whose head Puck has changed into a Donkey's. It is quite humorous to see her--the Queen of... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
The narrator tends to represent the town, taking on a cumulative responsibility for what happened to Emily. That in itself is interesting. He/she does tend to allow us to feel pity for... -
Answered a Question in Leaves of Grass
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a... -
Answered a Question in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
"Daffodils" (1804) I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering... -
Answered a Question in 1984
All three of these stages take place in Part III. Having completed the first phase of his treatment, “learning,” Winston moves to the second stage, “understanding,” which he must complete... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
The author uses words to draw a picture of isolation, depression, mental anguish. The story takes the main character to an isolated home away from their usual lives in order to let her "rest"... -
Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun
Lena is an older woman, widowed, mother of Walter and Beneathea. Walter is the man of house, tall, determined to make good decisions, but a little slump-shouldered when things don't work out.... -
Answered a Question in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Although Elphaba bites people from time to time with her very prominent teeth, she does not openly torment others. She is not given very many opportunities as a child to develop her social... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
From the very beginning, Maggie and Momma are people who take what life gives them and makes the best of it. They live simply and happily--they may not have everything they want, but they... -
Answered a Question in Self-Reliance
Emerson uses tons of similes, metaphors and allusions to make his points clear. One of my favorites is "To be great is to be misunderstood": Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow... -
Answered a Question in The Minister's Black Veil
What a wonderful question! My opinion of Hawthorne's choice of his main character's occupation is that the minister, more than a baker, teacher, or any other secular occupation epitomizes... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
You have to decide whether you think the creature is good or evil. There is plenty in the novel to support either side. If it were me, I would lean toward good. The creature smiled... -
Answered a Question in The Westing Game
Although there is no stated winner in the book, all the players of the Westing Game come out winners. The idea of the book is to target relationships, and in the course of the game the... -
Answered a Question in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It is quite possible that the Victorians would have recognizes the dark side of humanity through the unveiling of this tale. In much the same way the Vampire stories thrilled Victorian audiences... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
There is a juicy irony in the title of the story and the actual outcome. A lottery, like the one in Tennessee or any other state, is where many people purchase a chance to win a huge monetary... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
"We all fear God. He turns the earth, he set it swinging firmly in space, Gave life to the world and light to the sky. Death leaps at the fools who forget their God. He who...
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