
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 Night
In chapters 1-5, Elie Weisel and the Jews he is with are still hopeful and full of faith. They continue to believe that nothing horrible will happen, that they will be saved, that life will... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Mary is at first terrified...all the girls are in terror of Abigail since she has such a manipulative hold on them. Mary begins crying and pleading with Abigail not to do what she's... -
Answered a Question in To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The speaker is most likely an older male and he is addressing all young unmarried women. At the time this poem was written, all young unmarried women were indeed, virgins. He tells them that... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
The three things that the Seafarer most fears from Fate are: "illness, or age, or an enemy's Sword, snatching life from his soul." (ll 70-71) In other words, the three things that men die from are... -
Answered a Question in The Waste Land
In section I of the Waste Land, The Burial of the Dead, the voices are reminiscient of Spoon River Anthology where all the characters are speaking from their graves. Hyacinth girl especially... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
Colonel Sartoris, as a favor to Emily Grierson's father, had upheld the agreement that Miss Emily didn't owe the town any taxes. As government leadership changed, the attitude toward this (or... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
In an election year, how more appropriate can this question be? This play goes very far to show how politics is a dirty game. How more dirty can you get than to rise up and... -
Answered a Question in Night
Night is "cover of darkness" also. We must not forget to consider color symbols...black is almost never used in a story to indicate positive outcomes or personality traits. It is in the... -
Answered a Question in The Autobiography of Malcolm X
I agree with Jamie. Malcolm X and MLKJ wanted the same things, they just didn't agree on the method or the swiftness of the action. People may look up to Malcolm X because he didn't sit too... -
Answered a Question in Twelve Angry Men
This is really the best title. 12 jurors, 10 angry men trying to get somewhere else and having to argue with the two who really want to resolve the issue and do right by the young man who is... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The dilemma lies in Huck's decision to turn in Jim, a runaway slave who belongs to the Widow Douglas, or to keep his mouth shut and allow Jim to escape. This would not have been a dilemma for Huck... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
She is obviously against tradition for tradition's sake. People have long forgotten the reason the lottery was started (much like the feud between the infamous Hatfields and McCoys), yet it... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
Black has always been a color of evil. The bad guys in westerns always wear the black hat. :) Black being the color of night when most evil doers crawl out of their holes in order... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
The rose is symbolic...a sort of nod in her direction for her success as an aristocratic representative, the last of her kind, and the conquerer of Homer Baron. The rose is also symbolic of love... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
The predominant mood is one of suffering and discomfort. He has endured many hard winters on the cold seas. The Seafarer speaks of the "frozen chains" and "icy bands" that hold him to the ship--a... -
Answered a Question in A Jury of Her Peers
The play is written in the early 1900's in an agricultural community in America. Probably mid-west, but no specifications were made. This setting is important since Minnie was... -
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
On having talked at length with Gulliver over the period of time that Gulliver spent with the Brobdingnagians, the King comes to the final conclusion that Gulliver and the Europeans are "the most... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
You've got a lot of questions here, and I am limited on space. In my opinion, the foreshadowing does not give away the ending. If anything, it enhances the ending as the first-time reader... -
Answered a Question in The Poisonwood Bible
It is not Nathan's story. He is overconfident, pushy, and self-absorbed. He expects to be listened to, but rarely speaks WITH anyone...only AT them. The story, therefore, is told... -
Answered a Question in The Poisonwood Bible
Another way capitivity and freedom is represented is in the form of physical deformity. Adah is deformed and in the USA she is the object of scrutiny for her deformity...she is trapped in a... -
Answered a Question in The Poisonwood Bible
Any time you have a story from different points of view, it is in order for the reader to read all aspects and gleen the truth from the whole. For instance, if twenty people see a car... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
Aside from Beowulf, Paradise Lost is the first poem of epic proportions to be published in England. It is considered a classic for several reasons, one of them being the enormity of the task... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Horatio is Hamlet's one true friend. This alone is an admirable quality. He is educated, cautious (he doesn't want Hamlet to go with the ghost), and he is trustworthy. Once he swears to... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Your conclusion is truly going to depend on what your main points are in the essay. What is your purpose? What have you said about how Shakespeare portrays madness in Hamlet? ... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
This is an interesting question. A rose is the symbol for love, but it's hard to say if the townspeople love her or not. Perhaps they love the idea of her...the old south. In her... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
This second meeting is important for three reasons: First, the witches herald Macbeth's coming with "By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes." For the first time in... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ethos is the basic belief system characteristic of a group or individual. Knowing this, some of the most basic examples of ethos are those involving slavery. Huck, for instance, grew up... -
Answered a Question in The Devil and Tom Walker
In addition, the downed trees have names engraved on them that Tom recognizes. These people he remembers as being "wealthy and important" to society in the past, and should have been his... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the story of one young man's great expectations. He expects to be a gentleman, to be wealthy and educated, and to be married to the woman of his dreams. You can... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
Mistress Hibbins is considered evil in the Puritans' society. She is bitter and unpleasant. She openly tells Hester that Hester wears her symbol of sin on her chest while the minister... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
You are probably in the very beginning of this wonderful book. The characters represent themselves and something beyond themselves--they are allegories. Piggy, the one with the glasses and... -
Answered a Question in The Remains of the Day
First, you need to be sure of your purpose in the paper. Every paper you write should be your ideas--not just a bunch of quotes from elsewhere tied together with a few buts, ands, and... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet compares himself to Fortinbras in Act IV, scene iv, as he commiserates over the fact that he has yet to act on his pledge to take revenge for his murdered father. He says he has "...... -
Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun
Although the outcome doesn't seem very positive, some very important life lessons are learned here. 1. Joseph tells Beneatha that so many people are worse off than she, and that her dreams don't... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Within the text of the play, Macduff is Thane of Fife in Scotland which puts him on an equal playing field with Macbeth before Macbeth is awarded another "Thaneship" having overthrown Macdonwald.... -
Answered a Question in Two Kinds
In "Two Kinds," the conflict arises in a Chinese American family when a strong-willed mother bent on seeing her child succeed is confronted by an equally determined daughter who simply wants to be... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
That depends on the character you follow. Maggie is withdrawn, plain, uneducated, scarred from a previous housefire, and unsure of herself...especially in the presence of her sister. Maggie... -
Answered a Question in Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man
The narrator of the Battle Royal understands that the both he and his group of "warriors" as well as the dancing blonde woman symbolize the otherness of women and minorities during this time... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
"Whet" means to "sharpen by rubbing against as if a knife or to stimulate" according to Webster's Dictionary. By this definition, Brutus has been "sharpened or stimulated" against Caesar by... -
Answered a Question in Plagiarism
My first teaching assignment was in Kississimmee, Florida. I was teaching high school freshmen and asked the kids to write an original poem on any subject. Imagine my surprise when one... -
Answered a Question in Romanticism
Romanticism is a movement of thought which touched all the arts (painting, sculpture, writing, drama, architecture, etc..)during a period of time. Each era of thought usually is in some way a... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Huck and Tom are among the most famous friends in all of literature. However, they are very different. Tom is a romantic dreamer with outlandish plans and adventure ideas-most of which... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
Without a doubt, the most obvious value in Faulkner's story is tradition. Miss Emily lives in the South which is heavily steeped in the traditions of gender roles, aristocracy, courtship... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein (and Robert Walton, for that matter) are driven by the same "illness"--they want to do something than no man has done before. They want to be recognized as amazing and... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Loyalty between kings and their warriors is something carried over from the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval eras. The king pledged to take care of the warriors and their families in return for the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet is not a story about love and marriage. It is a story of death, revenge, and psychology. Hamlet has rejected love. Gertrude marries less for love than for... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In terms of Hamlet's philosophic view, these two "friends" from school were willing to take him to England and deliver Hamlet to his death, so what's good for the goose is good for the... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth, speaking to the murderer, says: "But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in/To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?" By this, he is commenting on how he is in a "fit"... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
This quote is found in Act V, scene 5 of Macbeth. The entire quote, "All our yesterday have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
There is the evidence of the men's toiletry set with Homer's initials engraved on it as well as the spot in her bedroom where he hung his pants and coat. It is obvious that he was living...
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