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 Siddhartha
The Four Noble Truths of Life are: 1. Existence is suffering 2. Suffering arises from desire 3. Suffering ends when desire ends 4. The way to end desire is to follow the 8-Fold Path to... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Squire is young and has potential to be as noble as his father, the Knight. He has been trained in all the services, music, and other areas considered to be honorable. However, as a... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath, or Alyson, is in a constant state of marriage. Of course, she is married on the doorsteps of the church because of "company in her youth" which suggests she was a bit... -
Answered a Question in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Personification: giving "person-like" living qualities to inanimate objects. "as if on the wings of the wind" is personfication (This is toward the beginning of the story when the author is... -
Answered a Question in Jane Eyre
There are actually quite a few similarities. Jane was an orphan, and like her, Charlotte grew up without a mother (she died when Charlotte was five). Both Jane and Charlotte were sent... -
Answered a Question in A Passage to India
In the caves is a typical culture clash. The Indians are used to close quarters and having little personal space. The British are used to much more and often consider it an affront if... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth Deserves Death? Macbeth deserves to die at the end of the play: would you agree with this view? This is an opinion response. If you feel that Macbeth took advantage of his free will... -
Answered a Question in Siddhartha
At the end of the novel, Govinda is still "the seeker." He has not yet found Nirvana, but he realizes that Siddhartha has. The entire novel is about seeking peace within yourself...it... -
Answered a Question in Everyman
The play Everyman is a morality play intended to be performed before illiterate masses at church in order to teach them the correct way to live and behave. Everyman is informed by Death that... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
They begin by having civilized meetings--using the conch for order and taking turns in speaking. Gradually, the order is disregarded. The conch is considered unnecessary, the fire... -
Answered a Question in As I Lay Dying
There are many themes touched upon in this novel. Alienation, loneliness, death, insanity and sanity, identity, the importance of language, love and passion are just a few. You could... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Banquo, thinking aloud in a soliloquey, says to himself/the audience, "I think you have come about your title most foully." Banquo also remembers the witches' prophecy that Macbeth will be... -
Answered a Question in The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Wife of Bath expresses her opinion of marriage simply with the moral in her tale: Women want to be considered the equal or better of their men. She is in control of her five... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Brutus tells all the conspirators to stand still and not to run for the same reason he tells them not to kill Antony in the attack. He is the only one of them in it for honor... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The lack of self worth in Macbeth is certainly worth the time and effort of examination. If he were more in tune with his place of honor and respect as an able warrior, a loyal thane to... -
Answered a Question in The Old Man and the Sea
There are two major conflicts here: man vs. himself and man vs. nature. The setting is paramount to this story since the Old Man can not overcome the sea from the comforts of his living... -
Answered a Question in The Perfect Storm
The main conflict is defeating the storm--actually a convergence of three storms onto one geographic location. Yikes! Other conflicts include the shrimpers' need to make more money by taking one... -
Answered a Question in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime is from the Romantic Era because of the aspects which define romantic literature. These include the supernatural, the love of nature, the individual instead of the good of society as a... -
Answered a Question in The Mousetrap
This play may be difficult for ESL students with all the idioms and references to cultural knowledge. I would go with something like Amy Tan's excerpts of her books and then watch the film,... -
Answered a Question in General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
His basic message is that he met up with lots of people all going to the same place--which happens in April since that's when they get "pilgrimmage fever"--and they have decided to play a game of... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth is thrown completely for a loop at the appearance of Banquo's ghost. Only he can see the ghost, and the entire time he is babbling, Lady Macbeth tells him to be a man thinking that Macbeth... -
Answered a Question in Bridge to Terabithia
Jesse is outnumbered 3:1 with sister in his family. His mother is overly tired from a number of things, but to name a few--her kids, her work, her poverty, and life in general. She... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bottom is a mortal who is a control freak and basically intolerable. His name says it all, and later in the play when his head is turned into that of an "ass" it culminates his attitude and... -
Answered a Question in Two Kinds
Jing-mei's mother wants her to find the thing that she excels at and do that. I don't think it's anything different than any parent wants for his/her child. We all want our children to... -
Answered a Question in Night
The Jews in Elie's village didn't listen for two reasons: 1. they didn't want to hear that such evil can exist in the world. Many people heard the stories--Jews and nonJews alike--and... -
Answered a Question in The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The reply matches stanza for stanza the style and rhythm of the original--The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. The Nymph has an edge to her reply since in her sarcastic way she says that... -
Answered a Question in The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
The Nymph's reply is rings of sarcasm and possibly a tinge of regret. The Shepherd has offered her many things to "come live with me and be my love." However, the Nymph's response includes... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
This quote falls nicely into the "appearance vs reality" theme where Macbeth knows what he will do to further his ambition and become King, but he can not show this to the world or he will be... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The dead body in the frame house which floats by Jim and Huck is actually Huck's Pap. Jim hides the body's face because he says it's "too gashly" but he is protecting Huck from the pain he... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Keep in mind, too, that Shakespeare often has important events "reported" as opposed to staged in front of the audience so that each of us has to imagine that event. In our minds, the event... -
Answered a Question in Elizabethan Drama
Queen Elizabeth adored theatre. In many of the books I've read regarding her life, she considered theatre to be one of her favorite releases from the burdens of her "job"--one of her favorite... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
On the other hand, Emily designed her own death. She decided to live as a recluse, to keep Homer Baron from leaving her, and to take matters into her own hands. She may never have... -
Answered a Question in Gulliver's Travels
This work is a satire. Swift uses the personna of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's doctor (for credence), to satirize so many issues in the English government. Several conflicts which show... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
He believes himself to be able to play all the parts...a one man show. We all know folks like him, unfortunately. This is part of what makes this play so darn funny, and when his head... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
There are tons of Biblical allusions, since it is basically the re-telling of the Adam and Eve story in the Bible and their fall from grace. There are also Classical allusions to Greek and Roman... -
Answered a Question in Don Quixote
Idealism is the "ideal" perfect situation. Realism is "reality"--how the world really is. One obvious example of idealism is how Don Quixote believes himself to be a knight. In reality, he is... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
The Soothsayer does not give Caesar a note...Artemidorus does. The Soothsayer speaks when Caesar says, "The Ides of March have come." The Soothsayer says, "Ay, Caesar, but not gone."... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The reader almost immediately recognizes Walton and Frankenstein as versions of one another...Frankenstein is sent to teach Walton the error of his ways so that Walton will learn from the mistakes... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Herot is the Anglo Saxon word for "heart". It is the center of all the activity of the city, and the lifeblood by which the city operates. It is full of ceremony and celebration. ... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
This poem does have two distinct flavors. The first 63 lines are dealing mostly with description of life at sea and the hardships and how he should want to be on land, but every time he's on... -
Answered a Question in 1984
War is Peace is true. The three governments are equally matched, so they would never hope to conquer the other two. The real war is keeping the people working so that society runs... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
There are many examples of exposition in Frankenstein. Every time we get background knowledge on family members--Caroline Beaufort, Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz for... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
My students are dealing with this same issue right now. We must take into consideration that the word "nigger" was not objectionable nor was it offensive during Twain's time. Huck and... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The creature tells Victor that he grabbed Willie in the hopes of "training" the youngster to accept him since bigotry and prejudice is taught through experience, not inherent. As the child... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
This is the ultimate Catch-22 question. Every one of us has the potential to do good or evil deeds. It is up to us to use our free will to make proper judgments as we see fit for each... -
Answered a Question in Everyman
God is unhappy with the way Everyman is living his life. Money is one factor, but there are many others. Remember that Everyman is one of the first morality plays, and it would be... -
Answered a Question in My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue. There's not as much symoblism in the poem as there is reading between the lines or inferences. As the Duke is speaking (he doesn't really repeat any... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Hummm. Interesting quote. I can see this, though. A fable is a story that typically teaches a moral or lesson. An allegory is a story in which the characters stand for... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
For one, she has nowhere else to go. Two, she believes that running would only convince the people further of her guilt, which she does not believe. Later in the novel, her "A" comes to... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
The remainder of the book is again written in letters to his sister Margaret in Enlgland. This is where he tells of Victor's decline in health, the mutiny of his own sailors, and the visit of...
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