amy cloer, M.A.
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I live in Charlotte with my loyal dog. I have been teaching for over 30 years, both face-to-face and online. I also do freelance writing when I can find the time.
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Answered a Question in Trifles
Feminist literature provides a platform for critical readers to investigate the results of male/female interactions in a variety of time periods and situations. Trifles by Susan Glaspell explores... -
Answered a Question in The Thief Lord
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke is a fantastic story about children who live in underground Venice, alone, and find a way to survive. As many novels and stories are, it is full of examples of... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Textual evidence is always the strongest form of proof in a literary analysis. When looking at the fate versus free will debate, we can see many examples in Macbeth that support one side or the... -
Answered a Question in Sam Roberts
"An American Draft Dodger in Thunder Bay" is a song by Sam Roberts and refers to an individual who fled the USA to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Song lyrics and poetry are often one and... -
Answered a Question in The Nun's Priest's Tale
"The Nun's Priest's Tale" is one of the many stories told by pilgrims on their way to worship at the shrine of Thomas A. Becket in Canterbury. As this pilgrimage is religious in nature, this tale... -
Answered a Question in Julia Alvarez
In answering a question about tone, make sure to think about how the author feels about his subject. We can accomplish this task by looking at the word choice, particularly imagery, and then... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Banquo is Macbeth's closest friend and fellow thane. He, in a way, represents wisdom, morality and rational thought. Unfortunately, he doesn't live long, but we will get to that later.... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
You might have meant to ask about the parson and the plowman, as they are brothers. I can add some input on the previous answer about the plowman. As his name implies, the plowman is a... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Besides its imagery, the most obvious poetic devices in this poem are irony and paradox. While the clown is the "king on the throne" (4) with a silly "red nose" (7) whose job it is to make... -
Answered a Question in To Build a Fire
I am not sure what kind of quotations you need, but I have put some into categories below: Characteristics of the man: But all this—the distant trail, no sun in the sky, the great cold, and the... -
Answered a Question in Night
When the reader meets Elie at the beginning of the memoir, he is not only immersed in his faith, but he wants to learn more about Kabbalah, the mystic level of his faith. Moishe the Beadle is happy... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
I can add a couple more examples to the previous answers if it will help. Of course the entire sonnet creates the idea that all the elements of nature share human characteristics which can be... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
In adding a few details to the previous answer, I would like to begin with the idea that very few people are satisfied with what they have. Macbeth is no different. First of all, power makes... -
Answered a Question in Rabindranath Tagore
As many readers must understand, titles of poems, stories and novels are never afterthoughts. They are integral clues into the concepts in the work. This story is no exception; it defines the... -
Answered a Question in A Horse and Two Goats
Let's expand on some of the themes in this story. A major theme is the obvious clash of cultures as exhibited by the wealthy, white American and the poor Hindu, Muni. The two men do not speak the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Claudius ignores Ophelia for much of her existence except when he needs to use her in a plan to discover the cause of Hamlet's supposed lunacy. Claudius and Polonius use her as a pawn to... -
Answered a Question in To Build a Fire
Mood is the emotional response a reader has to a particular aspect of a work of art or literature. To begin with, the reader joins a man in hiking the Yukon Trail with the hopes of soon being... -
Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest
Bunburying is a word Algernon coins to represent the act of using a fictitious person as an excuse to avoid unpleasant interactions with others or to gain a sense of freedom for a short time.... -
Answered a Question in The Importance of Being Earnest
Cecily and Gwendolen are presented as character foils in this satirical play by Oscar Wilde. Both are supposedly engaged to a man named Ernest, a girlhood dream of them both, and both are victims... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
I can see seven main characters that we can analyze in this play. Minnie - She is the accused murderer and wife of an unloving and emotionally abusive man. Her refusal to speak, react or... -
Answered a Question in Death of a Salesman
To add to the examples presented in the first answer, I would point to the title itself - Death of a Salesman. We find out that Willy's sales idol Dave Singleman embodies the concept of the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
While hiding behind a curtain to spy on the conversation between Hamlet and his mother, Polonius makes a sound and is stabbed through the curtain. It is unclear whether Hamlet knew who he was... -
Answered a Question in Les Misérables
Basically, most of the novel addresses social issues, speaking of injustice, class conflict, and the necessity of revolution. One particularly insightful portion of the text comes from Fantine's... -
Answered a Question in Les Misérables
When Marius was a baby, his grandfather, Monsieur Gillenormand, demanded the child from George Pontmercy, his own son-in-law, under threat of disinheriting the child. Gillenormand, whose daughter... -
Answered a Question in Les Misérables
Les Miserables is a great book to pull some superb quotations that give readers lessons about life that still apply today. Some of my favorites are as follows: "Monsieur to a convict is a glass of... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's views on marriage, as expressed in her novel Wuthering Heights, are unlike the views most modern readers, especially students, may hold. Living in the northern England moors in... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff is one of the most villainous characters in all of literature. He is referred to as a devil over and over again throughout Wuthering Heights. When he is first adopted by the... -
Answered a Question in Les Misérables
A Savoyard is the name for a person from the mountainous Savoy region of France. Savoyards were typically migrant workers because farming was not possible in the rocky, mountain soil. Many... -
Answered a Question in The Story of an Hour
The first two paragraphs of Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" make it clear that Josephine and Richard perceive their sister and friend as weak and fragile. First of all, it is apparently well-known... -
Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown
Archetypes are instinctual and universal reactions to stimuli that is the same across culture and across time. Carl Jung explains that archetypes are a part of the collective subconscious of... -
Answered a Question in The Destructors
In answering this question, I will take into account each of your categories separately: 1: Age/Beauty of the house The boys are living in a war zone in which bombing raids have and still... -
Answered a Question in 1984
I will add to the answer provided above. First of all, common prisoners are typically small-time criminals from the prole neighborhoods. The government in the novel does not seem to... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
In Finuala Dowling's poem, "To the Doctor who Treated the Raped Baby and Who Felt Such Despair," the speaker attempts to reassure the doctor who is given the horrible task of treating an infant... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Finuala Dowling's poem, "To the Doctor who Treated the Raped Baby and Who Felt Such Despair," features contrasting settings. The one, constant setting is an African hospital emergency room... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Finuala Dowling utilizes the repetition of the word 'and' at the beginning of many lines in her poem "To the Doctor Who Treated the Raped Baby and Who Felt Such Despair." The name for overusing a... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
After the hardships and discrimination that Heathcliff endured early in his years at Wuthering Heights, he returns a wealthy yet vengeful man. His targets are the two men he believes wronged... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
As is usually the case with authors, Bronte chose her novel's title carefully. The title actually represents more than one important aspect of the novel. The setting of Wuthering Heignts is the... -
Answered a Question in The Destructors
To analyze the answers to this question we should look at each one individually, ruling each as a possibility or not a possibility. His posture is stooped and misshapen. While this may be true... -
Answered a Question in The Destructors
Similes definitely add to the artistry of "The Destructors" by Graham Greene. He uses them to help describe the scenes in the story and to characterize the boys. Simile #1: "A smaller... -
Answered a Question in The Destructors
We can state the central theme in a couple of ways, but I think the main idea of this story is this: Extreme circumstances can drive people to act in ways that do not fit their usual... -
Answered a Question in The Destructors
At first glance it would seem that the boys in the gang are completely devoid of morality, especially Trevor. However, we learn as readers to consider outside factors when judging a person's... -
Answered a Question in General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
First of all, the knight is a rapist who has been saved by the women and queen. His task is to find out what women desire most. However, after a year of searching, he must return and admit... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
Irony is rampant in "The Pardoner's Tale." Three basic types of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic: all of these refer to a discrepancy between what is anticipated or what is... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
This is a great questions. Here goes! 1. Hamlet, I see that you are wearing clothes of mourning and have noticed some tension between you and your parents. I must ask, how do you feel... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
We can only infer the answer to this question, but the text does offer us quite a few clues. We know that Macbeth is known as a "tyrant" and that his formerly loyal men are running away from him.... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The plot of this story revolves around anger. The family feud existing between the Capulet's and the Montegues symbolizes misplaced anger that has transcended time and left the characters... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Women in Wuthering Heights have a couple of roles. First, they show the typical lot of the woman in the novel's time period. As a female, one can either be a houseworker or a wife. As we can see,... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Wow, this is a great question that can produce a variety of answers depending on an individual's taste! Malcom - For this role, we need an actor young enough to play the frightened son who flees... -
Answered a Question in Hunters in the Snow
While the three main characters share the spotlight in "Hunters in the Snow," Tub is primarily our main character, and thus, our protagonist. The protagonist is the character with whom the reader... -
Answered a Question in Long Day's Journey into Night
The major symbol of reality in the play is, aptly, the fog. As the play opens, the previous evening's fog has dissipated, and along with it has the madness and confusion of the family and...
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