Lauryn Angel-Cann

New Moon opens with Bella's eighteenth birthday, and she celebrates it with the Cullen family. Jacob is absent from Bella's birthday celebration and, in fact, doesn't appear in the book until...

Angela Carter's short story collection, The Bloody Chamber, is often viewed as a feminist re-telling of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, even though Carter herself denied that she was attempting to...

Beowulf dies during battle with a dragon. In the second part of the poem, Beowulf has ruled over the Geats for fifty years, and he is a good leader. When the dragon attacks, it is worthy of note...

Montressor claims that the "thousand injuries" he has sustained from Fortunato have created his animosity toward the other man, but that he has patiently endured these insults. When Fortunato...

Catherine tells Nelly in chapter nine of the novel that the reason she will marry Edgar is that he can give her the material possessions that Heathcliff can't. She loves Heathcliff and acknowledges...

The hunters set out to search for the "monster." They see something that looks like an ape or some other monster.  Actually, it's the body of a military pilot who ejected from his plane. The...