Charlie Miller
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I have a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing and am one semester away from completing my MA in Children's Literature and my MA in Library and Information Science. I have been writing about and studying literature and literary criticism of many kinds for several years, and I also have particular interests in history and religion.
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Answered a Question in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
In The Lightning Thief, the first book of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Percy must take a cross-country trip from Long Island, New York to Los Angeles, California to enter the... -
Answered a Question in Holes
In Holes by Louis Sachar, each of the boys at Camp Green Lake is required to dig a hole as deep and as wide as his shovel every day. When Stanley finds out Zero cannot read, Zero wants Stanley to... -
Answered a Question in A Single Shard
Linda Sue Park's A Single Shard tells the story of a young homeless orphan boy called "Tree-Ear" in twelfth century Korea. He begins working for a perfectionist potter and eventually becomes his... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is a passionate but very fickle character. This is clear from the way he very quickly changes the objects of his devotion and often acts with very shallow understandings... -
Answered a Question in Literature
In her 1949 book Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World, anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead studies the gendered expectations and behaviors of seven societies in the South Pacific,... -
Answered a Question in A Midsummer Night's Dream
While other characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream are comic in more subtle ways (like Puck), Nick Bottom is a very overtly comic character. The humor comes from the way his beliefs about himself... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
In The Lottery, Shirley Jackson makes use of foreshadowing to create a twist ending that is well known among students and writers of short stories. The most obvious example in paragraphs two and... -
Answered a Question in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
I think looking at the time Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been was published is helpful for some additional understanding! The story was published in 1966 at a time when teen culture in... -
Answered a Question in The Merchant of Venice
Many allusions to the Bible and to various mythologies appear in Shakespeare's works, and The Merchant of Venice is no exception. In act 1, scene 3, when Bassanio invites Shylock to join them for a... -
Answered a Question in Lady Mary Wroth
In "In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn?," Mary Wroth discusses the complicated nature of love, and the last two lines have a lot of meaning. In this sonnet, Wroth is referencing Greek... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Aunt Polly finds Tom very difficult to deal with and frequently complains about the trouble he puts her through, but she clearly loves him and worries about his wellbeing. Because she loves him so... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Mr. Shiflet is a character in Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." Arnold Friend appears in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been." Both characters are... -
Answered a Question in Letter from Birmingham City Jail
An allusion is a reference or connection to something else. Using an allusion connects what a person is writing or speaking about to a different event, place, person, or thing, and this helps put...