David Morrison
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B.A. Law with extensive knowledge of and expertise in English Literature, History, and Philosophy.
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Answered a Question in Mid-Term Break
The speaker of the poem and his family have just experienced a truly appalling tragedy. The speaker's four-year-old brother has just been knocked down and killed by a car. In keeping with the... -
Answered a Question in An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Irish airman of Yeats's poem makes it abundantly clear that he was not motivated to go to war by any of the usual factors that made so many young men sign up to fight. He doesn't fight out of a... -
Answered a Question in The Mayor of Casterbridge
As is often the case in Hardy's works, the characters in The Mayor of Casterbridge are under the impression that their lives are governed by the irresistible forces of blind chance and coincidence.... -
Answered a Question in Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe is extremely lucky to have found himself on an island where there is shelter and an abundant food supply. However, things are not all plain sailing. After about a week of heavy rainfall,... -
Answered a Question in It's Not the End of the World
It's Not the End of the World is set mainly in New Jersey, where Karen Newman lives with her parents and where the author, Judy Blume, was born. It's also where she wrote the book while her... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The best way to deal with this question is to compare short stories with novels. The most obvious difference between the genres is that short stories are, as their name suggests, shorter than... -
Answered a Question in The Mayor of Casterbridge
As Susan Henchard lies on her deathbed, she figures it's time for confession. Not long before she passes from this world into the next, she confesses that she was the one who sent the matching... -
Answered a Question in Cry, the Beloved Country
Absalom Kumalo has gone off the rails in a big way. His father, the Reverend Stephen Kumalo, is shocked to discover that he's become a serial criminal, regularly committing robberies with his... -
Answered a Question in The Pot of Gold
As we learn throughout Plautus's The Pot of Gold, Euclio is a total miser, a somewhat foolish old man who's so obsessed with protecting the treasure bequeathed to him by his grandfather that he... -
Answered a Question in Amos Fortune, Free Man
Violet is Amos's wife. A strong, formidable woman, she goes against prevailing conventions by defying her husband's will on what she sees as a matter of principle. Amos wants to use his savings to... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Odysseus has taken many very important items with him on his epic journey, but few more important than the wine given to him as a gift by a grateful Maron, a priest of Apollo, for protecting his... -
Answered a Question in Edwidge Danticat
The sculpture that Ka makes of her father represents how she sees him, a strong, dignified man who managed to maintain his integrity despite being imprisoned. In depicting him in such a way, Ka... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Tally O is a criminal, a conman, and a fraudster. A known member of the underworld, he is simply not to be trusted by anyone. To avoid being caught, he adopts a number of aliases and multiple... -
Answered a Question in A Tiger for Malgudi
Raja the tiger has had a pretty raw deal at the hands of humans. As well as having his mate and his cubs slaughtered by hunters, he himself has been forced to live in a circus, where he was... -
Answered a Question in Runaway
Back in the day, Robin had lost her purse at a theater in Stratford—the one in Canada—after attending a performance of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra. Unable to find it, she made her way to... -
Answered a Question in Frindle
Frindle centers around an epic battle of wills between Mrs. Granger, a teacher of language arts, and one of her students, Nick Allen. The battle is based around words, how we use them, and where... -
Answered a Question in The Canterville Ghost
Virginia Otis, Mr. and Mrs. Otis' fifteen-year-old daughter, has suddenly gone missing. Straight away, Virginia's parents start looking for her all over Canterville Hall, while the boys go outside... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Revenge is everywhere in Wuthering Heights. Hindley gets his revenge on Heathcliff for taking his place at Wuthering Heights by denying him a chance to get an education. Heathcliff pays Hindley... -
Answered a Question in Ozymandias
Shelley's "Ozymandias" is given to us through the perspective of a traveler because he wanted to provide us with an accurate, objective account of the once-great pharaoh's decline. A traveler in a... -
Answered a Question in John Milton
In the estimation of most literary critics and scholars, John Milton is generally regarded as a minor sonneteer. He wrote only twenty-three sonnets that we know of, the number of which pales into... -
Answered a Question in Apartheid
Domestically and internationally, opposition to apartheid had both a moral and a political dimension. Opponents the world over justifiably regarded apartheid as a fundamentally immoral policy based... -
Answered a Question in My Side of the Mountain
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George is replete with figurative language. Much of it is used to describe the privations of life in the Catskill Mountains, where young Sam Gribley must... -
Answered a Question in A Single Shard
At the beginning of chapter 6 of A Single Shard, Tree-ear receives some very exciting news. One of the boys congregated at the wine shop tells him that a royal emissary is coming to Ch'ulp'o. He'll... -
Answered a Question in Trash
Raphael and Gardo are close pals who live and work together on the Behala landfill site. They spend each day desperately trying to eke out a living looking for trash that they can sell for money.... -
Answered a Question in Heidi
Heidi's Aunt Dete has been taking care of the little girl for four years. But now, she feels she's done her duty and that it's about time that Heidi's grandfather did his. When Dete tells him this,... -
Answered a Question in Treasure Island
Redruth, or Tom Redruth, to give him his full name, is one of Squire Trelawney's loyal and faithful servants. He is so loyal and faithful, in fact, that the Squire takes him on his voyage to... -
Answered a Question in The Cherry Orchard
Right throughout The Cherry Orchard Chekhov uses some vivid imagery to highlight certain of the play's themes and to give us an insight into the lives of the characters depicted on stage. First of... -
Answered a Question in Kofi Awoonor
In “The Weaver Bird,” Kofi Awoonor uses irregular line lengths throughout. The dominant meter, however, is iambic tetrameter, or four iambic feet—“duh-DUM”—in a line. For example, in the very first... -
Answered a Question in A Little Cloud
Many of the characters in Joyce's Dubliners lead what Thoreau once called lives of quiet desperation. To a large extent, this is because, for one reason or another, they are alienated from the... -
Answered a Question in Black Beauty
Merrylegs is generally a good-natured horse, who doesn't mind giving rides to children. It's always a joy for Merrylegs to give rides to girls, and he's always extra careful to ride as smoothly and... -
Answered a Question in The American Scholar
In his lecture “The American Scholar,” Emerson identifies two main influences on the scholar. First of all, there is nature, before which the scholar “must needs stand wistful and admiring.”... -
Answered a Question in The Endless Steppe
Winter in Siberia is about as cold as it gets. The small Siberian settlement of Oymyakon is officially the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth, with average temperatures in the winter... -
Answered a Question in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Penury is an old-fashioned word for poverty, and Gray surmises that most of the people buried in the churchyard, the ordinary folk, the common clay, lived lives of extreme poverty. Gray is able to... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The eponymous creature in “The Dog in Kivulu” is a creature in a truly wretched condition. “Thin, bony, and yawning,” he spends all day in this slum neighborhood, running away from fat flies,... -
Answered a Question in Ted Hughes
The raw power of nature is a recurring theme in the poetry of Ted Hughes, and we see it openly on display in “October Dawn.” Here, Hughes seeks to challenge the arrogant, complacent attitude of a... -
Answered a Question in History
The Declaration of Independence is one of the great documents of American history. It sets out, in some detail, a long list of grievances which the American colonists had against the British... -
Answered a Question in The Zoo Story
In his conversation with Peter, Jerry makes it crystal clear that he has no time for his landlady. He describes her as a “fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of... -
Answered a Question in Mid-Term Break
The speaker in “Mid-Term Break” is experiencing a mixture of emotions in the aftermath of his little brother's tragic death. As well as being sad over what's happened, he also finds himself... -
Answered a Question in Wonder
Jack's one of those high school students who feel as if they have to hang out with the popular kids in order to fit in. No one wants to feel like an oddball and Jack's no different in this regard.... -
Answered a Question in The Darling
Kukin and his wife, Olenka, have a very happy marriage. They get on very well together and work effectively as a team in the running of Ivan's theater business. They even share a similar outlook on... -
Answered a Question in The Three Hermits
The three hermits in Tolstoy's short story may be deeply devout holy men, but, as the bishop discovers, they have a complete lack of understanding when it comes to basic Christian doctrine. For... -
Answered a Question in Song of Solomon
The above quotation from Morrison's Song of Solomon comes from Milkman Dead's father Macon. He says these words not long after being physically assaulted by Milkman, who attacked him for hitting... -
Answered a Question in Little Fires Everywhere
Not long after starting a photography course at the New York School of Fine Arts Mia is invited by her professor, Pauline Hawthorne, to her apartment. Pauline wants to see some more of Mia's... -
Answered a Question in Civil Peace
The Nigerian Civil War (1967–70) was a particularly bloody, bitter conflict that claimed the lives of millions, most of them through starvation. Under the circumstances, then, Jonathan Iwegbu... -
Answered a Question in Aristophanes
In ancient Greek comedy, parabasis involves a direct address to the audience by the chorus. This dramatic technique allows the playwright to highlight the artificiality of the play by involving the... -
Answered a Question in Tonight I Can Write
As with many people who've gone through a painful breakup, the speaker of Neruda's poem is finding the situation difficult to handle. So much so, in fact, that his attitude towards his former lover... -
Answered a Question in Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad's representation of Africans in Heart of Darkness has been the subject of much controversy. Critics have accused Conrad of racism in portraying the indigenous people of the Congo as... -
Answered a Question in In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Although Auden is generous in his praise of the recently departed titan of poetry, William Butler Yeats, he nonetheless remains skeptical of the ability of his, or anyone else's poems, to change... -
Answered a Question in She Stoops to Conquer
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. But most people still cleave to a rather old-fashioned ideal of what a hero should look like. Brave, physically strong, and utterly fearless, a hero is... -
Answered a Question in The Monkey's Paw
The withered old monkey's paw that Sergeant-Major Morris shows to the Whites has a long history behind it. Far from being just a body part of a long-dead animal, it is an artifact of great cultural...
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