Jamie Wheeler
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I hold a M.A. and B.A. in literature, currently writing my Ph.D in American Literature, specifically John Steinbeck's female characters. I have been teaching both Freshman and Sophomore literature at the college level for about ten years.
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Answered a Question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The relationship between the two boys is the heart and soul of Boyne's novel, set in Nazi Germany. Bruno is nine-years-old. He has just moved from is home in Berlin to a new, unfamiliar place... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
Lochhead's poem is set in the 1980s and its primary themes are disparity in wealth, family dynamics, and how friends grow apart when differences in wealth and status eventually emerge. ... -
Answered a Question in Out, Out—
"Out, out" is a moderately complex poem based on a true life event. In 1915, a neighbors' son's hand was severed by a buzz saw. There are several themes at work in this thirty-nine line... -
Answered a Question in Barn Burning
"Barn Burning" takes place in late February-early March in the year, the time of corn harvesting, in 1895. There are two settings for Faulkner's short story. The first is not specified, but it... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The incident with the clock occurs in Chapter 5 and is, in many ways, the most important chapter in the novel, for it is not until this chapter that Gatsby is finally reunited with his beloved... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
When Heck Tate takes the stand, he testifies that, as he left his office on November 21st, Bob Ewell stopped him and claimed that a Negro had raped his daughter, Mayella. Tate gets in Bob's car and... -
Answered a Question in History
The Navajo comedy duo, Ernie and James, often joke about the "noble savage," as they battle many long-held stereotypes about Native Americans. (For example, they are frequently asked if Indians... -
Answered a Question in Elizabethan Drama
The "University Wits"... remember the "Rat Pack" of the 50s or the "Brat Pack" of the 80s? Okay, probably not. But like these far less serious groups of the future, the "University Wits" were... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The adage, "Those who fail to learn from their pasts are bound to repeat them," is one way of thinking about the interpretation of this famous passage. Another adage also can be applied here, that... -
Answered a Question in William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's plays, both comedies and tragedies, are rife with examples of romantic exuberance. A comedy that relies on romantic exuberance is A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this... -
Answered a Question in London, 1802
In this poem, the speaker is longing for what he he considers to be England's Golden Age, the Enlightenment. This is the theme of the poem. The Enlightenment is widely defined as the years between... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
There are a number of literary devices in the Friar's speech in 2.3. Shakespeare begins by using a anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism gives human qualities most frequently to inanimate... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Well, we have to qualify Hamlet as a hero...he is a tragic hero. A traditional hero would have saved the girl and not leave the land strewn with bodies... Even so, Hamlet, the character,... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In my opinion, some scholars have been too hard on Gertrude. There is no textual evidence, after all, that she truly was in on the plot to kill her former husband, King Hamlet. She seems genuinely... -
Answered a Question in The Solitary Reaper
I would like to second the original post about art being what connects us as human beings. It is aptly noted that the speaker cannot understand the reaper, as she sings in Scottish and the speaker... -
Answered a Question in Thomas Wolfe
The point-of-view in Wolfe's short story "The Child By Tiger," is first person singular. The character who tells the story, Spangler, is told exclusively from his experiences, recounting events... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Let's back up just a bit to understand why Paris comes to be at the tomb. Paris has arrived at the Capulet estate because he thinks he is about to be wedded to Juliet. Remember, Lord Capulet and... -
Answered a Question in Madame Bovary
In 1857, the year of publication, Flaubert's Madame Bovary was banned on grounds of overt sexuality. There was even a trial. Presiding over the trial, Imperial Advocate Ernest Pinard accuses the... -
Answered a Question in A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
The setting quite important to Marquez's story. Recall that the full title is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children." Marquez is writing a fairy tale and sets it somewhere in... -
Answered a Question in Incident at Vichy
Lebeau, in Miller's play Incident at Vichy, is a character who is ruled by fear. He is twenty-five years old, a painter by trade, and does not care much about his personal appearance. In 1939, as... -
Answered a Question in A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, is about the conflict that erupts when the pope, Sir Thomas More, refuses to grant King Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. More remains... -
Answered a Question in As You Like It
Celia is Rosalind's cousin as well as her good and true friend. She is Duke Frederick's daughter. She lives at the palace with Rosalind, who comes to live there are Celia's father ousts Rosalind's... -
Answered a Question in Araby
In "Araby," Joyce employs much religious symbolism to bring one of his major themes to fruition: the incongruity of the secular and the sacred. The entire story is a religious quest revolving... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Let's first recall who exactly the character of Dill is in Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Dill Harris (or, "Charles Barker Harris") is a summer visitor to Maycomb, Alabama, where he and his... -
Answered a Question in History
I am writing my dissertation on John Steinbeck's female characters. Fortunately for me, Steinbeck was a prolific letter-writer. He typically wrote between six and eight letters every day. Most... -
Answered a Question in Nationalism
A strong sense of national identity can unite people by making a group of individuals feel like part of a cohesive whole. For example, after the terrorists attacks on 9/11, this country experienced... -
Answered a Question in History
I just recently learned that Rosa Parks had a much more involved, covert, and clandestine role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott than previously known. Far from being a fed-up domestic worker who had... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
The comedy team "Kids in the Hall" did a very funny parody: http://www.tv-dome.net/the-kids-in-the-hall-season-1-episode-11 Saturday Night Live has done numerous sketches over the years. Check out... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
There was an EXCELLENT hour on NPR a few weeks ago discussing this very topic. One of the scholars argued that modern rappers, like Jay-Z and Diddy are much like Gatsby. Here is the link to... -
Answered a Question in Software/Wetware
WP software has great advantages for people with learning difficulties who find language problematic. A WP's spelling and grammar software can help them to understand their mistakes and to... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Well, it's an open question isn't it? It depends how good you think the actors are. I think Romeo and Juliet are two of the hardest roles in Shakespeare, and the play as a whole is incredibly... -
Answered a Question in Remember
The poem is about the speaker's struggles of saying goodbye as she approaches death. Let's look at the first two lines: Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the... -
Answered a Question in When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
The applause that the speaker hears is a response to the supposed "greatness" of science. The astronomer has reduced the magnificence of the universe to a few complicated-looking formulas... -
Answered a Question in If—
The speaker capitalizes the word "Man" to emphasize the qualities that he hopes his son will embrace. "If" he has managed to be a person of integrity: If you can keep your head when... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Let's start with the definition of each term, and then an example of each device as it is used in Salinger's novel. Cliche: a cliche is a trite, overused expression (like "hitting the nail on... -
Answered a Question in I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
The "plank of Reason" that is breaking is the speaker's grasp on sanity. The metaphor, then, is of the tenuous hold she has had on its retention. A plank is a narrow board, often... -
Answered a Question in Soldier's Home
Krebs is reacting to the less than warm welcome he received after returning to his hometown after serving in the Army during World War I. Most of his fellow soldiers had returned home long before... -
Answered a Question in The Winter's Tale
Consider looking at the consequences of sin in the world. For example, Leontes' jealousy results in the loss of his wife, his daughter, and his son. Looking at Perdita, the... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Deception is a primary theme of Act 2. In 2.1, we find Hamlet playing his "madness" ruse on the unsuspecting Ophelia. She describes how he came to her chambers ...with his doublet... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
For the Puritans, (the people about whom Hawthorne was writing), the supernatural was as real and palpable as their own skin and bones. Evil manifested itself in others who were not... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
Paul misunderstands what his uncle has said: although he hears the words "filthy lucker," the expression is "filthy lucre." Lucre means monetary reward or gain. "Oh ! " said Paul... -
Answered a Question in Maniac Magee
We already know that Maniac has a good background in baseball and the skill to stun both teammates and observers (See Chapter 7 and his bout with McNab). When Maniac meets Grayson, the... -
Answered a Question in The Miracle Worker
Helen's eighteen nouns and three verbs are no more than finger games to her - she has as yet failed to grasp the meaning behind them. Captain Keller likens her vocabulary to "teaching a dog... -
Answered a Question in I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—
Consider the forms of life that the speaker identifies in the poem: herself, a king, and the lowly fly. The speaker, as she listens to the vibrant buzz of the lowliest creature on... -
Answered a Question in The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
The drowned man represents the mysterious "other." Unlike the men of the fishing village who are predictable, in both habit and appearance, the drowned man is exotic. Moreover,... -
Answered a Question in A Woman on a Roof
There are two themes in Lessing's story that are sometimes separately addressed and at other times seamlessly interact: those themes are sexuality and class and gender barriers. Tom, the... -
Answered a Question in The Tables Turned
Before we begin to study the stanzas, let's recall some brief tenets of Romanticism and Wordsworth's affection for the movement. Romantic (capital "R") poets were determined to free poetry... -
Answered a Question in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
In a word: defiant. The speaker of the poem is pitting the power of life against the power of death as his father lays dying, the elder ready to succumb to the force that is larger... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Parris' angst is reserved solely for himself, although, ostensibly, he is concerned for his daughter Betty, who is rigid under some sort of paralysis. Parris does not want to believe, as... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Antony asks that they allow him to take the body to the marketplace and, further, that he be allowed to orate at the funeral. Here are the lines Antony delivers to the Servant (who is to take...
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