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I am in my 10th year of teaching high school English, and I love it!
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Answered a Question in The Crucible
In The Crucible, there were many reasons why people were accused of witchcraft; landlust was just one of them. The best character to look at for an example of landlust is Thomas Putnam.... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
In Act Three of The Crucible, Mary Warren comes to the courts and attempts to explain that the accusations that the girls were making were false, and were based on fear and mass hysteria. It... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
In Act Two of The Crucible, we see some key figures arrested for witchcraft; among them are Elizabeth Proctor, Martah Corey, and Rebecca Nurse. Each arrest was accompanied with "evidence"... -
Answered a Question in The Road Not Taken
There are several possible meanings for Robert Frost's use of the word yellow in his poem "The Road Not Taken." If you look at the poem itself, Frost chooses to open up with that seemingly... -
Answered a Question in Peace Like a River
There are many great themes in this book, and it helps to start by taking a look at a potential list of those themes—love, family, religion, prayer, miracles, redemption, sacrifice, altruism—and... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
There are several possibilities as to why Bradbury write a story that has war constantly looming in the background. The first is because it is an essential element to the eventual plot of the... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
Wemmick works with Jaggers, who is a rather formidable man who works with all sorts of interesting and even sometimes unsavory characters. It is dark there, alarming because of the strange... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
A classic tragic hero often ends up sacrificing his life due to a situation that was the result of his own weakness. In this most basic sense, Proctor is a tragic hero. To pinpoint why,... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
In act three of The Crucible, John Proctor and his friends present many pieces of very sound, logical evidence to try to prove both the innocence of their wives and the deception of the girls who... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Mass hysteria played a huge roll in The Crucible and in so many innocent people being accused of--and hanged for--witchcraft. The initial accusations themselves started because of mass... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
At the end of act two of The Crucible, John Proctor's wife has been arrested on the "proof" that she stuck a needle in a doll and that it was some sort of voodoo doll for Abigail Williams. Abby... -
Answered a Question in The Gift of the Magi
Both "Lamb to the Slaughter" and "The Gift of the Magi" have endings that are unique, creative, and definitely a distinct twist on the stories themselves. They both surprise the reader: ... -
Answered a Question in The Road
As you are reading a story, most often, characters have names. Because of this, the only way that a reader can relate to those characters is through other aspects of their personality,... -
Answered a Question in Pablo Neruda
In "Ars Poetica" by Pablo Neruda, Neruda compares the process of writing a poem to the process by which a carpenter fashions wood, a baker bakes bread, and a blacksmith forges metal. He... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Act 3 of The Crucible is filled with irony, and usually in a way that is always negative, adding to the conflict and stress of the play itself. Irony is typically defined as the opposite of... -
Answered a Question in The Road
This is an interesting question. The most obvious way that the two characters are alike is that both of them get put into harsh conditions--against their will, and most likely caused by human... -
Answered a Question in The Road
There is conflict all throughout The Road, and seen in many different forms. In fact, the book is heavy with stress and the strain of survival in the harsh conditions created by the nature of their... -
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
The simple answer is money. Before Pip's acquisition of wealth, Trabb and Pumblechook didn't give Pip a second thought, and even treated him with a bit of derision. When Pip comes into... -
Answered a Question in The Tell-Tale Heart
This is actually an interesting question, because the narrator of the poem--who we are used to being the good guy--is also the man who commits murder. He would like us to think that he is the... -
Answered a Question in My Last Duchess
In Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," Browning describes a duke who is speaking to the representative of a future wife for himself. This duke, as a sort of warning to the... -
Answered a Question in The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver's novel is not only a story of a family and their journey over several decades, it is also a political allegory for Africa's journey itself. Kingsolver brilliantly weaves... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Individuality is when a person stands up and fights to become different and unique from others; it is when they strive to better themselves and to be their own person. They do not succumb to... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Most of Fahrenheit 451 focuses on the vices and negative tendencies of human nature that mades Montag's society so dark and miserable. So it is nice that at the end of the novel, there is a... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
When Montag has the flashback to meeing Professor Faber for the first time, it is at a point in the novel when he has realized that he is incredibly unhappy, and he suspects that the answers to all... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
An interesting thing about this novel is that one of the points that Bradbury is making about his society is just how few actual values and principles the society has. Montag lives in a world... -
Answered a Question in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
The most obvious common theme is that of death. In "Funeral Blues," a loved one has died, and as a result, the author's entire world has stopped--they are devastated. In "Do Not Go... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
By the time Act Two rolls around, the witch trials are in full swing, and numerous people have been accused of being witches. Cheever and Herrick have been commissioned to work for the... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
The first thing that Proctor does is cut off his relationship with Abby; we see his determination to end it and keep it that way in the very first act. When Proctor comes into the house to... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
I would spend the first paragraph introducing the story just a little, mentioning that it focuses quite a bit on greed, and then at the end of the first paragraph, writing what I call a "theme... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
These two poems, though seemingly very similar at their beginnings, in fact have two very different messages and attitudes regarding faith, in addition to differing in their tones and sentiments... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Faber has a couple really great statements here, that show the stark difference between a society that is filled with people that think and analyze, verses a society that does not think, and merely... -
Answered a Question in A Separate Peace
Psychologists have analyzed what draws us to other people, and have come up with several broad categories that determine our friendships with other people. A couple of those that apply to... -
Answered a Question in A Separate Peace
In this quote, Gene is pondering the events that occurred during those crucial years at Devon school, and pairing it with his more mature knowledge of war and people that he has gained throughout... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The main issue on Prufrock's mind is a deeply personal and intimate one--he wants to ask someone that he cares about an "overwhelming question" of serious import. That subject--whether to ask... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Stream-of-consciousness writing usually involves the narrator speaking of whatever comes into their head, without any predictable or planned structure or topic. It is as if you set your... -
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the narrator, supposedly Prufrock himself, tells about his intentions to ask a loved one an "overwhelming question," and as he does tell us of that intent,... -
Answered a Question in A Separate Peace
If you look at the characters of Leper, Gene and Finny, in the end, it is only Gene that actually makes it through the war with sound health and mind. Leper cracks under the pressure of... -
Answered a Question in A Separate Peace
In chapter 10 of A Separate Peace, Gene makes a very difficult and uncomfortable visit to Leper, who has been discharged from the army because of mental instability. Leper lived out in the... -
Answered a Question in Dylan Thomas
To answer this question, I'll use Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," as this is a very well-known poem where Thomas speaks to his dying father, telling him to die well and with... -
Answered a Question in 1984
From these chapters, Winston is revealed to be an incredibly frustrated, haunted, confused and miserable character. He hates the government but knows he can't do anything about it, or that he... -
Answered a Question in The Tell-Tale Heart
If you look at the very opening lines, you can use inference, or educated guessing, to figure out why he is writing the story. He says, "Why will you say that I am mad? The disease had... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Pulling metaphors out of thin air is often difficult and intimidating. To help you creat metaphors that describe someon's personality, I suggest going through the following brainstorm. ... -
Answered a Question in The Flowers
Even though "The Flowers" is not a long story, it is filled with amazing descriptions and details, and contains a profound message of lost innocence at the end. One way that Alice Walker... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet's inner conflict centers around whether or not he should enact revenge upon his father's murder, or not. Wrapped up in that conflict are questions about whether the ghost of his father... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
The three things that Faber mentions that are missing in our society correlate well with the three reasons that he gives Montag for the importance of reading. When Montag goes to Faber's... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Ambitious: He craved the throne, and went to great lengths to obtain--and keep--his position as king once he gets it. No one would murder and connive quite so much unless they were... -
Answered a Question in Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth begins as a character that is indepedent and quite proud in her assessments of people. It is her pride that is injured when she overhears his first comment at the party, about her... -
Answered a Question in Ethan Frome
In her introduction, Wharton explains that sometimes a story doesn't have to have complicated characters and a deeply symbolic storyline in order to make a point. This idea was met with some... -
Answered a Question in The Flowers
The most obvious way that death is present as a theme is through the fact that Myop discoveres an actual dead person in the forest, and has to come to the harsh reality that people die, and... -
Answered a Question in The Flowers
In this story, Myop is 10 years old, which is an age right on the cusp of adulthood, but still firmly standing in the world of childhood. She is carefree, life is good, she feels safe,...
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