Rebecca Karli, M.A.
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Book lover hailing from Pennsylvania, USA. I have a Master's Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and more than 10 years of experience teaching middle and high school literature to students from all over the world! Currently, I'm teaching English online to adults and children in China, blogging about the latest books, and working on a few of my own! My favorite works of literature include The One and Only Ivan (children's), Refugee (middle grade), I'll Give You the Sun (YA), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and 1984 (classics), although there are so many more to mention!
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Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the court's refusal to give the widow and Judge Thatcher custody of Huck reflects the importance of the family over all else, including the well-being of a... -
Answered a Question in The House on Mango Street
If I were to consider the many causes and effects in Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street, I would focus on the events that support the theme of the novel that growing up as an immigrant in a... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
Another reason for Orwell's use of the third person limited omniscient narrative of Animal Farm instead of third person omniscient or first person is to make the story seem more objective,... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
As we all know, in real life, things aren’t just black and white. People are a mixture of good and bad, and it’s hard to judge them when situations are often difficult and complicated, and people... -
Answered a Question in A Wrinkle in Time
What is interesting about the "Black Thing" from A Wrinkle in Time is that it is up for interpretation exactly what the black thing is. Is it alive? Is it a place? Does it represent something else?... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
In order to form an opinion about the plot development and conclusion of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, you must first examine the author's purpose and message to decide whether the story... -
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
What's so interesting about Alvarez's choice to alternate chapters from the different points of view of the three butterfly sisters is that, although the stories are fictitious (though inspired by... -
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
In Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, Maria Teresa, "Mate", the youngest of the butterfly sisters, matures from innocent child, preoccupied with pretty, trivial things, to brave freedom... -
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
In Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies, the most headstrong of the sister butterflies, Minerva, fights all of her life to be free both physically and mentally, but after her time as a... -
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
Chapter 1 of In the Time of Butterflies contains a lot of descriptive details that reveal hidden meanings and predict what is to come later in the novel. For example, in the beginning of the novel,... -
Answered a Question in Earle Birney
The poem "Winter Saturday" by Canadian poet Earle Birney is an extended metaphor that compares people coming out of their houses in the winter after a snowstorm to moths being fooled into emerging... -
Answered a Question in Twelve Angry Men
The last thing the jurors hear before entering the room to decide the case is one of the guards saying, "He doesn't stand a chance!" in reference to the young man on trial for murder. In other... -
Answered a Question in Poetry
The diction of a poem refers to the word choice and style used by the speaker. In "Poetry Should Ride the Bus" by Ruth Forman, the speaker uses the social vernacular of the African American... -
Answered a Question in Literature
I think the topic, "If I were a pencil," is a fun, open-ended prompt that really allows you to be creative! In any case, you will be writing an extended metaphor, which is a creative way to compare... -
Answered a Question in Tuesdays With Morrie
A key moment refers to a specific time in Morrie's childhood that had an affect on him and influenced his behavior as an adult. In addition to the aforementioned moments already stated, I would... -
Answered a Question in American Born Chinese
Racial melancholia is a term used to explain the melancholy, or depression and self-rejection, that a person may feel when they do not fit into the mainstream American culture and the expectation... -
Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories about many interesting characters and some who are not as they seem. Although the characters are pilgrims, meaning they are taking a religious trip... -
Answered a Question in Monster
On Thursday, July 9th, Steve writes in his journal about the prison inmate next to his cell named Acie who is expecting a verdict in his case. Acie was accused of robbing a check-cashing place and... -
Answered a Question in Geraldo No Last Name
The character Geraldo in "Geraldo No Last Name" represents the negative stereotypes attached to the many hard working immigrants that come to the U.S. to work, and who often share the same terrible... -
Answered a Question in The Giver
In addition to personification and onomatopoeia, there are several other instances of figurative language in this chapter. For example, when the Giver says to Jonas, "I cannot shield you forever,"... -
Answered a Question in Kim
Based on your question, I'm assuming that you were given a choice on what to read, and you've chosen Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Therefore, your answer should be personal, and you need to consider... -
Answered a Question in The Interlopers
The conversion from vengeful enemies to gracious compadres in Saki's "The Interlopers" seems to develop quickly and before the reader's eyes, as the narrator describes the characters' reasonings... -
Answered a Question in The Devil's Arithmetic
In real life, a shtetl is a small Jewish community in Eastern Europe. In The Devil's Arithmetic, the main character, Hannah, goes back in time, as Chaya, and meets her aunt and uncle, Gitl and... -
Answered a Question in The Devil's Arithmetic
There are many symbols throughout the novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, especially ones that come from Jewish traditions and folklore. For example, the Jewish people refer to the gas... -
Answered a Question in The Devil's Arithmetic
In addition to the theme of remembering one's heritage and the atrocities that humans have committed in the past, another poignant theme of The Devil's Arithmetic is recognizing the heroism of the... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Foreshadowing is a device used in literature in which the writer gives the reader a hint about something that will happen later in the story. There are many different forms of foreshadowing—it can... -
Answered a Question in The Bluest Eye
In The Bluest Eye, the candy that Pecola eats is called a Mary Jane and has a wrapper with an illustration of a pretty white girl with blond hair and blue eyes on it. Being surrounded by images of... -
Answered a Question in Hatchet
There are a few things bothering Brian about his parents' divorce. Obviously, it destroyed his stable, happy life, but it was also the reason and the process that nagged him. He refers to the cause... -
Answered a Question in Frederick Douglass
The purpose of Douglass's autobiographical work My Bondage and My Freedom is to prove that the system of slavery is unnatural for both slave and slave owner. The book also demonstrates by... -
Answered a Question in To Da-duh in Memoriam
The setting of Paule Marshall's "To Da-Duh, In Memoriam" is the island of Barbados in 1937, when it was still under British control. Marshall wrote the story as a memoir of her late grandmother,... -
Answered a Question in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano describes the conditions in the hold of the ship as overcrowded, smelly, dirty, and so disease-ridden that it was dangerous. The slaves were kept like cargo, so they were chained... -
Answered a Question in The Color of Water
The diction, or word choices, used in the memoir The Color of Water by James McBride clearly reflect the backgrounds and points of view of the two different speakers. In the odd chapters, McBride... -
Answered a Question in Among the Hidden
The main characters of Among the Hidden are Luke Garner, his best friend Jen Talbot, and her father, Mr. Talbot. They live in a world where the government has limited every family to two children... -
Answered a Question in The Glass Castle
In the memoir, The Glass Castle, the Walls family is almost always on the run or on a mission to start over, leading to many different settings within the book from the desert towns of Arizona to... -
Answered a Question in The Color of Water
James McBride describes his large and unique family and upbringing in his memoir/autobiography, The Color of Water. There were twelve children in the household, including him. He was the youngest... -
Answered a Question in The Color of Water
The author of The Color of Water, James McBride, uses two very distinct styles in order to convey the different points of view and backgrounds of he and his mother in his memoir/autobiography. For... -
Answered a Question in Monster
1. Bobo Evans and James King allegedly hold up a drugstore on December 22nd, at approximately 4 p.m., leading to the shooting death of the drugstore owner, Alguinaldo Nesbitt. 2. After the... -
Answered a Question in Monster
Wendell Bolden is an inmate at the Rikers Island Facility and is testifying as a witness for the prosecution in the felony murder case against James King and Steve Harmon for the death of drugstore... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Beowulf is old—its origin is estimated to be the seventh century, when the Anglo-Saxons invaded England. In fact, it is considered the oldest surviving example of Old English epic hero poems. Since...