Kathryn Tyson
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About
I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but lived most of my young years in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from the University of California in Santa Barbara, I moved to Oregon where I started my teaching career and completed my Masters in Literary Criticism. Six years later, I decided to add a little adventure to my life and traveled to Anaco, Venezuela, to teach grades 6-9 in an oil field school. It was a great experience and allowed me to indulge in my favorite pastime, travel. Returning to the United States, I taught middle school in Houston, Texas. I also taught English and writing on the Texas A&M ship, the Clipper II, during its maiden voyage. Careers and writing were two areas that interested me, and I presented inservices on both in Maryland, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Texas. It finally came to an end after 38 years when I decided to retire last year. I am totally enjoying my retirement, but I enjoy working with enotes and keeping in touch with students. I am, unfortunately, a widow. My husband, Tony, who was from England, died of heart disease. In England, I have two stepchildren, Jay and Lisa, and two grandchildren, Emily and Charlotte. If you haven’t guessed, they were named after the Bronte sisters. I still live in Houston, Texas, but love to travel and have visited every continent except Africa. A frequent visitor to the Caribbean islands, I am definitely a beach person – a part of California that will never leave me.
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Answered a Question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
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Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
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Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Answered a Question in The Fighting Ground
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Answered a Question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Answered a Question in Great Expectations
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Answered a Question in Leo Tolstoy
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Answered a Question in The Lottery
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Answered a Question in The Pearl
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Answered a Question in The Tell-Tale Heart
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Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
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Answered a Question in Those Winter Sundays
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in The Fighting Ground
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Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
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Answered a Question in The Pearl
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in After Twenty Years
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Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Answered a Question in My Brother Sam Is Dead
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in After Twenty Years
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Answered a Question in After Twenty Years
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Answered a Question in Great Expectations
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Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
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Answered a Question in The Vagabond
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Answered a Question in The Silver Sword
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Answered a Question in The Call of the Wild
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in Great Expectations
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Answered a Question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Answered a Question in Tears of a Tiger
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Answered a Question in Tears of a Tiger
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Answered a Question in Langston Hughes
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Answered a Question in The Masque of the Red Death
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Answered a Question in The Pearl
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Answered a Question in The Phantom Tollbooth
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Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
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Answered a Question in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
When Rainsford is on the yacht at the beginning of the story, he is talking with his friend, Whitney, and Rainsford says that hunting is the best sport in the world. Whitney replies that... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
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Answered a Question in The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The resolution is the part of the story that ties up the loose ends. In this case, it is when Sherlock explains to Dr. Watson how he solved the mystery. Sherlock Holmes had made the logical... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
When Rainsford and his friend are discussing the island at the beginning of the story, his friend says that it is four miles to the island but impossible to see in the dark. Rainsford falls...
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