
Maud Scarbrough, M.A.
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I have a Film and Media BA and experience writing literature guides and lesson plans.
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Answered a Question in W. Somerset Maugham
At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes Salvatore as a carefree fifteen-year-old Italian boy who lives in the Grand Marina in South Italy. His father is a fisherman and vineyard... -
Answered a Question in Paradise
On page 6, one of the unnamed characters walking through the convent states that an oven once stood in the center of the town of Haven. The people of Haven loved the oven so much that when they... -
Answered a Question in Charles
The biggest clue that Laurie is in fact Charles is how Laurie seems to change so quickly from his mother's "sweet-voiced nursery-school tot" to "a long-trousered, swaggering character who forgot to... -
Answered a Question in The Communist Manifesto
There are four core ideas in Marx's Communist Manifesto: class struggle, dictatorship of the proletariat, historical materialism, and internationalism. Class struggle: Marx believed that conflict... -
Answered a Question in Monster
Dr. Moody gives a detailed medical account of the damage the bullet did to the storekeeper's body. He says it entered the left side of the body and "traversed upward through the lung," tearing the... -
Answered a Question in Monster
On page 117, the people in Steve's neighborhood in Harlem talk about the robbery at the drugstore that resulted in the murder of a storekeeper. While a horrific event, the characters state that... -
Answered a Question in The Mouse
At the beginning of the story, the author explains that Theodoric Voler's mother shielded him so much from the "coarser realities of life" that even the most simple things in life have become... -
Answered a Question in Top Girls
Isabella Bird is a nineteenth-century Scottish traveler who spends the first act talking about herself. She sometimes responds to what the others are saying, but she often only uses what they say... -
Answered a Question in Monster
At the top of page 94, in the holding pen where Steve is locked up before going into the courtroom, the guards talk about their lives. One guard talks about "how much money his kid's teeth were... -
Answered a Question in Monster
To find the real Steve, you have to look in his diary, which sounds a lot more honest and reliable than his screenplay. At first, Steve doesn't seem to understand how he got into this position in... -
Answered a Question in Monster
On page 91, in one of the diary sections, Steve says, I thought of her in the kitchen, ironing the shirts. I think about myself so much, about what's going to happen to me and all, that I don't... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
At the beginning of the story, the author paints Tom as a cocky yet likable boy whom his aunt has to constantly discipline to keep in check. He steals jam, skips school, and gets into fights. Even... -
Answered a Question in Monster
While in prison awaiting trial, Steve decides to write a screenplay based on his trial. We find out that Steve is on trial for his involvement in the robbery of a drugstore and the subsequent... -
Answered a Question in Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros is a 1959 play written by the Romanian-French playwright Eugene Inonesco. An avant-garde absurdist drama, it begins with the sighting of a rhinoceros in a small French town. Though the... -
Answered a Question in Hatchet
On his way to visiting his father, Brian Robeson thinks about his parents' divorce and the hatchet his mother bought him before he left. Suddenly, the pilot of the plane collapses, leaving Brian... -
Answered a Question in Mildred Pierce
The full quote, which is in chapter 16, is "came the dawn! ... Came the dawn—God, what a dawn!" He's basically referring to the fact that a new day is just approaching, and they are beginning in... -
Answered a Question in Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Metaphors directly state a comparison between two things, and similes state a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as." The author uses metaphors and similes throughout the... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
In Beatty's speech to Montage at the end of part 1, Bradbury adopts the following literary devices: imagery, alliteration, repetition, dissonance, consonance, assonance and colloquialism. Imagery... -
Answered a Question in John Bunyan
Few would argue with the claim that John Bunyan's most important contribution to English literature is Pilgrim's Progress. At one point it was second only to the bible in terms of sales and remains... -
Answered a Question in Medicine River
The character of Jake Pretty appears briefly in chapter four between pages forty-two and forty-nine. By that time, he is already dead. Officially, he shot himself in the head with a shotgun.... -
Answered a Question in Hard Times
At the end of the novel, Mr. Bounderby stares into the fires and thinks about what the future holds for the characters of the novel. The narrator says that he sees his housekeeper, Mrs. Sparsit,... -
Answered a Question in The Outsiders
The novel begins with a gang called the Socs attacking the book's narrator, Ponyboy Curtis, as he walks home from the cinema. Luckily, his friends turn up and scare them off. Ponyboy goes to the... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" is perhaps Shakespeare most famous sonnet and as such the most famous English language sonnet. Much of its popularity comes from its perfect form. There is no what we... -
Answered a Question in John F. Kennedy's Presidency
You could ask President Kennedy some questions relating to his religion. For example, you might ask him why he thinks Americans were finally able to accept a Catholic President in 1960. You might... -
Answered a Question in Out of the Silent Planet
In C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet, the Hrossa is one of three native species on the planet of Malacandra (the other two are Seroni and Pfifltriggi) with the reasoning abilities of humans.... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
In Book V, Calypso tells Ulysses that he will suffer greatly on his trip back to his country. She says he can rather "keep house along with [her], and let [her] make [him] an immortal." Ulysses... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
The ghost appears three times in the play—act I, scene I; act I, scenes iv and v; and act III, scene iv—but only twice to Hamlet. The first time he appears to Hamlet, he confirms that he is... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The quote appears in the opening chapter when Mr Radley coffin passes their house. Calpurnia's words surprise the children. Usually, she wouldn't dare make any comment about "the ways of the white... -
Answered a Question in Monster
On page 117, Steve overhears a woman in his neighborhood tell a friend that some kids shot and killed an owner from the drugstore. Initially, the script's action describes Steve standing within... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Some of the most significant quotes in the opening chapters describe the characters and hint at how they will contribute to life on the island. For example; The fat boy waited to be asked his name... -
Answered a Question in A Christmas Carol
The full quote in A Christmas Carol is, in came a fiddler with a music book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. There is some confusion... -
Answered a Question in The Road
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is one of the most revered novels of recent times. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2006 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006. However, it does have... -
Answered a Question in Zoot Suit
At the start of the play, Valdez states that "the giant facsimile of a newspaper front page serves as a drop curtain." On the newspaper, the audience can read a headline that reads, in capital... -
Answered a Question in Alas, Babylon
The part you're talking about occurs at the end of chapter 8 on pages 157 and 158 during an exchange between Randy, Florence, Alice, and Lib. Randy enters the house to find Florence crying at the... -
Answered a Question in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter is a member of the first wave of working-class people in England that attended university. However, like many of the so-called angry young men of the fifties and sixties, he feels that... -
Answered a Question in The Minister's Black Veil
In the story, the clergyman Mr Hooper starts to wear a black veil that stops just above his mouth. It shocks the people in the town who don't quite know what to think about it. Most grow to hate it... -
Answered a Question in Going to Meet the Man
"Going to Meet the Man" is a short story published in 1965 about a police officer called Jesse, who lies in bed worrying about the Civil Rights protests that are challenging the status quo. James... -
Answered a Question in Whirligig
In chapter 8, "San Diego, California," grandma asks Brent to take her out in the car. Brent thinks she just wants to go to the pharmacy or on a wild goose chase to find some old type of food that... -
Answered a Question in The Skin I'm In
In chapter 11, Char shouts at the lunch ladies because she says the "hamburgers look like burnt dog doo-doo." As Maleeka says, the lunch ladies are not the kind of people you mess with. They are... -
Answered a Question in Wind from an Enemy Sky
After a winter of work trips to Canada, Mexico, and the West Coast, Pell finally finds the time to work through the accumulation of reports on his desk in New York. In the congressional hearings,... -
Answered a Question in Becoming
Michelle Obama's life started "in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow." She says she had a strong family that included her parents and her brother Craig. Her aunt and... -
Answered a Question in The Kitchen House
On page 20, chapter 3, "Lavinia," Ben presents Lavinia with a bird nest that becomes the first in "my collection of abandoned bird nests." On page 170, chapter twenty-seven, "Belle", she... -
Answered a Question in Brownies
There are a few reasons that Z.Z. Packer could have called the short story "Brownies". The most obvious reason is that the main characters, including the narrator Laurel, are part of a Brownie... -
Answered a Question in Frindle
After his made-up word "frindle" because an international phenomenon, Nick becomes a celebrity and in many people's eyes a hero. He appears on chat shows such as The Late Show and Good Morning... -
Answered a Question in War
The characters in Luis Pirandello's short story "War" refer to Italy, the country where they are from, as "the country." It is as if, to them, it is the ultimate authority. They say their sons have... -
Answered a Question in History
The rise of bushfires in Australia can be attributed to the arrival of European settlers in 1788. For years, the Aboriginals had successfully kept them down through their use of controlled fires... -
Answered a Question in Peter Pan
In chapter 8, "The Mermaid's Lagoon," the children rest on Marooners' rock for half an hour, watching the mermaids, because Wendy insists they rest after eating lunch. Lunch may be make-believe,... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
The following are some open-ended questions for The Catcher in the Rye: What is the significance of the title The Catcher in the Rye? Why has Holden been sent to therapy and how do you think this... -
Answered a Question in Homegoing
Ohene at least tries to save the village by agreeing to marry a trader's daughter in exchange for the seeds that the villagers think will guarantee a good harvest. Ohene feels responsible for the... -
Answered a Question in Frindle
The word "frindle" makes Nick very rich. At first, he only makes up the word to get at his new junior high school teacher, Mrs Granger, who tells him that a word can mean whatever he wants it to...
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