Tamara K. H.
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I currently teach English grammar, literature, and essay writing to students in elementary school all the way up to the college level, including graduate students. I have a Master of Theology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy, and Classics.
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Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In Chapter 6 of Leo Tolstoy's short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," Pahom is told by the Chief of the Bashkirs that he can purchase for one thousand roubles as much land as he can mark on... -
Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By Chapter 6 of Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," we learn from the Chief of the Bashkirs that the tribe sells their land at the price of "one thousand roubles a day." The Chief... -
Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?", one way in which Pahom changes upon becoming a landowner is that his greed leads him to become blind to the needs and innocence of others. At the... -
Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
The purpose of a review, also called a critical review, is to evaluate the quality of any text. To evaluate the text, you analyze the text to look for strengths and weaknesses. A critical review... -
Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In his short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" author Leo Tolstoy certainly characterizes Pahom's wife as being content, but Pahom is discontented from the start. That being the case, one can... -
Answered a Question in How Much Land Does a Man Need?
One reason why Leo Tolstoy characterized his protagonist as a peasant in his short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" is because peasants always face difficult lives of labor, yet, at the same... -
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The term human nature refers to the ways in which people naturally behave, feel, and think, without any influences from society. These are behaviors, feelings, and thoughts that all human beings... -
Answered a Question in The Necklace
The literary movement of naturalism, like realism, strove to capture life the way it truly was, complete with all of its hardships. Yet, naturalism took realism one step further by striving to... -
Answered a Question in The Necklace
Having been born into the upper class but raised in the middle class, Guy de Maupassant is the perfect author to write about middle class materialism during the Second Empire in France. De... -
Answered a Question in The Necklace
Author Guy de Maupassant certainly does characterize Mathilde as greedy and self-serving in his short story "The Necklace." Evidence is seen in the fact that she was born into the working class yet... -
Answered a Question in The Necklace
In the short story "The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant uses Mathilde Loisel's feelings to foreshadow future doom. Mathilde's most significant feelings are in reaction to the invitation her husband... -
Answered a Question in The River
In Gary Paulsen's The River, Brian does not literally try to drown Derek, but he does feel tempted to because of his state of exhaustion and fear. After Derek gets hit by lightning, Brian decides... -
Answered a Question in The River
Exposition is generally found at the beginning of any story. During the exposition, the author introduces the reader to the characters, setting, and central conflict. In The River, author Gary... -
Answered a Question in Hatchet
In the opening chapter of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, we learn that Brian is traveling in a Cessna 406, a type of bushplane, also spelled bush plane, to Canada to visit his father for the summer. Bush... -
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In Chapter 1 of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, the narrator explains that Brian is flying from New York to Canada to spend the summer with his father, who is working in Canada's oil fields, having just... -
Answered a Question in The Twenty-One Balloons
In the young reader's novel The Twenty-One Balloons, Professor Sherman mostly changes with respect to his scientific thinking. Also, since he had pleasant experiences with the people he met on... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus teaches Scout that using the word nigger is offensive and beneath her dignity. In Chapter 9, Scout begins being persecuted by kids at school for her... -
Answered a Question in The Twenty-One Balloons
In Chapter 3 of The Twenty-One Balloons, when Professor Sherman begins addressing the audience in the auditorium of the Western American Explorers' Club in San Francisco, he actually doesn't say... -
Answered a Question in The Twenty-One Balloons
In Chapter 7 of William Pene du Bois's The Twenty-One Balloons, Professor Sherman says something about life on Krakatoa that impresses Mr. F. In this chapter, Mr. F takes Professor Sherman on a... -
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Chapter 3 opens with Professor Sherman arriving in San Francisco via the US President's train. The whole city of San Francisco celebrates his return, and the mayor whisks him away to the auditorium... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, it was not actually Mr. Walter Cunningham who served on Tom Robinson's jury, but it was one of the Cunninghams' family members from Old Sarum. Atticus... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
One of the most important lessons Miss Maudie teaches the children in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is to see the world more optimistically, especially to see the results of the trial more... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Jem reaches one of his greatest moments of change after Mrs. Dubose's death in chapters 11 and 12 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. In Chapter 11, Jem is worn down by all the ridicule he... -
Answered a Question in Trouble
Some examples of personification can be found in Chapter 4 of the novel Trouble, during a fierce storm that sets in as Franklin remains in the hospital in an induced coma, soon before his death.... -
Answered a Question in Trouble
Gary D. Schmidt's novel Trouble is an extremely complex story with multiple interweaving conflicts. However, the primary conflict is character vs. self since Henry Smith, the protagonist,... -
Answered a Question in Trouble
The most important main character in Gary D. Schmidt's novel Trouble is the protagonist, Henry Smith. Henry is the protagonist because he is the central character who changes as a result of... -
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Darkness is a recurring motif as well as a symbol found in Chapter 12 of Gary D. Schmidt's novel Trouble. Darkness fills the chapter from the start, as hitchhikers Henry, Sanborn, and Black Dog... -
Answered a Question in Trouble
Early in Gary D. Schmidt's story Trouble, while Franklin is still in the hospital prior to his death, Henry learns that his Whittier Academy crew team will be competing in the Cape Ann Coastal... -
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Henry changes in Gary D. Schmidt's Trouble by realizing his father's philosophy about trouble is all wrong. While growing up, Mr. Smith taught his family the principle, "If you build your house far... -
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Gary D. Schmidt's novel Trouble opens with the narrator reflecting on Henry's father frequently reminding his family to stay away from trouble. However, the only time the reader witnesses Mr. Smith... -
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During a flashback in Chapter 3 of Gary D. Schmidt's Trouble, we learn that, when Henry had asked Franklin why he wanted to climb Katahdin, Franklin had said doing so shows "you have guts" and can... -
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In Chapter 11, the nature of the ship and why it was burned remain a mystery. One might assume it was a merchant ship, but far too much weaponry was found on the ship for it to have been a merchant... -
Answered a Question in Trouble
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To write a summary, we focus on the most important details. In Chapter 11 of Gary D. Schmidt's Trouble, the most important details concern the fact that Henry faced conflict from his family for... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
In D. H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Paul's mother values material possessions. Because she values material possessions, she lives with her family in an expensive home... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
In D. H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," after Uncle Oscar discovers that Paul converses with the gardener Bassett about horse races, Uncle Oscar takes Paul for a drive to find... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
At the start of D. H. Lawrence's story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," Paul and his sisters hear the words whispered through the springs of the rocking-horse, "There must be more money! There must be... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
There are two reasons why Paul thinks he can be lucky on his own in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner." First, he feels desperate to help his mother. Since his father cannot provide the... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
The mother in D. H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" changes twice throughout the story. The first time, she changes for the worse since she grows more wildly obsessed with money than ever... -
Answered a Question in The Rocking-Horse Winner
All main events in a story will pertain to the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The exposition generally occurs at the start of the story and concerns the moments... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," the two men with the camera approach Granny expecting her to be very obliging. Instead, Granny uses facial expressions to let the... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The climax in any story is the turning point of the story, the moment rising action becomes falling action. It can also be the most intense moment in the story. In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
One of the main inferences we can draw from Toni Cade Bambara's story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" concerns the cameramen's real motive for wanting to film the Cains' home. Though at first glance... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The usual spelling of mockingbird author Toni Cade Bambara uses in her title "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," as seen in her volume of short stories the work was first published in, tilted Gorilla, My... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," immediately after Granny declines giving the men permission to film her home, the four children in her yard look at her expectantly because... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Authors use characterization to make a character come to life for a reader. Through characterization, the reader can learn how the character talks, thinks, feels, behaves, what the character looks... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird," it is evident the men trying to film Granny and her house see Granny as their subordinate and as a worthless human being. Though skin color is... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin' Bird," the narrator explains why Granny moves around so much soon after Granny relays to the kids her story of the man being photographed who was... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
An idiom is a frequently used phrase within a culture that is interpreted to mean something other than what the words in the phrase literally mean. Idioms are colorful expressions, meaning rich,... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The term tone is defined as the author's attitude toward the subject or the audience. Tone is expressed through the writer's word choices, which helps capture the way in which the writer is...
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