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 To Kill a Mockingbird
To elaborate on some of the above, the most profound passage on social inequality is found in Atticus's closing remarks to the jury in Chapter 20 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. In this... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
One passage found in Chapter 6 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird helps develop two minor themes in the story, one concerning gender roles and the other concerning bravery. Lee combines the two... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
There are no chores Tuck gives Winnie in Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, but he does charge her with a task to fulfill. The task he gives her is keeping the secret of the spring in the wood her... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
In Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, both Winnie and Miles express wanting to make a difference in the world. In the third chapter of the story, Winnie confides in a toad that she feels angry... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
By Chapter 21 of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, Winnie's family members feel like "some part of her had slipped away" because she returned to them a changed person. The greatest way in which... -
Answered a Question in Thank You, M'am
While Langston Hughes never grew up surviving on the streets the way Roger seems to in Hughes's short story "Thank You, M'am," Hughes certainly did have experiences with parental neglect and... -
Answered a Question in The Landlady
One point of symbolism in Roald Dahl's "The Landlady" is the name of the pub recommended to Billy for his first night in Bath, The Bell and Dragon. The name can be seen as a biblical allusion to... -
Answered a Question in Death of a Salesman
In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman's failures are a product of his unrealistic vision of what his life is and could be and what his sons' lives could be. Led by their father, Biff... -
Answered a Question in Thank You, M'am
The dialogue shared between Mrs. Jones and Roger in Langston Hughes's "Thank You, Ma'am" develops characterization by revealing the hardships both characters have suffered. One of the most... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
A similarity between the Fosters' home and the Tucks' home is that both are isolated from the rest of society in one sense or another. The Tucks' home is literally isolated because it is located in... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
By the end of Chapter 6, Jem trembles because he has experienced a shock retrieving his pants from the barbed wire fence surrounding the Radleys' house. In the beginning of Chapter 7, Jem explains... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Beyond the above, Scout's lack of understanding is characterized in her naive prejudices, prejudices that she lets go of as she grows more mature. Scout's naive prejudices are first characterized... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
In the prologue of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, the narrator sets the story during the "first week of August," a time period the narrator describes as being "motionless, and hot." The... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird when Jem and Scout enter the all-black church with Calpurnia, they are at first given a very mixed reception that leads them to feel unwelcome.... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
In Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," Granddaddy's actions show he is a no-nonsense sort of man who is very used to surviving in harsh conditions. He is also capable of being very... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Though the setting of Toni Cade Bambara's "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is not fully identified, we can tell the story takes place in the U.S. South due to the two dialects found in the story. One... -
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 react towards Granny's command to stop filming her house and family by treating her disrespectfully and behaving as if... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
"Camera man" and "smilin man" are the names the narrator gives the two strange men trespassing on the Cains' property in Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird." As the story... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Both hawks are killed by Granddaddy Cain in Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird." The first is hunted by Granddaddy for dinner, whereas the second is killed to keep it from... -
Answered a Question in The Story of My Life
Helen Keller does not say much about Mr. William Endicott in her biography The Story of My Life, but she does explain that he and his daughter were very good friends of hers. In chapter 9, Helen... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
Important events in a novel serve to introduce and develop the plot. In Avi's The Man Who Was Poe, after Edmund's sister, called Sis, goes missing, which is the central conflict of the story, one... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
In Avi's The Man Who Was Poe, the central conflict is a character vs. character conflict because Edmund's sister has been kidnapped by other characters, and Edmund is doing everything in his power... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
To draw a timeline based on events in Avi's The Man Who Was Poe, you first need to identify the setting of the story, in terms of dates and hours, as best you can. We can deduce that the story is... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
To write a summary, we pick out and explain the most important details of a work. To summarize a work of fiction, we want to focus on describing the most important details of the plot, which... -
Answered a Question in The Umbrella Man
Red herring is one of the most dominant devices author Roald Dahl uses to craft his short story "The Umbrella Man." A red herring is a type of literary device used in narration to distract a reader... -
Answered a Question in The Story of My Life
The purpose of a character sketch is to introduce the reader of your sketch to a person. Writing character sketches based on literature we are analyzing gives us a chance to look more deeply into... -
Answered a Question in Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
The title of Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" is a good indicator of the central theme. Mockingbirds are entertaining birds who spend the whole day singing by imitating... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Ibis
Beyond being regretful and reminiscent, author James Hurst's tone in "The Scarlet Ibis" is reproachful and sorrowful. Hurst is especially reproachful of the cruelty exhibited by the narrator, the... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
In Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, when the narrator describes the Fosters' cottage as being "touch-me-not," the narrator is describing the cottage as looking so well-kept that it looks... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
It can be said that the central theme in Avi's The Man Who Was Poe concerns our abilities and inabilities to cope with our fears. Throughout the story, there are times when both the central... -
Answered a Question in The Man Who Was Poe
At the beginning of the story in Avi's The Man Who Was Poe, Edmund trusted more in adults' abilities to help him, a mere child, than he trusted in his own abilities. Though, at the start, he wasn't... -
Answered a Question in The Flowers
One of the most important symbols in Alice Walker's short story "The Flowers" is Myop's "family's sharecropper cabin." Myop is described as walking away from the dirt road of the cabin to the... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Ibis
Beyond the color red, one other color frequently found in James Hurst's short story "The Scarlet Ibis" is white. In particular, when William Armstrong, nicknamed Doodle, is still an infant, not... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
One of the most important aspects of the resolution revealed in chapter 10 of Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now is that Doug has learned to face tribulations with courage and no longer feels terrified of... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
In Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now, one of the most helpful adults in Doug's life is Mr. Ferris, his science teacher. One way in which Mr. Ferris helps Doug is by comforting Doug through letting him... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
Doug faces a lot of worries throughout Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now. These worries concern his home life, school life, and daily personal life. At home, Doug has to worry about facing his... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
The central theme in Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now concerns the extraordinary human ability to remain optimistic and rise above adversity. Schmidt paints this extraordinary ability through Doug's... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
Doug meeting and becoming friends with Lil Spicer is one of the most important events in the novel. At first, Lil doesn't think much of him because he acts the way his oldest brother, Lucas, acts... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
As Gary Schmidt's novel Okay for Now progresses, Doug becomes less of a bully and feels less rejected and isolated from the world. He eventually feels bold enough to take on whatever... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now is narrated in what we call first-person-protagonist point of view. This point of view is told from the perspective of the main character who relays his/ her own story... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
The first important event is the moment Doug meets and starts to become friends with Lil in the opening chapter. They don't hit it off the first time they meet because she thinks he looks like a... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Exposition generally occurs at the start of a story. Exposition is used by an author to reveal the setting, characters, and conflicts of a story. In Oedipus the King, or Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
In Chapter 3 of George Orwell's Animal Farm, the pigs begin displaying their sense of power and superiority by hoarding for themselves five buckets of milk and all the windfalls of apples. Earlier... -
Answered a Question in Thank You, M'am
The central conflict in Langston Hughes's short story "Thank You, M'am" is character vs. society. Like many of his other works, Hughes uses his short story to capture the demeaning effects of... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
In the opening chapter of Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now, what stands out for Doug in the Audubon plate titled the Arctic Tern is the "round and terrified eye." Because of the terror in the bird's... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
It's in chapter 3 of Gary Schmidt's Okay for Now that the plate titled Arctic Tern from the Audubon book in the public library goes missing, and the drawing has been replaced with a plate titled... -
Answered a Question in Okay for Now
"The Arctic Tern" refers to the title of the very first plate drawn by John James Audubon that Doug looked at and admired his first time visiting the library. The plate depicts a bird called an... -
Answered a Question in The London Eye Mystery
In chapter 36 of Siobhan Dowd's The London Eye Mystery, Ted lays out all of the clues that helped him reach the conclusion that the reason why he and Kat did not see Salim exit the pod is because... -
Answered a Question in The London Eye Mystery
To write a summary of a book, we start by identifying the title, author, and main characters. We then explain the most important details of the story, which are the conflict, rising action,... -
Answered a Question in Frindle
In chapter 4 of Andrew Clements's Frindle, Nick begins his research for his report on how words get added to the dictionary by reviewing an article titled "Words and Their Origins," found at the...
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