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 The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, the greatest similarity in background Danny Hupfer and Mai Thi Huong share is that they both come from ethnic minority groups that are persecuted. Danny is... -
Answered a Question in The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Holling's life is affected the most by the Vietnam War the moment he learns Mrs. Baker's husband has been declared missing in action. Up to that point, no one... -
Answered a Question in The Wednesday Wars
One way in which Holling's father lets him down in Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars concerns breaking his promise to take Holling to the Yankee's baseball game on Opening Day. In fact, he... -
Answered a Question in The Wednesday Wars
In Gary Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, Mr. Hoodhood is somewhat emotionally affected by the Vietnam War because he sees what terrible losses the war is leading to, but in general, Mr. Hoodhood... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Chapter 2 of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, we learn that Scout's new first-grade teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, has recently moved to Maycomb from Winston County in North Alabama. Scout... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
It is in Chapter 7 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie that Miss Franny Block explains how she came to own the library and be its librarian. According to her story, she lived in Florida as a... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
It is in chapters 6 and 7 of Kate DiCamilla's Because of Winn-Dixie that Miss Franny block, the tiny old librarian in Naomi, Florida, makes friends with both Opal and Winn-Dixie and decides he is... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
In Chapter 15 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal goes to the library to pick out something to read aloud to Gloria as a nice surprise for her. Not knowing what an elderly woman might... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
By Chapter 5 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal and her father have realized Winn-Dixie hates being left alone. Anytime he is left alone inside their trailer in the Friendly Corners... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
In Chapter 9 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal meets Gloria Dump for the first time when Winn-Dixie runs off into her yard. Opal must make her way through Gloria's tangled yard to... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo's title indicates that Winn-Dixie accomplished a lot for all the characters in the story, especially for the protagonist, Opal. The title indicates that, because of Winn-Dixie,... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
In Chapter 19 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal learns Otis's greatest sorrow is that he was arrested when he hit a cop trying to prevent Otis from playing his guitar on the street... -
Answered a Question in Because of Winn-Dixie
In Chapter 19 of Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal gives Otis the candy called a Littmus Lozenge she had asked Miss Franny Block, the town librarian, for. When Otis tries the candy, he... -
Answered a Question in The Mouse and the Motorcycle
In chapter 10 of The Mouse and the Motorcycle, author Beverly Cleary describes many symptoms that show Keith is very ill, symptoms that Ralph, the mouse, is the first to notice. Ralph begins to... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
To write a summary of any work of fiction, start by identifying the author, title of the work, and main characters. Then, explain the most important parts of the story, which include the conflict,... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
In the letter dated September 20th in Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, we learn that Leigh's sixth-grade teacher, Miss Martinez, has assigned her students to write reports about authors. Instead... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
The main idea, or central theme, in Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw is the need to overcome life's obstacles, such as the divorce of one's parents, by developing a positive attitude. Throughout... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary's story in Dear Mr. Henshaw begins when Leigh Botts is younger; however, most of the story spans his whole sixth-grade year, which places his age at about 11 or 12 throughout most of... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
In Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, Leigh's attitude changes toward the end of the book due to excellent advice he receives from Mr. Fridley, the school custodian. By February, Leigh is so... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
In Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, towards the beginning of February, Leigh is so upset about his father not phoning nearly all January that Leigh decides to phone his dad's trailer. Leigh is... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
In Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, Katy, the woman Leigh's mother works for, invites Leigh and his mother over for Christmas dinner, along with some other women they work with. After the dinner,... -
Answered a Question in Dear Mr. Henshaw
In Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, we learn Leigh's mother is a very hard worker with a lot of integrity, which means she is very dedicated to doing what's right. We know Leigh's mother is a... -
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
When we speak of text structure, we're referring to the ways in which an author has organized information in a work or passage. The following are some of the common text structures: chronological,... -
Answered a Question in The Monkey's Paw
You could make a case that W. W. Jacobs characterizes Sergeant-Major Morris as an untrustworthy person in the short story "The Monkey's Paw." Jacobs' description of Morris's physical looks serves... -
Answered a Question in The Raven
In "The Raven," Edgar Allan Poe reveals one of the greatest traits of human nature is the capacity to love, just as the speaker clearly deeply loved the late Lenore. Poe also shows that with love... -
Answered a Question in The Raven
By the mid-19th century in America, mortality rates were extremely high as a result of increased population coupled with poor sanitation. Many people died suddenly and mysteriously due to such... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In chapter 14 of Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, using what words they have in the instructions as clues, Doon and Lina follow the river in the Pipeworks to the hole in the Pipeworks wall the... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
We learn quite a bit about the physical descriptions of many of the characters throughout Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember. We learn many character descriptions in the opening chapter and others... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
The central conflict in Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember can be identified as a character vs. environment conflict. In the story, the city of Ember was designed by scientists and builders as an... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
Light is a form of energy that takes the shape of magnetic or electrical waves, and these waves are reflected off of or emitted from matter (Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon). According to Sir... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
Author Jeanne DuPrau primarily uses the third-person point of view throughout The City of Ember. However, her story also has two protagonists, Lina and Doon. A protagonist is a main character who... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
The government in Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember can best be described as a dictatorship. Though the city is run by a mayor, the mayor does not seem to be an elected official since elections... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In chapter 11 of Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, when Lizzie offers to have Looper find Lina some treasures in the store room, at first Lina eagerly wants such treasures but then rejects the... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, two of the most frequent strategies people use to cope with shortages and blackouts are worrying and passively hoping for better. In chapter 6, the morning... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
Signs are certainly a very frequent recurring motif author Jeanne DuPrau uses in The City of Ember. One of the most important signs is the "E drawn with curving lines" on the surface of a stone in... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, Lina finding what's left of the piece of paper and deciphering some of its meaning advances the plot by leading towards the climax of the story. Likewise, Doon... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, people have varying responses to the power outages that, in the opening chapter, Doon argues with the mayor are getting worse. Most people are completely... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In chapter 7 of Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, after Lina salvages what is left of the important-looking piece of paper her baby sister Poppy has chewed up, Lina shows a couple of different... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
In Chapter 2 of Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember, Lina is charged to deliver a message to the mayor in person. While waiting in the reception room to the mayor's offices in the Gathering Hall,... -
Answered a Question in The City of Ember
One symbol found in Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember is the green worm Doon finds that morphs into a moth. Early in Chapter 3, the narrator informs the reader that Doon loves collecting and... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
The Golden Rule teaches that we should "do unto others as [we] would have them do unto [us]," which means that we should treat others in the exact same way we would want to be treated ourselves... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus most definitely holds the belief that people are fundamentally good. One of the clearest moments in which he asserts his belief is the morning after... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
When Phillip finds himself alone on a raft with Timothy in Theodore Taylor's The Cay, Phillip's first thought is that Timothy is ugly because his "nose was flat and his face was broad" (p. 30).... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
There are actually multiple conflicts with multiple solutions within Theodore Taylor's The Cay. Two are internal conflicts that concern Phillip's racist attitude and his lack of independence. The... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
Being very young and inexperienced with enduring tribulations, Phillip does behave a bit selfishly at the beginning of Theodore Taylor's The Cay, especially while still on the raft and when he is... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
In Theodore Taylor's The Cay, by the time Timothy sees land, Timothy is certain that they have drifted into the cays in the Caribbean, which they were passing when their ship was torpedoed. He is... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
In Theodore Taylor's The Cay, Phillip assumes his father has ships out looking for Phillip, but what Phillip doesn't realize is that he and Timothy could be in a section of the cays surrounded by... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
Unlike in Theodore Taylor's The Cay, the protagonist Phillip in the 1974 made-for-TV movie of the same title, directed by Patrick Garland, does not start out with overtly racist and hateful... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
In Theodore Taylor's The Cay, Timothy makes many preparations to teach Phillip how to fish, and learning to fish becomes critical when Timothy is afflicted with malaria. Though he gets better,... -
Answered a Question in The Cay
In Theodore Taylor's The Cay, one reason why Timothy feels it is better to go to the island rather than remain on the raft is because he knows that drifting towards the cays is inevitable. With all...
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