… relationships can often be found between the author of a story and the story that he writes. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s frame story, Canterbury Tales, many of the characters make this idea evident with the tales that they tell. A distinct relationship…

… Indian fisherman, lives on the Gulf of California with his wife Juana and son Coyotito. Their simple hut is made of brush, and the couple sleeps on mats thrown on the dirt floor, while Coyotito sleeps in a hanging box. Like others in their poor…

… California, in 1902. His first 3 books were financial failures, and he worked at various kinds of jobs to The book that I read is called the Pearl and the author is Steinbesurvive, including fruit picking. His first success was Tortilla Flat (1935),…

… novel, The Pearl, the main character Kino, went through many dramatic changes in his life. Before finding the pearl, Kino was very peaceful and really wasn’t aware of his people’s poverty. After Kino had found the pearl, his life got twisted upside…

… your eyes and picture the most beautiful place you could imagine. To you it may be waterfalls and palm trees or mountains that stretch as far as you can see. To me it is a little, white farmhouse that sits in a small town called Nevada Mills.…

… portrays the life of a 30's family in a dilemma over selling an ancestral piano for money to buy land those ancestors worked as slaves. The piano teaches many lessons, among the most important is that you must hold on to your heritage over everything…

… Plague", by Albert Camus. It is about a plague that hit the European countries in the middle ages. I chose to describe the literary term of parallelism. Here are some …

… in Burton-On-Trent, England, in 1865, just as the US Civil War was ending. As a young child, he was disturbed by the news of slaughter from the former British colonies, and was affected deeply. This turned him into a brooding, introverted teenager…

… of the Arthurian Legend By focusing, ostensibly, on sex and violence, Malory's rendering of the Arthurian legend becomes something quite distinct from the French originals. Roger Ascham's complaint that only "bold baudrie and open manslau…

… Fitzgerald portrays their male characters in their novels and short stories? Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald portray their males in quite different ways. The authors use various aspects to make their characters very distinguishable by…