… Life,” the author of Our Town, Thorton Wilder, demonstrates how people in Grover’s Corner, Massachusetts go through a daily routine of chores. Dr. Gibbs is coming home from delivering twins, Joe Crowell Jr. is delivering the morning paper, Ms. Gibbs…

… tones and attitudes. We can see the attitudes of the characters in the story, especially the main character, Mathilde. She is after all, the central character around which is built an intricate portrait of a certain type of woman during…

… greatest and most renown writers and poets of his time, and of all history. His unique and sometimes disturbing style of writing captivated all audiences across the world, from adults to children. Poe had various themes that ran throughout many of…

… of the late twentieth century. Many of the changes that occurred were shown through the literature, which often addressed the moral and political issues of the modern state (Petcovic 1). As opposed to the nineteenth century, twentieth century writers…

… American fiction works, incorporated magico realismo, or magic realism, into her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Magic realism is described as the interest of displaying a common or daily scene in a story, but implementing a strangeness or…

… where all the action of the story takes place. Fred is in Italy at the beginning of the war and he joins the Italian army. The city that Fred is stationed in throughout most of the book is Gorizia. Frederic Henry meets a beautiful English nurse named…

… by: Dylan Croslin FORWARD: A LITTLE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Albert Leon Guerard was born in Paris and served with the Office of War Information from 1942 to 1945. He became professor emeritus at Stanford in 1946 and since then has taught…

… Lord of the Flies, to help readers gain a greater understanding of his message. He uses symbolism in three important areas: objects that have symbolic value as references to ideas, characters that symbolize important historical and religious…

… You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg, is a description of a sixteen-year-old girl's battle with schizophrenia, which lasts for three years. It is a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s experiences in a mental hospital during her own bout…

… manages to convey the meaning of Jes Grew without once explicitly defining it. There is a good reason why he never defines it; Jes Grew has no true definition. Even those infected by this ?anti-plague? that evokes the jump, jive, and wail, do what…