… values, like the two families in the two different plays, "I Remember Mama" by John Van Druten and "You Can't Take It With You," by Moss Hart and George S.Kaufman. Some viewpoints that each family has are the importance of their family, economic…

… woman who immigrates to the United States at the age of nineteen. She only remembers a little of her childhood, but what happens to her grandmother and her great-aunt still has impact on her. She recalls “her grandmother had been married off at the…

… historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward -- he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings.…

… or chimps besides our shape? We have consciences, of course. Conscience is the awareness of right and wrong. In the Crucible, the idea of conscience in strongly emphasized. Miller himself said, "No critic seemed to sense what I was after [which was]…

… forces, whether the forces being man versus man, man verses himself, man verses nature, man versus fate, or man versus society. Good examples of conflict can be found in almost any book. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is full of all types…

… after a writer introduces the main point in a story. These complications are usually the result of conflicts. There are three kinds of conflict within a story (Trimmer and Jennings 4). The first kind of conflict is conflict among the characters. The…

… one would have believed that in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own”(3). These are the opening words of H.G. Wells in his classic…

… well start to assume that the story has very little or nothing to do with Captain Corelli. Moreover, de Bernières introduces the reader to so much material, that very soon we have probably forgotten about him long, before he is actually cited . In…

… at Owl Creek Bridge" can be considered a work of realism for two reasons. The first is Bierce's utilization of his own military background giving this story a sense of realism. Bierce also conveys his pessimism after leading the reader to believe…

… The Pearl is written by John Steinbeck. Corruption is a departure from what is morally correct or pure by means of material wealth or possessions. The Pearl , by John Steinbeck, is a book of corrution because Kino won’t let go of the evil pearl, the…