… tells the story of a comfortable, peaceable creature named Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo, like most hobbits, is similar to a human but about half the size and not nearly as loud. Bilbo gets caught up in affairs much greater than his own hobbit-life when, at…

… transition from innocence to experience. At the beginning of the story To Kill A Mockingbird Scout’s world is limited to the boundaries of immediate neighborhood. She feels safe and secure, and totally confident that the way things are done in her home…

… by Edith Wharton. There are many examples where you can tell by the imagery what mood the author is trying to convey. One example is in the first chapter when Ethan knows to look for Mattie by searching for her red scarf (Wharton 14). The color is…

… novel by John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany, pulls you into a world of friendship, love, and laughter that leaves you begging for more. The narrator, John Wheelwright, is from a matriarchal family and who is destined to find his biological father…

… had been violated…by time, by love, by Anse”(172). With these words, Addie Bundren describes a common theme in the South. Many women become trapped in an unsatisfactory life, and then drained, both physically and emotionally, by the people in…

… way that Brutus and Antony speak to their audience in their orations. In these orations, Antony and Brutus try to connect to the audience and saw them to believe what they themselves believe in relation to whether Caesar should have or should not have…

… Maupassant, the things I liked best were the characters, the setting and the irony. The story was about an unhappy woman named Madame Louisel and with the great life she was offered. Then she and her husband were invited to a distinguished party.…

… of The Baskervilles, one of the most famous stories out of the Sherlock Holmes collection written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the development of the major characters stays almost static. Not much change is gone through by the major character, being…

… freedom. It is about a fictional place where reading has become banned and all works of literature are burned. This quote is to help you understand the mentality behind the story, "You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we…

… of a Book-Burner to a Book-Savior Guy Montag, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s epic novel Fahrenheit 451, is a dynamic character that transforms from a fireman feeling little emotion to a true human who realizes the value of knowledge. Initially,…