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A Plot Summary of Elie Wiesel’s Night (2277 words, 8 pages)

Perhaps some of the most vivid images of the Holocaust are the death marches, when tens of thousands of Jews at one time were paraded to the extermination camps in Germany, Poland and Austria. Some of the more notable death marches included the mass march from the Warsaw Ghetto to ... Read More

A Plot Summary of John Marsden’s Book “Tomorrow When the War Began” (665 words, 2 pages)

Title Tomorrow when the war began Author John Marsden Publisher MacMillian Publishers First Printed in 1993 Available from Most book shops and Library's Ellie has a story to be told about her and her six friends Homer, Fiona, Lee, Robyn, Corrie and Kevin. In the beginning, Ellie and her close ... Read More

A Plot Summary of the Story of Miss Julie (2155 words, 3 pages)

"It is man versus woman all day long endlessly" (Strindberg). Do I agree with this statement after having read the play? The representation we get of young Miss Julie through the gossips from the outset shows the plays investment I her degeneracy and ruin. Strindberg portrays Miss Julie as being ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot and Setting of the Film “City Lights” (603 words, 1 pages)

"City Lights" is a picture starring Charlie Chaplin. It is a silent film released after the advent of talkies (1931). The setting of the movie is The Great Depression in America or present time when it was released. The movie could be considered a "romantic comedy" as Chaplin's humor has ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” (1342 words, 2 pages)

In 1812, Charles Dickens was born the son of a destitute clerk. He had a limited education, and spent the majority of his childhood working in a dismal factory trying to earn money for his family. His early experiences gave him a compelling determination to make a success of his ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Emily Bronte’s Story “Wuthering Heights” (760 words, 1 pages)

Emily Bronte, who never had the benefit of former schooling, wrote Wuthering Heights. Bronte has been declared as a romantic rebel?because she ignored the repressive conventions of her day and made passion part of the novelistic tradition. Unlike stereotypical novels, Wuthering Heights contains no true heroes or villains. The narration ... Read More

Plot and Element Analysis of a Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (540 words, 1 pages)

When a person reads a story, he or she is aware of many types of elements of fiction. An author uses elements of fiction to make his or her story move and read in a way that will make the story enjoyable and a thrill to read. By using these ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1087 words, 2 pages)

Children are, by nature, incredibly sensitive creatures. They can sense almost any emotion an adult might feel just by observing a particular persons body language and facial expressions. Such is the case with the youthful Pearl from the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As the daughter of the ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Lydia Davis’ Story “The Sock” (529 words, 1 pages)

When reading different stories, you can often relate one to another, even if they are written by different authors and are over different topics. I personally found common ideas between The Hand by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, a story of a wife and her new husband, and The Sock by Lydia Davis, ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Movie “The Breakfast Club” (1508 words, 2 pages)

The dynamic process was shown between Bender and Claire when Bender told Brian to close the door so they could get the prom queen impregnated. She gave him a dirty look, and turned back around. He was expressing the action that he wanted to be done rather then the state ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Story “Alchemist” (1858 words, 2 pages)

Alchemist is a story of a shepherd called Santiago and his very own legend. All the story is based on this young man Santiago and his story. Our leading Artist is used by the author to let us know about something that he wants to tell us. He wants us ... Read More

A Plot and Character Overview of the Story “The Tell-Tale Heart” (307 words, 1 pages)

Story The Tell-Tale Heart, 1850 Author Edgar Allen Poe (1809 1849) Central Character An unnamed man who claims to be sane but is not. He is very calculated and methodical. Other Characters There is an old man that has an eye that is pale blue with a film over it. ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Film “Scrooge” (529 words, 1 pages)

Ebenezer Scrooge is a selfish, penny-pinching miser. He doesn't care for the people around him and mankind exists only for the money that he can make through business. In particular, Mr. Scrooge detests Christmas, which he views as a useless time that only interrupts his business for 2 days a ... Read More

A Plot Overview of J.R Tolkien’s “The Two Towers” (833 words, 1 pages)

A changing environment requires adaptation and change as a prerequisite to survival. Survival in changed worlds such as in The Two Towers by J.R.Tolken, The Matrix by the Wachalsci brothers and Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden all require extreme changes psychologically, both as an individual and in ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (517 words, 1 pages)

When William leaves the house to take a high-paying job in London, he is excited, but Mrs. Morel is grief-stricken over his parting. Being his mother, she should be proud of him, but she is not. Rather, she fears losing him and holds even more tightly onto her other son, ... Read More

A Plot Summary of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (1021 words, 3 pages)

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperateb Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,a And summers lease hath all too short a dateb Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesc And often is his ... Read More

A Plot Overview of the Movie “Sling Blade” (846 words, 2 pages)

Sling Blade! A) The Point Of Carls Decision. By the end of the movie Carl is put in a position were he must decide weather or not he should just leave like has been told to do, or do something to help young Frank. Carl has many options which he ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot and Setting of Roman Blood (726 words, 2 pages)

Roman Blood By Steven Saylor Setting Roman Blood is set in Rome, 80 B.C. It is a warm spring morning when Gordianus starts his investigation on a crime. He lives in a large house, a little run down over the years since being passed down to him from his father. ... Read More

A Plot Overview Wuthering Heights (1268 words, 2 pages)

After the death of Catherine, Heathcliff got on thinking of Catherine, although he had won in his revenge plan, but he's not happy at all. Because he has lost his beloved Catherine. One day, he dig out Catherine's coffin, he would like to bury with his woman. Not long after, ... Read More

A Plot Overview of Peter Shaffer’s Brutal Play, Equus (934 words, 2 pages)

Martin Dysart , child psychiatrist, is on a quest to discover why a confused, passionate 17 year old boy named Alan, has savagely blinded six horses with a spike. The discovery of this forms Peter Shaffers brutal play Equus. Equus, meaning horse in Latin, was performed by State Theatre of ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Tears of the Black Tiger (2598 words, 4 pages)

Director Wisit Sasanatieng could never live in a black and white world, but he clearly revels in the films made from that period. In Tears of the Black Tiger, he chews up a number of those influences from B-Westerns to silent movies to old Thai melodramas and spits them out ... Read More

An Analysis of the Plot, Themes and Characterization of William Shakespeare’s Play The Merchant of Venice (1060 words, 2 pages)

The plot The main plot is centered on the bond which entitles Shylock to get a pound of Antonios flesh if Antonio is unable to repay his debt. The two subplots provide also much enjoyment. They are concerned with Portia trying to get married and Jessica, Shylocks daughter, eloping with ... Read More

A Plot Overview of Homer’s The Odyssey (563 words, 1 pages)

Some modern scholars have argued that Odysseus is too brutal with the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and that he earns the wrath of Poseidon. Do you think that this interpretation has any justification within the text of Homers Odyssey? Within the text of Homers Odyssey it is possible to find justification that ... Read More

An Analysis of Plot in the Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien (848 words, 1 pages)

Often times, there is much more to a story line than characters, narration, and dialogue. Physical objects many times plays an important part in the plot of the story. Significant objects in stories can be very simple objects, but have a nonliteral meaning that is important to the plot. "The ... Read More

Plot Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (729 words, 1 pages)

The plot of Much Ado About Nothing is an elaborate network of schemes and tricks. This statement is confirmed throughout Much Ado About Nothing. The play contains many examples of tricks and schemes that are used to manipulate the thoughts and feelings of characters. The major examples of such manipulation ... Read More

A Plot Summary of the Story “Wuthering Heights” (457 words, 1 pages)

Wind - The home of the Earnshaws and then Heathcliff is called 'Wuthering Heights,' and in the first chapter Mr. Lockwood says that 'wuthering' is a significant adjective, as it is "descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must ... Read More

An Analysis of Masterplots: Dj Vu and Memories of Happiness (1176 words, 2 pages)

Masterplots Dj vu and Memories of Happiness Once upon a time, at sometime and someplace in their life, everyone has probably felt truly happy, free and alive. If not, they at least have an idea of what happiness is supposed to be like. The unfortunate thing is that due to ... Read More

A Plot Summary of Mark Twin’s Novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1235 words, 2 pages)

Mark Twain's novel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", is based on a young boy growing up in Missouri in the mid-1800s. The adventures Huck Finn gets into while floating down the Mississippi River show many serious experiences that occur on the "dry land of civilization" better known as society. These ... Read More

Dorothy Allison’s Role in the Plot of the Story “Mama” (562 words, 1 pages)

Mama Everythings going to be all right, I told her. Everythings going to be all right, she told me. The pretense was sometimes the only thing we had to give each other.(390) In the short story Mama, Dorothy Allisons mother and daughter characters are survivors they are lower class women ... Read More

A Plot Review of the Story “Waiting for Godot” (1157 words, 2 pages)

We as people do not take comfort in the strange and forbidding. Because of this, we try to find explanations or personal connections to everything in our experiences. It thus follows that any theatregoer will make an attempt to put the work in front of him or her into familiar ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013