In the book, The Color of Water, what is the color of water and how does it relate to god?
- THE COLOR OF WATER
In the book, The Color of Water, what is the color of water and how does it relate to god?
What do you think the color of water is? It doesn’t have any color at all, does it? How does that connect to this story? In this book, the author is the biracial child of a white, Jewish mother…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Using Atticus’s statement that “you never really understand a person . . .” explain how this…
Boo Radley–Boo is the most obvious character to whom this philosophy applies. In Part One of the novel, the children regard Boo as a mysterious, violent neighbor who might roam the streets at…
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- FRANKENSTEIN
Why does Victor not want to study the contemporary scientists suggested by Mr. Krempe in…
A large part of the reason why Victor does not want to study the contemporary scientists suggested by Mr. Krempe is because he simply does not like the man. Although Victor admits that the…
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- LORD OF THE FLIES
What is the “scar” that is repeatedly mentioned in Lord of the Flies?
The scar is the damage done to the jungle by the plane wreckage. It serves as a reminder of the boys’ forced presence on the island, as their crash has permanently changed the appearance of the…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What is NOT admirable about Miss Maudie in To Kill a Mockingbird?I am able to come up with MANY…
You are right in finding more positive traits in Miss Maudie than negative ones. She is almost a female Atticus. She shares a similar philosophy and recognizes the importance of Atticus’s role in…
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- NIGHT
“Then one day they expelled all the foreign Jews of Sighet. and Moshe the beadle was a…
Elie Wiesel is quite emphatic about the cruelty of the Nazis. At the same time, he holds a great deal of anger towards Jewish individuals who failed to speak out and act in a manner that defied…
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- THE BRONZE BOW
What did Daniel and his band do with a Roman catapult in Bronze Bow?
Daniel and his band dismantle the Roman catapult, board by board, so that the Romans would not be able to employ it against Rosh, and Rosh could use the reuse the material for supplies. The Romans…
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- GEOLOGY
How the shape of the grain in the rock affect porosity.when the angularity of the grain increase…
In Earth science, porosity refers to the empty spaces in a rock. If the grains in a rock are well sorted meaning they are almost all the same size, it will have higher porosity than a rock with…
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- DOVER BEACH
In Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach,” what do the following lines mean? “Retreating, to the…
In his poem “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold relates the feeling that he has that all beauty, faith and love is retreating from the world, leaving behind only misery, sadness, struggle and war. In…
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- THE RED PONY
In the book The Red Pony what is the summary for the whole book?
I will provide a brief summary of the story here, but for further study, please check out the comprehensive summary that Enotes has provided for The Red Pony at the link referenced below. In the…
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- MACBETH
After reading Macbeth, choose 11 facts that illustrate differences between life in Elizabethan…
This is truly one of my favorite things to discuss with my students (because there’s such a shock-factor involved)! Here are my responses (although there are many more differences than these):…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
Beatty repeatedly displays great knowledge of books and reading throughout Part One. What is…
Beatty does know more about the content of books than a fireman should according to that society’s standards. He quotes from at least a dozen different texts as he recites the “history” of the…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
Explain what ideals and attitudes each of the three main settings reflects and how each setting…
East Egg is home to people like Tom and Daisy who occupy the highest social class in American society. Their money has been passed down through generations of Tom’s family. This inherited wealth…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
In Chapter Nine of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, describe Nick and Tom’s final meeting….
Another answer to this question is available here: http://www.enotes.com/great-gatsby/q-and-a/how-does-great-gagsby-follow-steps-narrative-14033
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- HOUSEKEEPING
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable. And finally has…
The quote refers to the question of what it means to live life fully. In Housekeeping, the eccentric aunt is a character who lives unconventionally and has a hard time conforming to what the…
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- WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Why did Hindley Earnshaw dislike Heathcliff? Was he right in doing so?
Heathcliff is an adopted son, brought back by the father from the streets of Liverpool. Hindley resents Heathcliff’s intrusion into the life of the family and, more than that, is bitter and angry…
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- SONG OF MYSELF
What is Whitman talking about in stanza 50 of “Song of Myself”?
One of the critical elements in “Song of Myself” is the idea of transcendence, the ability to identify an essence within a human being that is universal and knows few, if any, boundaries. In this…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
What is Beatty’s attitude to books? Do you agree? Why? (Fahrenheit 451)
I think that Beatty’s sense of control and desire to consolidate control is what drives him to believe that books and knowledge have to be controlled, meaning eradicated, by the state. In Beatty’s…
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- SOCIAL SCIENCES
How does one prevent influenza, specifically H1N1?
This is a rather timely question. The prevention of the H1N1 strand of influenza (also called “Swine Flu”) is roughly the same method of prevention of most influenza and viruses. There is nothing…
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- NADINE GORDIMER
Point out the basic irony and small ironies mentioned in “Once Upon a Time”.How is the the first…
The basic irony presented in “Once Upon a Time” is that the author herself does not believe in having to write a fairly tale. Gordimer opens her story with a statement against having to write a…
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- INHERIT THE WIND
Who is the best orator in Inherit the Wind and what made their words so powerful? Can we analyze…
There are some distinct choices to this answer. The most evident would be having to choose between Matthew Brady and Henry Drummond. The reasons they are both so powerful of oration is that both…
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- TO A SKYLARK
Why do you think the writer has chosen the skylark to be the object of his writing? How will you…
Shelley’s choice of a skylark is an example of how the poet identifies a natural setting and applies it to his own life. In doing so, Shelley has been able to link the human experience to a…
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- THE SOLITARY REAPER
What were the conjectures of Wordsworth as he listened to the song and wondered about?
As the speaker in Wordsworth’s poem “The Solitary Reaper” hears the song, there is much that allows for conjecture and a sense of wonderment to emerge. The speaker does not know the what the song…
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- ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE FUTURE OF PROGRESSIVE POLITICS
What are the diseases/physical conditions related to malnutrition & overnutrition? What are…
This question is really several questions, don’t you think? I will address the issue of diseases and conditions caused by malnutrition and over-nutrition. Malnutrition is, as the name suggests, a…
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- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
In what part of Scotland does the story of Macbeth take place?
The play that Shakespeare wrote doesn’t truly take place in any particular part of Scotland. It is vague and even untrue since Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis at the beginning of the play, and…
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- PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
My experience as a high school English teacher has been that students find certain texts “boring” because of the language they are written in. P & P was written long ago and is in quite…
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- TUCK EVERLASTING
In “Tuck Everlasting”, when Mr. Tuck takes Winnie rowing, what does he talk about?How does he…
Mr. Tuck explains to Winnie about the cycles of life being like a wheel. He talks about everything having a beginning and an end and that life moves naturally, in these cycles. He tells Winnie that…
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- HISTORY
What is the biggest country in the world?In the world the biggest country is Republic of China.
Your guess of China seems to be a fairly accurate one. In terms of biggest/ largest population, the rankings are as follows: 1) China-1,306,313 800 2) India- 1,080,264,400 3) United States of…
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- MATH
I need to find the value of m in the following equation: (2m – 1)/3 = 5 + m/6I am doing a step…
Be sure you have checked your parenthesis before continuing to ensure you have written the question correctly. you could break it into separate fractions : 2/3 m – 1/3 = 5 + 1/6 m get like terms…
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- THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
Explain the first canto of Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of the Lock.”
The “Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope is what is known as a “mock heroic” epic, in that it follows many of the conventions of epic poetry while simultaneously satirizing epic as a genre. The…
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- THE KITE RUNNER
In “The Kite Runner”, how is Soraya and Amir’s relationship part Afghan and part American?
Amir and Soraya both share a common heritage although they meet on common ground (poor and reconstructing their lives) in California. Even if their families must adapt to the rigour of their…
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- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
What is ironic about Scout’s taking Boo home?At the end of the story after the attack, Scout…
The roles are reversed in that usually an adult will accompany a child home and not the other way around. What is suggested here is not only Boo’s child-like nature (dependent upon others and…
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- THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Why does Rainsford say “I am still a beast at bay” in the last scene of the short story “The Most…
By using the hunting term “at bay,” Rainsford means that his life is in jeopardy as long as Zaroff is alive, even if for the moment he has the upper hand. Nothing short of killing Zaroff and…
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- LITERATURE
What type of baseball player was Casey?answer it
Casey was a great baseball player. We know this because, “[The crowd] thought, ‘If only Casey could but get a whack at that–We’d put up even money now, with Casey at the bat.'” However, Casey was…
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- MACBETH
If Macbeth was totally and completely ruined, why is he still considered a hero in Shakespeare’s…
Macbeth is still considered a hero even though he was ruined because he is a tragic hero, not a hero in the general sense of the word. A tragic hero, then, is someone who is fundamentally great…
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- THE ODYSSEY
What qualities of the epic hero does King Nestor attribute to Odysseus in his recollections of…
When Telemachus and Athena (who is disguised as Mentor) visit Nestor on Pylos in Book III, the old king tells Telemachus a few things about his father Odysseus. One of them is particularly ironic,…
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- NIGHT
Wiesel’s father says not to worry about having to wear the yellow star. “You won’t die of it”…
Eliezer possess a complex relationship with his father. On one hand, he experiences a level of emotional distance from his father, as akin to many adolescents do in regards to their parents. In…
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- BLISS
Show how the pear tree is an allegory in the short story “Bliss.”
Allegory is a way of reading a piece of literature. Some allegory makes it strikingly clear that it is allegory by giving characters titles instead of names, such as “Red Cross Knight” and…
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- FAHRENHEIT 451
In Fahrenheit 451 what is the small green object?
The item is a two-way listening device, through which Faber attempts to help Montag. It is part of their plan to save Montag and the books, but backfires when Montag is called to his own house….
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- JOHNNY TREMAIN
Why does Johnny Tremain have to hide his work from Mr. Lapham in Chapter 1 of Johnny Tremain?
Although Johnny does not show his work to Mr. Lapham in Chapter 1, I am not certain that he is actually hiding his handiwork from his master. It is true that he hopes to finish mending a buckle…
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- THINGS FALL APART
How do the villagers define a successful person? Who is seen as successful? How does this compare…
Success comes in different categories in the Ibo village. One way is through farming. A man with many acres of yams, good harvests, and barns in which to store his excess is considered successful….
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- SCIENCE
How might an understanding of interconnected ecosystems help health officials determine how much…
Let’s begin with a general definition of ecosystem. An ecosystem consists of all the living things sharing one habitat. Because multiple species share the habitat, they also must either compete…
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- THE GREAT GATSBY
What are some of the most important symbols in The Great Gatsby, and what role does setting play…
Setting plays an important role in developing some of Fitzgerald’s themes. East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes all assume symbolic significance. East Egg, the home of the Buchanans,…
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- LIFE OF PI
Life of Pi explains how religions and zoos are both steeped in illusion. What are other ways in…
The previous answer was pretty disparaging of religion, but one does not need to be. When one begins to compare zoos with religion, there are many things one can see in terms of similarities. Let…
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- THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK
What do you feel about the love that is presented in T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J….
The love that Prufrock has for the woman that he wants to speak to is an overwhelming feeling. He is so consumed by it that he spends a lot of time thinking about it…so much time that we have…
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- THE KITE RUNNER
The cities of Kabul, Peshawar, and Islamabad feature prominently in the book. How does Khaled…
- Kabul–Kabul is the most significant of the three cities you mention in regards to the novel. In the first section of the novel set in 1970s Kabul, Hosseini describes a Kabul that is…
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- THE KITE RUNNER
How does Amir gain redemption in The Kite Runner?
Amir’s redemption process possess several steps. 1. Shortly after Amir’s betrayal of Hassan in Chapter 7, he frames Hassan as a thief so that Baba will fire Ali and force Ali and Hassan to leave….
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- THE ROAD
I have questions for an essay on “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.McCarthy doesn’t make explicit…
We certainly don’t have the exact details of what happened in this world; however, how many details do we really need to understand the situation? Obviously, wars between nations wiped out the…
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- LITERATURE
How does the recongnition of patterns make it easier to read complicated literature?
Recognizing patterns in literature can enhance both the stylistic appreciation and comprehension of it, making it easier to read. For example, in understanding repetition of stylistic themes of…
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- THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
In The Prince and the Pauper, around chapters 27-30, what did Miles find strange when he arrived…
Miles Hendon actually arrives back home at Hendon Hall in Chapter 25. He had anticipated a warm welcome from his father, his brother Arthur, and the Lady Edith, a welcome so exuberant that “they…