What is Jane Eyre about?
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She falls in love with Mr Rochester but finds out he has a mad wife hidden away. it is such a romantic story. you have to read it. oh, and the mad wife burns down the house. I wont say who gets killed.
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The first answer is correct, the story is good.  It's a great example of how women were (and are still in some cases) treated and how detrimental it can be.  Definitely worth reading!!
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Elizabeth Bennett is the main character. She's a sweet, strong and intelligent girl who is a little bit proud. Her pride and Mr.Darcy's prejudice are the matters that shape this story. The book and the movie of Pride and Prejudice (the book is by Jane Austen) are on top of my list of the best books and movies ever. I am absolutely obsessed with it! \nI suggest that you read the book or watch the movie because it's just simply a master piece. :)
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The book tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled, contrary orphan, who is sent to live in her uncle's manor in Yorkshire. She is left to herself by her uncle, Mr. Craven, who travels trying to escape from being haunted by the death of his wife, and the only one who has any time for her is the chambermaid Martha. It is Martha who tells Mary about the walled garden, Mrs. Craven's favourite garden, which nobody has seen the inside of since she died; Mr. Craven locked it and buried the key.Exploring the grounds, Mary discovers the key to the secret garden, which has been turned up by a dog digging for moles, then the door. When she is inside the garden, she discovers that although the roses seem lifeless some of the other flowers have survived; she decides to work on the garden herself, but to keep it a secret, in case her uncle should find out and fit another lock for it. Through Martha, she recruits the assistance of Martha's brother Dickon, who is known for being good with plants and wild animals. Dickon begins by providing gardening implements, bought with money Mary gives him, and demonstrating that the roses, though neglected, are not dead. When Mary's uncle visits the house briefly (for the first time since she arrived), Mary asks him if she may have a bit of earth to make a flower garden in, and he agrees.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry\n\nI have found 6 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://litsum.com/giver/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1061\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=The+Giver+by+Lois+Lowry+\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary.\n\nLowry narrates The Giver in third person (“He said,” as opposed to “I said,” which is called first person), using a limited omniscient viewpoint (only Jonas’ thoughts and feelings are revealed). Through Jonas’ eyes, his community appears to be a utopia—a perfect place—that is self-contained and isolated from Elsewhere, every other place in the world.  More……..\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-113,pageNum-3.html\n\nhttp://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=347\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens\n\nIt is really a typical Soap Opera taking place during the French Revolution.  So much is going on and he brings in so many characters, that I am always amazed at how he was able to tie together all those loose ends and odd scenerios given the timeframe he wrote the book.\n\nMany people have difficulting reading it because there is just too much information given in the first half of the book ... but if you keep up with it you will truly love it!
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The story opens with a description of North Richmond Street, a"blind," "cold ... .. silent" street where the houses "gazed at one an-other with brown imperturbable faces." It is a street of fixed, decaying conformity and false piety. The boy's house contains the samesense of a dead present and a lost past. The former tenant, a priest,died in the back room of the house, and his legacy-several old yel-lowed books, which the boy enjoys leafing through because they areold, and a bicycle pump rusting in the back yard-become symbolsof the intellectual and religious vitality of the past. The boy, in themidst of such decay and spiritual paralysis, experiences the confusedidealism and dreams of first love and his awakening becomes incom-patible with and in ironic contrast to the staid world about him.\n\nEvery morning before school the boy lies on the floor in thefront parlor peeking out through a crack in the blind of the door,watching and waiting for the girl next door to emerge from her houseand walk to school. He is shy and still boyish. He follows her, walkssilently past, not daring to speak, overcome with a confused sense ofsensual desire and religious adoration. In his mind she is both a saintto be worshipped and a woman to be desired. His eyes are "often fullof tears," and one evening he goes to the back room where the priesthad died. Clasping the palms of his hands together, he murmurs, "0love! 0 love!" in a prayer not to God, but to the concept of love andperhaps even to the girl, his love. Walking with his aunt to shop onSaturday evenings he imagines that the girl's image accompanies him,and that he protects her in "places the most hostile to romance." Inthe mixed symbolism of the Christian and the Romantic or Orientalmyths Joyce reveals the epiphany in the story: "These noises con-verged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore mychalice safely through a throng of foes." He is unable to talk to thegirl. Drifting away from his schoolmates' boyish games, the boy hasfantasies in his isolation, in the ecstasy and pain of first love.\n\nFinally the girl speaks to the boy. She asks him if he is going toAraby. He replies that if he does he will bring her a gift, and fromthat moment, his thoughts upon the mixed imagery of the saintly lightupon her hair and the potential sensuality of "the white border of apetticoat," the boy cannot sleep or study. The word Araby "cast anEastern enchantment" over him, and then on the night he is to go tothe bazaar his uncle neglects to return home. Neither the aunt noruncle understands the boy's need and anguish, and thus his isolationis deepened. We begin to see that the story is not so much a story oflove as it is a rendition of the world in which the boy lives.\n\nThe second part of the story depicts the boy's inevitable disap-pointment and realization. In such an atmosphere of "blindness"-the aunt and uncle unaware of the boy's anguish, the girl not con-scious of the boy's love, and the boy himself blind to the true natureof his love-the words "hostile to romance" take on ironic overtones.These overtones deepen when the boy arrives too late at the bazaar.It is closing and the hall is "in darkness." He recognizes "a silencelike that which prevades a church after a service" but the bazaar isdirty and disappointing. Two men are "counting money on a salver"and he listens "to the fall of the coins." A young lady, bored withhim and interested in two men who are flirting with her, cheapensand destroys the boy's sense of an "Eastern enchantment." His love,like his quest for a gift to draw the girl to him in an unfriendly world,ends with his realizing that his love existed only in his mind. Thus\n\nthe theme of the story-the discrepancy between the real and theideal-is made final in the bazaar, a
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I think one of the themes of the book might be that life is very unpredictable. Like Jenna, she didn't know that she was gonna be Mrs. Gladstone's driver/assistant for the summer and she didn't know that she'll meet sooo many people and everything. So i think that the theme might be "Life is unpredictable" or "Life can take you anywhere".\nAnother theme might be what's hard makes you stronger.
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Its about an African American family. An abusive father and how he treats his family.\n\nQuick summary:\nCelie, the protagonist and narrator of The Color Purple, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia. Celie starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father stole and presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also steals. Celie’s mother becomes seriously ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife but continues to abuse Celie.
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'wonderful world' by loius armstrong\n\nyoud have to have seen the movie bowling for colombine to understand that one
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Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah\n\nSummary:\n\nAdeline Yen Mah is born into an affluent and powerful family in China, but her life is made miserable from the moment she is born. After her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline's family labels her "bad luck," causing her to grow up with the guilt that she alone is responsible for her mother's death. Things at home get even worse when Adeline's father remarries. Restricted to one small area of the house, Adeline and her natural siblings are mistreated while their stepbrother and stepsister receive special treatment. An outstanding student and the winner of many academic awards, Adeline revels in the praise she receives from her Aunt Baba and grandfather, Ye Ye, and lives with the hope that her father might someday be proud of her.
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You probably wanted a summary of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. There are actually many different stories within this collection. Here is a link that you might be able to use which gives info on all of the stories within the collection:\n\nhttp://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/14/24/frameset.html
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Great Expectations by Dickens.  Its the tale of a boy who never quits, never gives up on his dream....of being with his true love....
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The plot centers around a mother who has raised her two children while the father is at war. These children have an allergy to the sun and cannot go into it. Because they've lived in darkness for so long, its all they've known. When the strange things begin to happen, the believe they are being haunted by ghosts. You find out however, that living in darkness has simply made them blind to the fact that they are indeed the ghosts that have been haunting a real family, and the servants have been sent to help them see the truth. \nThe part where they children are allowed into the light is there awakening, and they realize that they are the haunters, not the haunted...
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What type of "classics" do you mean? \n\nAnyway... I personally love:\n\nPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen\nHowards End by E. M. Forster \nMacbeth by Shakespeare\nJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë \nFrankenstein by Mary Shelley\nWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (even if you just skim through it, it's good)\nA Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens\nGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens\nI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou\nThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger  \nPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw  \n  \n\n...anything by Mark Twain and yes To Kill a Mockingbird is good!
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Try checking out at www.sparknotes.com/literature.This will provide you not only with the date but also the context in which the story is written,a plot overview,a detailed summary and analysis as well as character analysis,while explaining important quotes and proving questions and answers to some of them.\nNever limit urself:the information u would have gathered will help u enormously!
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well...\nThe Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle (great novel!!)\nThe Harry Potter series\nGone with the wind - Margaret Mitchell \nThe Notebook - by Nicholas Sparks (if you're the romantic type)\nMemories of a geisha - Arthur Golden \nThe Devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho