Literature Study Guide

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novel’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as dreams, omens, and fear. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

You have spent the past year doing nothing but writing essays, reading the greatest works of literature, and sitting through endless hours of lectures about metaphors, absurdist drama and Freytag's Pyramid. Now, May is approaching, bringing college applications, SATs, numerous final exams and your AP Lit exam. That rising panic you're feeling right now?

In John Steinbeck's classic novella, we see two friends working through the farmlands in California during the time of the Great Depression. In this study guide for GCSE, we examine Of Mice and Men in detail, looking at the myriad of themes involved, the key characters, its context, the structure and the setting as well as giving a detailed step-by-step guide to each chapter, so you can easily follow the book and to prepare you for your exams.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. This timeless classic of gossip and matchmaking is presented as exquisite drama that questions and analyses the values and beliefs of Austen's own times, to understand the "blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd" world of the text.

Beautifully performed poetry enhanced with music. Detailed commentary and analysis from experts. A fantastic introduction to classic poetry, allowing listeners to begin to appreciate and criticise form and content themselves.

You've read the play, but you don't understand the symbolism. You've been to every class, but it's 2 a.m. and your essay is due at 9:00. Your midterm is Friday and you need a boost. We've been there. We know what it's like to study, work, have a life, do your best, and still need help. Course Hero Study Guides untie the knots. You do the work - we give you the tools to make every minute count. We help you get unstuck.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the burden of misogyny, contemporary issues on the US-Mexico border, reframing female stereotypes.

This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis, enabling any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Judge for yourself whether Lear is "a man more sinned against than sinning" in this moral tale that pits wisdom and age against ambition and youth. Experience and examine the power of Shakespeare's most cruel and violent tragedy.

You've read the play, but you don't understand the symbolism. You've been to every class, but it's 2 a.m. and your essay is due at 9:00. Your midterm is Friday and you need a boost. We've been there. We know what it's like to study, work, have a life, do your best, and still need help. Course Hero Study Guides untie the knots. You do the work - we give you the tools to make every minute count. We help you get unstuck.

Learn how to interpret Solar Arcs, one of astrology's most dependable predictive techniques. Study practical examples and potential manifestations for each Solar Arc. Learn a clutter-free approach to incorporating Solar Arcs into your predictive work. In this study guide, Lauren takes you through the process of working with Solar Arcs by studying 50 years of a person's life development, beginning at birth. Learn how to interpret Solar Arcs by applying astrological symbolism and common sense in a structured, practical way

Unique to this title is: A Historical Introduction, an Overview, and an Analysis of The Main Characters. You may of course skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning. The story of The Clockwork Man takes place in 1920 when a strange man appears during a village cricket match. As one of the teams is a player short, the captain of the team recruits the stranger as a substitute for the missing man. The man looks very unusual.

Ten year-old Benny travels west with a knife-throwing, card-playing bank robber, a savage black stallion, and the promise that God will never leave him. Can he trust that promise? Explore this Historical adventure in greater detail and understand the time period better. Study Guide to Benny and the Bank Robber. Teacher edition includes the full story text with comprehension questions, thought questions, and essay and research suggestions plus vocabulary by chapter and answer keys and project suggestions.

Combined for great value! The multi award-winning SmartPass study guide with and without commentary options. This is a full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Peel away the layers of Priestley's complex drama to appreciate this powerful warning, wrapped up in the genre of a gripping detective story, and truly understand that "We don't live alone. We are members of one body."

The novel revolves around our protagonist Mr. Stevens as he reminisces on his 30-year career as a butler at Darlington Hall. His devotion to his duties and loyalty to Lord Darlington meant that Stevens was not with his father prior to his death and squandered his opportunities to be with the woman he loved; instead, working tirelessly to embody the ideal British "Gentleman Butler". Through Stevens’ memories, his life struggles unfold to reflect the complex international politics between World War I and World War II.

Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Hear "A little touch of Harry" whenever you want to! Examine and appreciate the powerful language of leadership in this guided history play, considered to be Shakespeare's greatest creative statement about war.

Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. Universally accepted as Shakespeare's finest play, we peel back the layers of Hamlet to discover how and why it deserves such a place of honour in world literature.

This DNA Study Guide, written by Mark Richards, a chief examiner for one of the leading UK exam boards, provides all the insights and analysis of this dramatic play of a group of students who do something very bad indeed. As well as providing individual tutorials on the context, the language and style, the setting, the structure and the themes, it goes through each part of the play, highlighting all you need to know. Furthermore, there are tutorials on how best to answer exam questions and a tutorial highlighting some of the key quotations.

Children learn a lot through “play”, and for this reason, it is shown to improve their memory. By learning the Bible through trivia, children get the best of both worlds by learning and reinforcing it by having fun!

Experience the gritty realism of Billy Casper's world as he fights to escape the confines of life in a 1960's Yorkshire mining town by training and flying a hawk. "You'll not catch me! You'll never catch me."

You've read the novel, but you don't understand the symbolism. You've been to every class, but it's 2 a.m. and your essay is due at 9:00. Your midterm is Friday and you need a boost. We've been there. We know what it's like to study, work, have a life, do your best, and still need help. Course Hero Study Guides untie the knots. You do the work - we give you the tools to make every minute count. We help you get unstuck.