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Hits: 677 Jack Zipes’s Interpretation of Hansel and Gretel Summary Jack Zipes interprets story ‘Hansel and Gretel from the different perspective. He chooses to interpret the story from the Marxist point of view. He expresses that this story is a story of hope and victory. All the character in the …

Hits: 327 The Boarding House Summary – James Joyce James Joyce’s “The Boarding House” is the suspense story which ends with the strategic techniques of Mrs. Mooney, central character in the story. She plays the significant role to settle the love affair of her young daughter and Mr. Doren with …

Hits: 65 The Little Brother and The Little Sister Summary – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm It is transformation fairy tale written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s. “The Little Brother and the Little Sister” is all about the account of “Hansel and Gretel” in a different way. The children are not …

Hits: 58 Gretel Summary – Garrison Keillor “Gretel” is the contemporary adaptation of the writer Garrison Keillor. In this adaptation, the writer strongly states the statement given by Gretel in their going to forest. Gretel explores various feeling related to her bother Hansel, father and stepmother as well as the …

Hits: 60 The Gingerbread House Summary Robert Coover Robert Coover’s story “The Gingerbread House” consists of forty-two numbered paragraphs which shows the parts of the story and it is an adoption of “Hansel and Gretel”. In the mid afternoon, an old man leads two children to the pine forest. The …

Hits: 110 Hansel and Gretel Summary – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Once in a time, nearby the large forest, a poor woodcutter lived with his wife and two children. The son’s name was called Hansel and the daughter was Gretel. The children were always neglected by their step-mother. She didn’t …

Hits: 71 Purgatory Summary – William Butler Yeats W.B. Yeats’s play “Purgatory” depicts the restlessness of spirit after the death and bothers the living beings. Purgatory refers the place or state into which the soul passes after death to become purified of pardonable sins before going to heaven. In the …

Hits: 134 THE TELL -TALE HEART Summary – Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a psychological and strange story written by Edger Allan Poe. The unnammed narrator of the story is probably a boy who lives in an old man’s house. He is suffering from the nervous disease. He …

Hits: 97A Child is Born Summary – Germaine Greer The writer shows many differences between a traditional and modern society in matters of pregnancy, childbirth and childbearing. The traditional society is full of different customs, tradition~ rituals and superstition. A pregnant woman has to follow all such rites. She doesn’t …

Hits: 81The Children Who Wait Summary – Marsha Taugot Marsha Traugot wrote the essay “The Children who wait”, in the prevalent trend of child adoption in few decade in America context. Marsha Traugot suggests reasons for a new trend in adoption. Now a wider variety of Families can open their …

Hits: 881Women’s Business Summary – Ilene Kantrov The writer Ilene Kantov is feminist writer who supports the most of the ideas of the women and their notion in the essay in the modern trend of globalization. She portrays a portrait of Lydia Pinkham and she goes on to tell about …

Hits: 63 I HAVE A DREAM Summary – Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have A Dream’ is an unforgettable speech delivered (given) by Martin Luther King to millions of American blacks and whites on August 28, 1963. This speech represents the hopes and dreams of all American blacks who have …

Hits: 1838The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship – Gabriel Garcia “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” is the imaginative story of the development of a boy into manhood written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story states the illusion of ghost in reality. She describes the growth of an …

Hits: 1177A Story by Dylan Thomas “A Story” is very humorous story written by Dylan Thomas where he presents the, adult’s world from the point of view of a boy. The story is about a days outing narrated by a boy. The narrator lives with his uncle and aunt. In …

Hits: 110Traveling Through the Dark – William Stafford “Traveling Through the Dark” is an ironical and sentimental poem composed by William Stafford. In this poem, the poet presents a great tension between two realities, two systems of life. On one hand, we think and say that we have to fulfill …