Eli’s experience of trauma results in him having a highly intuitive subconscious, that combined with a fearless instinct for asking straight up questions push him forward on his quest. The red telephone in the secret dugout room of Lyle’s house is something of an enigma, why does it always...
Those machine-generated passages have been incorporated into this story verbatim with no edits whatsoever (save the bolding of certain words for artistic effect). I assert no copyright claim over these passages (and have not been paid for them, as they were excluded from the word count of the...
I began to list the questions that I’d asked myself while reading Alice Munro’s story, questions posed in her words. ‘Is it true that the pain will become chronic? Is it true that it will be permanent but not constant, that I won’t die from the pain? Is it true that someday...
These questions are meant to be used with works of fiction. It is likely that you won't get to all of them during your meeting. Choose the questions that you think are most appropriate to your group and the book you've read, and feel free to modify them any way you need to. For ...
With Mystic River, Lehane proves that this assumption is right. He draws a vivid picture of blue-collar Boston but he reaches beyond this specific setting to the universal essence of human communities. Through these three men, Dennis Lehane questions family bonds, fatherhood, and social ...
Questions about plot and character, for instance, require reading a whole book while applying delicate decision criteria that may be hard to remember and keep stable across many books. Language models will help here not just because they’re fast, but because they can provide a relatively stable...
In fact, it was not until almost ten years after its first printing that the book appeared with the entire text that Swift had originally intended it to have. Ever since, editors have removed many of the passages, particularly the morecausticones dealing with bodily functions. Even without ...
and questions of work ethic. You have sympathetic characters who become embroiled in undeserved scandal, characters whom you despise but are gradually made to understand (if not appreciate) through the author’s constant insights, and overall the book is so life-like as to keep you from being ...
• This collection of 10 original stories was written specifically for this app • Read and test your comprehension with a variety of questions about the selected passages • Study anywhere and learn at your own pace • Each passage and question set takes approximately 4-6 minutes to comp...
Do the added parts flow seamlessly with the rest of the writing? Were any holes or questions created by deleted sections? Next, look at the two broad types of writing: narrative and dialogue. The next round of self-editing is a bridge between the macro editing you have been doing to the...