Chapter 1 of Tuck Everlasting contrasts the eternal, perfect freedom of nature, as opposed to the rigid, confined existence outside of nature–specifically to that in the Foster’s Home in Treegap, the town at the edge of the Wood or Nature. “The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd…
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The Secret Garden Chapter 2
CHAPTER II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone. She did not miss…
Soldier’s Home – A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home” (1925) The following is copied from The Complete Bedford Introduction to Literature. Work Cited Hemingway, Ernest. “Soldier’s Home.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, edited by Michael Meyer and D. Quentin Miller, 12th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020, pp. 110-115. Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. There…