Construction
A Point of View My Antonia is at once the story of Antonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant to the Great Plains in the 1880s, and […]
Month: December 2008
Historical Perspective
A Immigration Up until 1825, less than 10,000 new immigrants came to the United States each year. By the late 1840s, revolutions in Europe and […]
Questions
Explore the religious, social, and national background of the various waves of European immigration to the Great Plains and how these factors affected their assimilation […]
Compare and Contrast
IX COMPARE AND CONTRAST 1880s: The “new immigrants” who came from eastern and southern Europe in the 1880s are considered a potential threat to the […]
About the Author
Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of indigent actors. At age three, when his parents died, Poe was […]
Setting
The story is set in the city of Paris, France, in the mid-nineteenth century. The particularly brutal murders of a woman and her daughter have […]
Themes and Characters
The central character, Auguste Dupin, is idiosyncratic, more than a little egocentric, and somewhat of a recluse. He is highly observant and an expert at […]
Literary Qualities
Although Poe is credited with the creation of the detective story and the character type known as the amateur sleuth, obviously Auguste Dupin and his […]
Social Sensitivity
Poe’s fiction is not concerned with social issues. He viewed true reality as a process of the mind, not a fact of physical existence; consequently, […]