Social Sensitivity
Because The Three Musketeers takes place in the 17th century and was written in the 1840s, the standards and customs of the society pictured differ […]
Month: January 2009
Topics for Discussion
1. The title of the book is The Three Musketeers, but the story seems to be mostly about d’Artagnan, who does not become a musketeer […]
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. How does d’Artagnan’s character change from the beginning of the novel to the end? What episodes reveal these changes? 2. At the beginning of […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Because of the huge success of The Three Musketeers, Dumas wrote two sequels to it. Both of them are set much later than the original […]
Themes and Characters
The tale of an insecure, romantic teenage girl drawn into a situation of foreboding violence, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” presents several […]
About the Author
Although best remembered for his nature books for young children and young adults, Sterling North also wrote a number of biographies of American literary and […]
Themes and Characters
North’s biography of Henry David Thoreau concentrates on the theme of human interaction with nature and, as a corollary, on individualism. The book recounts Thoreau’s […]
Literary Qualities
Perhaps the greatest literary value of Thoreau of Walden Pond is that it covers Thoreau’s entire life. The biography does not concentrate on the circumstances […]