This posting offers a thorough analysis of Tereza's character from Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."

This posting analyzes Tereza's character from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Kundera has said, "All novels , of every age, are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: What is the self" In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tereza is staring at herself in the mirror. She wonders what would happen if her nose were to grow a millimeter longer each day. How much time would it take for her face to become unrecognizable?

Sentence Diagram / Grammar

I have a sentence that I would like parsed (by a person, not a computer). It's a sentence I found in the Economist. One of my students asked me to parse it, but I've found that it's been much too long since I've done any diagramming. I would like it parsed in similar fashion to the way it's done in Max Morenberg's book 'Doing Grammar'. Here's the sentence: "However, a breakthrough came when he realised that what he had been thinking of as different parts of speech were, in fact, grammatically the same."

ESSAY WRITING

This document describes how to write a basic, 5 paragraph essay. This would be particularly helpful if you need assistance with a composition class.

Narration/Description Essay

This document teaches you, step by step, how to write a narrative or descriptive essay, including a sample thesis sentence and topic sentences.

Paper Topics for a narrative or descriptive essay

This is a long list of paper topics for narrative or descriptive essays. This is a good list to have for students enrolled in composition classes.