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About the Author

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A highly regarded author of short stories and novels, Anne Tyler is known for her fiction exploring the vicissitudes of human existence in late 20th-century […]

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Overview and Setting

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Overview Breathing Lessons is Tyler’s eleventh book. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in fiction as well as Time magazine’s Book of the Year, it […]

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Themes and Characters

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The central theme of Tyler’s novel is the dynamic of modern American families. Within that theme, Tyler focuses on the fact that an individual’s initial […]

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Literary Qualities

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Breathing Lessons utilizes a third-person omniscient narrative. The book is divided into three parts: the first and third sections reflect Maggie’s interpretation of events, while […]

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Social Sensitivity

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In general, the subject of Tyler’s novel is family and marital relationships. Very little social and political background is provided in the story, although it […]

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Ideas and Topics for Papers

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TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION What is the role of game playing in the novel? How do games demonstrate the motif of breathing lessons or support Tyler’s […]

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About the Author

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Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He spent much of his childhood in Hannibal, Missouri, a town located on […]

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Overview

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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was first published in the November 18, 1865, edition of the New York Saturday Press, under the title […]

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Setting

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“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” takes place in the mid- to late 19th century, shortly after the California Gold Rush of 1849. Mark […]