The Big Tiny
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A graceful, inspired memoir about building a home from scratch and discovering a true sense of self - in just eighty-four square feet - by Dee Williams, a pioneer in sustainable living and the proud owner of a very tiny house. After a heart condition felled Dee Williams in the grocery store ten years ago, she initially threw herself headfirst back into her old life, which included a pricey three-bedroom house, overtime hours to cover homeowner bills, and a general lack of free time. In the midst of contemplating her future, a new sense of clarity took hold. What was all this stuff for? Mortgage payments and the time-suck of homeownership felt like a waste, and no one has the money or desire to pack it in and live on an island without family, friends, or health insurance. Discovering the sustainability movement and building her own house was just the beginning of building a new life. Williams can now list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her ten minutes to clean the entire house. It's allowed her to slow down, scale back, spend more time with family and friends - and given her the freedom to head out for adventure, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch. Without escaping to the wilds or going off the grid, Williams achieved a happy balance of the normal and the radical and created a new model for simple, practical living. Part how-to and part why-to, The Big Tiny is not just a memoir of that "aha" moment post-trauma but an utterly seductive meditation on what it means to build the good life and the right life, every day.
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Study Guide: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such the power of storytelling and loss, rebirth, and rebuilding. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Set in a post-apocalyptic Canada, The Marrow Thieves is a poignant cautionary tale about the exploitation of exploiting the environment and the Indigenous community. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novelâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as including the idea of economics as a market system analysis and economists' viewpoints as functions of the eras in which they lived. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 1953, and written by an American economist and historian, âThe Worldly Philosophersâ is a regularly assigned textbook on the history of economics and western economic thought, exploring thinkers from Adam Smith to Karl Marx This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as communication versus silence, pride, and the tension between the past and modernity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub, Indian Horse is the coming of age story of Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy from northern Ontario who escapes his demons and rough childhood through hockey, only to succumb to alcohol after losing his joy for the game. SuperSummary offers thousands of literary summaries and analyses in print at SuperSummary.com. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as duality, identity, and tension between the classic and the romantic. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Told through the frame of a cross-country motorcycle journey, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance explores its characters' search for spiritual meaning and peace in a technological, automated age. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions. Please note that this summary is NOT the original book and is meant to be listened to as a supplement to the original.
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Study Guide: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novelâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as white resistance to race and complicity in a systemic system. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 2018 to critical acclaim, White Fragility addresses ways in which white people can effectively address racism, including how they can dismantle racist paradigms in themselves or others through a deeper understanding of their own complicity and systematic racism. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the importance of proverbs and fathers and sons. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart portrays the collision between the traditions and beliefs of Nigerian Igbo culture with the forces of European colonialism. In this celebrated classic, Achebe chronicles the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo warrior in the late 1800s. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audiobook. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the Harlem Renaissance, African American women and identity, and African American folk culture and language. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Widely celebrated as one of the most important works of 20th-century African American and American womenâs literature, Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawfordâs evolution from impressionable, idealistic girl to self-confident woman. By focusing the narrative on an African American womanâs quest for love, Hurston broke new ground, no small feat in the early-20th century. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Overstory by Richard Powers
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This guide for The Overstory by Richard Powers includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 12 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like environmentalism and the value of human sacrifice.
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Study Guide: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Inferno by Dante Alighieri includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as sin and the contrapasso (âcounter-sufferingâ), language, and divine grace. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The Inferno is the first part of Italian poet Alighieriâs medieval epic, The Divine Comedy: a monument of world literature. Written in the 14th century, the poemâs form - terza rima, a circling pattern of interweaving triple rhymes - reflects its major theme: the wisdom, power, and love of the trinitarian Christian God. Over the course of The Inferno, Danteâs encounters in Hell provide personal and political critiques, sending warnings to his warring enemies back on Earth and forcing him to grapple with his own shortcomings. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as ethics in scientific research, informed consent, and racism in medicine. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a work of nonfiction about a woman who died tragically young and whose cells were taken from her body without her consent. These cells became the first human cells to survive in a culture, where they thrived, multiplied, and helped produce major scientific breakthroughs. Skloot's text intertwines a personal family story with an exploration of science, ethics, and racism. This audio study guide presents the same expert content â written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars â in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the objectification and subordination of women, controlling sexuality, and the cooptation of religion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Set in a repressive theocracy called the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred, who recounts her daily experiences of her life as a "Handmaid", a woman forced to bear children for the higher-ranking members of Gilead society. This audio study guide presents the same expert content â written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars â in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Forest People by Colin N. Turnbull includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as village life versus forest life, community, and religion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Anthropologist Turnbullâs best-selling, nonfiction book, âThe Forest People,â was originally published in 1961 and seeks to detail the daily lives of the BaMbuti people, an Indigenous Pygmy group of the Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. As a result of living with the BaMbuti people, Turnbull examines the groupâs rich and storied culture that takes the forest as its mother, father, and God. This audio study guide presents the same expert contentâwritten by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholarsâin an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the family life cycle, the spoken and the unspoken, and the inadequate American narrative about the Vietnam War. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The award-winning The Best We Could Do is a graphic memoir published in 2017. Alternating her narrative between her present-day experiences as a new mother in New York City with her parentsâ past growing up in and then escaping from Vietnam, Bui builds a complex web of intergenerational trauma and love. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the redemption and transformative power of compassion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Tattoos on the Heart is a memoir written by Catholic priest Greg Boyle. The memoir relays Boyleâs experiences serving as the leader of the Dolores Mission Church in the gang capital of the world, Los Angeles. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the burden of misogyny, contemporary issues on the US-Mexico border, reframing female stereotypes. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. A loose adaptation of Homerâs Odyssey, Guadalupe Garcia McCallâs Summer of the Mariposas, published in 2012, follows five Mexican American sisters on an epic journey from Texas to Mexico. Drawing deeply from Mexican folklore, the bookâs genre blends magical realism and fantasy. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as racist ideas justifying racist policies, and the critical but underappreciated role of Black feminists in antiracism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Stamped is Reynoldsâ self-described remix of Kendiâs 2016 National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning, utilizing humor and slang to transform intellectual and political history into a story for middle school and high school listeners. As the book discusses historical struggles and empowerment, racism and antiracism, and violence and resistance, it invites listeners to become the next generation of empowered and educated antiracists that can resist ongoing affronts to Black freedom and equality. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the intersection of racism and science and segregationism, assimilationism, and antiracism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Organized around the lifespans of five key figures in racial thought across American history, Stamped from the Beginning offers a centuries-spanning overview of the enduring and evolving forms of racist ideology in America. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Saltwater Slavery by Stephanie E. Smallwood includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the commodification of African captives, diaspora, and social death, and the Middle Passage. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Saltwater Slavery recreates the slave trade through the eyes of enslaved African people. This work of historical nonfiction shows the physical and psychological damage of the commodification process on captives and the normalization of this process by the individuals associated with and involved in the slave trade. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as oppression, class struggle, and the dialectical interpretation of history. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Developed through years of teaching literacy to Brazilian and Chilean peasants and laborers, Paolo Freire's influential Pedagogy of the Oppressed puts forth a theory of education fitted to the needs of the disenfranchised and marginalized members of capitalist societies. Combining educational and political philosophy, the book offers an analysis of oppression and a theory of liberation. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as childhood trauma, the influence of media on a writerâs imagination, and substance abuse. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. In his award-winning memoir, King describes how he started writing as a young child, published work in magazines during his teen years, and gained significant financial success as a writer upon the publication of Carrie. He provides writing advice to the listener and also reveals his personal struggles with drugs, alcohol, and his slow recovery from a near-fatal accident. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novelâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the nature-human continuum and the dichotomy between White and indigenous life. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 2014, Medicine Walk follows a 16-year-old boy named Franklin Starlight as he seeks out a traditional burial site for his dying father. Franklin, abandoned by his Ojibway father as an infant and raised by a White man, struggles with the concepts of love, forgiveness, abandonment, and honor. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Macbeth by William Shakespeare includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as ambition and corruption, violence begetting violence, and masculinity and femininity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The classic tragedy, Macbeth, is one of Shakespeareâs most celebrated plays. It tells the story of a Scottish nobleman who becomes obsessed with power and is driven mad by guilt. Opening with a storm above a coven of witches and then moving quickly to a bloodied battlefield, this early violence lays the foundation for Macbethâs destructive ambition, which takes over his life and leads to his downfall. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions. Please note that this summary is NOT the original book and is meant to be listened to as a supplement to the original.
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Study Guide: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Lord of the Flies by William Golding includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the human beast and survival of the fittest. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Lord of the Flies is a harrowing young adult novel about a group of preadolescent boys who must survive on a remote island after a wartime plane crash leaves them stranded. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as motherhood, the power of art, and the ramifications of white liberalism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 2017, Little Fires Everywhere tells the story of the seemingly perfect Richardson family, the mother and daughter who enter their lives, and a custody battle that divides the town of Shaker Heights, Ohio. SuperSummary offers thousands of literary summaries and analyses in print at SuperSummary.com. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions. Please note that this summary is NOT the original book and is meant to be listened to as a supplement to the original.
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Study Guide: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as race in 20th-century America, the journey toward self-understanding, adult identity, and alienation from a sense of place through involuntary resettlement. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Ellisonâs award-winning Invisible Man is a 20th-century realist novel about an unnamed, young, Black protagonist facing racial oppression in 1930s America. Ellison combines psychological and social story lines, investigating the effects of racism on the protagonist and his ability to rise above these difficulties to craft his own sense of self. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as nationalism, print capitalism, imperialism, and post-colonialism. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Imagined Communities is a work of critical theory that investigates the emergence of the nation state and identifies the historical transformations that made it possible to think of the nation as a new form of community - from its origins in the late 18th century to the present. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Forge, by Laurie Halse Anderson, includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the realities of the Revolutionary War, racism and slavery in âfreeâ America, and identities revealed through hardship. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Forge tells the story of Curzon Smith, a runaway enslaved person who enlists in the Colonial Army during the American Revolution. Curzonâs voice offers a sober, honest window into an often-mythologized period of American History - one unbiased by cheerful, flag-waving nationalism. Curzonâs perspective roots the birth of American freedom through the eyes of a man who will not be free, regardless of who wins the war. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the novelâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as the failure of planning and life-and-death decisions. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Five Days at Memorial is a lauded work of nonfiction by award-winning journalist Sheri Fink. The book explores decisions that doctors and nurses had to make regarding issues like euthanasia, while trapped in New Orleansâ Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the tyranny of the majority and the remedy for it, nostalgia for an aristocracy in decline, and the importance of religious faith. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Democracy in America is a multilayered work that spans genres, topics, and continents. On one hand, it is a historical work, as some of its assessments are rooted in Tocquevilleâs personal observations of the United States in the early 19th century. At the same time, it is a work of political philosophy, as Tocqueville asks himself what the American government has to teach him and his fellow Europeans about democracy as a way of life. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the invisibility of power and physical and emotional violence as a key to caste. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Spanning the arrival of the first enslaved people to the United States in 1619 to the contemporary Covid-19 pandemic, Isabel Wilkersonâs Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a sprawling nonfiction work about the nature of inequality in the United States, India, and Nazi Germany. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as over-consumption and the intersection of science and spirituality. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Braiding Sweetgrass is a work of nonfiction by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, that examines modern botany and environmentalism through the lens of the traditions and cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Born a Crime by Trevor Noah includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as language as a cultural tool, identity, and race in apartheid South Africa. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Born a Crime is a comedic autobiography chronicling Trevor Noahâs childhood growing up in South Africa. Using a nonlinear structure, the memoir recounts Noahâs youth and young adulthood in the final years of apartheid. SuperSummary offers thousands of literary summaries and analyses in print at SuperSummary.com. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions. Please note that this summary is NOT the original book and is meant to be listened to as a supplement to the original.
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Study Guide: Beowulf by Anonymous
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes, such as heroism and leadership and mortality and Christianity. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. The 1999 translation of the ancient poem Beowulf by acclaimed Irish poet Seamus Heaney was universally praised on its release for its freshness and readability. In this epic tale, the great warrior Beowulf battles fearsome enemies on his path to becoming king. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Beartown by Fredrik Backman (SuperSummary)
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Beartown by Frederik Backman includes a detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as secrets, shame, grief, and obsessions. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Beartown is a 2017 novel named a best book of the year according to LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads. Set in a depressed town obsessed with hockey, the novel examines parental control, the cost of keeping secrets, and regret. SuperSummary offers thousands of literary summaries and analyses in print at SuperSummary.com. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big-picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Animal Farm by George Orwell
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Animal Farm by George Orwell includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as how equality can fail in practice and the way revolutions come full circle. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Published in 1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell is political satire in the guise of a moving and whimsical animal fable. The novella is about a group of farm animals who overthrow their owner Mr. Jones and establish animal rule. Although the animals start out with high hopes for Animal Farm as a harmonious and just utopia, it soon descends into tyranny and despotism. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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Study Guide: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as free will versus obedience, identity, consciousness, and the self. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Ancillary Justice, Leckieâs first installment of the Imperial Radch trilogy, tells the story of Breq, the sole surviving âsegmentâ of the artificial intelligence that once animated an interstellar troopship Justice of Toren and its ancillary soldiers. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the bookâs multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as perseverance in the face of prejudice, the importance of words and communication, and self-acceptance versus inclusion. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics. Sharon Draperâs Out of My Mind, based on her own experiences parenting a disabled child, is a New York Times best-selling novel told from the first-person perspective of 10-year-old Melody Brooks. Melody is a fifth-grade girl who, due to cerebral palsy, is unable to communicate verbally and is wheelchair-bound. This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a workâs underlying meanings and conclusions.
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