Although she had a “fairly isolated childhood” (Salwak, 3), Anne Tyler’s insights about family are remarkably accurate. In two of Tyler’s books, The Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, she tells the tales of two very...

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant follows the lives of each member of the Tull family, the mother and her three kids. The story begins and ends with the mother’s death, while the middle of the novel recounts the lives of each of the family...

Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is filled with many complex characters that make up the Tull family. However, throughout the interconnected lives of siblings Ezra, Cody, and Jenny, the one key figure they lack is their father, Beck....

Although she had a “fairly isolated childhood” (Salwak, 3), Anne Tyler’s insights about family are remarkably accurate. In two of Tyler’s books, The Accidental Tourist and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, she tells the tales of two very...

What does atonement mean to you? Each individual person will have to make up for something they have done at some point in their lifetime. Are you seeking atonement to be free from the burden of your sin in your everyday life? Maybe, you are...

“It was a dark and stormy night.” A cliché used in many novels to not only display the setting, but as a form of symbolism that contains a deeper meaning about the text. Different types of weather and the seasons are commonly used in novels as...