Licharts File

In the conference room, looking out at the Manhattan skyline, Justin thought about his students. He thought about the girl in his third-period class who had cried when she finally understood the ending of A Separate Peace because the "Themes" chart had helped her connect Finny’s fall to her own fear of growing up. He thought about the boy with dyslexia who had never finished a novel until the "Line-by-Line" translation of Beowulf turned Old English into a story he could actually read.

He walked out of the skyscraper and back to the rain-soaked streets of Portland, where his small team of six people—mostly former teachers and obsessive readers—continued to write guides for obscure poems by John Donne and forgotten plays by Aphra Behn. licharts

They didn't. Instead, high school English departments started buying site licenses. A teacher in Chicago wrote to say that she used the "Quote Explanations" feature to build her entire final exam. A professor at NYU admitted that he used LitCharts to prepare his own lectures on Moby Dick . In the conference room, looking out at the

Ben, who thought in algorithms and patterns, understood immediately. "You want a visualization," Ben said. "A visual track of the plot, like a heartbeat monitor." He walked out of the skyscraper and back