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this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...