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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...

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...