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Life in the White World as Portrayed in Sula by Toni Morrison and Meridian by Alice Walker

In a paper that contains six pages the ways in which relationships between blacks and whites are portrayed are discussed and argue...

Historical Fiction Analysis of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

and by those that believe the slaves are helpless as well. Intrinsically, such analysis will help the reader to decipher whether ...

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Book Review of Distress by Greg Egan

In five pages this paper discusses the science fiction text in terms of present and future technological and scientific parallels....

Is The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Nonfiction or Historical Fiction?

In five pages this paper argues that despite some fictitious elements this work by John Demos represents a text of historical fict...

Thematic Elements of 'The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analyzed

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

The Last Two Sections of 'The Plague' by Albert Camus

on the outside world. In one particular quote the reader gets an understanding of this evolution of the people, as it begins, as o...

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

in the Piazza della Minerva (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 2006). Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design a support structure to...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Autobiographical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...

Cinderella's Contemporary Variations

own. But there is a version of Cinderella that is commonly known. This version, or compilation of versions, contains fundamental e...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Narrative Writing & Shepherd's Christmas Story

defined point of view, which is often that of the author. By giving "specific and sensory details," the author gets the reader inv...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Kate Chopin's "The Storm"

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Sherman Alexie and Gish Jen: Dealing with Prejudice

would marry white people who would beget quarter-bloods, and so on and so on, until simple mathematics killed the Indian in us" (A...

Chivalry, Character, Hunting, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...

Postcolonial Fiction and Time

Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

How Social Interaction and Social Structure Shape Personal Experiences

seem to be too concerned with how the situation turned out; this, as I see now, was because he had a queue of others just waiting ...

A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

Historical Accuracy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

Timeline by Michael Crichton

stay in the past, feeling that early France is his destiny. This time travelers name is Andr? Marek. II. Mareks Method of Coping...