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Beloved by Toni Morrison and Protagonist Symbolism

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez and the Themes of Language and Love

In 5 pages the importance of the duality of love and language themes to the immigrants and to the novel as a whole is examined. T...

Character Analysis of Merle Kinbona in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses how the protagonist of Paule Marshall's novel reveals to the oppressed people of a fictitious C...

Poetry of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

process that connects her physically and symbolically with the past. She states that while machines are helpful, its "comforting" ...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Jurassic Park

wind up running for their lives from the dinosaurs that escape due to the computer programmer Dennis Nedrys treachery. Grant ensur...

Symbolism of the River in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

In five pages this paper discusses Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha in an analysis of the importance and symbolism the river represents ...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

Symbolism in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and the Character of Nwoye

the point of view of many minor characters, one of which is Nwoye, Okonkwos son. In many ways, Nwoyes story contributes to the no...

How Gustave Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes Thematize the Effect of Reading on the Imagination in Madame Bovary and Don Quixote

saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

In five pages this paper examines the strike of Senegal's railway employees as examined in this novel by Ousmane with women's role...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Socialization

In 6 pages Jane Austen's novel is analyzed in terms of the importance of socialization through visiting and parties. There are no...

Symbolism and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines the importance of symbolism in this novel with the emphasis being upon the 'scarlet letter A' re...

Character Development of Jim in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In eight pages this paper examines the development of Jim's character and its importance to the novel as a whole. There are 8 sou...

River Symbolism in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In six pages this analytical essay analyzes the river symbolism and its importance to the novel as a whole. There are six support...

Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child, Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove, and Storytelling

will take place when the news is heard of Sanchers death: "While he strode in haste towards his parents house, the men, forgetting...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Communism and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

World War I spanned a four year period between 1914 and 1918. Nearly ten million lives were lost. World War I, and in fact,...

Commen Themes in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Marlow's Importance in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of Marlow to this novel with comparisons between this character and author Jose...

Lucy Steele's Character in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Lucy Steele in an evaluation of her importance to the novel. There are...

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

In three pages Trumbo's novel protesting war is discussed with a consideration of the importance of the social perceptions he incl...

Pear Tree Symbolism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

observation. The pear tree is a very powerful teacher for Janie. "Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in ...

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

Guterson, Wharton, Grisham, and Verisimilitude

because he sounds like a man who knows what hes talking about. That initial trust having been established, we now feel that we can...