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Short Stories Analyzed from Pickering's Anthology

An analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, Amy Tan's Young G...

Characterizations and Settings of 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This story by William Faulkner is examined in 5 pages in which characterizations and settings are analyzed. There are 5 sources c...

Analyzing Short Stories 'A Rose for Emily,' 'Barn Burning' and 'The Bear' by William Faulkner

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Erich Fromm

In five pages Erich Fromm's theory on marketing orientation is applied to the character of Harold, husband of Lena, in Amy Tan's t...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Symbolism

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

Burns - Transformational Leadership

few of the many theories will be discussed here. The theories describe how an individual can use the inherent strategies to become...

A Review of That Evening Sun

This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

The Life and Art of Amy Tan

little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...

Amy Tan and a Ticket to China

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Critical Views of William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's Novels Light in August and The Sound and the Fury

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Self-Perception and Learning

however the temptation on the part of many parents, and there are even some who feel it is their right, to determine what a child ...

Colonel John Sartoris

In five pages this paper examines how William Faulkner's character Col. John Sartoris is presented somewhat differently in an anal...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner from a Psychological Perspective

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

Literature and Issues of Gender and Race

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

An Unnecessary Ending in Amy Tan's'Two Kinds'

This paper consisting on 5 pages focuses on the last paragraphs of the short story and argues that for the reader these are unnece...

Critical Comparative Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

This paper compares the literary criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner by Ray B. West Jr. in 'Atmosphere and Theme i...

Use of Stereotypes in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...

Ernesto Galarzo's The Barrio Boys and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...