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Comparative Analysis of 'Dreamhouse' by Alison Habens and 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

The satirical 'Dreamhouse' is compared and contrasted with the whimsical nature of 'Alice' in terms of character plot twists in th...

Teenage Depression A Literary View

Inn ten pages teen depression is examined by examining the Columbia University's Health Education Program guidebook Go Ask Alice a...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

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...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Black Women Overcoming Oppression

Ultimately, "It is through their friendships, their love, their shared oppression... that they collectively gain the strength to s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mother and Daughter Relationship Conflicts in Beloved by Toni Morrison and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each others faces... Sometimes I dream a d...

Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

Pirates and Are They Fact or Fiction?

country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

What is Hypertext Fiction?

to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

Alice Sebold's Lucky

a whole, has no idea what rape is like if one has not experienced it. This is primarily the entire foundation of the story for p...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

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

Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths"

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

A Boy, a Girl and the Loch Ness Monster

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

Meridian by Alice Walker

along the way. They have ideals, perhaps because it was popular at the time, and then "grow up." Or they are individuals with gran...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...