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The Past is the Future by Joy Obasan

that they were of Japanese ancestry. Less well-known is the fact that Canada did exactly the same thing. Obasan is the tale of t...

A Comparison of The Man Who Would Be King and The Heart of Darkness

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...

Defoe's Roxana and Richardson's Pamela

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Chapter Overview of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

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

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

Loss of Paradise in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

Lennie talk of their plans for a farm, he immediately feels the pull of this dream. He asks, "Spose I went with you guys...I aint ...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

is clearly separated from the white world or the modern world. In Cocoas remarks she is illustrating that the "whole story...

Gustave Flaubert's Realism in The Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary

expand from merely entertaining to entertaining while instructing (Realism). At the time of the movements launch, much of art and ...

An Overview of Dirty White Boys

is somewhat of Pyles slave. His name is Richard and he is a clearly psychopathic killer as well as an artist. He draws pictures th...

Differences Between the Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

nowhere, even in his hometown of Oak Park, Illinois. So he joined fellow writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald on a seemingly endless ...

Chapter Synopsis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In seven pages this paper presents a chapter by chapter synopsis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter....

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

they frown and give me one last chance to redeem myself. If I dont know who, do I at least know how many? By that time I cant deci...

Richard Peck's 1985 Novel Remembering the Good Times

friendship. This is initially an easy friendship with each friend having their own characteristics and having their own share of ...

Racism, Imagination, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

segments correlates with the seasons. The section about "See Jane," is really about Pecola, as opposite a presentation from the w...

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

this novel within an American historical time frame it would have been published while some were embroiled in the Civil War, and o...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Characters of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

Relationship Between Repressed Memory and Reflection in Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

of another. You dont look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, s...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

La Belle Epoch and Decadence in Against Nature by J.K. Huysmans

In six pages this paper examines the novel in a discussion of its portrayal of decadence and its impact upon La Belle Epoch....

Sociocultural Values in The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

In five pages this essay discusses Westernization of Japanese society in an examination of sociocultural values within the context...