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Charles Johnson's Middle Passage A Journey

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

Analyzing the Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and its Continuity

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...

Colonial Oppression in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

arrived in America to enter a new life, a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an na...

Analyzing Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

Society in the Novel Great Expectations

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

In five pages the novel is analyzed in regards to the role chance plays in the life of a soldier and also examines how the novel w...

Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

In six pages this paper discusses how the struggles of Indian women are reflected in this novel's female characterization. Eleven...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City

In five pages the novel's three female characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and significance. On...

Donald Duk by Frank Chin

In five pages this paper examines the novel's representation of the Chinese heritage as perceived by an eleven year old boy. Ther...

Analysis of the Character Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In seven pages this paper analyzes both the novel's 3rd person narrative as well as the main character Okonkwo. Six sources are c...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Fragments of the Consciousness of Man

In five pages this paper examines how this novel's 4 characters represent a quartet of faculty fragmentations such as thought, sen...

1984 by George Orwell and the Motto 'Ignorance is Strength'

In 5 pages the totalitarian state is examined within the context of novel contained within Orwell's futuristic novel, 'Ignorance i...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Historical and Literary Significance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...

Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County

have held a job, had a hobby, read a book, or expressed an opinion since the Korean War. Still, this hunk from National Geographic...

Premise of She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

In five pages this 1994 novel's premise is examined and how the background of the author influenced characters and settings are al...

Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...

Problems Associated with Adapting Novels into Films

This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...

Characterization in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages Hemingway's innovative characterization as a device of expanding the novel's scope and protagonist understanding are ...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

In ten pages this paper analyzes the novel's presentations of the government, the social culture during the time period, the prota...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines the novel's primary characters and analyzes them philosophically and morally in regards to good a...

Real World Microcosm of the Asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In nine pages this paper presents the argument that the 'world' of the asylum that is featured in the novel represents a real worl...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In ten pages this paper examines the novel's themes and considers Nabokov's author perspectives and where they are rooted. Five s...

Reality and Illusion in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

This paper consists of six pages and examines the ongoing conflict between reality and illusion that plagues the novel's protagoni...

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's protagonist Patrick Lewis in a consideration of the alien or outsider status assign...

Existentialism and 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

clerk in Algiers, learns of his mothers death in a nursing home. He attends her funeral without any show of sorrow. He neither we...