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and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

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

fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...

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

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...

every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to w...

in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...