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sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

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...

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

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...

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

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Guest's "Ordinary People". Kubler-Ross's model of grief is used to analyze the novel...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Alexandre Dumas's most well known and popular novels. The writer looks at the way that the au...

assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

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

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how the future may be influenced by technology. This paper includes a reflection of the nov...

This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...