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serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

and overcome her family and poverty. Andrea is in search of self definition at this point, though she is not consciously aware of ...

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

Adam is astounded by the plethora of life, beauty and vast expanse of nature to which he is bearing witness. While Raphael assert...

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the final chapters in A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes elements of Goffman's co...

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Phuong. In this we see he has no real love for Phuong and he has no real desires other than simple comfort. He is unhappy with the...

to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...

the house, knowing it will frighten his wife. In fact, in the first scene of the story, Sykes sneaks up on Delia and tosses his b...

time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...