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Analyzing A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes

fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...

Adult Literacy and Early Development of Language

In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...

1930s' Issues and the Works of Clifford Odets and Richard Wright

and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright ...

Life and Writings of Lois Lowry

stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Uses of Propaganda in Oronooko by Aphra Behn, Spectator Number 69 by Joseph Addison and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift'

take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...

Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Roald Dahl Should Be Added to the Literary Canon

read and understood these books also feel somewhat superior to those who have not (Bridges, et al.). In addition, several of the t...

Garden of Eden in The Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Candide by Voltaire

truly a place of bliss where nothing but a good and wonderful existence greeted Adam and Eve each and every day. However, there w...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

Pressures and Identity

She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

The Life and Works of Kate Chopin

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

Ernest Hemingway's Life and Literary Works

suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...

Comparison of 3 Stories and Passion v. Reason

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...