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eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

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

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

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

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

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...

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 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. ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...

In 5 pages this paper examines how renunciation is thematically depicted in the novel's 3 major characters and within the featured...