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In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

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

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

Gender Satire of Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

Changes in the Relationship of the Atlantic World and Western Europe in Robinson Crusoe

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

Chapter Eight of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

Analyzing Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Biographical Profile of Zossimov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

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

Chapter Overview of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

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

Progress of the West in Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn/Is It Racist?

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...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

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

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi and Childhood

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

Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Critically Analyzed

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...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Analyzing Emma by Jane Austen

of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Buck is just an animal, but to many people, animals-and particularly dogs-are very smart and have intense feelings. Buck seems to ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character of Pip

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

Opening of Bleak House by Charles Dickens from a Structural Perspective

the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'the Greatest Sinner'

In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Heroism

In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...