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War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

Honesty in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

In ten pages this paper discusses how American clergymen reacted to Elmer Gantry, a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ten sources are cite...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

Society's Evils in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Americans Held Captive in Foreign Lands

the student was prosecuted to the fullest extent of their laws. The others left the country quietly. This seems to be a frequent t...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Marxist Ideology in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper analyzes how John Steinbeck featured Marxist ideology in his classic American novel The Grapes of Wrath. ...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Henry James' The American, and Subliminal Religion

In 6 pages this paper examines how subliminal religion is represented in these two American novels. There are no other sources li...

Fools Crow by James Welch

In five pages this research paper examines the Blackfeet Native American tribe of the 19th century as depicted in James Welch's no...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt

In five pages this novel is analyzed that offers a realistic depiction of race relations and African Americans. There are no othe...

Canadian Aboriginal Culture and Family Relationship Changes

In a paper consisting of seven pages sibling relationship changes in Canada's Native American cultures are examined through the us...

Native American Identity Struggles in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In seven pages these novels are compared in terms of how each features the Native American identity struggle with similarities and...

Psychological Classification of Silence of the Lambs' Hannibal Lecter

some degree of forbidden impulses and thoughts. Most, however, do not act upon these thoughts and impulses. Hannibal Lechter dev...

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski and Media's Social Role

him as the "log-cabin-and-hard-cider" candidate and Van Buren as an aristocrat and a representative of the upper classes (Holme, 1...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

In 6 pages this paper discusses the positive combination of Kipling's affection for the sea and discord with an American within th...

Transition and Change in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this novel by John Steinbeck is summarized and analyzed as it pertains to the Joad family changes and a Depression e...

Sociological Analysis and Summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper summarizes Steinbeck's great American novel and then presents a sociological analysis that considers conc...

Southern Values Represented in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

of Huckleberry Finn, in Mark Twains classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, effectively incorporates the innocence of a child ...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and the Generation Gap

In 10 pages this paper analyzes the novel by Amy Tan in terms of how it presents the Chinese mother and Chinese American daughters...