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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Identity

In five pages this paper examines the theme of a personal identity quest as it relates to the novel by Lewis Carroll. There are 6...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

In five pages this novel and the issues it features are examined with prejudice and race among the topics discussed. There are no...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

In five pages this essay analyzes the language, themes, story, and characters found within Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping...

Conformity in Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

In five pages this paper examines contrasts of conformity within the context of Housekeeping, a novel by Marilynne Robinson. Ther...

The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield

In ten pages Redfield's 9 insights are examined in this novel overview. There is one source cited in the bibliography....

Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

In six pages the novel is examined in terms of conflict between conformity and individuality. There is no bibliography included....

Yekl by Abraham Cahan

the main stream media in America today. Yekl shouts at the country, proclaiming his identity while at the same time trying to hide...

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor II

In five pages this report examines the novel first published in 1956 in terms of the U.S. political changes that have occurred wit...

Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordon

In four pages Mississippi Delta life as presented in Lewis Nordon's novel is discussed. There are no other sources listed....

The Wide Wide World, Wieland, and Christianity

Carwin is only described as "dark," not Indian, and the fact that Wieland is set in the heart of civilization and not out on the u...

Setting in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In five pages this essay analyzes the setting in Theodore Dreiser's novel Sister Carrie. There are no other sources listed....

Themes in Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In three pages this essay discusses the novels themes and also considers the characters of Cora and Uncas. There is 1 source cite...

Nature in Deliverance by James Dickey

In six pages this essay examines how both the novel and the film depict nature as a way of showcasing the author's evil concept. ...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

An Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 15 page paper analyzes Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about the meat packing industry in Chicago in the early 1900s. The ...

Abandonment in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses the theme of abandonment in Shelley's classic novel and her life. This five page paper has nine sources lis...

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

in his imagination as an "experimental novel, written like a play" (Hadella 5), dramatizing the working people and their striving ...

Book Review of Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

In three pages this paper analyzes the bittersweet novel that describes a summer fling between a wealthy and pampered sexually act...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

In six pages this paper examines the author's purpose for his contrasts of human expression and technology in the futuristic novel...

Missed Communication in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In nine pages this paper discusses missed communication within the context of this coming of age novel. Five sources are cited in...

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger II

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel within the thematic context of 'the human heart in conflict with itself.' Three sourc...

Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In four pages this essay discusses the similarities and differences that exist between these novels by J.D. Salinger and in the ch...

Evil in Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

In ten pages this paper examines how the theme of evil serves to develop the plot of the novel. There are at least six sources ci...

Insanity and Sexual Hysteria in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

trouble him--but never, never; neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all ...

Heroism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

This paper consists of seven pages and examines the heroism of the novel in a consideration of protagonist Randle McMurphy with a ...