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Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

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...

Grisham's A Time to Kill and Racism

This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...

Comparing The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and Martin Eden by Jack London

In five pages these two novels' themes are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Brown Girls, Brownstones by Paule Marshall, and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and the Theme of Domestic Space

Esperanza. Her family cannot afford to buy a home, so they are forced to live in a dilapidated and overcrowded tenement on Chicag...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only 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...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

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...

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage A Journey

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

Analysis of a Page from E.M. Forster's Book Howard's End

any ideas borrowed from this research in his or her own words and to cite the Paper Store as one source for their own paper. If th...

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...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

Orwell’s 1984: Relevancy and Social Work

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Jennings/Aztec/Summation of Latter Half

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

Gary Jennings/Aztec

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

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

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Reform

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...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

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

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Slavery Commentary on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe

In five pages this essay examines this Japanese novel's narrative with an emphasis on the character of Himiko, the girlfriend of t...

Donald Duk by Frank Chin

In five pages this paper examines the novel's representation of the Chinese heritage as perceived by an eleven year old boy. Ther...

Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

In six pages this paper discusses how the struggles of Indian women are reflected in this novel's female characterization. Eleven...

Analysis of the Character Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In seven pages this paper analyzes both the novel's 3rd person narrative as well as the main character Okonkwo. Six sources are c...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and Fragments of the Consciousness of Man

In five pages this paper examines how this novel's 4 characters represent a quartet of faculty fragmentations such as thought, sen...