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Characterization in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages Hemingway's innovative characterization as a device of expanding the novel's scope and protagonist understanding are ...

Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

Themes of Money and Sex in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

In three and a half pages a critical analysis of the observation 'Sex lies at the base of what happens: Along with money it is the...

Society in the Novel Great Expectations

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

In five pages the novel is analyzed in regards to the role chance plays in the life of a soldier and also examines how the novel w...

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...

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...

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...

Relationship of Structure and Theme in Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

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

Question on Grapes of Wrath

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

Gender Narrative in "Midnight's Children"

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

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...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

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

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

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...

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...

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 ...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

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...

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...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

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...

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...

Analyzing the Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

Male Characters in Persuasion and Emma by Jane Austen

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...