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important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....
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...
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...
Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...
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...
in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...
it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...
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...
Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...
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...
Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...
every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to w...
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...
educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...
Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...
This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...
In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...
In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...
him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...
man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...
on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...
being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...
and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...
This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...
In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...
have held a job, had a hobby, read a book, or expressed an opinion since the Korean War. Still, this hunk from National Geographic...
In five pages this 1994 novel's premise is examined and how the background of the author influenced characters and settings are al...
In six pages this paper examines the novel's primary characters and analyzes them philosophically and morally in regards to good a...