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Essays 541 - 570
This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...
some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
Buck is just an animal, but to many people, animals-and particularly dogs-are very smart and have intense feelings. Buck seems to ...
of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...
In five pages this paper presents a literary analysis of this novel's text. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography...
of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...
In five pages the novel's three female characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and significance. On...
In 5 pages the totalitarian state is examined within the context of novel contained within Orwell's futuristic novel, 'Ignorance i...
eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...
of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...
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...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...
this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...
is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...
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...
In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...
In ten pages this paper analyzes the novel's presentations of the government, the social culture during the time period, the prota...
of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
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...