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Gulliver’s Travels by Swift

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

the money that Kabuos father had already paid and sold the land to a third party. Nevertheless, Kabuo still wanted to purchase the...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

Legacy by James A. Michener

In eight pages this paper compares Michener's 1987 novel with his earlier writings....

The City of Glass by Paul Auster Critically Analyzed

In five pages Auster's complex mystery novel is critically analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

1995 Novel Blindness by Jose Saramago

those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'

and all through the power of words. Eliot doesnt start slowly as his first four lines parody the first four lines of Chaucers fif...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

Characters of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Separation between the Self and Other in Toni Morrison's Sula

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of the separation between the Self and Other, as realized by Toni Morrison in her novel Su...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

This 4 page paper describes Toni Morrison's use of imagery and metaphor in her novel Tar Baby....

Dreams in Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

give clues as to what is going on in the mind and the past of the person having it. She convincingly creates a context for dream s...

The People from Heaven by John Sanford

In five pages ethnic and racial bigotry as represented in this novel by John Sanford are discussed....

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

Sociocultural Values in The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki

In five pages this essay discusses Westernization of Japanese society in an examination of sociocultural values within the context...

La Belle Epoch and Decadence in Against Nature by J.K. Huysmans

In six pages this paper examines the novel in a discussion of its portrayal of decadence and its impact upon La Belle Epoch....

Analysis of My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

In five pages this research paper discusses the 1858 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell in an analysis of the title protagonist....

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

The Past is the Future by Joy Obasan

that they were of Japanese ancestry. Less well-known is the fact that Canada did exactly the same thing. Obasan is the tale of t...

A Comparison of The Man Who Would Be King and The Heart of Darkness

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

is clearly separated from the white world or the modern world. In Cocoas remarks she is illustrating that the "whole story...

Guilt and Grief in The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

An Analysis of The Lovely Bones

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

Richard Peck's 1985 Novel Remembering the Good Times

friendship. This is initially an easy friendship with each friend having their own characteristics and having their own share of ...