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his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

herself choosing to study French instead of Spanish and turned down dates from Latino boys, preferring the blue eyed blondes inste...

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

And so, through the words of Alan Paton the reader is transported into the world of apartheid, and the grim realities that accompa...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

abiding citizen. He is a horse trader and is targeted by the government much in the same way a citizen of the United States may be...

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

powerfully fertile environment for them all. She also loves to garden and this becomes a very vital part of the theme of fences in...

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

wiser than I was before: / Master, Doctors what they call me, / And Ive been ten years, already, / Crosswise, arcing, to and fro, ...

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

of human beings. Each character comes with their own subplot in which a facet of human existence is discussed and examined. S...

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

not part of the solution. He begins to understand that change does not happen in one fell swoop, but that it is a slow process, mu...

forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a...

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

has. The education that Dr. Frankenstein sought was for the express goal of going against nature, to beat God at his own game. The...

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

easily see that living in the moment was the only thing that someone in that situation could hope to do, and to turn inward, losin...

manufactured goods which moved the process further. Thus, owning the railroad became a very large piece of the overall puzzle. But...

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...