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Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

Major Thematic Examination of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

heros funeral and will have forever the respect of his people, who will remember him in their folktales. This is the singular goa...

The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

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...

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Closing Passage of Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...

"Dangerous Liaisons" and Moral Justice

a duel with Danceny which has been orchestrated by his nemesis Merteuil, and she in turn has her reputation and physical beauty de...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

This essay pertains to Marguerite Duras's "The Lover," a novel that is highly autobiographical in nature. The writer discusses the...

Friendship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This 7 page paper examines the friendship between Huck and Tom in Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and ar...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Rhetorical Communications Tools of Martin Luther King Jr.

Shakespeare, Amos, Isaiah, Jesus, Handels Messiah, America the Beautiful, a slave spiritual, and the black folk pulpit" (Miller). ...

Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...

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...

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...

Review: “The Sun Also Rises”

and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

John Grisham’s Bleachers

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Chapter Overview of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

Dreams, Magic, and the Difficulty of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

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...

Sleeping and Dreaming in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

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...

'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' Poems by William Blake

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

4 Topics in Psychology

is not speeding at all and, in fact, the rider is bicycling along the curbside, not on the sidewalk,. You have misinterpreted the ...

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...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...