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describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...
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...
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...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...
A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...
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...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Guest's "Ordinary People". Kubler-Ross's model of grief is used to analyze the novel...
This research paper pertains to various issues in transcultural nursing, such as support for pregnant women and characteristics of...
slavery expand westward, which began to challenge "the territorial limits of slavery, the limits of federal power, and the limits ...
and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...
confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...
is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...
As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...
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...
being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. 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...
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....
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
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...