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Shark Slayer

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

Macabea in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symb...

Portraying the Victim in Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

of their relationships with him. They meet in...

A Character Analysis for Heart of Darkness and Typhoon

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

this novel within an American historical time frame it would have been published while some were embroiled in the Civil War, and o...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Queer Reading Analysis of John Logan's Never the Sinner

A queer reading of this text by John Logan focuses on character presentation and motivations in seven pages....

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 ...

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Patriarchy

the century is likely to demonstrate far more social constraints and strict behavioural codes which mediate against gender equalit...

Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Silence

who were in service to the aristocratic families came to define themselves through their identification with those families, to th...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

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

Characters of Blanche Du Bois and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

see a subtle hint that Stanley, while something of a macho male, is one who is not ignorant about the ways of people. He sees thei...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

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...

Epic of Gilgamesh and the Character Enkidu

wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...

Character Analysis of Philip in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Beowulf

cause of a king in order to help him, essentially asking nothing in return. There is another character, Unferth, who approaches B...

Islamic Story of Creation

We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

Overview and Analysis of the Story 'The Lady Who Loved Insects'

In five pages a synopsis of this story and an analysis are presented....

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

Symbolism and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

The Story of Alvar Cabeza De Vaca y Nunez

In five pages the exciting and tragic story of Cabeza and his Florida colonization efforts on behalf of Spain are discussed....

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Religion and a Samurai's Life in Musui's Story

In five pages this paper analyzes society and religion as they pertain to Musui's Story....

Dan Hillman's The Peaceful Warrior

may have perceived myself as a moderate, it has been brought home to me enough times, that I can no longer pretend it is my person...