YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literary Devices in Three Novels
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- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
Esperanza. Her family cannot afford to buy a home, so they are forced to live in a dilapidated and overcrowded tenement on Chicag...
In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...
This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...
In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...
Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...
In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this essay examines this Japanese novel's narrative with an emphasis on the character of Himiko, the girlfriend of t...
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...
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...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
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 ...
In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...
the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...
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...
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...
the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...
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...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...
In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...
nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...
of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...
describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...