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The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

Steinbeck’s Concepts of Mercy and Justice

his goods will be forfeit as well. Having already said in court that he wants only his "bond," Portia has him on the ropes when he...

Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

The Things They Carried

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

The House of Seven Gables

seems to fall on incredible bad luck. It is noted, in relationship to the house and the street outside the house, that,...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, an Examination

state of being through the use of the Socratic method. This paper is a brief critical analysis of the work. Discussion The first ...

Teen Alienation in Catcher in the Rye

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

The Call of the Wild

Animals do not psychoanalyze human beings and so this pure presentation allows the reader to see humans as they are without regard...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories/Salman Rushdie

of Stories, by creating a fascinating cast of characters, placing them in a fantastical world, and giving Haroun and his father an...

Middlemarch’s Unlikely Heroine

her society is willing to accept from her. This paper discusses why she is an unusual woman and whats interesting about her. Discu...

Roberts' The Invisible Heart

is the title of Russell D. Roberts (2002) book and is subtitled an economic romance, and so it actually is a rather humorous title...

The Symbol of Suffering

entire character development is based on the idea that he is crucifying himself through the device of his mental anguish. He has n...

Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale

purely in terms of their ability to create a child. Offred has been robbed of her identity and objectified because it is her socie...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

Two Novels and Gender Roles

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney,

This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...

Hard Times by Dickens

lure or seduce Louise away from her husband. Mrs. Sparsit seems to truly enjoy herself in this job, envisioning the staircase of s...

Character Analysis of Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun

breathing hard and fast now but he wasnt really breathing because there wasnt any air passing through his nose. He didnt have a n...

Self Awareness and Environment in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...

Emecheta/2nd Class Citizen

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

John Okada/No-No Boy

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

The Red Badge of Courage Aspects

easy. She tells him "Watch out, and be a good boy," and he leaves. But he turns back at the gate to see her kneeling "among the po...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...