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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...

Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse

Edward and the "good" vampires at odds with Victorias group. It should also be noted that Victoria is out for revenge because prev...

Chopin’s Awakening

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Main Theme in Flight by Sherman Alexie

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Analyzing the 1992 Film Version of John Steinbeck's Novel, Of Mice and Men

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Religion

and ones heritage is not what it once was. This character is Samad. He is an intelligent and educated man but a man who has had to...

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him the sometimes intense and often expansive sens...

Lai's Novel Salt Fish Girl

shelf. Even boxed and locked into storage should the need arise. But, of course not. Childhood isnt a book and it doesnt end. My c...

Cinderella Contrasts and Conflicts in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

Money and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

that he wants to pay her for any liberties he has taken with her. We, the reader, clearly see this as something of a payment to a ...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

Technique, Theme, and Conflict in Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

but Smith utilizes it in a warped and disturbed fashion, making it a weapon against the totalitarian government rather than an act...

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

discoveries because he is curious. He refers to some alchemists of the past, indicating the inherent nature of humanity in relatio...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). One of the most powerf...

Mao II by Don DeLillo and Race

different experiences (1992). This is true of many people. Also, to some extent, race is dealt with by aligning it with nationalis...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Films Inspired by This Novel

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

Contemporary America and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name

respect and seeks to learn from them, as he also provides spiritual guidance. Marks way of relating to the natives is starkly cont...

Shame by Salman Rushdie

these things, these realities, it is no wonder there is ultimate failure. Rushdies work is one that attacks the rulers and hist...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Class

read..." (Cervantes 71). And Sancho states, "The truth is...that I never read any history because I dont know how to read or write...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

Marketing Structure in The Grapes of Wrath

particular products or goods than other times of the year. In the novel we note this is the reality that rules the peoples lives f...

Dostoevsky's Underground Man Response Paper

such, he sits back and comments on the state of mankind from his underground hideaway. As the work unwinds, the reader is able to ...