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This paper pertains to Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" and discusses the ways in which Pi's ordeal of survival affected his perspective...
This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...
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...
This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...
This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Jane Austen. Quotes from the novel are used to respond to criticisms of her writing...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Antunes' "The Natural Order of Things". Time and memory are explored as symbols in ...
This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Wegscheider-Cruse and her theory of family roles. These roles are mapped to the Bro...
This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...
characterizations and an interesting and imaginative plot, and not simply the fantastical setting. These features are exemplifie...
ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...
spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...
"J" tells his readers that he doesnt know why he should be made to suffer so, but he has been a martyr to the disease from earlies...
1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...
This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...
could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
make sure that isolation is maintained from the rest of the city. However, the controlling gaze of the soldiers is also negated be...
with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...
to his sister, the only one he believes is young and innocent, will give him comfort. When he knows that she will not give him com...
to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...
make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...
provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...
he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...
Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...